Do you still provide the source code that runs the site? I remember that slashcode.com [slashcode.com] would track your changes in the past. Is this still true? I see that the last post there was in 2009.
The last time the public repository had any activity was September 2009. Trying to checkout the SF git repository appears to not work because there's no master branch, but it's easy enough to get at if you're familiar with git. However, last time I grabbed it, I put it on github to preserve it and get at it easier.
Just this week I decided to see if I could get the code running somewhere, because I was interested in seeing how Slashdot ran from an Admin perspective. It was a lot of work to get it going, but I finally got it (all told, maybe 6 hours of time). I used a Debian 6 (Lenny) image in VMWare Fusion because I was having problems getting it to work on a newer FreeBSD image. Also, mod_perl 1 will not compile if newer versions of Perl are on the system, but Lenny's default 5.10 worked fine.
For the most part, the INSTALL instructions were ok, and I found a few system packages I needed to have in order for the install to work properly. Also the MySQL SQL file for creating the database tables is broken and I had to fix it (syntax errors, plus some small tweaks to work with MySQL 5.1). In addition, the file is named differently than what the Slashcode install script is looking for, so it borked when running.
The git repository I linked above has my fixes on the 'development' branch. I also ran into a slight problem of ISE 500 when everything was up and I tried to hit the site, but that was simply a matter of tweaking the Apache config that was created. I now have a working Slash site on my home network to play around with.
They left Schwarzenegger out of Terminator 4 for a reason.
Yeah, a scheduling conflict he had, what with running the state of California and all...:)
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I am a sad case and find much amusement in the fact that the "correct" name for the # symbol is octothorpe, which means "C#" should not be pronounced "C-sharp" but Coctothorpe
Er, haven't studied much music, eh? Personally I don't recall anyone ever saying anything to the effect of "This time,let's try Bach's Bouree, but change the key to E octothorpe". E# is pronounced "E sharp";-)
I remember hearing about a guy whose vanity plate got rejected. His request: "33M T33"
Heh, nice play on the original "3M TA3", which is screened for by some (most?) DMV's now. The joke (for those who don't get it) is that if that is a plate on the front of the car, then the car in front of you will see (in their rearview mirror) "Eat Me"
<random_useless_trivia>It also appears as the number on the airplane on the Beastie Boys' License to Ill album. </random_useless_trivia>
I haven't used php in years. Can you link to a page that highlights the significant changes in 5.2
Did you even TRY to look for it yourself? I haven't used PHP in years either, yet I just went to php.net and right there in the second news entry on the front page, it announced 5.2.5 is released, and contains a link for Changelog for PHP 5. Boy that was hard.
I'd be kind of annoyed if someone outside of my company sent me a meeting invite. You're not in my company; don't make assumptions about my scheduling
You apparently don't work on a team that requires interaction with lots of clients and/or vendors and require $time_interval meetings to coordinate the development efforts of tech teams from each company involved.
The Consolas font is a phenomenal mono-spaced font, and I've been using it for a year or more. You can download it from MS for free but it's an exe file. Once installed though you could easily, say, move the TTF file over from your Windows virtual machine to your "real" system and have access to it there.:)
Absolutely, and if you watch the first PL video you see them (the wm3) look a little foolish at times. However, keep in mind that these were 3 young teenagers, still trying to maintain their cool (they're teenagers!) and possibly innocent so had no way of thinking that they'd be really going to prison.
The PL2 dvd was done years later and they even talk about how they looked a little idiotic on the dvd and things like the one point where one of them (Damien) was fixing his hair, he claims was an editing thing they did and they were showing him 2 seconds after they gave him a hair cut and he was looking at it and trying to get used to it.
Regardless, the whole thing was a total mess. Whether or not the teens were acting like teens, the evidence and case was bullshit. One of the boys that was killed has a stepfather who, in both videos, is awfully damn suspicious. He talks a polygraph while under medication that has him more mellow then he ever is any other time, and he conviently had all of his teeth pulled before they could match his bite marks up to a bite on one of the dead kids. And his wife managed to die of mysterious circumstances sometime after the kid's death too.
There's also the 3 guys that were accused, when they were teenagers, of killing three eight year-old boys, and were placed in jail (one on death row). The evidence is absolute crap, and the "investigation" into the murders was bumbled and shoddy. The key evidence against the "leader" was that he wore black a lot and liked to read about Wicca and other "satanic" and "demonic" things... like heavy metal music. Oh no!
HBO has played two documentaries on this case (Paradise Lost and Paradise Lost 2) and they are enraging. Granted you're seeing edited information, but if you can, I'd really recommned seeing these two DVDs. Amazon is selling them DVD 1 and DVD 2
There's also a web site dedicate to the cause of helping the guys (Known as The West Memphis Three) get a fair trial and have real evidence shown (which there doesn't seem to be any of). Visit wm3.org for details.
I've been fascinated with this case for 10+ years and check out the wm3 site a few times a year to see what's new with the case. It's an absolute tragedy that three children were killed, and it's another tragedy that three other lives (teenagers) were destroyed as well if in fact they are innocent, as it would seem they may be.
Perhaps it will some day be technologically possible, but it won't ever happen in reality. Scott Adams (Dilbert) said it perfectly:
It would be great to be able to beam your molecules across space and then reassemble them. The only problem is that you have to trust your co-worker to operate the transporter. These are the same people who won't add paper to the photocopier or make a new pot of coffee after taking the last drop. I don't think they'll be double-checking the transporter coordinates. They'll be accidentally beaming people into walls, pets, and furniture. People will spend all their time apologizing for having inanimate objects protruding from parts of their bodies.
'Pay no attention to the knickknacks; I got beamed into a hutch yesterday.'
Entourage is a great mail program, unless you want to use it to talk to an Exchange server. As an Exchange client, it sucks.
Why? I've heard people say this before, and yet I use Entourage every single day, connected to our corporate Exchange server. We have a mostly Windows shop, with a few of us on Macs.
My email is seamless, my contacts are seamless (LDAP I believe), my calender is perfect. I've never even seen a hint of an issue.
So what features and issues do people have with Entourage? Is it just stuff I'm not using?
I watched Heroes the night it was on and loved it (I missed the Linux part; as someone mentioned earlier in this thread, there were better things to be looking at in the scene).
I didn't delete it from TiVo because my wife missed it. Last night she was watching it, and I sat down right as the camera was pointing at the desktop, and my eyes noticed the blue in the window's title bar and I laughed and said "they're using Linux".
Later on when they showed the Japanese guy's friend screwing around on his computer at work, I noticed his desktop was also not Windows or Mac, but didn't recognize the theme (and no, I wasn't going to pause and try to figure it out:)) The site above did not mention/post about his desktop, but I'm sure someone can get a capture of it.
I'm not the only one who saw the article and pictured a guy coding on a laptop while snowboarding down some crazy mountain and trying to avoid the falling avalanche, am I?
Um, Pair Programming is a huge tenet of eXtreme Programming, so CLEARLY the programmers are coding on a laptop whilst skydiving in tandem.
Skiing down a mountiain... Wassamatta wit' you? Sheesh...;-)
Activestate's Komodo supports Ruby, and it's a pretty mature product. While I haven't used it for Ruby development (only Perl), I would imagine it is just as robust. Granted it isn't on the scale of a Visual Studio, but it does the job.
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When I had my Atari 800, I got an MPP-100C modem. It was a 300, but could go to 450. So if I dialed into a BBS that had a 1200 baud line, WOOHOO!
Do you still provide the source code that runs the site? I remember that slashcode.com [slashcode.com] would track your changes in the past. Is this still true? I see that the last post there was in 2009.
The last time the public repository had any activity was September 2009. Trying to checkout the SF git repository appears to not work because there's no master branch, but it's easy enough to get at if you're familiar with git. However, last time I grabbed it, I put it on github to preserve it and get at it easier.
Just this week I decided to see if I could get the code running somewhere, because I was interested in seeing how Slashdot ran from an Admin perspective. It was a lot of work to get it going, but I finally got it (all told, maybe 6 hours of time). I used a Debian 6 (Lenny) image in VMWare Fusion because I was having problems getting it to work on a newer FreeBSD image. Also, mod_perl 1 will not compile if newer versions of Perl are on the system, but Lenny's default 5.10 worked fine.
For the most part, the INSTALL instructions were ok, and I found a few system packages I needed to have in order for the install to work properly. Also the MySQL SQL file for creating the database tables is broken and I had to fix it (syntax errors, plus some small tweaks to work with MySQL 5.1). In addition, the file is named differently than what the Slashcode install script is looking for, so it borked when running.
The git repository I linked above has my fixes on the 'development' branch. I also ran into a slight problem of ISE 500 when everything was up and I tried to hit the site, but that was simply a matter of tweaking the Apache config that was created. I now have a working Slash site on my home network to play around with.
As soon as they finish the Herd kernel to run it
Looks like even the one benefit (offsite storage) isn't necessarily a benefit either. All Sidekick owners say "Thanks Microsoft and T-Mobile!!"
Yeah, a scheduling conflict he had, what with running the state of California and all... :)
Er, haven't studied much music, eh? Personally I don't recall anyone ever saying anything to the effect of "This time,let's try Bach's Bouree, but change the key to E octothorpe". E# is pronounced "E sharp" ;-)
Oooo! Oooo!
In Soviet Russia perfect moments for meme use wait and find you!
*crickets*
Heh, nice play on the original "3M TA3", which is screened for by some (most?) DMV's now. The joke (for those who don't get it) is that if that is a plate on the front of the car, then the car in front of you will see (in their rearview mirror) "Eat Me"
<random_useless_trivia>It also appears as the number on the airplane on the Beastie Boys' License to Ill album. </random_useless_trivia>
Did you even TRY to look for it yourself? I haven't used PHP in years either, yet I just went to php.net and right there in the second news entry on the front page, it announced 5.2.5 is released, and contains a link for Changelog for PHP 5. Boy that was hard.
They stuff golden retriever puppies inside hard drives???
You apparently don't work on a team that requires interaction with lots of clients and/or vendors and require $time_interval meetings to coordinate the development efforts of tech teams from each company involved.
Just because it comes with a one-button mouse doesn't mean you have to use it. Plug any USB mouse in, and the buttons all work just fine.
Well you could set it as your default in Terminal, or iTerm, like I did :)
The Consolas font is a phenomenal mono-spaced font, and I've been using it for a year or more. You can download it from MS for free but it's an exe file. Once installed though you could easily, say, move the TTF file over from your Windows virtual machine to your "real" system and have access to it there. :)
To which the developers at Skype are yelling "HOPEFULLY NOT ALL AT THE EXACT SAME TIME, ASSHATS!"
Absolutely, and if you watch the first PL video you see them (the wm3) look a little foolish at times. However, keep in mind that these were 3 young teenagers, still trying to maintain their cool (they're teenagers!) and possibly innocent so had no way of thinking that they'd be really going to prison.
The PL2 dvd was done years later and they even talk about how they looked a little idiotic on the dvd and things like the one point where one of them (Damien) was fixing his hair, he claims was an editing thing they did and they were showing him 2 seconds after they gave him a hair cut and he was looking at it and trying to get used to it.
Regardless, the whole thing was a total mess. Whether or not the teens were acting like teens, the evidence and case was bullshit. One of the boys that was killed has a stepfather who, in both videos, is awfully damn suspicious. He talks a polygraph while under medication that has him more mellow then he ever is any other time, and he conviently had all of his teeth pulled before they could match his bite marks up to a bite on one of the dead kids. And his wife managed to die of mysterious circumstances sometime after the kid's death too.
There's also the 3 guys that were accused, when they were teenagers, of killing three eight year-old boys, and were placed in jail (one on death row). The evidence is absolute crap, and the "investigation" into the murders was bumbled and shoddy. The key evidence against the "leader" was that he wore black a lot and liked to read about Wicca and other "satanic" and "demonic" things... like heavy metal music. Oh no!
HBO has played two documentaries on this case (Paradise Lost and Paradise Lost 2) and they are enraging. Granted you're seeing edited information, but if you can, I'd really recommned seeing these two DVDs. Amazon is selling them DVD 1 and DVD 2
There's also a web site dedicate to the cause of helping the guys (Known as The West Memphis Three) get a fair trial and have real evidence shown (which there doesn't seem to be any of). Visit wm3.org for details.
I've been fascinated with this case for 10+ years and check out the wm3 site a few times a year to see what's new with the case. It's an absolute tragedy that three children were killed, and it's another tragedy that three other lives (teenagers) were destroyed as well if in fact they are innocent, as it would seem they may be.
Why? I've heard people say this before, and yet I use Entourage every single day, connected to our corporate Exchange server. We have a mostly Windows shop, with a few of us on Macs.
My email is seamless, my contacts are seamless (LDAP I believe), my calender is perfect. I've never even seen a hint of an issue.
So what features and issues do people have with Entourage? Is it just stuff I'm not using?
Same here! My wife ran Fedora for a long time, then FreeBSD when I sold her laptop and gave her my server. She now is on OS X.
:p
She hasn't had a Windows desktop in 3 or 4 years now. For what she needs (Email, browser, and IM) the other systems are just fine for her.
And she's hot, so there
I watched Heroes the night it was on and loved it (I missed the Linux part; as someone mentioned earlier in this thread, there were better things to be looking at in the scene).
:)) The site above did not mention/post about his desktop, but I'm sure someone can get a capture of it.
I didn't delete it from TiVo because my wife missed it. Last night she was watching it, and I sat down right as the camera was pointing at the desktop, and my eyes noticed the blue in the window's title bar and I laughed and said "they're using Linux".
Later on when they showed the Japanese guy's friend screwing around on his computer at work, I noticed his desktop was also not Windows or Mac, but didn't recognize the theme (and no, I wasn't going to pause and try to figure it out
Well said. /me claps.
Um, Pair Programming is a huge tenet of eXtreme Programming, so CLEARLY the programmers are coding on a laptop whilst skydiving in tandem.
Skiing down a mountiain... Wassamatta wit' you? Sheesh...
Bah, that's just a semantic (bad psuedo pun?) technicality! "New Functionality: Ownz Blocker - Now limits you from being h4x0r3d"
Activestate's Komodo supports Ruby, and it's a pretty mature product. While I haven't used it for Ruby development (only Perl), I would imagine it is just as robust. Granted it isn't on the scale of a Visual Studio, but it does the job.