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  1. Cars are annoying(you're not alone) on Techie, Wrench-head, or Both? · · Score: 1

    Cars, are smelly, murderous, obs1337 industrial equipment that nobody
    thinks are cool anymore. Except vaporous yuppies in SUV's

    All the hip techies ride bikes to work because they are smart and know that
    a lifetime of sitting behind the keyboard with no exercise will be shorter and less happy than one
    with exercise.

    Plus which bikes are scrutable, like Free Software.

  2. Re:Some possible advantages and shortcomings on Using Relational Databases as Virtual Filesystems? · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it be better to use a trigger to solve the currency issue?

    I can see a couple of advantages to doing this though, if you keep the user files in the database you could add a whole bunch of fancy features that let users search, (or have agents search on their behalf) for different items, soundex indexing, funky notification and monitoring systems, the list is endless and mostly YAGNI I suppose, but it sure sounds cool.

    I'm guessing that this makes more sense the more integrated your user's environment is; if they are using a smorgasbord of tools and they are installing their own, a fancy filesystem is likely just another opportunity for mayhem. If, on the other hand you're building an integrated work environment that they are going to be working inside of fulltime, then this starts to have advantages. Although for a solution of the second kind it might be a better payoff to use some sort of persistent object storage.

  3. Re:So Paint The ASCII Green And ... on Textmode Quake 2 · · Score: 1

    Setting the foreground color to green is very
    easy to do on most any linux system that uses the color
    console.
    setterm -foreground green -background black

    Enjoy