Comparing Perforce to VSS is grossly unfair. Perforce is a damm fine SCM. VSS is, well, just awful.
Perforce has good reason for making you specify the files you edit. Take a large source tree. Edit three files at random in wildly different parts of the tree. Now do 'svn status' or 'svn diff' at the top of the tree, like you're reviewing someone else's change. Perforce knows which files have changed, and you get the answer right back. CVS/Subversion have to scan the tree.
I also like the way in Perforce you can assign changed files to different changesets, and see what other people have in their changesets.
But I deployed Subversion in our company. We don't have really big trees. And now I'm glad I did. I now have a requirement to operate a mirror of the repository for a developer on a private net with no direct Internet access. I can access his net via a VPN, so I can use SVK to mirror our main repository to a repository on his net. He can work away, committing changes to his repository, and I periodically VPN in and sync up the repos. I don't think I can do that with Perforce.
There was. http://www.angelfire.com/retro/minimetroland/ calls it 'Absolutely the greatest ever small hatchback built in the West Midlands to come out of the closing years of the second half of the 1970s'. An excellent summary. The editorial line of http://www.thesun.co.uk/ during the Falklands War was widely satirised as 'Kill an Argie and win a Mini Metro'.
The square steering wheel, though, was on that exemplar of the early 1970s British car industry, the Austin Allegro. A nice pic here http://www.74simon.co.uk/newallegro.html.
I saw 'Meetings, Bloody Meetings' and 'More Bloody Meetings' way back when. That I can still remember the titles and (some) of the material many years later is a testament to their efficacy. I wish everyone where I work had seen them too. I wonder if you can still get them anywhere....
http://www.videoarts.co.uk/. Why, thanks Uncle Google! Not, at those prices, available for a casual overnight nostalgia rental.
Look, if the game has finished two days short, you'll have plenty of spare time to watch the highlights.
(For the non-cricket followers, an international match of proper cricket - there are shorted fast-food versions -is scheduled to last 5 days, though many will finish in 4. If it's over in 3, someone got seriously stuffed.)
I have to agree with the basefall fans below. The time it all takes is part of the fun. Like any drama has a natural pace; the unbelieveable tension that can be created on the 5th day needs the preceeding 4 to happen. Highlights miss a lot of the point. Consider, for example, the insights into the human condition offered by the highlights of Hamlet.
Check out this page. You don't need a card to get the full set of BBC TV and Radio services, including all UK regionals and BBC7, my main reason for wanting a TiVO-for-Radio. Click on the EPG link for the full list.
Decent of all us licence fee payers to sub the rest of youse, eh? I note that Radio 4 is available in both LW and FM versions, so no more bloody moaning about missing You And Yours when the cricket's on from all you European mainland dwellers, please.
In the early '80s my then girlfriend's father (a Royal Navy submarine commander) was posted to the Embassy in Washington. She stayed in the UK, but her little bro went to school in the US.
Yep, they made him recite this piece of Stalinist brainwashing every day.
He had a good singing voice, so they also got him to sing 'My Country Tis of Thee' at the school concert. I don't think he minded that as much. At least he knew the tune.
And (certainly in the 90s) the UK government was active in the Council of Ministers - which is where the real power lies - in preventing the EU Parliament from acquiring greater powers.
While simultaneously - for domestic consumption - decrying the EU as undemocratic
Nothing. Well, nothing beyond nobody's very familiar with the.museum domain. There are several TLDs that do the same e.g..nu and.cx. Again, not high enough profile.
Also, check out the.museum and.cx 'default' pages. Their presence is misguided, but plainly done with good intent. Verisign, OTOH, are obviously bent on at best bending DNS for their own financial gain.
Tried 'em. All utterly tasteless - might as well drink US or South African mass-market brews. Crown, by the way, is Fosters, just left in the conditioning tank a little longer and sold in posh bottles at a hefty markup to the beer-ignorant Australian public brainwashed by their brewers to believe they drink fine beers (again, see US and South Africa). The difference between VB and Fosters, by the way, is a few hundredweight of dark malt in a grain bill of 5 tonnes.
A bloke could die of thirst in Oz if it wasn't for the blessed Coopers.
True in the UK too. HOWEVER, that portion of your home then becomes liable for capital gains tax when you sell the place. So generally the deducation isn't worth it in the long term.
Early VMS (I'm thinking VMS 1.0, circa '80?) had a similar problem. The login was done by a DCL script. Wander up to your friendly VT100, hit Return to wake it up and them hammer it with ^Y (==^C). With a few tries you'd break into the login script and be dumped at a root prompt.
The Uni got an upgrade PDQ once us young 'uns had discovered that...
Well done. You are quite right. According to a CUB brewer I met a few years ago, Crown Lager *really* *is* Fosters, abeit with a hour or two longer in the conditioning tank. Drop it in a bottle, call it 'premium' and sell at juicy markup. The Australian public are comprehensively beer ignorant, and won't notice.
FYI, there's also only a gnat's whisker of difference between VB and Fosters. A couple of hundredweight of dark malt in a grain bill of 5 tonnes. Lord, if it wasn't for Coopers a beer lover could die of thirst Down Under.
According to one of the developers from SuSE who worked on this (and demoed SuSE running under one of the x86-64 simulators at a recent OxLUG talk ), SuSE and other porters did indeed make suggestions to AMD as to details of the architecture which were taken up by AMD.
And when your diary, address book and notebook get lost/stolen/given an ink bath/catch fire/..., your backups are where?
I got an old Psion after my Filofax got nicked a couple of years ago. The Psion got nicked a year later. Get replacement, restore from backups, and this time I didn't lose the only contact details I had for some folk I would have preferred to stay in touch with.
Being able to quickly and easily back up your address book/notes/diary is THE killer PDA app. That you can play games on 'em is a bonus.
Snug & raw was I ere I saw war & guns.
Lewd I did live & evil did I dwel.
Imagine these in a list of palindromes. Substitute the & and their meaning remains, but their palindromeness - and hence reason for inclusion in the list - is gone.
OK, that is the situation now. But have you noticed the number of 'web appliances', games consoles and other non-PC type browsing platforms springing up? These buggers have all kinds of processors, all kinds of OS and all kinds of browsers on 'em.
Now, it is true that maybe this whole market segment will flop mightily. But if these consumer devices catch on - and you want to bet that Joe 'flashing 12:00' Punter will prefer to buy and configure Windows? - then we may have seen the high water mark of Windows.
As it happens, I work for Insignia porting our JVM to these boxes. Maybe someone is doing the same for Flash. How many plugins do you think the manufacturers are going to deem it necessary to support before launching?
So, with a bit of luck, web site designers will be dragged back to the open standards. Cross your fingers...
Australia also currently possesses a notably bone-headed executive, currently intent on some tax reform that depends on placating one Tasmanian Senator. He, and they, will not last forever.
>there is no such thing as a "perfect" programming language. Even when using the right >tool for the job. Imperfect C is. But its diamonds must far outweigh its stones.
Complaints about C should be laid at dmr's door, not Kernighan or Pike. Or did he mean AWK, which I think is a Kernighan production?
I'll definitely be checking out this book. Despite comments above, I learned C from K&R (King James ed) and think it the best programming language tutorial I've come across - as distinct from a 'how to program' book, which it isn't.
While we're slagging off programming tutorials, can I put a bad word in for Deitel & Deitel? Only the on the basis of their Java book (which succeeded brilliantly in frightening a relation off programming for life), you understand. But a shocking squandering of previous environmental resources, firmly in the 'sold by weight' category of computer publications.
A depth of though and the clarity that comes from a true mastery of the subject has been the hallmark of the Kernighan, Richie and Pike works I have read in the past. Yeah, after (mmph) years in before the keyboard I expect it won't all be a total surprise, but I will be taken heavily aback if they don't make me think about some things in a radically different way in future. And that's the mark of a really good book.
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Comparing Perforce to VSS is grossly unfair. Perforce is a damm fine SCM. VSS is, well, just awful.
Perforce has good reason for making you specify the files you edit. Take a large source tree. Edit three files at random in wildly different parts of the tree. Now do 'svn status' or 'svn diff' at the top of the tree, like you're reviewing someone else's change. Perforce knows which files have changed, and you get the answer right back. CVS/Subversion have to scan the tree.
I also like the way in Perforce you can assign changed files to different changesets, and see what other people have in their changesets.
But I deployed Subversion in our company. We don't have really big trees. And now I'm glad I did. I now have a requirement to operate a mirror of the repository for a developer on a private net with no direct Internet access. I can access his net via a VPN, so I can use SVK to mirror our main repository to a repository on his net. He can work away, committing changes to his repository, and I periodically VPN in and sync up the repos. I don't think I can do that with Perforce.
There was. http://www.angelfire.com/retro/minimetroland/ calls it 'Absolutely the greatest ever small hatchback built in the West Midlands to come out of the closing years of the second half of the 1970s'. An excellent summary. The editorial line of http://www.thesun.co.uk/ during the Falklands War was widely satirised as 'Kill an Argie and win a Mini Metro'.
The square steering wheel, though, was on that exemplar of the early 1970s British car industry, the Austin Allegro. A nice pic here http://www.74simon.co.uk/newallegro.html.
Looks like those two at least got remade in the early '90s. I definitely saw different versions in the 80s.
I saw 'Meetings, Bloody Meetings' and 'More Bloody Meetings' way back when. That I can still remember the titles and (some) of the material many years later is a testament to their efficacy. I wish everyone where I work had seen them too. I wonder if you can still get them anywhere....
http://www.videoarts.co.uk/. Why, thanks Uncle Google! Not, at those prices, available for a casual overnight nostalgia rental.
(For the non-cricket followers, an international match of proper cricket - there are shorted fast-food versions -is scheduled to last 5 days, though many will finish in 4. If it's over in 3, someone got seriously stuffed.)
I have to agree with the basefall fans below. The time it all takes is part of the fun. Like any drama has a natural pace; the unbelieveable tension that can be created on the 5th day needs the preceeding 4 to happen. Highlights miss a lot of the point. Consider, for example, the insights into the human condition offered by the highlights of Hamlet.
True.
And how many of them are 1.4? Or even 1.3?
Decent of all us licence fee payers to sub the rest of youse, eh? I note that Radio 4 is available in both LW and FM versions, so no more bloody moaning about missing You And Yours when the cricket's on from all you European mainland dwellers, please.
In the early '80s my then girlfriend's father (a Royal Navy submarine commander) was posted to the Embassy in Washington. She stayed in the UK, but her little bro went to school in the US.
Yep, they made him recite this piece of Stalinist brainwashing every day.
He had a good singing voice, so they also got him to sing 'My Country Tis of Thee' at the school concert. I don't think he minded that as much. At least he knew the tune.
While simultaneously - for domestic consumption - decrying the EU as undemocratic
Also, check out the
A bloke could die of thirst in Oz if it wasn't for the blessed Coopers.
IANA Tax Advisor.
Early VMS (I'm thinking VMS 1.0, circa '80?) had a similar problem. The login was done by a DCL script. Wander up to your friendly VT100, hit Return to wake it up and them hammer it with ^Y (==^C). With a few tries you'd break into the login script and be dumped at a root prompt.
The Uni got an upgrade PDQ once us young 'uns had discovered that...
Well done. You are quite right. According to a CUB brewer I met a few years ago, Crown Lager *really* *is* Fosters, abeit with a hour or two longer in the conditioning tank. Drop it in a bottle, call it 'premium' and sell at juicy markup. The Australian public are comprehensively beer ignorant, and won't notice.
FYI, there's also only a gnat's whisker of difference between VB and Fosters. A couple of hundredweight of dark malt in a grain bill of 5 tonnes. Lord, if it wasn't for Coopers a beer lover could die of thirst Down Under.
According to one of the developers from SuSE who worked on this (and demoed SuSE running under one of the x86-64 simulators at a recent OxLUG talk ), SuSE and other porters did indeed make suggestions to AMD as to details of the architecture which were taken up by AMD.
Absolutely.
And when your diary, address book and notebook get lost/stolen/given an ink bath/catch fire/..., your backups are where?
I got an old Psion after my Filofax got nicked a couple of years ago. The Psion got nicked a year later. Get replacement, restore from backups, and this time I didn't lose the only contact details I had for some folk I would have preferred to stay in touch with.
Being able to quickly and easily back up your address book/notes/diary is THE killer PDA app. That you can play games on 'em is a bonus.
There's a couple of well-known palindromes:
Snug & raw was I ere I saw war & guns.
Lewd I did live & evil did I dwel.
Imagine these in a list of palindromes. Substitute the & and their meaning remains, but their palindromeness - and hence reason for inclusion in the list - is gone.
OK, that is the situation now. But have you noticed the number of 'web appliances', games consoles and other non-PC type browsing platforms springing up? These buggers have all kinds of processors, all kinds of OS and all kinds of browsers on 'em.
Now, it is true that maybe this whole market segment will flop mightily. But if these consumer devices catch on - and you want to bet that Joe 'flashing 12:00' Punter will prefer to buy and configure Windows? - then we may have seen the high water mark of Windows.
As it happens, I work for Insignia porting our JVM to these boxes. Maybe someone is doing the same for Flash. How many plugins do you think the manufacturers are going to deem it necessary to support before launching?
So, with a bit of luck, web site designers will be dragged back to the open standards. Cross your fingers...
Australia has a written constitution, which is actively policed by the judiciary.
http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/gen eral/constitution/
Australia also currently possesses a notably bone-headed executive, currently intent on some tax reform that depends on placating one Tasmanian Senator. He, and they, will not last forever.
Umm, don't think so.
Hungerford got semi-automatics banned. An equivalent reaction to Dunblane.
Jim
You're quite right. It was from the UKC toolset, and it was called 'vdiff'. Written by one Mark 'Burt' Wheedon. Google turns up something about it.
:-(
The original version was written to a custom windowing library that had implementations for Sunview and X11.
I've only managed to turn up binaries from 1995, though
Also have a look at Ken's presentation on this page for info on setting up a discless PC as a X terminal.
Use the source, Luke...
Add
WorkspaceNameDisplayPosition = none;
to your GNUstep/Defaults/WindowMaker file.
>there is no such thing as a "perfect" programming language. Even when using the right
>tool for the job. Imperfect C is. But its diamonds must far outweigh its stones.
Complaints about C should be laid at dmr's door, not Kernighan or Pike. Or did he mean AWK, which I think is a Kernighan production?
I'll definitely be checking out this book. Despite comments above, I learned C from K&R (King James ed) and think it the best programming language tutorial I've come across - as distinct from a 'how to program' book, which it isn't.
While we're slagging off programming tutorials, can I put a bad word in for Deitel & Deitel? Only the on the basis of their Java book (which succeeded brilliantly in frightening a relation off programming for life), you understand. But a shocking squandering of previous environmental resources, firmly in the 'sold by weight' category of computer publications.
A depth of though and the clarity that comes from a true mastery of the subject has been the hallmark of the Kernighan, Richie and Pike works I have read in the past. Yeah, after (mmph) years in before the keyboard I expect it won't all be a total surprise, but I will be taken heavily aback if they don't make me think about some things in a radically different way in future. And that's the mark of a really good book.
Go read it now if you never have. <Pournelle>Recommended</Pournelle>.