When did the price of AutoCad skyrocket into the multiple $1000's of dollars? I remember back in school with Autocad 10 for DOS and 12 for Windows... we paid educational price of $500 a seat...
I wanted to do some engineering of some ideas I had recently and was interested in purchasing a license. Geez, at those prices, I'm almost better off buying Pro/ENGINEER... YIKES!
Actually, they do, and if you're a BOFH like I am and routinely store a giant rare earth magnet in a lead box in your desk to fsck with users, kick your backup tapes goodbye. Or if you flood your box of tapes, or store them in a hot room with high humidity (say when the AC goes on a nice hot New England summer day)?
Tapes have capacity, and in some cases durability, but are just as fragile. And if your tape snaps for whatever reason, you're fubared. You effectively trade only two things when deciding tape or DVD: speed of retrieval and quantity of data.
No, the real problem I see, is that we have a number of Windowing Toolkits running. Once upon a time, you would be running only X11. In some cases, you'd be running Motif-based apps too. Now, you're running X11, Motif, custom widget apps like mplayer and xmms, GTK and KDE, in multiple different versions.
I've got 2GB's of memory, and starting a gnome desktop with a few KDE apps (k3b mostly), my system consumes a half a GB of memory before I start my services (apache, postgres, mysql, etc.) or applications.
Evolution and firefox are the principle desktop memory gobblers.
APR == Apache Portability Runtime. Something similar to NSPR == Netscape Portability Runtime, similar to ACE or BOOST. A library designed to easy portability of file access, socket access, threading, etc.
In my experience, SVN will not build, webdav or otherwise, without APR installed.
Fear of the Dark for $200 please... Although I think it by far their weakest album, except for that Dark Time where Dickinson went off on his own, I have such fond and quite disturbing memories of that album.
Just hearing "Fear of the Dark" slings me back to 1993, slaving away in my parents basement in the not yet completed house, trying to grok computer software/hardware and set up my first BBS. God I'm such a dork...
Actually, you need libapr, which usually requires having apache installed, and both versions need to be compiled with the proper version of BDB.
I've found, in my experience, that it's best to build apache and subversion from scratch using your distributions BDB and Apache packages.
Oh, and make sure you svndump before you upgrade ANYTHING. Nothing sucks worse than thinking you had the right BDB version when you go to move a repository onto a new machine...
The #1 library subversion depends upon is libapr which is an apache portability library, so if that's not present (because you didn't install apache, maybe?) then yes, subversion won't work for you.
Actually, I don't think it will. Once subversion corrects a few minor problems and cvs2svn improves a bit more with large projects, CVS will be relegated to the closets with RCS and SCCS.
Please note that among horrible commercial pitchmen I want to see brutally murdered:
Jared (Subway): comparing grams of fat in a 6" sub with that in a big mac, conveniently neglecting the fact that both are approximately equivalent in calories. Verizon: They've dropped the "can you hear me now" bits, notice that? Could be it was a little too close to the truth?
And this is a fallacy, because IDist's and creationists in general can always claim "That's how God wanted it to be." Intelligent Design, just like Creationism, requires FAITH. Not objective observable fact. In that regard, Intelligent Design can be neither objectively proven or disproven.
Man was given a test, and passed, ergo, none of you would fscking be here. Without the snake tempting Eve into getting Adam to eat of the tree, no babies. It would have been a failed experiment.
The snake, obviously was sent by God as a catalyst to make Adam move his lazy ass.
There is no need to turn a starfish into a human because evolution doesn't propose this. Evolution proposes turning a fish into a lizard, and a lizard into a furry non-lizzard, into a human.
There are branches of life that are separately distinct from one another. Next you'll be claiming that evolution has to prove able to turn a rose into an elephant.
You know what the problem with Alien 4 was? It was a departure from the dark. The aliens were brought to life in bright, gaily lit ways, removed some of the ambience! The scenes in Alens I best remember and still shudder at to this day: The showdown in the command center on LB456 where Hudson gets his ticket punched, and the final battle on the starship in orbit.
Alien 4 was just grotesque in it's treatment of the Aliens as care-bear like creatures.:-/
Just my humble opinion.
Oh, and the cliche talking computer certainly didn't help much.
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Actually, the most annoying thing to *ME* is that many recent games released for Windows refuse to run unless you are an Administrative user.
Counterstrike 1.6 didn't work, neither did BF:1942, or Doom3.
Okay, autocad LT seems to go for around $900, so that isn't all that out-of-control.
When did the price of AutoCad skyrocket into the multiple $1000's of dollars? I remember back in school with Autocad 10 for DOS and 12 for Windows... we paid educational price of $500 a seat...
I wanted to do some engineering of some ideas I had recently and was interested in purchasing a license. Geez, at those prices, I'm almost better off buying Pro/ENGINEER... YIKES!
I'll stick with unencumbered MMC and CF please.
CF for large form-factor uses (my Nikon D70 and Canon D20) and MMC for small form factor (my Kyocera 7135C).
Actually, they do, and if you're a BOFH like I am and routinely store a giant rare earth magnet in a lead box in your desk to fsck with users, kick your backup tapes goodbye. Or if you flood your box of tapes, or store them in a hot room with high humidity (say when the AC goes on a nice hot New England summer day)?
Tapes have capacity, and in some cases durability, but are just as fragile. And if your tape snaps for whatever reason, you're fubared. You effectively trade only two things when deciding tape or DVD: speed of retrieval and quantity of data.
If Sony (or anyone) cannot make an AIT4 drive that can read AIT3, 2 or 1 tapes, then they have NO business calling it AIT4.
My HP SureStore DDS3's can still read DDS2 tapes...
Which any great attorney would discover, and force the judge to recuse him/herself.
No, the real problem I see, is that we have a number of Windowing Toolkits running. Once upon a time, you would be running only X11. In some cases, you'd be running Motif-based apps too. Now, you're running X11, Motif, custom widget apps like mplayer and xmms, GTK and KDE, in multiple different versions.
I've got 2GB's of memory, and starting a gnome desktop with a few KDE apps (k3b mostly), my system consumes a half a GB of memory before I start my services (apache, postgres, mysql, etc.) or applications.
Evolution and firefox are the principle desktop memory gobblers.
APR == Apache Portability Runtime. Something similar to NSPR == Netscape Portability Runtime, similar to ACE or BOOST. A library designed to easy portability of file access, socket access, threading, etc.
In my experience, SVN will not build, webdav or otherwise, without APR installed.
Worst that could happen to me working in IT is getting fired or rifed. Big deal.
Work for the dark side in IT, and you're liable to have your kneecaps busted or a acute 9mm lead poisoning...
Two minutes to midnight.
Fear of the Dark for $200 please...
Although I think it by far their weakest album, except for that Dark Time where Dickinson went off on his own, I have such fond and quite disturbing memories of that album.
Just hearing "Fear of the Dark" slings me back to 1993, slaving away in my parents basement in the not yet completed house, trying to grok computer software/hardware and set up my first BBS. God I'm such a dork...
Actually, you need libapr, which usually requires having apache installed, and both versions need to be compiled with the proper version of BDB.
I've found, in my experience, that it's best to build apache and subversion from scratch using your distributions BDB and Apache packages.
Oh, and make sure you svndump before you upgrade ANYTHING. Nothing sucks worse than thinking you had the right BDB version when you go to move a repository onto a new machine...
Any gnome/kde based versions of TortoiseSVN? I'm so addicted to it on Windows that I want it on my linux desktop.
The #1 library subversion depends upon is libapr which is an apache portability library, so if that's not present (because you didn't install apache, maybe?) then yes, subversion won't work for you.
Actually, I don't think it will. Once subversion corrects a few minor problems and cvs2svn improves a bit more with large projects, CVS will be relegated to the closets with RCS and SCCS.
Please note that among horrible commercial pitchmen I want to see brutally murdered:
Jared (Subway):
comparing grams of fat in a 6" sub with that in a big mac, conveniently neglecting the fact that both are approximately equivalent in calories.
Verizon:
They've dropped the "can you hear me now" bits, notice that? Could be it was a little too close to the truth?
And this is a fallacy, because IDist's and creationists in general can always claim "That's how God wanted it to be." Intelligent Design, just like Creationism, requires FAITH. Not objective observable fact. In that regard, Intelligent Design can be neither objectively proven or disproven.
Intelligent Design is the fallacy.
That is one of the more interesting takes on the whole thing I've read to date. Thanks.
Finally, someone who gets it...
Man was given a test, and passed, ergo, none of you would fscking be here. Without the snake tempting Eve into getting Adam to eat of the tree, no babies.
It would have been a failed experiment.
The snake, obviously was sent by God as a catalyst to make Adam move his lazy ass.
There is no need to turn a starfish into a human because evolution doesn't propose this. Evolution proposes turning a fish into a lizard, and a lizard into a furry non-lizzard, into a human.
There are branches of life that are separately distinct from one another. Next you'll be claiming that evolution has to prove able to turn a rose into an elephant.
EVERYONE is back for the movie. All the main characters anyway. This was a big deal for Whedon & the Franchise.
Something only Star-Trek seems to have been able to pull off.
You know what the problem with Alien 4 was? It was a departure from the dark. The aliens were brought to life in bright, gaily lit ways, removed some of the ambience! The scenes in Alens I best remember and still shudder at to this day: The showdown in the command center on LB456 where Hudson gets his ticket punched, and the final battle on the starship in orbit.
:-/
Alien 4 was just grotesque in it's treatment of the Aliens as care-bear like creatures.
Just my humble opinion.
Oh, and the cliche talking computer certainly didn't help much.
IIRC, a Delta IV Heavy has not been built yet.
I am billgatus of Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.