Comment Re:Missing the point (Score 1) 41
There's more to do in a space battle than just fire lasers.
Like photon torpedoes! <csi type="miami">YEEEAAAAAHHHH!</csi>
Linus Switches From KDE To Gnome 869
An anonymous reader writes "In a recent Computerworld interview, Linus revealed that he's switched to Gnome — this despite launching a heavily critical broadside against Gnome just a few years ago. His reason? He thinks KDE 4 is a 'disaster.' Although it's improved recently, he'll find many who agree with this prognosis, and KDE 4 can be painful to use." There's quite a bit of interesting stuff in this interview, besides, regarding the current state of Linux development.
Comment Re:Use cvs2svn for CVS repositories (Score 1) 346
To be clear for anyone reading this - use cvs2svn to convert your CVS repository to git. It's the only tool that does it right!
Comment Use cvs2svn for CVS repositories (Score 0, Offtopic) 346
Use cvs2svn to convert your existing CVS repositories.
The tools that come with git for converting CVS to git do not work. You will see other posts about how git is different, such as how it manages commits versus files. CVS manages files, and doesn't track them well.
It has no ideas of when a branch ends, and even when they start is a bit iffy. Add to that the fact that CVS lets you pick and choose random files to be on a branch, then you can really start to get into a strange state.
For our CVS repository (goes back to 2001, we had 100's of branches, maybe 1000 tags), the git cvsimport tool placed code from our current development trunk into older versions. I'm sure you can see how bad that is.
After getting burned by that, we turned to cvs2svn. It took a long time (8 hours) to convert, but it converted correctly, and you only ever have to do it once.
My advice is to convert your repository, then check out random versions from both CVS and git, then run a diff on all the branches of importance. I wrote a script to do it for all branches and tags because I got burned the first time.
Comment Re:Google (Score 1) 216
And one day, I will learn how to make links! clusty.com
Journal Journal: Clusty Cloud brings tag clouds to the masses
Along with a new interface, Clusty today launched a new website widget that creates dynamic "cluster clouds" based on any given query. The cloud uses the familiar Tag Cloud format, but without the restriction of having to tag all your data. A simple creator allows you to copy and paste the resulting HTML directly into your webpage or blog.
Children Arrested, DNA Tested for Playing in a Tree? 957
skelator2821 wrote in with another account of a police action gone way overboard. From the article: "To the 12-year-old friends planning to build themselves a den, the cherry tree seemed an inviting source of material. But the afternoon adventure turned into a frightening ordeal for Sam Cannon, Amy Higgins and Katy Smith after they climbed into the 20ft tree - then found themselves hauled into a police station and locked into cells for up to two hours." skelator2821's basic question in all of this: "What is this World coming to? Do you think they went to far?" Well? Do you?
Search 2.0 vs. Traditional Search 187
ReadWriteWeb writes "Ebrahim Ezzy reviews 5 new third-generation search technologies — and how they compare to the big guns of Google, Yahoo and MSN. These so-called "search 2.0" companies are combining the scalability of existing internet search engines with new and improved relevancy models; they bring into the equation user preferences, collaboration, collective intelligence, a rich user experience, and many other specialized capabilities. The new search engines profiled are Swicki, Rollyo, Clusty, Wink and Lexxe." Note, as the article points out, that the author has developed yet another search engine, called Qube.
Bio-Engineered Rice Uses Human Genes 417
gliph writes "Yahoo news has a piece about a small biogenetics firm that is using genetically engineered rice containing human genes to help fight diarrhea. From the article: 'Ventria's rice produces two human proteins found in mother's milk, saliva and tears, which help people hydrate and lessen the severity and duration of diarrhea attacks, a top killer of children in developing countries.'"
Will OSX Build In Torrenting? 285
Cjattwood writes "Mac OS rumors has an article describing a possible implementation of a Bittorrent client into Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard", including a unique sharing reward system where the user can share bandwidth and get rewards, such as credit in the iTunes store."
Comment Re:So is 100 teraflops a record or what? (Score 3, Informative) 135
It's not a world record (IBM's Blue Gene/L is pushing 280 TFLOPS), but it's still very fast. It will almost certainly be in the Top 10 by the time it comes online.
Journal Journal: Friends
Wow, I can't believe it... my first fan... This just makes me all giddy inside!
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