Haven't used subversion yet, but have used Perforce, clearcase & CVS.
Frankly CVS just doesn't cut it for me. It lacks too many features. 1) Atomic checkins/submits
I am trying to submit changes in 5 files as a single bugfix. A submit/checkin should either succeed for all 5 or fail for all 5. CVS doesn't do this. The end result is that I may end up submitting a change in the header without submitting a correspond change in the implementation file.
2) Changelists
After checking in multiples files together, at any point in time, I should be able to find out all the changes that were checked in at the same time. CVS has no way of doing this - Submitting 5 files together is the same as submitting 5 files separately as far as CVS is concerned.
3) More Changelist features for non-submitted changes Let us say I am working on 3 different bugfixes. Perforce allows me group together my changes in different changelists even before I submit the changes. That is I can create changelist A B & C. In changelist A - I have files a.c & a1.c changed, in changelist B, I have b.c & b1.c changed & so on. So I decide I am done with all the changes required in the subset A, I can submit it very easily or undo all changes in changelist B.
4) Merges Merges between branches are a breeze with Perforce. With CVS it's a pain. Perforce stores a lot of information about merges which have already happened which in invaluable. In CVS, merges between branches are very little more than changes manually copied from one branch to another. I can do a lot of stuff which I can't do with CVS - I can very trivally merge Bugfix 1111 (comprising of 5 files checked into changelist XXXX) from a branch to another branch or the main trunk. - Because Perforce stores information about merges, I can do periodic single command merges very easily between a branch & the trunk - perforce will not try to merge in changes which have already been merged the last time I did a merge.
I could go on & on, but the point is that something Perforce makes a developers life so much more easier. I could work around all these things in CVS (i.e. do it in multiple steps) but the ease is something worth paying for I think.
I haven't used subversion, so I can't comment on it.
Yes - Having a Wikipedia article on a particular subject proves thats referring to that subject in any thread about any other subject can never be offtopic.
Apparently, Vista's networking stack has been rewritten from scratch -- which does make you wonder how much of the reason for that was technical, and how much was MS wanting to be seen to get rid of all the BSD/*nix code in Windows in preparation for their patent offensive...
Why should using BSD code come in the way of their patent offensive? Using BSD code isn't infringing on BSD's or someone else's patent.
The NYTimes has taken notice and written quite a decent article that actually acknowledges that the take-down notices amount to censorship and documents instances of the infamous key appearing in purely expressive form.
Well, everyone knows that the NYT is nothing but Far Left Loonies. They hate the USA & hence they publish such stuff. What say you? - Bill'O'R
Over the past 10 years, I've had utterly horrible service with anything with the AT&T letters in it. Cable, cell and long distance.
Archie Bunker called them American Thugs & Theives. And I totally agree with it. You would be hard pressed to find anyone with such bad customer service.
I suggest you understand the meaning of the degrees of difference. Bush has abused the laws and now has a ~30% approval rating and is now a lame duck.
If Bush were eligible for reelection, then I am sure Rove & Bush's PR people would have been able to get his ratings back to near 50% & win the elections.
It brought a large smile to my face when I opened the box on my original Dyson (DC08 maybe?) and found along with the instructions for use, a rant about patents and how little they helped when he had to fight a bigger company.
From what I can tell, even though he had patented all of his work, it still cost him an arm and a leg to stop Hoover from just copying and destroying him.
However he did win some 6 million$ from Hoover. Here
I think searching the web is one of the few bastions where closed source still rules, and it surprises me that no-one's really made an open source search engine.
A search algorithm is just one part of a web search engine. Equally or more important is the infrastructure. The amount of infrastructure is too much to imagine and the expertise in managing the infrastructure.
US refused to pass any copyright laws in the publishing industry till the time there were enough US authors whose rights needed to be protected. When Charles Dickens visited the US, he saw his books sold legally all over the place & he wasn't getting a penny out of these sales. He complained to the US Govt repeatedly but of no avail.
But publishers who were "pirating" his books in the US made enough money to kickstart the publishing industry in the US. Then a time came when there were enough US authors whose rights had to be protected & that's when the relavant laws were passed & enforced in the US.
Something similiar is happening in Romania wrt the software industry.
you can add 'supported on Linux' to your product's marketing material.
Writing a driver is one thing, but providing support is another. As far as I can see, there is nothing new here. People were always willing to write drivers for Linux & provide it free. Many a times they did it even without help from the manufacturing. So I don't see what exactly this announcement offers the manufacturers?
I don't see manufacturers willing to stamp "supported on Linux" on their boxes just because the community made an official announcement to write drivers.
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They failed for technical reasons or for DRM reasons or for a combination of technical and DRM reasons and may get an assist from bad or no design.
What DRM did these players have which the IPod didn't? Can you give some examples?
Haven't used subversion yet, but have used Perforce, clearcase & CVS.
Frankly CVS just doesn't cut it for me. It lacks too many features.
1) Atomic checkins/submits
I am trying to submit changes in 5 files as a single bugfix.
A submit/checkin should either succeed for all 5 or fail for all 5.
CVS doesn't do this. The end result is that I may end up submitting
a change in the header without submitting a correspond change in the
implementation file.
2) Changelists
After checking in multiples files together, at any point in time, I should
be able to find out all the changes that were checked in at the same time.
CVS has no way of doing this - Submitting 5 files together is the same as
submitting 5 files separately as far as CVS is concerned.
3) More Changelist features for non-submitted changes
Let us say I am working on 3 different bugfixes. Perforce allows me
group together my changes in different changelists even before I
submit the changes. That is I can create changelist A B & C.
In changelist A - I have files a.c & a1.c changed, in changelist
B, I have b.c & b1.c changed & so on. So I decide I am done with
all the changes required in the subset A, I can submit it very easily
or undo all changes in changelist B.
4) Merges
Merges between branches are a breeze with Perforce. With CVS it's
a pain. Perforce stores a lot of information about merges which have
already happened which in invaluable. In CVS, merges between branches
are very little more than changes manually copied from one branch to
another.
I can do a lot of stuff which I can't do with CVS
- I can very trivally merge Bugfix 1111 (comprising of 5 files
checked into changelist XXXX) from a branch to another branch or
the main trunk.
- Because Perforce stores information about merges, I can do periodic
single command merges very easily between a branch & the trunk - perforce
will not try to merge in changes which have already been merged the last
time I did a merge.
I could go on & on, but the point is that something Perforce makes
a developers life so much more easier. I could work around all these
things in CVS (i.e. do it in multiple steps) but the ease is something
worth paying for I think.
I haven't used subversion, so I can't comment on it.
Yes - Having a Wikipedia article on a particular subject proves
thats referring to that subject in any thread about any other subject
can never be offtopic.
Apparently, Vista's networking stack has been rewritten from scratch -- which does make you wonder how much of the reason for that was technical, and how much was MS wanting to be seen to get rid of all the BSD/*nix code in Windows in preparation for their patent offensive...
Why should using BSD code come in the way of their patent offensive?
Using BSD code isn't infringing on BSD's or someone else's patent.
alleging that George W. Bush is interfering with Bin Laden's rights to advance the agenda of fundamentalist Islam
Alleging is right. Because GWB isn't actually interfering now.
GWB was, but only for a year or so after 9/11.
I myself am bipolar ...
I have found a decent medication and stayed on it continuously for over a year.
Hello Bipolar in Seattle,
Did forgetting your meds cause the chair throwing incident?
I'd encourage people to read the whole article,
Will do. Right after I post some comments about the article.
The NYTimes has taken notice and written quite a decent article that actually acknowledges that the take-down notices amount to censorship and documents instances of the infamous key appearing in purely expressive form.
Well, everyone knows that the NYT is nothing but Far Left Loonies.
They hate the USA & hence they publish such stuff.
What say you?
- Bill'O'R
Over the past 10 years, I've had utterly horrible service with anything with the AT&T letters in it. Cable, cell and long distance.
Archie Bunker called them American Thugs & Theives.
And I totally agree with it. You would be hard pressed
to find anyone with such bad customer service.
Why can't Obama make his own site?
Why should he have to buy the one this kid made?
Does no one RTFA?
I see lots of comments like the above.
OBAMA DIDN'T MAKE HIS OWN SITE.
He(his campaign people actually) took control of this
guys site & replaced his content with theirs.
A: Is it really necessary that every Slashdot summary ends with a very polarizing question?
Nope. That it end with a stupid question is neccessary. The stupid question may
or may not be polarizing.
I have open WAP.
Is it contagious?
I suggest you understand the meaning of the degrees of difference. Bush has abused the laws and now has a ~30% approval rating and is now a lame duck.
If Bush were eligible for reelection, then I am sure Rove & Bush's PR people would have been able
to get his ratings back to near 50% & win the elections.
I guess the 30 cents being charged gives you the
right to make copies & distribute it to family
& friends. That's what you are paying extra for.
That is incorrect, currency has to be backed by gold.
No. It doesn't have to be.
Post World War 2, Gold standard was replaced by the Bretton
Wood Monetory system, which was also based on Gold Reserves.
However, the US (under Nixon) totally shut off gold based
currency in 1971. Very few currencies are gold backed
currently.
It brought a large smile to my face when I opened the box on my original Dyson (DC08 maybe?) and found along with the instructions for use, a rant about patents and how little they helped when he had to fight a bigger company.
From what I can tell, even though he had patented all of his work, it still cost him an arm and a leg to stop Hoover from just copying and destroying him.
However he did win some 6 million$ from Hoover. Here
This smells like FUD.
Thats gotta be a pretty massive database, any ideas about the tech running underneath?
The data is stored in Microsoft Access & the UI is written in VB6.
I think searching the web is one of the few bastions where closed source still rules, and it surprises me that no-one's really made an open source search engine.
A search algorithm is just one part of a web search engine. Equally or more important
is the infrastructure. The amount of infrastructure is too much to imagine and the
expertise in managing the infrastructure.
the general thought is that 'it is harder than Windows'. How do you advocate Linux to people who are more comfortable using Windows?
Well, you lie. Just tell them it's not harder than Windows.
Tell once they RTFM, they'll agree that it's not harder than
Windows.
US refused to pass any copyright laws in the publishing industry
till the time there were enough US authors whose rights needed
to be protected. When Charles Dickens visited the US, he saw his
books sold legally all over the place & he wasn't getting a penny
out of these sales. He complained to the US Govt repeatedly but
of no avail.
But publishers who were "pirating" his books in the US made
enough money to kickstart the publishing industry in the US.
Then a time came when there were enough US authors whose
rights had to be protected & that's when the relavant laws
were passed & enforced in the US.
Something similiar is happening in Romania wrt the software
industry.
it's a lot harder for users to really screw things up
It may be a lot harder for the user to screw up hardware,
but I don't see how it makes harder to screw up software.
You can make it harder to screw up software by setting
permissions, but that can be done both on thin or
thick clients.
you can add 'supported on Linux' to your product's marketing material.
Writing a driver is one thing, but providing support is another.
As far as I can see, there is nothing new here. People were always
willing to write drivers for Linux & provide it free. Many a times
they did it even without help from the manufacturing. So I don't
see what exactly this announcement offers the manufacturers?
I don't see manufacturers willing to stamp "supported on Linux"
on their boxes just because the community made an official
announcement to write drivers.
I doubt the
Coffee cake is cake eaten with Coffee.
Not neccasarily Cake containing Coffee.
why not allow for outside US to use the system? Most of the stuff i buy is from the states (mostly boot's n shoes for gf).
Just curious - What country are you in where you can't get boots/shoes?