I've felt the pain of attempting to stage Drupal set-ups, and it's horrid.
Whilst people say "Just migrate the database from dev->staging->live" it's not that easy when it comes to the live server, because that will have changes mixed in with what you want to make changes to (e.g., user-generated content on the live site creates nodes, which share a node-numbering namespace with your dev-created new content). This is additionally complicated by Drupal putting all the config in the database, so you'll need to make changes to that when you push it live each time (since the dev server will have dev modules enabled that you won't want on the live site, say).
Separating the database changes you've made from the ones made on the live site (to allow you to merge them) leads to a whole set of options...
Drupal has lots and lots of different methods of working around this problem (just search for "staging" and "deployment" on drupal.org), but none of them really seems to work that painlessly -- they either require you to write all your changes as SQL scripts or to not use particular features (e.g., CCK).
Do all CMSes have this problem, or is it just because of the lack of separation which Drupal provides between live data, your own created data (from dev) and config?
In some areas in the UK, Telewest have started doing a service called "Teleport" which allows you to watch selected programming from the past week - most of which is from the BBC (plus LivingTV, Bravo and Challenge so far), which I would assume is an extension of the BBC trials?:D
Anyway, looks like things are looking up, and you don't even need a harddisk in the cable box to watch the programmes, they just stream over the cable network:D
However, whenever a particular Sony line is in short supply, the Sony Centres never seem to suffer.
There's a simple reason for this, and that's because no-one ever buys anything from them, since they're waaaaaay too expensive. I'm amazed they still exist, to be honest.
I find these a joy to use, and although they don't have a built-in trackpad, they have a load more function keys down the left-hand side which you could program to perform whatever functions you like. These work fine under Linux, and I'm assuming they can be made to work with Windows too:) Also, they have Super/Hyper/Meta modifier keys, so you'll have a load more keys you can use for your bindings that way too (no windows keys though, but I'm sure you could use one of the extra modifier keys as such if you so wished).
that's your C-64's floppy drive loading Flight Simulator for the next two minutes.
Two minutes? You never had a C64 with a floppy drive, did you?;) It must have been the only disk add-on to an 8-bit computer that managed to be slower than the tape drive;)
The list of original and playable games they _used to_ make is huge. Shame that they haven't done anything so fantastic more recently, or they wouldn't need to be bought by Microsoft to get in the news...:(
Re:If this is not "anti-competitive", then what is
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..., Square (Final Fantasy; major shareholder),...
At least in this case, they were buying into the company to help them out of the sticky situation they got themselves into by making a poor and very expensive film, which put Square into dire financial difficulties. Can't blame Sony for that, IMHO:)
Back in the days of the original PC keyboard layout, I explained to a one-armed co-worker that you needed to do a ctrl-alt-delete to reboot - A task that required him to use a pencil in his mouth for the final button. He was not pleased. Four letter words were heard throughout the office whenever the PC locked up. He would NOT enjoy using a system with a single mouse button.
Er, there's a perfectly good control and alt within one-handed reach of the delete key.
Last night I installed RH 6.2 on an old P75 I picked up somewhere, and ended up installing an old version of openssh on it (along with a bunch of other older stuff) to save disk space.
I can understand running older versions of most software, but ssh? Especially considering the recent security announcement about older versions...
There is a player for the original music from Sinclair Spectrum and Amstrad CPC games, called ``aylet'', here. There is an XMMS plugin being developed for this too, here.
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I doesn't take too awful long to get used to it. I was running the Gnome Binary Clock applet and could read it at a glance.
If it's the same one that I am thinking of, that's a BCD clock and not binary (seconds since Unix epoch?;)
I have a BCD watch with flashing LEDs, which is made by Citizen (an `Independent 1481010 model'). It was only available in Japan, and I can't find any pages or pictures of it right now, so you'll just have to take my word for it.
BCD is easy enough to read once you get the hang of it, but I think the extra level of complexity of a real binary number-of-seconds-since-01/01/1970 watch will be too much to cope with.
Having said that, I'll probably get one anyway to add to my collection;)
I use Ctwm, which is a variant of twm which looks a bit nicer but is still pretty lightweight. I've run it for years, on everything from a 386/25 to my current 1.2Ghz Athlon, and I don't find I need anything more to shuffle the windows around the desktop.
Nice features over twm : Virtual desktops, pixmap `themes' if you want that kind of stuff. Probably others, but I'm a bit of a minimalist so I don't go for WM fluff.
Casio have done a black-and-white camera watch for aaaaages now (I've had one for over a year). I'm not sure how long ago IBM started selling the Linux watch[1], but I'm pretty sure that the previous version of this was out first.
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Debian unstable/sid is a rolling release distro too.
I've felt the pain of attempting to stage Drupal set-ups, and it's horrid.
Whilst people say "Just migrate the database from dev->staging->live" it's not that easy when it comes to the live server, because that will have changes mixed in with what you want to make changes to (e.g., user-generated content on the live site creates nodes, which share a node-numbering namespace with your dev-created new content). This is additionally complicated by Drupal putting all the config in the database, so you'll need to make changes to that when you push it live each time (since the dev server will have dev modules enabled that you won't want on the live site, say).
Separating the database changes you've made from the ones made on the live site (to allow you to merge them) leads to a whole set of options...
Drupal has lots and lots of different methods of working around this problem (just search for "staging" and "deployment" on drupal.org), but none of them really seems to work that painlessly -- they either require you to write all your changes as SQL scripts or to not use particular features (e.g., CCK).
Do all CMSes have this problem, or is it just because of the lack of separation which Drupal provides between live data, your own created data (from dev) and config?
Forgot a couple of links:
t /whatis.htm
Screengrab from the cable box user interface : http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds22574.html
Telewest info on Teleport : http://www.telewest.co.uk/html/television/telepor
In some areas in the UK, Telewest have started doing a service called "Teleport" which allows you to watch selected programming from the past week - most of which is from the BBC (plus LivingTV, Bravo and Challenge so far), which I would assume is an extension of the BBC trials? :D
:D
Anyway, looks like things are looking up, and you don't even need a harddisk in the cable box to watch the programmes, they just stream over the cable network
There's a simple reason for this, and that's because no-one ever buys anything from them, since they're waaaaaay too expensive. I'm amazed they still exist, to be honest.
I find these a joy to use, and although they don't have a built-in trackpad, they have a load more function keys down the left-hand side which you could program to perform whatever functions you like. These work fine under Linux, and I'm assuming they can be made to work with Windows too :)
Also, they have Super/Hyper/Meta modifier keys, so you'll have a load more keys you can use for your bindings that way too (no windows keys though, but I'm sure you could use one of the extra modifier keys as such if you so wished).
wahey.
That is all.
Two minutes? You never had a C64 with a floppy drive, did you?
Not anymore
Underwulde, Sabre Wulf, Knight Lore, Atic Atac...
:(
The list of original and playable games they _used to_ make is huge. Shame that they haven't done anything so fantastic more recently, or they wouldn't need to be bought by Microsoft to get in the news...
At least in this case, they were buying into the company to help them out of the sticky situation they got themselves into by making a poor and very expensive film, which put Square into dire financial difficulties. Can't blame Sony for that, IMHO
There is only one reason: Money. They can use the extra bandwidth which is freed-up by the switchoff of the analogue TV to licence for other uses.
Er, there's a perfectly good control and alt within one-handed reach of the delete key.
A mention of "tactile" and "box" in the same sentence, and no-one has commented on this? ;)
There is only one thing to say, and that is that I think that tactile boxes are the way of the future.
Ooer.
Blimey, must be getting pretty cramped there then, what with all those 200-year-olds sitting around collecting their pensions.
;)
I can understand running older versions of most software, but ssh? Especially considering the recent security announcement about older versions...
There is a player for the original music from Sinclair Spectrum and Amstrad CPC games, called ``aylet'', here. There is an XMMS plugin being developed for this too, here.
Mmmmmm, Bubble Bobble.... doo doo doo doo dooooo, doo doo doo doooo...
;)
If it's the same one that I am thinking of, that's a BCD clock and not binary (seconds since Unix epoch?
I have a BCD watch with flashing LEDs, which is made by Citizen (an `Independent 1481010 model'). It was only available in Japan, and I can't find any pages or pictures of it right now, so you'll just have to take my word for it.
BCD is easy enough to read once you get the hang of it, but I think the extra level of complexity of a real binary number-of-seconds-since-01/01/1970 watch will be too much to cope with.
Having said that, I'll probably get one anyway to add to my collection
How so? Any links? More info would be nice ;)
Just because an app has a GUI, it doesn't mean you have to use a mouse for it to be useful...
Even VIM has a GUI, but you can still do everything from the keyboard (and it's quicker once you know the keys).
The #vim channel is on IRCnet.
There is an IRCnet server list on www.vim.org here.
Nice features over twm : Virtual desktops, pixmap `themes' if you want that kind of stuff. Probably others, but I'm a bit of a minimalist so I don't go for WM fluff.
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...as everyone knows that the software with the highest version number is obviously the best.
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Casio have done a black-and-white camera watch for aaaaages now (I've had one for over a year). I'm not sure how long ago IBM started selling the Linux watch[1], but I'm pretty sure that the previous version of this was out first.
[1] What d'you mean, they don't sell it yet? Bah.
(Score:-1, Nickpicking)
You might be into that kind of thing, but...
Oh, you didn't mean that sort of ring.