"It's easy to have duplicate files with the same name"
We've experience something similar to this and we only have one view. Our biggest problem so far is that we have a file that shows up as being under source control if you log in as the ST Admin, but not under source control if you log in as anyone else.
If only someone (cough **telcoms** cough) had been given time and money to expand bandwidth we wouldn't have this problem. Too bad they only had 15 years to try to solve the problem. Guess the internet just grow too fast for 'em.
You should check out this comment that Scott Hanselman posted about the other day:
At this point, I'd like to take a moment to speak to you about the Adobe PSD format.
PSD is not a good format. PSD is not even a bad format. Calling it such would be an
insult to other bad formats, such as PCX or JPEG. No, PSD is an abysmal format. Having
worked on this code for several weeks now, my hate for PSD has grown to a raging fire
that burns with the fierce passion of a million suns.
If there are two different ways of doing something, PSD will do both, in different
places. It will then make up three more ways no sane human would think of, and do those
too. PSD makes inconsistency an art form. Why, for instance, did it suddenly decide
that *these* particular chunks should be aligned to four bytes, and that this alignement
should *not* be included in the size? Other chunks in other places are either unaligned,
or aligned with the alignment included in the size. Here, though, it is not included.
Either one of these three behaviours would be fine. A sane format would pick one. PSD,
of course, uses all three, and more.
Trying to get data out of a PSD file is like trying to find something in the attic of
your eccentric old uncle who died in a freak freshwater shark attack on his 58th
birthday. That last detail may not be important for the purposes of the simile, but
at this point I am spending a lot of time imagining amusing fates for the people
responsible for this Rube Goldberg of a file format.
Earlier, I tried to get a hold of the latest specs for the PSD file format. To do this,
I had to apply to them for permission to apply to them to have them consider sending
me this sacred tome. This would have involved faxing them a copy of some document or
other, probably signed in blood. I can only imagine that they make this process so
difficult because they are intensely ashamed of having created this abomination. I
was naturally not gullible enough to go through with this procedure, but if I had done
so, I would have printed out every single page of the spec, and set them all on fire.
Were it within my power, I would gather every single copy of those specs, and launch
them on a spaceship directly into the sun.
I had this same idea a while back, but my idea was for everyone. The carts would have a device on them. You could put in what you're looking for and it would direct you there. It could even be aware of the locations of other carts and try to plot the quickest path.
Of course, stores would never go for it because it would get you in & out with less impulse buys.
What part of "News for nerds" is this? I could understand a lot of the Obama stuff because it's reporting the tech related things. But where's the tech angle here?
Why do people hear mainframe and automatically thing cobol? There are other language compilers available on the mainframe (like C++). Associating Cobol with mainframes gives mainframes a bad name.
With so much demand for XP, you'd think they could make a fortune selling it...
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"It's easy to have duplicate files with the same name"
We've experience something similar to this and we only have one view. Our biggest problem so far is that we have a file that shows up as being under source control if you log in as the ST Admin, but not under source control if you log in as anyone else.
We've just switched to StarTeam where I work. Is there anything bad I should be watching out for?
"and PDFs can be read on my computer."
Checked out the price of a computer lately?
Interestingly, she's a Democrat.
They're already trying to ban the words Miss and Mrs.
One year from now. Somewhere in the UK.
"I just googled for that new BBC show and got no hits..."
So, if you're an organization with a lot of guns and airplanes you can get a better deal from MS?
I wasn't just referring to government money. They could have used some of their income to improve infrastructure too.
If only someone (cough **telcoms** cough) had been given time and money to expand bandwidth we wouldn't have this problem. Too bad they only had 15 years to try to solve the problem. Guess the internet just grow too fast for 'em.
You should check out this comment that Scott Hanselman posted about the other day:
At this point, I'd like to take a moment to speak to you about the Adobe PSD format.
PSD is not a good format. PSD is not even a bad format. Calling it such would be an
insult to other bad formats, such as PCX or JPEG. No, PSD is an abysmal format. Having
worked on this code for several weeks now, my hate for PSD has grown to a raging fire
that burns with the fierce passion of a million suns.
If there are two different ways of doing something, PSD will do both, in different
places. It will then make up three more ways no sane human would think of, and do those
too. PSD makes inconsistency an art form. Why, for instance, did it suddenly decide
that *these* particular chunks should be aligned to four bytes, and that this alignement
should *not* be included in the size? Other chunks in other places are either unaligned,
or aligned with the alignment included in the size. Here, though, it is not included.
Either one of these three behaviours would be fine. A sane format would pick one. PSD,
of course, uses all three, and more.
Trying to get data out of a PSD file is like trying to find something in the attic of
your eccentric old uncle who died in a freak freshwater shark attack on his 58th
birthday. That last detail may not be important for the purposes of the simile, but
at this point I am spending a lot of time imagining amusing fates for the people
responsible for this Rube Goldberg of a file format.
Earlier, I tried to get a hold of the latest specs for the PSD file format. To do this,
I had to apply to them for permission to apply to them to have them consider sending
me this sacred tome. This would have involved faxing them a copy of some document or
other, probably signed in blood. I can only imagine that they make this process so
difficult because they are intensely ashamed of having created this abomination. I
was naturally not gullible enough to go through with this procedure, but if I had done
so, I would have printed out every single page of the spec, and set them all on fire.
Were it within my power, I would gather every single copy of those specs, and launch
them on a spaceship directly into the sun.
PSD is not my favourite file format.
I think Alex at thedailywtf.com would probably like to talk to you.
I had this same idea a while back, but my idea was for everyone. The carts would have a device on them. You could put in what you're looking for and it would direct you there. It could even be aware of the locations of other carts and try to plot the quickest path.
Of course, stores would never go for it because it would get you in & out with less impulse buys.
What part of "News for nerds" is this? I could understand a lot of the Obama stuff because it's reporting the tech related things. But where's the tech angle here?
Not sure I'd want to go digging thru a hospital dumpster.
Joy of Tech take on the DiggBar
Why do people hear mainframe and automatically thing cobol? There are other language compilers available on the mainframe (like C++). Associating Cobol with mainframes gives mainframes a bad name.
Linux: The Dr. Pepper of Operating Systems!
Wow. Steve Jobs vows lower prices and then disappears. I guess the RIAA is closer to the mob than we thought.
You're new here, aren't you?
With so much demand for XP, you'd think they could make a fortune selling it...
I like Linux, I really do. I've installed and played with about a dozen distros over the last few years. Sometimes they get a lot of stuff right, but sometimes they don't. For instance, I installed Ubuntu 6 back when I only had dial up access to the internet. I was shocked to find that it didn't include the program to configure dial up internet access. It was available in the repository, but w/o the internet it was a catch-22. It was especially shocking since Ubuntu was meant for use all over the world, including many countries whose only access to the internet would be via dial up.
You forgot:
GEORDI: Hey Data, when we found an exact duplicate of you, why didn't we immediately think about Lore?
So, that's what the Conficker virus does...
"If you have even half-assed antivirus in a corporate environment..."
If you have one of those, why are you even infected with a virus in the first place?
Ok, couple things:
1) You have a wife (and you're on slashdot)?
2) She knows how to use a computer?
2b) She knows how to use Linux?
Incredible!