As you probably know, ATDT directs the modem to dial a number using dial tones.
If I remember properly, programs that use the modem usually disconnect with an escape sequence (+++ if I remember) and then ATH0 to go on hook (hang up). So a rehash of your comment could be:
"Perfectly stated. All I want and care for from an ISP is a good stable connection. That's why I've been with AOL for six montH^@@!0%$*+++ATH0[NO CARRIER]"
Though, now that I'm thinking of it more, I read into it too much;-), especially since modem communications are handled typically with PPP at a lower layer, preventing the gibberish from being interpreted as an IP packet for Slashdot;-).
As an iPod owner, I'm actually very impressed with the description and capabilities of the Neuros player! Unfortunately, it looks like it's probably a bit larger in physical dimensions and, as it's killer to me, the connector is advertised as USB 1.1 only:-(! Anything below Firewire 400 for synchronizing music is unacceptable to me, now that I'm spoiled with my iPod's 2-to-4 song/second transfer speed;-).
But with USB 2.0 and perhaps Mac/iTunes compatibility, there may be a very interesting future for Neuros:-)!
It's actually possible to replace the iPod battery, either through Apple or through DIY. Apple charges $99, so it might be better to just save up for a new one when the battery dies, especially with the new low-end iPods rumored to be around the corner.
I went to the launch event today in San Francisco, and I'm now loading up all the software in a Virtual PC on my Mac at home. InfoPath seems very interesting, though I heard about XForms and will explore that, too (someone at the event mentioned it, and a poster on this story mentioned it, too).
I remember the Exchange Server 2003 scenario. It was actually *35* exchange servers being reduced to (I think) 15. They were quite gleeful that the new version lets them do that since their attempts with the older versions didn't pan out. Ignoring RAID arrays, that's almost a full rack! With RAID arrays, it's probably two or three full racks of just exchange servers! That just boggles the mind!
But, then again, we're running an 80 person shop where I work on one Exchange server, and it's pretty much bursting at the seams as far as the data store is concerned. We had to impose 35MB caps on everyone's mailboxes ever since one guy's mailbox exploded from an infinite recursive mail failure delivery notification loop that made the data store grow to the maximum size supported by the drive array, crashed Exchange, and made us spend about $30,000 on a consultant and a couple days of downtime to fix the mess. I've proposed moving to a Linux mail solution along with OpenLDAP for contacts and a WebDAV server for calendaring and to-do items, using Mozilla Mail as the client and a custom app for modifying contacts, but to no avail (I'm not the IT Manager, just a lowly DBA). But, perhaps Exchange 2003 can help us out at work..
This is almost what I've been waiting for
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I've been thinking a lot about data storage over the past couple of years and even spoke with several colleagues on creating a clustered OS with a clustered data store that supports multiple forms of data storage retrieval, including but not limited to hierarchical and relational. Since building an OS from scratch might not be the most practical thing at this time, from my current thinking at least, I'm going to move it to the Application layer to create a data store inside a framework and application that can be a drop-in replacement for Microsoft Access but be multi-platform and run in Java. But if Microsoft's new filesystem starts to take off, then perhaps the work done on this system could be put into the kernel level at that time. Just a thought, though things might get complicated trying to run Java code in the kernel;-) (unless if the kernel is Java-based). Just some thoughts, now I have to get back to work..
That is incorrect. Torvalds showing ownership is "Torvalds's." The " Torvalds' " form shows plural subject ownership, implying that "Torvalds" is more than one person. As an example, the "cat's litter box" implies that the subject is singular while the "cats' litter box" says that you have two or more cats that share the same litter box.
I _really_ would like to see a clustered/grid revision-based transactional object store in the OS with a backward-compatible filesystem view layered on top. I also want a clustered/grid application framework that builds in fault tolerance so that the failure of a single device or network connection has no impact on running applications. This would then truly make a network that is the computer. Applications could run on the network rather than on a single computer. I'm still not exactly sure how to implement this, but I might make it my master's thesis or doctoral dissertation if I start coming up with some possibilities. This could surpass Windows, Linux, OS X, and just about any OS out there, unless if an OS I don't know about already does this..
I'm not quite sure if gaining the attention of women is what it is all about, especially for gay men. I wasn't trying to gain the attention of other men, or at least as far as I know. I work hard so that I can live well and make the world a better place.
I think instead that it's a matter of timing. I consider myself married/partnered, and I can definitely say that I have less free time than I did before I met him.
My quality of life, however, is far better than it was before, so there's a trade-off, I suppose: be a brilliant but lonely and possibly depressed, or be average and happy. I wish I can have more time to work on open-source projects, for instance, but paid consulting work is a better use of the little free time I have since it helps pay for vacations and such. And on weekends, I don't work at all since we spend the entire time doing fun things.
Before I met him, I would program OSS on weekends, too, albiet with a far less fabulous wardrobe and casual conversations that always involved Linux or computers somehow. I mean, I even wrote a PAM driver for the CueCat -- a totally useless task;-)! (it's at http://pam-cuecat.sf.net, btw). Gee, I guess I really was (still am?) a geek;-).
SCO announced earlier this morning that they obtained all rights to the English language from England for an undisclosed amount and plan develop a "reasonable and non-discrimatory" license plan for individuals wishing to communicate using the language. A SCO spokesperson recently told reporters: "We're not after the individual English speakers, so there's no need to worry. It has come to our attention that IBM intentionally placed some English words into the open-source Jive language and is in clear breach of our license with them, forcing us to take them to court for... (cue music and camera zoom-in) One Meelion Dollars."
Although details are not yet finalized, SCO promises that the royalty for using the English language will be affordable, "something in the ballpark of 3 to 4 cents per word communicated." In that scenario, this news story would cost us several dollars, which is quite cheap and reasonable in this news agency's opinion. More at 11.
Try out the latest beta version of OpenOffice on Windows (haven't tried Linux version yet) and open a bunch of legacy documents. It's already near-perfect, nearly-all-the-time, and I'm currently predicting that it will get even closer to perfect all of the time by the end of this year.
It's actually good enough for me to remove Word and PowerPoint from my system and associate all Office file types (except Access, of course) with OpenOffice. I still need Excel to do my time sheet, which has password-protected sheets and thus doesn't open in OpenOffice yet:-( (I REALLY hope opening password-protected files gets into OpenOffice soon). Inspired by Ximian, I set the default Save file types to DOC, XLS, and PPT, and it works well so far. I'm an early adopter in my organization, though I hope to be able to certify the newest OpenOffice as good enough for wide-scale deployment by the end of this year:-).
Now the OS X version is an entirely different story, and I hope I can find time to contribute to its port, especially after learning more advanced OS X programming at the Apple Developer Conference in a couple weeks.
All this time, I thought the subnet restriction was already in place because the README had already stated it. I guess 4.0.1 simply implements what the documentation said all along. (and to think that I could have streamed from my LAN to wireless at home all this time.. I should look into bridging..).
Or, if you live near the Castro in San Francisco, rent videos from Superstar or Superstar Satellite, both which rent Hollywood and independent movies, especially LGBT-interest, as well as a sizable selection of porn, ranging from soft-core all the way to extreme hard-core. Superstar Satellite has a policy of storing rental data for only two weeks and then deleting it, and they don't give out that data to anyone (I tried calling to see if I had rented a title in the past so that I don't rent it again, and they explained this policy to me as the reason why they can't tell me). Superstar might have a similar policy.
The only caveat is that the porn is pretty much all GLBT, with an emphasis on the G, so if you're S, then you might be SOL at renting porn at these stores (except, perhaps, if you're into L videos).
According to a Sociology class i had in college several years ago, the professor debunked the 50% divorce rate statistic because it only measures the number of divorces divided by the number of marriages in a single year. If you measure what percentage of marriages end in divorce over a long time span, that 50% rate dwindles substantially to something like 10% or less, if I remember correctly (it's been a while). The 50% rate is not a very good measurement and many cofactors exist to inflate it, though I can't remember the specifics off the top of my head.
Actually, they are real, and I've been on one many years ago:-). It's a transport between their main parking lots and the corporate offices, though now they probably have parking lots at the corporate offices. Since it's typically Radio Shack / Tandy employees instead of punks and vandals riding, most cars likely lived graffiti-free for their entire lifetime.
Los Colinas (sp?), which is near Dallas, has an elevated transport system going between several of the huge buildings, though technically it's not a subway;-).
The hard drives should work in a Mac, but the video card probably won't due to differences in the card's firmware. PC video cards typically have a PC x86 video BIOS built in while Mac video cards have something else, perhaps an OpenFirmware thingie that lets the system's firmware start up the video card and video display.
I've actually tried to put a ATI Xclaim TV PCI Mac card into a PC only to get no video at all in the PC, though Linux booted anyway. I tried to see if XFree86 could somehow handle it, but alas I couldn't get it to work properly. I even tried compiling and running Linux with various ATI framebuffer console settings (man, I must have had a lot more free time than I do now! Though, such toil seems quite boring to me now. Speaking of now-seemingly boring toil, I need to figure out what to do with my basement full of I-Openers, but that's another story). It comes right up on the Mac (a G4 450MHz system).
Well, transvestites by strict definition simply like wearing clothing of the opposite sex. Individual transvestites come in all sexual orientations, including straight. Transsexuals, by contrast, have minds of the sex that differs from their bodies, though they too come in all sexual orientations. Transvestitism is more of a clothing and behavioral tendency while transexualism is more of a medical condition known as gender dysphoria that can be corrected by altering the body to become the opposite sex.
Chances are that you already know people in your office who are transsexual even if you don't know that they are transsexual. After the transition, it's very difficult to tell the difference:-). (though, during the transition, it's a bit apparent for a year or so, at least with M-to-F).
It's naive to classify everyone as male versus female and gay versus straight. There's a lot in between, and it's likely that most people fall somewhere in the middle:-).
By the way, you don't need to leave your previous VSS history behind! We used Perl scripts that we found through Google that convert VSS histories into CVS, comments, dates, and all:-) (and whether or not it's a binary file). The catch is that it's best to not use linked files, since they will appear as two separate files in CVS. On a UNIX-based box, you can do symlinks, I suppose, but with CVSNT, it's not easy if it's possible at all. The Perl scripts even converted the times to GMT, which is what CVS uses in its server files. I wish I had a link, but I have to get ready for work now..
I was checking in source code in VSS, and it was like "bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep!" And then, like, half of my repository was gone. It was a really good repository. I had to code it again twice as fast so it wasn't as good. It's kind of.... a bummer.
Anyway, our VSS never crashed after using it for about 5 years, but ever since I was hired three years ago, I advocated for CVS. I learned a lot in how to initiate change processes, and after about a year, I put together a document comparing the feature sets of VSS to CVS. JBuilder integration with CVS was a nice feature, since that's what we use, It was CVS's excellent branch management capabilities that ultimately drove us away from VSS, since we were starting to need to do branching on stable releases during the next version's development cycles. VSS sort-of does branching, but very poorly. I had to document WinCVS 1.2 myself for the development team, but since the switch, our revision control management has been substantially more useful, and now we have a sense that it's working for us rather than working for it like with VSS.
We didn't need any BSD or Linux boxes. We use CVSNT at http://www.cvsnt.org and it works like a charm:-). It runs as an NT service, and we're currently running it in pserver mode. It supports NT authentication, but my development team is spread across several domains since it's a multi-organization development effort. In your case, NT authentication probably works, or if you're using ActiveDirectory, it supports kerberos and other stuff, too:-).
We're going to set up the ViewCVS web interface soon so that we can get server-side views of our repository. The TortoiseCVS (sp?) Explorer integration is very nice, too, so you can see what files are modified and such right in the Explorer.
For us, CVSNT, WinCVS 1.2, and TortoiseCVS works very well:-), and it's all on Windows.
One partner in the multi-organizational development team I'm in is considering porting our VB/ASP Reporting System to C# and.NET. I proposed an evaluation to look at.NET, Java, PHP, Python, and others objectively before jumping on the.NET bandwagon, and this article might help expose what Microsoft is up to.
Thank you very, very much for posting this article! I've forwarded it to most of my technical friends who will find it interesting..:-)
This story is old news, and I had purchased TaxCut for OSX in protest, but I must say that TaxCut was definitely the worst piece of junk I had ever installed on my Mac (well, the only pice of junk). It installs to the root by default instead of Applications, it crashed (!) a few times on me, and the help system will only work if IE is set as your default browser. And, some help pages are missing (!!). I returned it, got my money back, bought TurboTax for OS X, and won't look back. Sure, the Windows version sucks, but the OSX version works, doesn't require IE, doesn't crash, has built-in updates (TaxCut requires manual downloading and running of each patch -- yuck!). And I don't have to wait until the end of February to e-file and do California taxes on the Mac (!!!). I cannot emphasize how strongly I advise against TaxCut for OS X!
If you're looking to replace Visual Studio for programs that don't rely too much on the COM wizards and such, try out Dev-C++. It's pretty fast, too, and it uses GCC:-).
I agree:-). Funny thing is that most straight IT guys I know are fat and ugly while the gay IT guys are generally cute and slender, though certainly not in all cases. My partner always jokes at my profession since he expects that I'll get fat and start speaking techno-speak all day like the IT department where he works, but I'm not going to allow that doomed fate to happen to me;-)!
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As you probably know, ATDT directs the modem to dial a number using dial tones.
;-), especially since modem communications are handled typically with PPP at a lower layer, preventing the gibberish from being interpreted as an IP packet for Slashdot ;-).
If I remember properly, programs that use the modem usually disconnect with an escape sequence (+++ if I remember) and then ATH0 to go on hook (hang up). So a rehash of your comment could be:
"Perfectly stated. All I want and care for from an ISP is a good stable connection. That's why I've been with AOL for six montH^@@!0%$*+++ATH0[NO CARRIER]"
Though, now that I'm thinking of it more, I read into it too much
As an iPod owner, I'm actually very impressed with the description and capabilities of the Neuros player! Unfortunately, it looks like it's probably a bit larger in physical dimensions and, as it's killer to me, the connector is advertised as USB 1.1 only :-(! Anything below Firewire 400 for synchronizing music is unacceptable to me, now that I'm spoiled with my iPod's 2-to-4 song/second transfer speed ;-).
:-)!
:-).
But with USB 2.0 and perhaps Mac/iTunes compatibility, there may be a very interesting future for Neuros
Let the competition begin
It's actually possible to replace the iPod battery, either through Apple or through DIY. Apple charges $99, so it might be better to just save up for a new one when the battery dies, especially with the new low-end iPods rumored to be around the corner.
c ts/service/ipod_service.html
Apple's iPod battery service: http://www.info.apple.com/support/applecare_produ
DIY iPod battery replacement: http://www.ipodbattery.com/
I went to the launch event today in San Francisco, and I'm now loading up all the software in a Virtual PC on my Mac at home. InfoPath seems very interesting, though I heard about XForms and will explore that, too (someone at the event mentioned it, and a poster on this story mentioned it, too).
I remember the Exchange Server 2003 scenario. It was actually *35* exchange servers being reduced to (I think) 15. They were quite gleeful that the new version lets them do that since their attempts with the older versions didn't pan out. Ignoring RAID arrays, that's almost a full rack! With RAID arrays, it's probably two or three full racks of just exchange servers! That just boggles the mind!
But, then again, we're running an 80 person shop where I work on one Exchange server, and it's pretty much bursting at the seams as far as the data store is concerned. We had to impose 35MB caps on everyone's mailboxes ever since one guy's mailbox exploded from an infinite recursive mail failure delivery notification loop that made the data store grow to the maximum size supported by the drive array, crashed Exchange, and made us spend about $30,000 on a consultant and a couple days of downtime to fix the mess. I've proposed moving to a Linux mail solution along with OpenLDAP for contacts and a WebDAV server for calendaring and to-do items, using Mozilla Mail as the client and a custom app for modifying contacts, but to no avail (I'm not the IT Manager, just a lowly DBA). But, perhaps Exchange 2003 can help us out at work..
I've been thinking a lot about data storage over the past couple of years and even spoke with several colleagues on creating a clustered OS with a clustered data store that supports multiple forms of data storage retrieval, including but not limited to hierarchical and relational. Since building an OS from scratch might not be the most practical thing at this time, from my current thinking at least, I'm going to move it to the Application layer to create a data store inside a framework and application that can be a drop-in replacement for Microsoft Access but be multi-platform and run in Java. But if Microsoft's new filesystem starts to take off, then perhaps the work done on this system could be put into the kernel level at that time. Just a thought, though things might get complicated trying to run Java code in the kernel ;-) (unless if the kernel is Java-based). Just some thoughts, now I have to get back to work..
It looks like it doesn't have a Common Name in the issuer section. Seems a bit fishy....
That is incorrect. Torvalds showing ownership is "Torvalds's." The " Torvalds' " form shows plural subject ownership, implying that "Torvalds" is more than one person. As an example, the "cat's litter box" implies that the subject is singular while the "cats' litter box" says that you have two or more cats that share the same litter box.
I _really_ would like to see a clustered/grid revision-based transactional object store in the OS with a backward-compatible filesystem view layered on top. I also want a clustered/grid application framework that builds in fault tolerance so that the failure of a single device or network connection has no impact on running applications. This would then truly make a network that is the computer. Applications could run on the network rather than on a single computer. I'm still not exactly sure how to implement this, but I might make it my master's thesis or doctoral dissertation if I start coming up with some possibilities. This could surpass Windows, Linux, OS X, and just about any OS out there, unless if an OS I don't know about already does this..
I'm not quite sure if gaining the attention of women is what it is all about, especially for gay men. I wasn't trying to gain the attention of other men, or at least as far as I know. I work hard so that I can live well and make the world a better place.
;-)! (it's at http://pam-cuecat.sf.net, btw). Gee, I guess I really was (still am?) a geek ;-).
I think instead that it's a matter of timing. I consider myself married/partnered, and I can definitely say that I have less free time than I did before I met him.
My quality of life, however, is far better than it was before, so there's a trade-off, I suppose: be a brilliant but lonely and possibly depressed, or be average and happy. I wish I can have more time to work on open-source projects, for instance, but paid consulting work is a better use of the little free time I have since it helps pay for vacations and such. And on weekends, I don't work at all since we spend the entire time doing fun things.
Before I met him, I would program OSS on weekends, too, albiet with a far less fabulous wardrobe and casual conversations that always involved Linux or computers somehow. I mean, I even wrote a PAM driver for the CueCat -- a totally useless task
Just my 2.0x10^-2 cents.
In related news...
SCO announced earlier this morning that they obtained all rights to the English language from England for an undisclosed amount and plan develop a "reasonable and non-discrimatory" license plan for individuals wishing to communicate using the language. A SCO spokesperson recently told reporters: "We're not after the individual English speakers, so there's no need to worry. It has come to our attention that IBM intentionally placed some English words into the open-source Jive language and is in clear breach of our license with them, forcing us to take them to court for... (cue music and camera zoom-in) One Meelion Dollars."
Although details are not yet finalized, SCO promises that the royalty for using the English language will be affordable, "something in the ballpark of 3 to 4 cents per word communicated." In that scenario, this news story would cost us several dollars, which is quite cheap and reasonable in this news agency's opinion. More at 11.
ADD 1 TO COBOL GIVING OBJECTORIENTEDCOBOL
:-)
;-)
For what it's worth
And for the lameness filter, this is COBOL code, not "yelling"
Try out the latest beta version of OpenOffice on Windows (haven't tried Linux version yet) and open a bunch of legacy documents. It's already near-perfect, nearly-all-the-time, and I'm currently predicting that it will get even closer to perfect all of the time by the end of this year.
:-( (I REALLY hope opening password-protected files gets into OpenOffice soon). Inspired by Ximian, I set the default Save file types to DOC, XLS, and PPT, and it works well so far. I'm an early adopter in my organization, though I hope to be able to certify the newest OpenOffice as good enough for wide-scale deployment by the end of this year :-).
It's actually good enough for me to remove Word and PowerPoint from my system and associate all Office file types (except Access, of course) with OpenOffice. I still need Excel to do my time sheet, which has password-protected sheets and thus doesn't open in OpenOffice yet
Now the OS X version is an entirely different story, and I hope I can find time to contribute to its port, especially after learning more advanced OS X programming at the Apple Developer Conference in a couple weeks.
All this time, I thought the subnet restriction was already in place because the README had already stated it. I guess 4.0.1 simply implements what the documentation said all along. (and to think that I could have streamed from my LAN to wireless at home all this time.. I should look into bridging..).
Or, if you live near the Castro in San Francisco, rent videos from Superstar or Superstar Satellite, both which rent Hollywood and independent movies, especially LGBT-interest, as well as a sizable selection of porn, ranging from soft-core all the way to extreme hard-core. Superstar Satellite has a policy of storing rental data for only two weeks and then deleting it, and they don't give out that data to anyone (I tried calling to see if I had rented a title in the past so that I don't rent it again, and they explained this policy to me as the reason why they can't tell me). Superstar might have a similar policy.
The only caveat is that the porn is pretty much all GLBT, with an emphasis on the G, so if you're S, then you might be SOL at renting porn at these stores (except, perhaps, if you're into L videos).
The blonde guy was pretty hot :-), but ewww, not Screech! ;-).
According to a Sociology class i had in college several years ago, the professor debunked the 50% divorce rate statistic because it only measures the number of divorces divided by the number of marriages in a single year. If you measure what percentage of marriages end in divorce over a long time span, that 50% rate dwindles substantially to something like 10% or less, if I remember correctly (it's been a while). The 50% rate is not a very good measurement and many cofactors exist to inflate it, though I can't remember the specifics off the top of my head.
Actually, they are real, and I've been on one many years ago :-). It's a transport between their main parking lots and the corporate offices, though now they probably have parking lots at the corporate offices. Since it's typically Radio Shack / Tandy employees instead of punks and vandals riding, most cars likely lived graffiti-free for their entire lifetime.
;-).
Los Colinas (sp?), which is near Dallas, has an elevated transport system going between several of the huge buildings, though technically it's not a subway
The hard drives should work in a Mac, but the video card probably won't due to differences in the card's firmware. PC video cards typically have a PC x86 video BIOS built in while Mac video cards have something else, perhaps an OpenFirmware thingie that lets the system's firmware start up the video card and video display.
I've actually tried to put a ATI Xclaim TV PCI Mac card into a PC only to get no video at all in the PC, though Linux booted anyway. I tried to see if XFree86 could somehow handle it, but alas I couldn't get it to work properly. I even tried compiling and running Linux with various ATI framebuffer console settings (man, I must have had a lot more free time than I do now! Though, such toil seems quite boring to me now. Speaking of now-seemingly boring toil, I need to figure out what to do with my basement full of I-Openers, but that's another story). It comes right up on the Mac (a G4 450MHz system).
Well, transvestites by strict definition simply like wearing clothing of the opposite sex. Individual transvestites come in all sexual orientations, including straight. Transsexuals, by contrast, have minds of the sex that differs from their bodies, though they too come in all sexual orientations. Transvestitism is more of a clothing and behavioral tendency while transexualism is more of a medical condition known as gender dysphoria that can be corrected by altering the body to become the opposite sex.
:-). (though, during the transition, it's a bit apparent for a year or so, at least with M-to-F).
:-).
Chances are that you already know people in your office who are transsexual even if you don't know that they are transsexual. After the transition, it's very difficult to tell the difference
It's naive to classify everyone as male versus female and gay versus straight. There's a lot in between, and it's likely that most people fall somewhere in the middle
By the way, you don't need to leave your previous VSS history behind! We used Perl scripts that we found through Google that convert VSS histories into CVS, comments, dates, and all :-) (and whether or not it's a binary file). The catch is that it's best to not use linked files, since they will appear as two separate files in CVS. On a UNIX-based box, you can do symlinks, I suppose, but with CVSNT, it's not easy if it's possible at all. The Perl scripts even converted the times to GMT, which is what CVS uses in its server files. I wish I had a link, but I have to get ready for work now..
I was checking in source code in VSS, and it was like "bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep!" And then, like, half of my repository was gone. It was a really good repository. I had to code it again twice as fast so it wasn't as good. It's kind of.... a bummer.
:-). It runs as an NT service, and we're currently running it in pserver mode. It supports NT authentication, but my development team is spread across several domains since it's a multi-organization development effort. In your case, NT authentication probably works, or if you're using ActiveDirectory, it supports kerberos and other stuff, too :-).
:-), and it's all on Windows.
Anyway, our VSS never crashed after using it for about 5 years, but ever since I was hired three years ago, I advocated for CVS. I learned a lot in how to initiate change processes, and after about a year, I put together a document comparing the feature sets of VSS to CVS. JBuilder integration with CVS was a nice feature, since that's what we use, It was CVS's excellent branch management capabilities that ultimately drove us away from VSS, since we were starting to need to do branching on stable releases during the next version's development cycles. VSS sort-of does branching, but very poorly. I had to document WinCVS 1.2 myself for the development team, but since the switch, our revision control management has been substantially more useful, and now we have a sense that it's working for us rather than working for it like with VSS.
We didn't need any BSD or Linux boxes. We use CVSNT at http://www.cvsnt.org and it works like a charm
We're going to set up the ViewCVS web interface soon so that we can get server-side views of our repository. The TortoiseCVS (sp?) Explorer integration is very nice, too, so you can see what files are modified and such right in the Explorer.
For us, CVSNT, WinCVS 1.2, and TortoiseCVS works very well
One partner in the multi-organizational development team I'm in is considering porting our VB/ASP Reporting System to C# and .NET. I proposed an evaluation to look at .NET, Java, PHP, Python, and others objectively before jumping on the .NET bandwagon, and this article might help expose what Microsoft is up to.
:-)
Thank you very, very much for posting this article! I've forwarded it to most of my technical friends who will find it interesting..
This story is old news, and I had purchased TaxCut for OSX in protest, but I must say that TaxCut was definitely the worst piece of junk I had ever installed on my Mac (well, the only pice of junk). It installs to the root by default instead of Applications, it crashed (!) a few times on me, and the help system will only work if IE is set as your default browser. And, some help pages are missing (!!). I returned it, got my money back, bought TurboTax for OS X, and won't look back. Sure, the Windows version sucks, but the OSX version works, doesn't require IE, doesn't crash, has built-in updates (TaxCut requires manual downloading and running of each patch -- yuck!). And I don't have to wait until the end of February to e-file and do California taxes on the Mac (!!!). I cannot emphasize how strongly I advise against TaxCut for OS X!
If you're looking to replace Visual Studio for programs that don't rely too much on the COM wizards and such, try out Dev-C++. It's pretty fast, too, and it uses GCC :-).
I agree :-). Funny thing is that most straight IT guys I know are fat and ugly while the gay IT guys are generally cute and slender, though certainly not in all cases. My partner always jokes at my profession since he expects that I'll get fat and start speaking techno-speak all day like the IT department where he works, but I'm not going to allow that doomed fate to happen to me ;-)!