For problem one: git clone --depth 1 (or however far back you want your history to go); note this severely cripples git's abilities and isn't very useful at all unless you're on dialup still. For problem two: this isn't a real problem with git, but rather with your organization. Multiple projects don't belong in the same repository, it's as simple as that.
Does bzr provide any attempt to sanitize incremental revision numbers? I know that both Mercurial and SVK have issues where you need to figure out that "my r9342 is your r8929". Git avoids this issue entirely since my repository's 92a560f20e72e4296c782d3fbb4706e6946d6209 is always going to be your 92a560f20e72e4296c782d3fbb4706e6946d6209, assuming you have the same commit of course;)
Yeah, of course it'd be technically possible to write a git-svnserver just as there is a git-cvsserver, it's just that nobody has bothered to make one yet. There's also the problem that Subversion is still a moving target, while CVS has been at a stand-still for pretty much a decade or longer... (OpenCVS intends on improving core features after they get perfect compatibility with official CVS, but I'm not sure it'll be of much use to anyone except the OpenBSD team...)
... And along with your increased ability and incentive to move away from 'doze, comes increased incentive for developers to NOT move away from WinXX API.
If Wine works well, why should I, (a developer) want to port my appz to *nix? (not that I haven't, and we've offered OSX support for some time, but in all these years I've NEVER been asked about a Linux port) Of course, I won't officially support Wine on XYZ Linux, so the end result is a perpetual second-rate support for Linux.
Bit of a chicken-and-egg problem for sure, but I would not consider Wine to be causing any problems in the long term. Eventually you'll find some reason to port to Linux natively; for example, so that your end-users can save files with a native directory path scheme rather than remembering that what the application calls "C:\" really means "~/.wine/drive_c" (only one small example, yes, but you should be able to infer other reasons too).
On top of this, there's no particular incentive for us to support Linux anyway, since it's such an incohesive environment. Support RPM? Apt? Tar? Compiled sources? CUPs? PDF through Adobe? Ghost? Kghost? KDE? Gnome?
Each of these is important, because end users often have trouble finding the power switch. In this environment, having 24,000 flavors of the same O/S is *NOT* a good thing. And I say this despite using Linux for ALL of our core infrastructure and tech workstations!
Is this what you wanted? 'Cause it's what you are getting...
... and now you're just repeating typical MS-shill FUD that's barely rooted in issues of the 1990s.
Must've been a Mac thing then. I tried OOo 3 myself and was hard pressed to find anything that really stood out from the 2.x series. I can't name any specifics right now, don't remember them, but suffice to say, I didn't feel like I was missing anything out when I got rid of it and just continued to use Debian Testing's 2.4.x packages.
Besides that, there's the issue that Sony has locked out the GPU on the PS3 specifically so that owners don't use Linux as a cheap development platform for PS3 games.
I've never bought this story or any of its similar variants without a valid citation. A better hypothesis in my opinion, is that NVIDIA (who manufactures the PS3's GPU) doesn't want users to be messing with pretty graphics on the PS3.
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Playing games is a very minor issue when it comes to what OS to run.
Well, for the first part, it's quite easy for Apple to submit source code for Mac OS X without having the possibility of compromising any real interesting bits. For example, Mac OS X contains tons of programs like `cat` and `ls` which are probably not modified much (if at all) from their original BSD sources. Print a few pages of commands like this, and Apple can do it in a real pretty font too:)
For the second part, who knows, but I doubt the courts would really care much about the copyright registration stuff when finding out whether something is infringing. IANAL.
There's no proprietary USB format on the X360 -- it's just standard ol' USB 2.0. In fact, I've used my keyboard on the Xbox a few times, especially when typing passwords.
I see in the list Windows XP and Server 2003 (they're almost the same...), Vista and Server 2008 (they are exactly the same!). Where's Windows 2000? there's quite a large chunk of users left on that platform. Hell, even a few users on Win98 or NT4 still.
Might as well ask if Nintendo and Sony are too stupid to hire him too, since he's done console projects of their hardware too (including PS3 and Wii laptops...). Not to mention a whole bunch of dead consoles turned portable; Atari 2600, Sega Genesis, etc
Steam is basically the sanest solution to keep things clean for legitimate users. You just buy a game and download it, however many times you like or need. Pirates are always going to crack DRM, there's little reason to battle them only to punish legitimate users. See any torrent site and look for cracked versions of Valve games that no longer require Steam -- they're not hard to find, and it just furthers the point that pirates will do whatever to get a free lunch.
Steam is non-intrusive and allows all legitimate users to get and use games easily.
Use CARP and update each server individually. Just because individual hosts go down for a reboot (which should be very quick anyway), doesn't mean your service should.
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KQEMU has had a FreeBSD port for a long time. There's even an OpenBSD port now.
Microsoft sabotaging an older operating system to persuade people to upgrade is nothing new. See: Windows 95. Install IE5 on Win95, and suddenly EXPLORER.EXE eats RAM like crazy and causes more BSODs than ever. Microsoft's solution: Upgrade to Windows 98.
That's why the Mozilla Foundation recommends the usage of the acronym "Fx" instead, which is much less ambiguous (I don't think anything else uses Fx spelled like that). When I read it, the first thing that popped in my head was actually "Firefly" rather than Firefox.
Hey, my low-budget laptop is a dual core amd64, I'm not complaining (especially since it's my main computer, heh...)! Ironic that it shipped with 32-bit Vista, but I wiped that without ever booting the damn thing anyway, and I run Debian/amd64.
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For problem one: git clone --depth 1 (or however far back you want your history to go); note this severely cripples git's abilities and isn't very useful at all unless you're on dialup still.
For problem two: this isn't a real problem with git, but rather with your organization. Multiple projects don't belong in the same repository, it's as simple as that.
Does bzr provide any attempt to sanitize incremental revision numbers? I know that both Mercurial and SVK have issues where you need to figure out that "my r9342 is your r8929". Git avoids this issue entirely since my repository's 92a560f20e72e4296c782d3fbb4706e6946d6209 is always going to be your 92a560f20e72e4296c782d3fbb4706e6946d6209, assuming you have the same commit of course ;)
Yeah, of course it'd be technically possible to write a git-svnserver just as there is a git-cvsserver, it's just that nobody has bothered to make one yet. There's also the problem that Subversion is still a moving target, while CVS has been at a stand-still for pretty much a decade or longer... (OpenCVS intends on improving core features after they get perfect compatibility with official CVS, but I'm not sure it'll be of much use to anyone except the OpenBSD team...)
Bit of a chicken-and-egg problem for sure, but I would not consider Wine to be causing any problems in the long term. Eventually you'll find some reason to port to Linux natively; for example, so that your end-users can save files with a native directory path scheme rather than remembering that what the application calls "C:\" really means "~/.wine/drive_c" (only one small example, yes, but you should be able to infer other reasons too).
Must've been a Mac thing then. I tried OOo 3 myself and was hard pressed to find anything that really stood out from the 2.x series. I can't name any specifics right now, don't remember them, but suffice to say, I didn't feel like I was missing anything out when I got rid of it and just continued to use Debian Testing's 2.4.x packages.
*scrolls with an Intel GM965*
No screen tearing. I guess you lose.
I've never bought this story or any of its similar variants without a valid citation. A better hypothesis in my opinion, is that NVIDIA (who manufactures the PS3's GPU) doesn't want users to be messing with pretty graphics on the PS3.
Playing games is a very minor issue when it comes to what OS to run.
Well, for the first part, it's quite easy for Apple to submit source code for Mac OS X without having the possibility of compromising any real interesting bits. For example, Mac OS X contains tons of programs like `cat` and `ls` which are probably not modified much (if at all) from their original BSD sources. Print a few pages of commands like this, and Apple can do it in a real pretty font too :)
For the second part, who knows, but I doubt the courts would really care much about the copyright registration stuff when finding out whether something is infringing. IANAL.
So it's just like Windows!
They all work in GNU/Linux without any proprietary components, so what are you complaining about exactly?
There's no proprietary USB format on the X360 -- it's just standard ol' USB 2.0. In fact, I've used my keyboard on the Xbox a few times, especially when typing passwords.
I see in the list Windows XP and Server 2003 (they're almost the same...), Vista and Server 2008 (they are exactly the same!). Where's Windows 2000? there's quite a large chunk of users left on that platform. Hell, even a few users on Win98 or NT4 still.
Might as well ask if Nintendo and Sony are too stupid to hire him too, since he's done console projects of their hardware too (including PS3 and Wii laptops...). Not to mention a whole bunch of dead consoles turned portable; Atari 2600, Sega Genesis, etc
Steam is basically the sanest solution to keep things clean for legitimate users. You just buy a game and download it, however many times you like or need. Pirates are always going to crack DRM, there's little reason to battle them only to punish legitimate users. See any torrent site and look for cracked versions of Valve games that no longer require Steam -- they're not hard to find, and it just furthers the point that pirates will do whatever to get a free lunch.
Steam is non-intrusive and allows all legitimate users to get and use games easily.
Use CARP and update each server individually. Just because individual hosts go down for a reboot (which should be very quick anyway), doesn't mean your service should.
KQEMU has had a FreeBSD port for a long time. There's even an OpenBSD port now.
Microsoft sabotaging an older operating system to persuade people to upgrade is nothing new. See: Windows 95. Install IE5 on Win95, and suddenly EXPLORER.EXE eats RAM like crazy and causes more BSODs than ever. Microsoft's solution: Upgrade to Windows 98.
Apple worked around that anyway
That's why the Mozilla Foundation recommends the usage of the acronym "Fx" instead, which is much less ambiguous (I don't think anything else uses Fx spelled like that). When I read it, the first thing that popped in my head was actually "Firefly" rather than Firefox.
I'm going to remember that next time I have to fix someone's computer and IE has 10 bullshit toolbars, of which 9 of them are malware.
Did anyone seriously believe Microsoft wouldn't try to make Internet Explorer look at least "not as bad as they say"?
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Is it cheating to use a Dvorak layout designed for people that can use only one hand?
I would imagine one of the simplest ways to test is load a piece of software encoded for each console region. If they all run, it's modded.
Hey, my low-budget laptop is a dual core amd64, I'm not complaining (especially since it's my main computer, heh...)! Ironic that it shipped with 32-bit Vista, but I wiped that without ever booting the damn thing anyway, and I run Debian/amd64.