Re: Apple Keyboard Rates #1

2011-02-03 Thread Peter da Silva
Random aside/bragging. I just found my old AT-connector Ortek/Adesso MCK-84 keyboard. Best keyboard I ever owned. It seems to still work. I just checked... these are going on eBay for $160 or more. Crazy stuff.

vshpere client installer

2011-02-03 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, I think there is a special place in hell for people that write not only dysfunctional windows software, but even worse, dysfunctional windows software *installers*. My latest favourite: vmware infrastructure client, which is what you need to remotely manage ESX[0] stuff (no unix client, no

Re: Subversion Lifetime Achievement Award (was Re: GNU diff)

2011-02-03 Thread Aaron J. Grier
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 04:29:21PM +, James Laver wrote: On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 03:40:45PM +, Neil Brewitt wrote: Branches a tool not a hinderance You would again do well to educate yourself about git. It does branches better than any other VCS. PRCS also branched well. it was

Re: Subversion Lifetime Achievement Award (was Re: GNU diff)

2011-02-03 Thread Peter Corlett
On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 12:10:46PM -0800, Aaron J. Grier wrote: [...] PRCS also branched well. it was full of its own hate, including local-only access (no split client / server over a network), and some scrotty C++ code that I had to patch as libstdc++ was updated. but the branching was

Re: Subversion Lifetime Achievement Award (was Re: GNU diff)

2011-02-03 Thread Aaron J. Grier
On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 08:31:13PM +, Peter Corlett wrote: Branching is trivial. It's a fancy name for copy-and-paste. Taking the many copies that have now been hacked upon in a random manner and consolidating them back into something coherent? That's a little bit harder. PRCS deferred