The author of the Holy Blood Holy Grail was on a History channel show called Beyond the Davinci Code. Where he talked about his ideas and how they differed from what Dan Brown used. He didn't seem to be upset that it was stolen from his book then.
Joey shows you how to keep track of everything with CVS.
I keep my life in a CVS repository. For the past two years, every file I've created and worked on, every e-mail I've sent or received and every config file I've tweaked have all been checked into my CVS archive. When I tell people about this, they invariably respond, ``You're crazy!''
After all, CVS is meant for managing discrete bodies of code, such as free software programs that are worked on and available to a lot of people or in-house projects that are collaboratively developed by several employees. CVS has a reputation of being a pain to deal with, and it has a lot of crufty bits that regularly drive users up the wall, like its mistreatment of directories. Why inflict the pain of CVS on yourself if you don't have to? Why do it on such a scale that it affects nearly everything you do with your computer?
I get three major benefits from keeping my whole home directory in CVS: home directory replication, history and distributed backups. The first of these is what originally drove me to CVS for my whole home directory. At the time, I had a home desktop machine, two laptops and a desktop machine at work. Rounding this out were perhaps 20 remote accounts on various systems around the world and many systems around the workplace that I might randomly find myself logging in to. I used all of these accounts for working on the same projects and already was using CVS for those projects.
I'm a conservative guy when it comes to my computing environment (I've used the same wallpaper image for the past five years), and at the same time I'm always making a lot of little tweaks to improve things. Whenever I go to work and something wasn't just like I had tweaked it the night before, I'd feel a jarring disconnect, and annoyingly copy over whatever the change was. When I sat down at some other system at work, to burn a CD perhaps, and found a bare Bash shell instead of the heavily customized environment I've built up over the past ten years, it was even worse. The plethora of environments, each imperfectly customized to my needs by varying degrees, was really getting on my nerves. So one day I cracked and sat down and began to feed my whole home directory into CVS.
It worked astonishingly well. After a few weeks of tweaking and importing I had everything working and began developing some new habits. Every morning (er, afternoon) when I came into work, I'd cvs up while I read the morning mail. In the evening, I'd cvs commit and then update my laptop for the trip home. When I got home, I'd sync up again, dive right back into whatever I'd been doing at work and keep on rolling until late at night--when I committed, went to bed and began the cycle all over again. As for the systems I used less frequently, like the CD burner machine, I'd just update when I got annoyed at them for being a trifle out of date.
It only took a few more weeks before the advantage of having a history of everything I'd done began to show up. It wasn't a real surprise because having a history of past versions of a project is one of the reasons to use CVS in the first place, but it's very cool to have it suddenly apply to every file you own. When I broke my.zshrc or.procmailrc, I could roll back to the previous day's or look back and see when I made the change and why. It's very handy to be able to run cvs diff on your kernel config file and see how make xconfig changed it. It's great to be able to recover files you deleted or delete files because they're not relevant and still know you've not really lost them. For those amateur historians among us, it's very cool to be able to check out one's system as it looked one full year ago and poke around and discover how everything has evolved over time.
The final major benefit took some time to become clear. Linus Torvalds once said, ``Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on FTP and let the rest of the world mirror it.'' I'm not a real enough
Well actually I've filed for a patent for a "Electronically Generated Visual Scrolling Current Event Headline Listing Presentation Format". And I plan on going after all those infringements of my intellectual property!
Doesn't Neo also mean new? And he is the "bringer" of the "new" order to the world?
And Morpheus IS the god of dreams in both Greek and Roman mythology and Ovid's Metamorphoses. And that's a fitting name as the character in the movie moves in, out, and through the Matrix much like a "god of dreams." (Since the Matrix is pretty much a world in a shared dream) Morphirneus != Morpheus;
Just because it could be interpretted one way, doesn't mean that's the correct way.
Too much analyzing makes brain hurt!!!
What? Next you're going to tell me that Batman and Robin are gay symbols...
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The author of the Holy Blood Holy Grail was on a History channel show called Beyond the Davinci Code. Where he talked about his ideas and how they differed from what Dan Brown used. He didn't seem to be upset that it was stolen from his book then.
So could I get a TV dinner with Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom on the protective, plastic cover?
That would give new meaning to dinner and a movie...
Joey shows you how to keep track of everything with CVS.
.zshrc or .procmailrc, I could roll back to the previous day's or look back and see when I made the change and why. It's very handy to be able to run cvs diff on your kernel config file and see how make xconfig changed it. It's great to be able to recover files you deleted or delete files because they're not relevant and still know you've not really lost them. For those amateur historians among us, it's very cool to be able to check out one's system as it looked one full year ago and poke around and discover how everything has evolved over time.
I keep my life in a CVS repository. For the past two years, every file I've created and worked on, every e-mail I've sent or received and every config file I've tweaked have all been checked into my CVS archive. When I tell people about this, they invariably respond, ``You're crazy!''
After all, CVS is meant for managing discrete bodies of code, such as free software programs that are worked on and available to a lot of people or in-house projects that are collaboratively developed by several employees. CVS has a reputation of being a pain to deal with, and it has a lot of crufty bits that regularly drive users up the wall, like its mistreatment of directories. Why inflict the pain of CVS on yourself if you don't have to? Why do it on such a scale that it affects nearly everything you do with your computer?
I get three major benefits from keeping my whole home directory in CVS: home directory replication, history and distributed backups. The first of these is what originally drove me to CVS for my whole home directory. At the time, I had a home desktop machine, two laptops and a desktop machine at work. Rounding this out were perhaps 20 remote accounts on various systems around the world and many systems around the workplace that I might randomly find myself logging in to. I used all of these accounts for working on the same projects and already was using CVS for those projects.
I'm a conservative guy when it comes to my computing environment (I've used the same wallpaper image for the past five years), and at the same time I'm always making a lot of little tweaks to improve things. Whenever I go to work and something wasn't just like I had tweaked it the night before, I'd feel a jarring disconnect, and annoyingly copy over whatever the change was. When I sat down at some other system at work, to burn a CD perhaps, and found a bare Bash shell instead of the heavily customized environment I've built up over the past ten years, it was even worse. The plethora of environments, each imperfectly customized to my needs by varying degrees, was really getting on my nerves. So one day I cracked and sat down and began to feed my whole home directory into CVS.
It worked astonishingly well. After a few weeks of tweaking and importing I had everything working and began developing some new habits. Every morning (er, afternoon) when I came into work, I'd cvs up while I read the morning mail. In the evening, I'd cvs commit and then update my laptop for the trip home. When I got home, I'd sync up again, dive right back into whatever I'd been doing at work and keep on rolling until late at night--when I committed, went to bed and began the cycle all over again. As for the systems I used less frequently, like the CD burner machine, I'd just update when I got annoyed at them for being a trifle out of date.
It only took a few more weeks before the advantage of having a history of everything I'd done began to show up. It wasn't a real surprise because having a history of past versions of a project is one of the reasons to use CVS in the first place, but it's very cool to have it suddenly apply to every file you own. When I broke my
The final major benefit took some time to become clear. Linus Torvalds once said, ``Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on FTP and let the rest of the world mirror it.'' I'm not a real enough
Man, I have a hard enough time trying to get them to accept my insurance card for prescriptions. Hats off to him for getting them to take his files...
Well actually I've filed for a patent for a "Electronically Generated Visual Scrolling Current Event Headline Listing Presentation Format". And I plan on going after all those infringements of my intellectual property!
Anybody want to put 3D17.org to the test and work on a cease and desist letter to SCO on it? Once it's done we can all send it in. :)
What about the Y server that was brought up last week? That intends to follow X by keeping the things X does well and fixing those where it lacks.
Doesn't Neo also mean new? And he is the "bringer" of the "new" order to the world?
And Morpheus IS the god of dreams in both Greek and Roman mythology and Ovid's Metamorphoses. And that's a fitting name as the character in the movie moves in, out, and through the Matrix much like a "god of dreams." (Since the Matrix is pretty much a world in a shared dream)
Morphirneus != Morpheus;
Just because it could be interpretted one way, doesn't mean that's the correct way.
Too much analyzing makes brain hurt!!!
What? Next you're going to tell me that Batman and Robin are gay symbols...