"Auth token caching" is enabled by default, with no server or system to disable it. It's only disabled on a client by client basis
You can say exactly the same about any form of password caching. You don't use Firefox because it can store your passwords?
I don't allow Firefox to store my passwords, just as I don't allow my subversion client to store my passwords. It's one or the other, security or ease-of-use. Most go for the latter, so it's on by default. I don't see the issue, as this can be disabled with one measly option in your svn config file.
'svn export' is fairly insane for most configuration environments,
Then you're doing it wrong. Configure in your dev environment, export to test, export to prod. If you're modifying your test/production environments without going through your development environment, even git can't help you.
Don't blame subversion's poor excuse for a security model nor its mishandling of multiple simultaneous branches on my "lack of understanding". I understand it thoroughly, and these are unnecessary flaws when git is around.
If decentralized development is your thing, have fun with git. If you are choosing a version control system based on incorrect assumptions and bias, be my guest. I just have the feeling you're judging a screwdriver as if it were a hammer.
Subversion's security models in UNIX and Linux are exceptionally poor, and typically wind up storing passwords in clear-text without properly notifying you.
Auth token caching can be easily disabled and svn export, not svn checkout, should be used for deploying test/prod environments (like I've seen way too many people do).
Git (or any other distributed version control system) is great if you are into distributed development, but don't blame the tool when you don't know how to use it properly or expect it to be something that it's not.
Your link completely misses out on many other wiki options (mediaWiki, TikiWiki, Drupal, Plone, Joomla... the list is large), and the info is dated (Alfresco has released 3.0 for quite some time)
Although Sharepoint has a wiki, it's positioned as a document management / ECM system. *wiki, drupal, plone & joomla may be modified to do the same, but they are hardly ideal alternatives.
Does anyone have experience in using Alfresco? I'd love to be able to recommend it, but thankfully haven't had to deal with Sharepoint/ECM situations.
Whoever suggests that this is a feasible way for the Maledives where the average distance between two atolls is much longer than even the large Afsluitdijk (20 mls), got something wrong.
What makes things even more problematic is that the dutch North Sea coast is relatively shallow, while the Maldives are 350km out in the ocean where it is much deeper. So even if you did throw some dikes between a few atolls (which doesn't seem impossible from the looks of it) you would end up with a lot of vulnerable land much lower than sea level. A few meters of difference can be easily done, but dozens of meters? Lets hope no one has to poke his finger in that dike.
You could try to create artificial islands like they did off the coast of Dubai, but due to the underwater terrain you'd need to haul up a massive amounts of sand.
The only choice they have is to reinforce their current islands, but they probably don't want to erect concrete barriers to ward off erosion and slowly build up landmass. It's either that or pack up and leave.
It's ironic how, as the price of Sony Memory Stick Pro Duo dropped and size increased, PSP UMD sales decreased along with it.
No, it's not.
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They are running code on their browser. They got it from somewhere. I would think that qualifies as distribution, and therefore they have the right to the source. Please, correct me if I'm wrong.
You are correct: you are distributing the GPL code, you would have to put the javascript code you wrote under the GPL as well. This is the reason why most javascript libraries go with the BSD license or LGPL.
Then again, you are distributing your own code ("proprietary" or not) anyway.
It's turned into something where people listen to canned music while working exercise machines in gyms, trying to turn themselves into machines.
Maybe, just maybe, people exercise in order to get fit?
Not everyone has the time/equipment/weather required to get a healthy workout outside and not everyone who enters a gym wants to become a bodybuilder. And if "obsessing" about statistical data keeps you motivated to get fit, I can't see a problem with it.
Much better to grind a real treadmill and remain healthy than grind in WoW and become an overweight blob.
I've had quite a lot of problems with my CLP-300N. After half a year the feed mechanism stopped working, Samsung picked it up and fixed it after a single call.
Yesterday, having the machine for 2 years with mediocre results, it stopped yet again. Won't get another one from Samsung.
You get what you pay for, and these cheap SOHO printers aren't that great. Haven't noticed the DRM-issues though (only bought original toner), sounds awfully like something inkjet-manufacturers would try.
Even if it was $300/machine with 20VMs/machine it would be quite costly to reserve 500 machines.
They raise the price because they can't scale that much on a dime. They probably have to add hundreds of machines a day in order to keep up with the demand for EC2 instances, you can't expect them to keep thousands of machines ready in case someone wants to figure out how high the cloud really scales. It would simply cost too much.
No matter the cloud-hype, in the end Amazon and every other hosting supplier have to limit the amount a customer can provision. Want to go above that limit? No problem, but we'll have to hook up some additional machines in advance.
Well, your comment was like preaching to the choir. It's not like Microsoft has a good image here, and people will mod you down for saying something negative about them "innovating":)
I work at an IT consulting firm and my boss pretty much told me flat out that I'm going to be in some serious shit if I don't start dragging my feet to bill clients more hours. Apparently I'm too productive and don't over bill.
This is the main reason IT consultants have such a bad rep. We get paid big bucks and even then we're expected to screw clients. I've seen consultants where lawyers are saints in comparison.
I say start your own consulting firm. If you're really productive and *gasp* honest your clients are going to love you. It's tough getting started (especially if you have clauses in your current contract) but once you're underway it's smooth sailing with a clear conscious.
No, I'm not talking about massive throughput, but I *am* talking about the need for high availability systems that scale nicely without bottlenecks and exorbitant expense. Yes, it works pretty well, but we've had to invest significant programming time to do this.
Is there any chance your project would be released?
As you found out there are only a couple of Linux clustering filesystems, all with drawbacks. It would be interesting having a new one designed from the start around reliability.
Two hours a week of MMO development certainly beat two hours of grinding in WoW... you are not really getting anywhere in either, but you at least learn a thing or two if you code instead of grinding xp.
Hear hear! Coding beats playing games anyday.
However what most people think of when discussing MMO's is 3D graphics/animations, and coming from a programming background this is the real hard work. There simply aren't a lot of (free/open) 3D resources you can tap into for your amateur MMO.
Having said that: roguelikes like your project are a lot of fun, even if they don't appeal to your average gamer.
Is there any chance of having the base install for the n900 be completely FOSS?
Sure, see maemo. I doubt you'll have complete to access the phone-part of the n900 though, the telcoms being rather cautions on what they allow on their networks.
The n810 is a nice little open pda, but as it isn't a phone I don't use it that much. If the n900 is at least half-decent, it will replace my nokia for sure. Bubye S60!
The average iPhone owner pays AT&T $2,000 during his two-year contract
Wow. I know I'm playing the eurotrash card here, but the high-end contracts on this side of the pond cost EUR 45/month (with JesusPhone). $2000 on average for two years and poor 3G performance... ouch!
If I'm quick, I can get back into position and hit the down button to reset, but I've gotten hit a couple of times when the enemy recovered while my sword still thought I was committing hari-kari.
Exactly. To the parent poster, I've got two motion plus add-on's, bought in different stores, both with this behaviour.
Another comment was about mp working fine with Tiger woods. I've had less difficulties with Tiger, but the same problem did occur every now and then. The problem seems to occur most often with games that require/allow a lot of swinging for more than a few seconds.
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You can say exactly the same about any form of password caching. You don't use Firefox because it can store your passwords?
I don't allow Firefox to store my passwords, just as I don't allow my subversion client to store my passwords. It's one or the other, security or ease-of-use. Most go for the latter, so it's on by default. I don't see the issue, as this can be disabled with one measly option in your svn config file.
Then you're doing it wrong. Configure in your dev environment, export to test, export to prod. If you're modifying your test/production environments without going through your development environment, even git can't help you.
If decentralized development is your thing, have fun with git. If you are choosing a version control system based on incorrect assumptions and bias, be my guest. I just have the feeling you're judging a screwdriver as if it were a hammer.
Auth token caching can be easily disabled and svn export, not svn checkout, should be used for deploying test/prod environments (like I've seen way too many people do).
Git (or any other distributed version control system) is great if you are into distributed development, but don't blame the tool when you don't know how to use it properly or expect it to be something that it's not.
Although Sharepoint has a wiki, it's positioned as a document management / ECM system. *wiki, drupal, plone & joomla may be modified to do the same, but they are hardly ideal alternatives.
Does anyone have experience in using Alfresco? I'd love to be able to recommend it, but thankfully haven't had to deal with Sharepoint/ECM situations.
What makes things even more problematic is that the dutch North Sea coast is relatively shallow, while the Maldives are 350km out in the ocean where it is much deeper. So even if you did throw some dikes between a few atolls (which doesn't seem impossible from the looks of it) you would end up with a lot of vulnerable land much lower than sea level. A few meters of difference can be easily done, but dozens of meters? Lets hope no one has to poke his finger in that dike.
You could try to create artificial islands like they did off the coast of Dubai, but due to the underwater terrain you'd need to haul up a massive amounts of sand.
The only choice they have is to reinforce their current islands, but they probably don't want to erect concrete barriers to ward off erosion and slowly build up landmass. It's either that or pack up and leave.
Thanks, I keep mixing those two. How ironic.
No, it's not.
You are correct: you are distributing the GPL code, you would have to put the javascript code you wrote under the GPL as well. This is the reason why most javascript libraries go with the BSD license or LGPL.
Then again, you are distributing your own code ("proprietary" or not) anyway.
And I was thinking along the lines of "This could be heaven, or this could be hell".
Cloud computing is eerily like the music industry, more news at 11!
See the other comment by L4t3r4lu5. Happy grinding!
Maybe, just maybe, people exercise in order to get fit?
Not everyone has the time/equipment/weather required to get a healthy workout outside and not everyone who enters a gym wants to become a bodybuilder. And if "obsessing" about statistical data keeps you motivated to get fit, I can't see a problem with it.
Much better to grind a real treadmill and remain healthy than grind in WoW and become an overweight blob.
I've had quite a lot of problems with my CLP-300N. After half a year the feed mechanism stopped working, Samsung picked it up and fixed it after a single call.
Yesterday, having the machine for 2 years with mediocre results, it stopped yet again. Won't get another one from Samsung.
You get what you pay for, and these cheap SOHO printers aren't that great. Haven't noticed the DRM-issues though (only bought original toner), sounds awfully like something inkjet-manufacturers would try.
Even if it was $300/machine with 20VMs/machine it would be quite costly to reserve 500 machines.
They raise the price because they can't scale that much on a dime. They probably have to add hundreds of machines a day in order to keep up with the demand for EC2 instances, you can't expect them to keep thousands of machines ready in case someone wants to figure out how high the cloud really scales. It would simply cost too much.
No matter the cloud-hype, in the end Amazon and every other hosting supplier have to limit the amount a customer can provision. Want to go above that limit? No problem, but we'll have to hook up some additional machines in advance.
The cloud is a leaky interface.
A pity the device itself is EUR 600. You can buy quite a few dead-tree books for that kind of cash.
Well, your comment was like preaching to the choir. It's not like Microsoft has a good image here, and people will mod you down for saying something negative about them "innovating" :)
This is the main reason IT consultants have such a bad rep. We get paid big bucks and even then we're expected to screw clients. I've seen consultants where lawyers are saints in comparison.
I say start your own consulting firm. If you're really productive and *gasp* honest your clients are going to love you. It's tough getting started (especially if you have clauses in your current contract) but once you're underway it's smooth sailing with a clear conscious.
Then again, it's a rough time. YMMV.
It depends on the distro. Debian has a complete ARM-port, Ubuntu was working on one last time I checked. Maemo is an ARM-only distro.
Nope.
Nope.
Not likely (assuming these are binary blobs). Flash video, avi/mpeg's and various other formats shouldn't be a problem though.
An ARM netbook wouldn't be someones only PC, just like current netbooks aren't. If it can do 90% of the things you're used to you're set.
Mod parent +1 Sarcasm.
Funny would also be appropriate, as many slashdotters don't seem able to detect sarcasm when it comes to their favorite X vs Y debate.
Is there any chance your project would be released?
As you found out there are only a couple of Linux clustering filesystems, all with drawbacks. It would be interesting having a new one designed from the start around reliability.
Hear hear! Coding beats playing games anyday.
However what most people think of when discussing MMO's is 3D graphics/animations, and coming from a programming background this is the real hard work. There simply aren't a lot of (free/open) 3D resources you can tap into for your amateur MMO.
Having said that: roguelikes like your project are a lot of fun, even if they don't appeal to your average gamer.
Sure, see maemo. I doubt you'll have complete to access the phone-part of the n900 though, the telcoms being rather cautions on what they allow on their networks.
The n810 is a nice little open pda, but as it isn't a phone I don't use it that much. If the n900 is at least half-decent, it will replace my nokia for sure. Bubye S60!
Wow. I know I'm playing the eurotrash card here, but the high-end contracts on this side of the pond cost EUR 45/month (with JesusPhone). $2000 on average for two years and poor 3G performance... ouch!
Exactly. To the parent poster, I've got two motion plus add-on's, bought in different stores, both with this behaviour.
Another comment was about mp working fine with Tiger woods. I've had less difficulties with Tiger, but the same problem did occur every now and then. The problem seems to occur most often with games that require/allow a lot of swinging for more than a few seconds.