TortoiseSVN is the only GUI SCM interface I've ever used that I actually found preferable to the command-line. More powerful than the SVN command-line tool in many respects, and easy enough to use that we even had the marketing folks at my last company using SVN thanks to TortoiseSVN.
Now I'm back on Linux, FreeBSD, and Mac OS, and I can honestly say that TortoiseSVN is one of the very few things I miss about Windows development.
I have one of these in my closet as well. (From idotpc.com) Runs FreeBSD 5.2 quite well.
I'm very happy with it. According to my wattmeter, it draws 11w (including 80G Seagate Barracuda hard drive) and is one of the quietest machines I've ever had the pleasure of owning.
For reference, I went around my house with a wattmeter a while back and did a bit of measuring:
* My one old crappy laptop draws 14w
* My Intel-based desktops are all 35w-45w
* My one cheap AMD-based desktop is 70w (?!)
* LCD monitors around 20w when on
* CRT monitors around 40w when on
Roughly speaking, 10w will cost you $1/month (assuming $0.14/kWH, which is a bit on the high side for most of the US.) It doesn't take a lot of machines being on 24x7 before you've racked up quite an electric bill.
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TortoiseSVN is the only GUI SCM interface I've ever used that I actually found preferable to the command-line. More powerful than the SVN command-line tool in many respects, and easy enough to use that we even had the marketing folks at my last company using SVN thanks to TortoiseSVN. Now I'm back on Linux, FreeBSD, and Mac OS, and I can honestly say that TortoiseSVN is one of the very few things I miss about Windows development.
If you can't fork it, it's not open source.
I have one of these in my closet as well.
(From idotpc.com) Runs FreeBSD 5.2 quite well.
I'm very happy with it. According to my
wattmeter, it draws 11w (including 80G Seagate
Barracuda hard drive) and is one of the
quietest machines I've ever had the pleasure
of owning.
For reference, I went around my house with
a wattmeter a while back and did a bit
of measuring:
* My one old crappy laptop draws 14w
* My Intel-based desktops are all 35w-45w
* My one cheap AMD-based desktop is 70w (?!)
* LCD monitors around 20w when on
* CRT monitors around 40w when on
Roughly speaking, 10w will cost you $1/month
(assuming $0.14/kWH, which is a bit on the high
side for most of the US.) It doesn't take
a lot of machines being on 24x7 before you've
racked up quite an electric bill.
Two that you missed:
"9) Hands off Internet phone calls Just because the creaky old phone system was regulated to death doesn't mean VoIP should suffer the same fate."
Clearly, the old phone system was not, in fact, "regulated to death," or else the author wouldn't need to call for:
"37) End broadband monopolies"
To satisfy my curiosity, does anyone know how to accomplish #37 without "regulating them to death"?