Is Subversion stable enough for me to use for my own projects?
We believe that Subversion is stable and have confidence in our code, in fact, we've been self-hosting since September of 2001--eating our own caviar so to speak. We declared alpha because we're ready for the world to try Subversion.
After 10 months of self-hosting, we haven't lost any data at all.
You cited one anomaly out of the millions of certificates Verisign has issued. Verisign does, in fact, try to verify identity, and makes applicants go through a length application process to this end.
While this might be true, this is something where you are disqualified after one mistake. It's sort off as giving the $ master printing plates away to anybody who wears a tie and claims to be from the federal reserve.
Even one mistake renders the whole concept doubtful, if not invalid. And the legendary rotten customer service of Network Solutions (a Verisign subsidiary) also doesn't help their credibility much.
If you are claiming that trusted CAs can't be trusted any more than Joe Schmoe, then you are claiming that the entire concept of CAs is useless and should be thrown out the window. Is this really what you intend to be saying?
One might argue, that a certificate which is signed by Verisign and probably belongs to whom it states it belongs is better then no certificate at all (or the one signed by JoShmo Certificate Specialists). Nevertheless, this doesn't excuse this really, really bad mistake, which questions the very core of PKIs.
I wanted to moderate a couple of really funny posts, but can't let that one uncommented:
but there are still a hell of a lot o half arsed discussion sites out there that have a flat layout for comments
In an earlier life, when I was a DECcie we had a corporate network with maybe 100000 users and we had this groupware thingie called VAXnotes. Of course DEC couldn't sell it for shit, but it had a huge impact on the company internally.
The software was rather primitive. You installed it and created a conference on your box. The format went something like SLSHDT::COBOL for example, discussing the finer arts of Cobol. SLSHDT was the DECnet node, where it resided (limited to 6 chars, but those where the good ol' days).
Within the conference everybody could create an entry and after that it was just one flat stream of comments.
There where confererences for every product and every obscure piece of software which this company manufactured and produced. That was nifty, because if you had a Cobol question it wouldn't take an hour until somebody from Cobol engineering jumped in with a knowledgeable and comprehensive answer. But the most interesting part of the whole system where the EI (employee interest) conferences, which ranged from cats through tarrot over DEC issues (HUMANE::DIGITAL) up to Soapbox (damn! I can't even remember the node name...).
While it was primitive from a "layout" point of view I have never since experienced the power that a network can have on its participants. They where some really, really smart people bitching and flaming away, but sticking together whenever required. At one time we even pledged to get the best hated Soapbox contributor (Jamie, who was a very fat git, NOT!) to a boxbash in Bawston from Reading, UK.
It was also around that time (1993) when a really, really smart engineer (let's call him Dan K) mentioned something he was working on, something that would change the world, something so fucking (he didn't say fucking, since that was verboten) revolutionary it would blow us out of our socks. He couldn't really mention what it was, but it was later marketed under the term WWW.
Yep, it was a primitive form of discussion, but it didn't matter, not at all and it was one of the aspects in DECs culture, which made this company so great!
It saddens me until today, that one of the most important companies in computer history was sold off by a slick guy with a bad hairdo to some box-assembling marketing organisation in Texas.
The Neue Zurcher Zeitung, which features one of the best Media & IT section from any German speaking newspaper tested the MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) capabilities of the 7650 and the Ericsson T68i three weeks ago.
In a nutshell: It sometimes works. But only if the sender and the receiver both have the same phone. If you have the T68i and I send you an MMS from a Nokia you either get gibberish or nothing at all.
If we have the same phones we also better be with the same carrier, otherwise: see above. Regardless of success you're anyway billed 55euro-cents per message.
After WAP and some exorbitantly overpriced UMTS licenses mobile services could see their third Waterloo here by giving up simplicity and standards and bloating those devices with extremely complex and buggy sub systems, for which they weren't designed for in the first place.
The beauty of SMS lies in its simplicity and its standardization (partially basterdized by carriers in the US), which is adhered to throughout the European GSM network. Adding crappy features that nobody wants or needs and that rarely function the carriers and manufacturers do themselves a disservice.
Besides, I don't think that the business user (the one generating the most revenue) is very interested in sending 95KB video clips (or fotos for that matter) around the world. The guy wants a reliable phone, which is connected without hiccups after leaving the plane in Basel, Barcelona or Bangalore.
As somebody who's tried MS clustering, let me tell you that is one arena in which they will never succeed.
Looking at NTs heritage (Dave Cutler et al) from VMS, which had transparent, reliable, cick-ass clustering 15 years ago which is unmatched until today this is a pretty sad statement.
Mind you, I'm not doubting your statement. It just shows that M$ aparently threw away all the goodies in exchange for "usability" and a string of pretty crappy lowest common denominator wizards.
After all, all you need to set up a domain is to complete one easy wizard, right?
That's waht always bugged me about MS SQLServer since the codeline split from Sybase. The desktop is impressively simple. My mom could set up a database.
The problem is, that the underlying concepts are rather complex and a wizzard is always geared towards simplicity and the lowest common denominator. It's not really a replacement for a dba who knows the fuck what he does.
One of the local papers had an article in yesterdays issue about MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service).
Provided that you have the same phone as the receiver (either the Nokia 7650 or the Ericsson T68i) it works most of the time. This again works only, when you are on the same network as the receiver.
Regardless if the message arrives or not and is legible by the receiver you still get to pay ~55 cents for the privilege.
Well, when you click here you see a damn good reason why GSM and why a global standard DOES MATTER.
Granted, that the north american coverage might be a tad optimistic in rural areas, for the rest of the world (marked in dark blue) GSM works just damn fine.
The ususal microsoft astroturfers must have mislaid the carefully crafted statement from their pr department they usually have ready for such situations.
You know, the one that explains why passports shitty privacy is actually good for us.
Thank you for asking. Since the reason I got a mobile phone, was the fascination to have a hightech phonebooth (92 grams, 5 days fuse) in my pocket.
But you have no color screen, you might say
Well yeah, beacuse the BW display actually performs pretty well, what it's supposed to do: It displays
You might reason: But you can't run java aps
Thank you very much, but exactly because it doesn't run any java apps, or exactly because I can't edit an Excel spreadshit while driving down the Autobahn with 170 (km/h) it is extremely stable (which is the main fucking requirement for a cell phone in the first place) and never crashed on me (Nokia 6510).
Information services (directory services, timetables) are accessible via SMS just fine and tomorrow, when I get out of the plane in Lisboa I will marvel once again at the engineering behind gsm and the fact, that it works there just fine.
Same as in a sicilian mountain village or in the Australian bush (yeah, maybe not quite; but you get the picture).
It's not hard, it's impossible. You must publish your email address on a website and this address is publicly accessable and will be farmed by evil bots.
Of course I have a couple of garbage addresses, but there's no way I can mask my business address. OK I could use a gif, or I could mask it with clever tricks, or I could pay a service to filter spam.
The bottomline however is, that legit mail, which might mean business (which is an asset in such hard times) might get filtered or go under due to those fuckers, that actually cost me real money.
I just wanted to point out, that it's not necessarily my stupidity, which gets me drowned in spam, as you imply.
the fucking ignorant idiot attitude that really gets my blood boiling.
I run a database consultancy business. What contact information do you suggest should I have on my web page. None? Or some of those "clever" java script email obfucation systems, that won't work on every second browser?
If you're a pimply faced MP3 downloading 7377 4aX0r you may be able not to give out your email address. If you run a business, this is simply not an option.
SMS reception and incoming calls are free in Europe and Japan.
The only exception is when you're roaming in a different country.
Doesn't mean that those fuckers should have the right to hawk their penis extension wares and their free trips to Hawaii on my cell phone. Neither by text, nor by calling.
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Yeah, and isn't that great news when your only choice of re-installation is this "recovery disk" which came with your computer?
Unless of course you shell out 400$ extra for the retail version.
This was one of my major incentives to switch to Linux almost completely in 1999.
What's your take on the HP/Compaq merger?
Is Subversion stable enough for me to use for my own projects?
We believe that Subversion is stable and have confidence in our code, in fact, we've been self-hosting since September of 2001--eating our own caviar so to speak. We declared alpha because we're ready for the world to try Subversion.
After 10 months of self-hosting, we haven't lost any data at all.Hope this helps
This includes court costs, lawyers for the winning party and an amount set forth by the court for your inconvienence and troubles.
This won't be astronomical figures, say in the 10-30K range. It makes suing for fun very uneconomical however.
While this might be true, this is something where you are disqualified after one mistake. It's sort off as giving the $ master printing plates away to anybody who wears a tie and claims to be from the federal reserve.
Even one mistake renders the whole concept doubtful, if not invalid. And the legendary rotten customer service of Network Solutions (a Verisign subsidiary) also doesn't help their credibility much.
One might argue, that a certificate which is signed by Verisign and probably belongs to whom it states it belongs is better then no certificate at all (or the one signed by JoShmo Certificate Specialists). Nevertheless, this doesn't excuse this really, really bad mistake, which questions the very core of PKIs.
but there are still a hell of a lot o half arsed discussion sites out there that have a flat layout for comments
In an earlier life, when I was a DECcie we had a corporate network with maybe 100000 users and we had this groupware thingie called VAXnotes. Of course DEC couldn't sell it for shit, but it had a huge impact on the company internally.
The software was rather primitive. You installed it and created a conference on your box. The format went something like SLSHDT::COBOL for example, discussing the finer arts of Cobol. SLSHDT was the DECnet node, where it resided (limited to 6 chars, but those where the good ol' days).
Within the conference everybody could create an entry and after that it was just one flat stream of comments.
There where confererences for every product and every obscure piece of software which this company manufactured and produced. That was nifty, because if you had a Cobol question it wouldn't take an hour until somebody from Cobol engineering jumped in with a knowledgeable and comprehensive answer. But the most interesting part of the whole system where the EI (employee interest) conferences, which ranged from cats through tarrot over DEC issues (HUMANE::DIGITAL) up to Soapbox (damn! I can't even remember the node name...).
While it was primitive from a "layout" point of view I have never since experienced the power that a network can have on its participants. They where some really, really smart people bitching and flaming away, but sticking together whenever required. At one time we even pledged to get the best hated Soapbox contributor (Jamie, who was a very fat git, NOT!) to a boxbash in Bawston from Reading, UK.
It was also around that time (1993) when a really, really smart engineer (let's call him Dan K) mentioned something he was working on, something that would change the world, something so fucking (he didn't say fucking, since that was verboten) revolutionary it would blow us out of our socks. He couldn't really mention what it was, but it was later marketed under the term WWW.
Yep, it was a primitive form of discussion, but it didn't matter, not at all and it was one of the aspects in DECs culture, which made this company so great!
It saddens me until today, that one of the most important companies in computer history was sold off by a slick guy with a bad hairdo to some box-assembling marketing organisation in Texas.
Same here (Switzerland). Nevertheless telcos really love their business clientel for the same reasons as airlines love them:
They spend most per contract.
For a fun phone the 7650 is just too darn expensive.
The Neue Zurcher Zeitung, which features one of the best Media & IT section from any German speaking newspaper tested the MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) capabilities of the 7650 and the Ericsson T68i three weeks ago.
In a nutshell: It sometimes works. But only if the sender and the receiver both have the same phone. If you have the T68i and I send you an MMS from a Nokia you either get gibberish or nothing at all.
If we have the same phones we also better be with the same carrier, otherwise: see above. Regardless of success you're anyway billed 55euro-cents per message.
After WAP and some exorbitantly overpriced UMTS licenses mobile services could see their third Waterloo here by giving up simplicity and standards and bloating those devices with extremely complex and buggy sub systems, for which they weren't designed for in the first place.
The beauty of SMS lies in its simplicity and its standardization (partially basterdized by carriers in the US), which is adhered to throughout the European GSM network. Adding crappy features that nobody wants or needs and that rarely function the carriers and manufacturers do themselves a disservice.
Besides, I don't think that the business user (the one generating the most revenue) is very interested in sending 95KB video clips (or fotos for that matter) around the world. The guy wants a reliable phone, which is connected without hiccups after leaving the plane in Basel, Barcelona or Bangalore.
Do you really need video for that?
Looking at NTs heritage (Dave Cutler et al) from VMS, which had transparent, reliable, cick-ass clustering 15 years ago which is unmatched until today this is a pretty sad statement.
Mind you, I'm not doubting your statement. It just shows that M$ aparently threw away all the goodies in exchange for "usability" and a string of pretty crappy lowest common denominator wizards.
This women is incredible!
Not that our Limey friends are the role model of healthy and wholesome nutrition. Not to mention tasty.
And here's a link (alas, no warranties, re: reliability).
That's waht always bugged me about MS SQLServer since the codeline split from Sybase. The desktop is impressively simple. My mom could set up a database.
The problem is, that the underlying concepts are rather complex and a wizzard is always geared towards simplicity and the lowest common denominator. It's not really a replacement for a dba who knows the fuck what he does.
Provided that you have the same phone as the receiver (either the Nokia 7650 or the Ericsson T68i) it works most of the time. This again works only, when you are on the same network as the receiver.
Regardless if the message arrives or not and is legible by the receiver you still get to pay ~55 cents for the privilege.
Well, when you click here you see a damn good reason why GSM and why a global standard DOES MATTER.
Granted, that the north american coverage might be a tad optimistic in rural areas, for the rest of the world (marked in dark blue) GSM works just damn fine.
Who the fuck gives a shit?
Yeah, and satifies the "nature theme" requirement too.
You would have seen that, if you'd have actually bothered to click the link.
You know, the one that explains why passports shitty privacy is actually good for us.
Thank you for asking. Since the reason I got a mobile phone, was the fascination to have a hightech phonebooth (92 grams, 5 days fuse) in my pocket.
But you have no color screen, you might say
Well yeah, beacuse the BW display actually performs pretty well, what it's supposed to do: It displays
You might reason: But you can't run java aps
Thank you very much, but exactly because it doesn't run any java apps, or exactly because I can't edit an Excel spreadshit while driving down the Autobahn with 170 (km/h) it is extremely stable (which is the main fucking requirement for a cell phone in the first place) and never crashed on me (Nokia 6510).
Information services (directory services, timetables) are accessible via SMS just fine and tomorrow, when I get out of the plane in Lisboa I will marvel once again at the engineering behind gsm and the fact, that it works there just fine.
Same as in a sicilian mountain village or in the Australian bush (yeah, maybe not quite; but you get the picture).
Brother, your comment hits the spot, so to speak.
It's not hard, it's impossible. You must publish your email address on a website and this address is publicly accessable and will be farmed by evil bots.
Of course I have a couple of garbage addresses, but there's no way I can mask my business address. OK I could use a gif, or I could mask it with clever tricks, or I could pay a service to filter spam.
The bottomline however is, that legit mail, which might mean business (which is an asset in such hard times) might get filtered or go under due to those fuckers, that actually cost me real money.
I just wanted to point out, that it's not necessarily my stupidity, which gets me drowned in spam, as you imply.
the fucking ignorant idiot attitude that really gets my blood boiling. I run a database consultancy business. What contact information do you suggest should I have on my web page. None? Or some of those "clever" java script email obfucation systems, that won't work on every second browser?
If you're a pimply faced MP3 downloading 7377 4aX0r you may be able not to give out your email address. If you run a business, this is simply not an option.
No need to thank me.
The only exception is when you're roaming in a different country.
Doesn't mean that those fuckers should have the right to hawk their penis extension wares and their free trips to Hawaii on my cell phone. Neither by text, nor by calling.
You reaally oughta love this quote from a friggin' spammer of all people.