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General Software Discussion / Re: Is Vista Creating Duplicate Files of Everything?

« Last post by tinjaw on January 08, 2008, 05:18 PM »

I'm thinking it is due to System Restore. I asked him to turn that off and see if it frees up the space. I will report back.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Article Convinces Me To Move To vi(m)

« Last post by tinjaw on January 08, 2008, 11:16 AM »

I guess I should add, to give you all some context, I am not a VIrgin. I use it as my main editor with working with files on a *nix box. However, I am only at the near side of intermediate user level. I should really be saying that by using it fulltime I hope to move beyond the basics. Any software, when only used at the basic level, will never give you an understanding of the software's worth. It would also be a useless exercise to switch applications if you aren't ever going to go beyond the basics.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Article Convinces Me To Move To vi(m)

« Last post by tinjaw on January 08, 2008, 10:07 AM »

Downloading now...

GVim Portable Home Page
http://portablegvim.sourceforge.net/

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Developer's Corner / Article Convinces Me To Move To vi(m)

« Last post by tinjaw on January 08, 2008, 09:57 AM »

Today one of the python blogs I read posted about an article they thought was the "Best Vim Article Ever". It has convinced me to (as often as possible) use vim for the next three months and see if it sticks.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: links in Firefox followed by icon if the URL already exists in bookmar

« Last post by tinjaw on January 08, 2008, 08:24 AM »

This would be a cool Firefox extension. When I get around to making my first one, I'll probably do this. I've bookmarked this thread.

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Developer's Corner / Re: source control systems: what's the best?

« Last post by tinjaw on January 07, 2008, 10:48 PM »

Chaim, what makes you feel you need classical/distributed svn? I think the distributed paradigm just displaced the old, linear one?

-urlwolf (January 07, 2008, 09:41 PM)

Here is just one realworld example. I have a server on the Internet that is my subversion rep. I have a laptop. I use svk to mirror the repo on my local laptop. I then use svn on this local distributed mirror when no on the Internet. When I rejoin I then push my changes up. This allows me to have local svn AND remote svn and it is all synched.

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General Software Discussion / It looks like Amazon.com is testing out the software/digital downloads arena.

« Last post by tinjaw on January 07, 2008, 07:20 PM »

You can now purchase TurboTax from Amazon.com and download your software from Amazon.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Dealing with spam

« Last post by tinjaw on January 07, 2008, 07:06 PM »

my.serious.biz resolves to 1.3.3.7, but 1.3.3.7 reverse-dns is something like 0x12345678.slnxx7.adsl-dhcp.tele.dk instead of my.serious.biz.

-f0dder (January 07, 2008, 06:30 PM)

At least with all of the ISP's that I have dealt with here in the US, if I have a static IP address, they will set the reverse lookup to what ever I ask them to.

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Developer's Corner / Re: source control systems: what's the best?

« Last post by tinjaw on January 07, 2008, 07:02 PM »

I'm interested in BZR, but it's still too young for me to touch it.

-f0dder (January 07, 2008, 06:47 PM)

Which reminds me, when I need distributed svn I use svk. Works seamlessly.

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Living Room / Re: The Rule of 3 Drives: How to Build your Next PC

« Last post by tinjaw on January 07, 2008, 06:58 PM »

Curisoity.....which appliance do you use?

-johnfdeluca (January 07, 2008, 06:31 PM)

I have a D-Link DSM-G600.

I bought it a couple years ago and haven't felt the need to upgrade. This also means that I am not up to date on what is out there. But I do remember thinking about getting an ASUS WL-700gE.

They have N wireless and background downloading of bittorrents, HTTP, and FTP. So you can hookup your laptop, have the appliance start downloading some large files and then disconnect your laptop and the appliance will download the files while you sleep or leave the house for work or school.

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Living Room / Re: The Rule of 3 Drives: How to Build your Next PC

« Last post by tinjaw on January 07, 2008, 06:24 PM »

If only drobo were NAS....it's only USB connected which limits it's usability imo.

-johnfdeluca (January 07, 2008, 06:17 PM)

The speed would be horrible over NAS. SMB is crud. However, you can easily attach it to an existing piece of network equipment if you want NAS. Almost any existing NAS has USB ports for external drives. And, I assume, if you need a NAS, you already have a network, stick it on a server. If you don't have any of those then grab a new ASUS or D-Link wireless appliance and start hanging stuff off of that. The latter is what I do.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Oooooooooooooooooooooooooo Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

« Last post by tinjaw on January 07, 2008, 06:07 PM »

[Um, tinjaw... I don't know if you're going to like it, but my latest shiny trinket: IPython

-tranglos (January 07, 2008, 02:37 PM)

Yes, I am slowly learning to use it. Have you seen the IPython videos on ShowMeDo? they are a nice overview of what it can do.

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Developer's Corner / Re: source control systems: what's the best?

« Last post by tinjaw on January 07, 2008, 02:23 PM »

but none of my friends have regretted using it so far.

-housetier (January 07, 2008, 02:02 PM)

Hg? They must not touch it very often then.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Oooooooooooooooooooooooooo Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

« Last post by tinjaw on January 07, 2008, 02:20 PM »

Funny thing about this particular blog post is that a non-developer friend of mine once corrected me. I called myself a "code monkey" and he promptly came back with, "More like code magpie". He also pointed this article out to me this morning (as I wasn't down that far yet in my RSS reader).

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Developer's Corner / Re: source control systems: what's the best?

« Last post by tinjaw on January 07, 2008, 01:19 PM »

Good /. comment.

Subversion has never failed me in the three years I have been using it. I see you want to use Spolsky's stuff, but I use mantis and they are easily integrated. However, svn's latest release has the hooks in it to clamp on to just about any of them. I also like trac, and again, easy interop out of the box. TortoiseSVN rocks, but Tortoise did/does CVS just as well.

Not that I have written all that it occurs to me that one of the main reasons I like svn so much is that it is the "backend" for alot of great "frontends". But with those same tools CVS would be just fine. I just sort of think of svn as The "New" CVS.

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Developer's Corner / Oooooooooooooooooooooooooo Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

« Last post by tinjaw on January 07, 2008, 01:01 PM »

Half my morning has been going down the rabbit hole that is Coding Horror + Links + Comments + ...

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Developer's Corner / Re: source control systems: what's the best?

« Last post by tinjaw on January 07, 2008, 12:56 PM »

Subversion

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Simple php directory

« Last post by tinjaw on January 07, 2008, 11:10 AM »

That is why I suggested phpMyAdmin. You could just browse the database if you want, or make changes as you need. But if all you need is a phonebook-like directory, the search the PHP script sites on the web for phonebook & mysql. You're bound to find at least a few dozen.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Simple php directory

« Last post by tinjaw on January 07, 2008, 10:49 AM »

It needs to be somthing that i can host.

-Killeroid (January 07, 2008, 10:37 AM)

Would a combination of something like phpFormGenerator and phpMyAdmin? Or are you looking for a few lines of custom PHP code to do that and only that?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Simple php directory

« Last post by tinjaw on January 07, 2008, 07:40 AM »

There are plenty of websites that would do that for you. Would that meet your needs or does it need to be something you host yourself? In which case, there are plenty of scripts to do that, but they will probably do more than what you need.

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Living Room / Re: What kind of tagging system would be appropriate for DC?

« Last post by tinjaw on January 07, 2008, 07:24 AM »

Are we talking physical age or mental age? It's important as I may need to disqualify my self.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Dealing with spam

« Last post by tinjaw on January 06, 2008, 08:33 PM »

If you are really interested in server side solutions, you should take a gander at SPF. It is the one that is gaining momentum over Domain Keys, etc. I have an SPF record in my DNS.

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Living Room / Re: Smilie Charades

« Last post by tinjaw on January 06, 2008, 07:21 PM »

For those of us with smaller vocabularies: Smilie Charades.

-Deozaan (January 06, 2008, 07:19 PM)

That's what I meant. Subject line changed. That's for that trout slap there Deo. I needed it.

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Living Room / Re: What kind of tagging system would be appropriate for DC?

« Last post by tinjaw on January 06, 2008, 07:07 PM »

How about a mashup of SMF with Del.icio.us. I haven't Googled for such a thing yet, but it might exist.

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Living Room / Re: What is appropriate content for DonationCoder?

« Last post by tinjaw on January 06, 2008, 06:58 PM »

I request that this thread be locked.