I stopped by Office Depot on my interview trip today. They had blank CD-R media 50-pk spools, Memorex branded for $5.99. Sale goes until Saturday.
Giles! I accidentally killed Spike. That's okay, right?
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DCJensen - Jan 30, 2006 4:20:59 pm PST #6915 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
sumi - Jan 31, 2006 4:26:34 am PST #6916 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!
All my technology questions are kind of low-tech, but last night I went to turn on my computer and discovered that on/off button had become stuck -- it won't pop out. Ummm, is there some way to fix this?
Also, yesterday, a label became stuck in my vcr and I was able to get it out and play tapes fine and it will record in slp, but not in sp - this is the kind of thing that can't or isn't worth fixing, isn't it?
tommyrot - Jan 31, 2006 4:31:40 am PST #6917 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
All my technology questions are kind of low-tech, but last night I went to turn on my computer and discovered that on/off button had become stuck -- it won't pop out.
Huh. It really depends on the kind of switch. Some computer cases have the switch mounted to the case, and the computer cover has a little piece of plastic that on the outside is the button and on the inside has a piece of projecting plastic that pushes against the switch on the case.
Damn, I need caffeine. I don't know if the above will make any sense. Anyway, if this is what you have, then removing the cover should make it easy to get the switch unstuck. If this is not what you have... well, then it depends on what you do have....
::off to drink tea::
sumi - Jan 31, 2006 4:41:35 am PST #6918 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!
Okay, so I should try to remove the cover and hope for the best. I'll do that tonight.
le nubian - Jan 31, 2006 4:44:13 am PST #6919 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
so I just found a new extension for Firefox (you have to upgrade to 1.5 first) that I LOVE. It is Reveal and you can search all the tabs at once and convert all the tabs to thumbnails. It is way cool.
Gudanov - Jan 31, 2006 4:49:03 am PST #6920 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
For a simple project Visual SourceSafe should be fine and easy to use if your tools already integrate. It's easy to get going and setup. CVS is the way to go for something that is free and will scale up to bigger projects, but I don't find it as easy to use as VSS. I really like Perforce but it isn't free.
TomW - Jan 31, 2006 5:17:35 am PST #6921 of 10003
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
I also like Perforce. We switched from Visual Source Safe to Perforce a while back and it was a massive improvement. But, not free.
Subversion is another free option. I think it has more of a learning curve than CVS, but it has a more up to date feature set.
If "free" and "good enough" are your criteria, then CVS will probably do. If "good enough" isn't good enough, then check out Subversion. If "not confusing to bosses" is one of your criteria, then I got nothing.
There are "Pragmatic Version Control Using..." books for both CVS and Subversion that give a decent overview.
tommyrot - Jan 31, 2006 9:44:15 am PST #6922 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
After talking with my boss, we decided to use TortoiseCVS, just to be consistent with our client.
Right now, I'm reading Open Source Development with CVS - 3rd Edition. It's fun, as I like learning new stuff (and I especially like getting paid to learn new stuff).
Gudanov - Jan 31, 2006 10:01:28 am PST #6923 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
Learning new stuff is cool.
Liese S. - Jan 31, 2006 4:36:55 pm PST #6924 of 10003
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
It is, isn't it?
Wish I'd noticed this conversation before I broke down and bought VSS. But it was still cheap, because I got it from the super duper donated tech for nonprofits place that makes me happy. Although I've now used up my quota of Microsoft products for another year, what with having to buy new operating systems for all the donated laptops I got. Not complaining, though! Free laptops! Cheap software! Whoo!
But yeah, I like learning new stuff.