I'm a big proponent of the idea that people are horribly brainwashed by the media they watch, so I thought your post was very interesting.
Also because I recently watch the Secret of NIMH, and it struck me reading your comment that in that movie, smartness is (at least partially) defined as the ability to read.
This movie was my favorite movie as a wee lad, and I ended up being a voracious reader. Coincidence? probably. But it still struck that chord...
bash can too. interested parties can check into bash programmable completions.
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>BTW, Xbox media player is developed illegally with >the leaked XBOX SDK from MicroSoft. Thanks for the >warez tip, though. Any idea when Doom III final >going to hit my local fserves?
Normally I don't bother correcting slashdot posts, but I rather dig CVS and really can't stand to see it badmouthed this way by someone so uninformed..
First, CVS is built on top of RCS and, as such, doesn't handle binary files. Okay, that's a fib; it sorta kinda does, but it's very klunky, and easily prone to errors. Further, it's easy for the "binary-ness" of a file to be lost (i.e. be treated as text), resulting in all kinds of nasty corruption. Best Practices will avoid this, but everyone has to be on their toes all the time.
Ok, so it doesn't, but it does. Eh? CVS handles binary files just fine. It may not do diffs, but it does version track them - it just stores full copies of each version. In most code projects the amount of change of binary files that are eligable to be checked into CVS is very small. Besides, disk space is way cheap, right?
As for easily prone to errors, the binary-ness of a file can be set after it is imported, and personally I have never seen a file "forget" it was binary.
Second, CVS has no notion of "transactions". Let's say you check in a bugfix/new feature to the kernel. The change involves modifying six different files. CVS does not see this checkin as a single transaction, but six completely separate ones. So a lot of information about the scope of a given change is not easily found. The only way you can know a particular change affected multiple files is by noticing that their checkin comments are identical.
you may wish to check out cvs2cl.pl - it generates a Changelog from a checked out copy of a repository, grouping files with the change and comments that go with it. Debian has a package for it. Kinda takes the bite out of "not easily found".
Further, if you perform a checkin against multiple files and one or more of them has a conflict (someone else checked in a change before you did), CVS will simply halt at the conflicting file; earlier files successfully checked in up to that point are not backed out. Thus, the repository is left in an inconsistent state. Best Practices can avoid this but, again, everyone has to be on their toes.
Wrong. CVS will not commit any files if there are conflicts in the files you are commiting. If you notice, it walks each directory before connecting to the repository.
Even better, Subversion will automatically perform newline translation to/from your local platform when checking out/in text files.
CVS does this as well, and has for a long time. This is the only reason there is a 'problem' with binary files in the first place - CVS tries to translate the newline characters in the binary file unless you use -kb when adding the file the first time.
For small projects with small numbers of people, CVS is perfectly okay. But beyond a certain scale, CVS's limitations start to get in the way, and you need something better.
With one feature (tracking MIME type) that CVS doesn't have, I think your point kind of falls over.
Please don't take this as an attack on SubVersion or yourself - I'm just trying to get more correct information out there.
>Unrelated note, the RIAA is an unnecessary >middle-man and I hope they go broke and leave, or >wisen up to the times, I don't care which. I long >for the day a motion picture soundtrack costs less >than the motion picture itself (DVD) by at least >half.
Be careful what you wish for. This just screams to be answered with a $20 soundtrack and $40 DVD
only 3?;) check out rox, it makes it easier to fill your screen with porn by giving you a lightweight explorer-esque file browser interface. It has one-click launching, so once you tell it to start mplayer for all those video files, you're just a few short clicks from naked bodies all over your screen:)
Not that I would know anything about that kind of thing.
It's nice and all, but not that great. Definatly a step waaaay up from Mac OS 9, and much smoother than windows.
I have a TiBook 667 with a Rage128 card, and it's pretty fast. I'd use it all the time except under my fink install both enlightenment and windowmaker crash at startup. Also it's interoperability with linux blows - it cannot mount any kind of ext2 filesystem, and hfs+ is not supported by linux yet. Sure, I could use hfstools and copy stuff off the HD... (I think) but I want it to just mount. I'm also kindof bugged by having to set my NFS servers up for insecure mode. Not really because I have to change the settings on my boxes, as much as getting the settings changed on other machines.
So, I've installed gentoo on it instead. I'm usually a debian fanatic, but I thought I'd check it out, since I'd already messed up my debian install by totally hosing my kernel when I compiled it myself. First kernel build on the new machine, totally going to break. We don't need to steenking backups;)
So anyways, gentoo has given me all the linux goodness I need. I won't say it was easy to set up - X11 didn't get my keyboard type at all, and I actually had to resort to hand hacking a ~/.Xmodmap file in order to use my keyboard in Xwindows. It's mostly usable now, only a few more symbols and all the keys will actually be typeable.
On top of that, I can actually play divx files. Divx support for mac os X is bad - the few files that actually play the sound skips horribly. And ogg vorbis support sucks too (i.e. imusic doesn't support it)
just wanted to say that I think mozilla rocks. I've been using it for quite a while now and am very impressed with all of the hard work going into making mozilla a worthy replacement for the all-powerful and muchly missed glory days of netscape.
... Just imagine how bad life would be with only one browser. *shudder*
it's SO nice not to have to scroll back to where I was anymore. way to go guys!
I've been a fan of TA for 3 years now. Starcraft is nothing in comparison IMO. (that said, both work in wine. Yay!)
I've wanted for a while to put together a large scale RTS engine, flexible enough to allow modular configs to allow playing such games as Starcraft and Total Annihilation from the origonal files, and other games as well.
Of course, that's all highly complicated and a Lot Of Work. And I have a real job to attend to....
how do you like that, I post a sarcastic reply to a comment before I've attained my normal good temperment and I get a decent reply:)
maybe this place isn't as bad as the vocal minority says it is
As to your points, I agree - although it is getting easier every day to find larger things, due to more bandwidth being in the hands of more people who run p2p filesharing apps and better apps are written. Someday soon it shall eclipse USENET. Personally I'm looking forward to it, I pine for the days when lurking on USENET was actually fun
so, err, you've been sleeping through the groups that *have* been ripping and releaseing every CD as it comes out for the past few *years* then?
and as far as your uninformed "hurting the warez scene" comment - I've yet to see a game that is "too big" - even the 7CD monsters. They are *always* pirated. *always*.
I was at first thinking that you worked for the same company I used to work for, then I realized you meant purchased-for-use rather than purchase-for-sale. My old company bought that technology (you prolly bought it from them)
My Opinion?
Worst Idea Ever
almost as bad as running a program that lives on the machine to detect intrusions. And of course, having intrusion detection in place means everyone is 3x less concerened about security - we're protected, right? Pfah.
Why why why why WHY does nobody care? *ALWAYS* it is "well, this is internal so it can be insecure"
Anyone have a good reponse to that besides 3/4 of all attacks come from the inside? I always get labelled a security nut and so everyone ignores me because I care. RSH/.rhosts/SSH1:/
I am nothing even close to a lawyer. I don't even play one on TV.
However, I just read the DOJ's motion to dismiss - and I think this whole thing is great, because with the amount of court attention this one is going to see we might as well get it up at least to the minor leagues before revealing good tactics;)
while I really really hope that your are right (having been tremendously excited by 2.4.15 and wondering if I've been burned) but it is a little to early to call at this point. The only way to know is to let the kernel age, and that means that more people need to run it.
Don't wait to upgrade your desktop; After all, you do have backups, don't you?
you caught me, it's a subtle ploy to see who bites;)
besides, some people out there still don't know. Not so much around here of course, but there's always the chance that someone reading this doesn't know telnet is insecure.
great for checking out those port services or finding out what's running where tho...
Slashdot Mirror
>you could theoretically be coming up against some space junk at around 88,000 miles per hour.
;)
great, does that mean the delorean will overshoot the mark by 1000x?
thanks, just waiting for it to appear :)
(waits for time to go by so he can post)
(waits for more time to go by so he can post)
I would never post a message either.
What are you implying, sir?
something about registration required. I would NEVER sign up for an account on any kind of web based system. Evil.
3. Profit!
I'm a big proponent of the idea that people are horribly brainwashed by the media they watch, so I thought your post was very interesting.
Also because I recently watch the Secret of NIMH, and it struck me reading your comment that in that movie, smartness is (at least partially) defined as the ability to read.
This movie was my favorite movie as a wee lad, and I ended up being a voracious reader. Coincidence? probably. But it still struck that chord...
bash can too. interested parties can check into bash programmable completions.
>BTW, Xbox media player is developed illegally with >the leaked XBOX SDK from MicroSoft. Thanks for the >warez tip, though. Any idea when Doom III final >going to hit my local fserves?
That was last week, you missed it...
I didn't read the article so this may be wrong but...
WTF are they doing running the database on the webserver?
Ok, so it doesn't, but it does. Eh? CVS handles binary files just fine. It may not do diffs, but it does version track them - it just stores full copies of each version. In most code projects the amount of change of binary files that are eligable to be checked into CVS is very small. Besides, disk space is way cheap, right?
As for easily prone to errors, the binary-ness of a file can be set after it is imported, and personally I have never seen a file "forget" it was binary.
you may wish to check out cvs2cl.pl - it generates a Changelog from a checked out copy of a repository, grouping files with the change and comments that go with it. Debian has a package for it. Kinda takes the bite out of "not easily found".
Wrong. CVS will not commit any files if there are conflicts in the files you are commiting. If you notice, it walks each directory before connecting to the repository.
CVS does this as well, and has for a long time. This is the only reason there is a 'problem' with binary files in the first place - CVS tries to translate the newline characters in the binary file unless you use -kb when adding the file the first time.
With one feature (tracking MIME type) that CVS doesn't have, I think your point kind of falls over.
Please don't take this as an attack on SubVersion or yourself - I'm just trying to get more correct information out there.
funny, but it doesn't quite fit - slither brings to mind snake, and if you look at it my way, a snake is *all* backbone...
>Unrelated note, the RIAA is an unnecessary >middle-man and I hope they go broke and leave, or >wisen up to the times, I don't care which. I long >for the day a motion picture soundtrack costs less >than the motion picture itself (DVD) by at least >half.
Be careful what you wish for. This just screams to be answered with a $20 soundtrack and $40 DVD
only 3? ;) check out rox, it makes it easier to fill your screen with porn by giving you a lightweight explorer-esque file browser interface. It has one-click launching, so once you tell it to start mplayer for all those video files, you're just a few short clicks from naked bodies all over your screen :)
Not that I would know anything about that kind of thing.
True. Doesn't help with wanting to mount the drives that are actually in the machine tho.
since when is that not a valid reason?
is it not said that porn makes the world go 'round?
(I can't believe my origonal post got modded down as a troll)
sweet, I'll have to check into that. Thank you :)
It's nice and all, but not that great. Definatly a step waaaay up from Mac OS 9, and much smoother than windows.
;)
I have a TiBook 667 with a Rage128 card, and it's pretty fast. I'd use it all the time except under my fink install both enlightenment and windowmaker crash at startup. Also it's interoperability with linux blows - it cannot mount any kind of ext2 filesystem, and hfs+ is not supported by linux yet. Sure, I could use hfstools and copy stuff off the HD... (I think) but I want it to just mount. I'm also kindof bugged by having to set my NFS servers up for insecure mode. Not really because I have to change the settings on my boxes, as much as getting the settings changed on other machines.
So, I've installed gentoo on it instead. I'm usually a debian fanatic, but I thought I'd check it out, since I'd already messed up my debian install by totally hosing my kernel when I compiled it myself. First kernel build on the new machine, totally going to break. We don't need to steenking backups
So anyways, gentoo has given me all the linux goodness I need. I won't say it was easy to set up - X11 didn't get my keyboard type at all, and I actually had to resort to hand hacking a ~/.Xmodmap file in order to use my keyboard in Xwindows. It's mostly usable now, only a few more symbols and all the keys will actually be typeable.
On top of that, I can actually play divx files. Divx support for mac os X is bad - the few files that actually play the sound skips horribly. And ogg vorbis support sucks too (i.e. imusic doesn't support it)
I love my linux boxen. *sniff*
Meleneth
just wanted to say that I think mozilla rocks. I've been using it for quite a while now and am very impressed with all of the hard work going into making mozilla a worthy replacement for the all-powerful and muchly missed glory days of netscape.
... Just imagine how bad life would be with only one browser. *shudder*
it's SO nice not to have to scroll back to where I was anymore. way to go guys!
I've been a fan of TA for 3 years now. Starcraft is nothing in comparison IMO. (that said, both work in wine. Yay!)
I've wanted for a while to put together a large scale RTS engine, flexible enough to allow modular configs to allow playing such games as Starcraft and Total Annihilation from the origonal files, and other games as well.
Of course, that's all highly complicated and a Lot Of Work. And I have a real job to attend to....
so, you didn't read the part about needing to contact the maintainer dropping off after a reasonable time?
how do you like that, I post a sarcastic reply to a comment before I've attained my normal good temperment and I get a decent reply :)
maybe this place isn't as bad as the vocal minority says it is
As to your points, I agree - although it is getting easier every day to find larger things, due to more bandwidth being in the hands of more people who run p2p filesharing apps and better apps are written. Someday soon it shall eclipse USENET. Personally I'm looking forward to it, I pine for the days when lurking on USENET was actually fun
so, err, you've been sleeping through the groups that *have* been ripping and releaseing every CD as it comes out for the past few *years* then?
and as far as your uninformed "hurting the warez scene" comment - I've yet to see a game that is "too big" - even the 7CD monsters. They are *always* pirated. *always*.
+5? wow.
I was at first thinking that you worked for the same company I used to work for, then I realized you meant purchased-for-use rather than purchase-for-sale. My old company bought that technology (you prolly bought it from them)
:/
My Opinion?
Worst Idea Ever
almost as bad as running a program that lives on the machine to detect intrusions. And of course, having intrusion detection in place means everyone is 3x less concerened about security - we're protected, right? Pfah.
Why why why why WHY does nobody care? *ALWAYS* it is "well, this is internal so it can be insecure"
Anyone have a good reponse to that besides 3/4 of all attacks come from the inside? I always get labelled a security nut and so everyone ignores me because I care. RSH/.rhosts/SSH1
I am nothing even close to a lawyer. I don't even play one on TV.
;)
However, I just read the DOJ's motion to dismiss - and I think this whole thing is great, because with the amount of court attention this one is going to see we might as well get it up at least to the minor leagues before revealing good tactics
go EFF!
while I really really hope that your are right (having been tremendously excited by 2.4.15 and wondering if I've been burned) but it is a little to early to call at this point. The only way to know is to let the kernel age, and that means that more people need to run it.
Don't wait to upgrade your desktop; After all, you do have backups, don't you?
don't you?
you caught me, it's a subtle ploy to see who bites ;)
besides, some people out there still don't know. Not so much around here of course, but there's always the chance that someone reading this doesn't know telnet is insecure.
great for checking out those port services or finding out what's running where tho...