Just want to have a quick rant about subversion. Most places you see the SVN is the replacement to CVS and does things better but I'm not entirely sure.
I was always suspicious when branching and tagging were copying the files around on the file system. If I wanted to make those sorts of copies, I'd just do it myself.
This bit me yesterday when I wanted to change what branch a particular directory was checked out as. I couldn't just say "This folder, be this branch" I had to say check out this location of SVN to this location on my disk. The first time I tried, I almost checked out the whole alternative branch into the particular folder (not what I wanted).
I know that flexibility = power.
But sometimes I like it when design stops you making mistakes like that.
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Time flies... but what was I doing?
Back on the 10th of February, my boss asked me to hang back a little later than usual. I was working 8am-4pm and loving it.
The walk to the other end of the building was interesting and all the other guys were jesting that "I was in trouble now".
I was made redundant.
Being a Wednesday I thought I would just enjoy the long weekend and start looking for a job on Monday but a couple of people had got in touch with me earlier than that (boy does the news travel quickly).
Monday I had a job interview with someone I had previously worked with and the ball got rolling Wednesday.
Working with a mapping system this time. Looking forward to the maths.
The walk to the other end of the building was interesting and all the other guys were jesting that "I was in trouble now".
I was made redundant.
Being a Wednesday I thought I would just enjoy the long weekend and start looking for a job on Monday but a couple of people had got in touch with me earlier than that (boy does the news travel quickly).
Monday I had a job interview with someone I had previously worked with and the ball got rolling Wednesday.
Working with a mapping system this time. Looking forward to the maths.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
FYI: Breathalyzers
I was driving home from Coffs Harbour and got pulled over by the police.
Just a random breath test. He asked me how I was going then count to 5. This confused the hell out of me. The last time I used one of these machines was in primary school when a police officer came in and gave a speech.
Back then you had to blow in a tube for about 5 seconds so I was expecting to do the same.
But you basically just talk over this machine and it picks up your blood-alcohol level.
I don't know if these machine were just in NSW or if they have been deployed across Australia.
Just thought I'd share.
Just a random breath test. He asked me how I was going then count to 5. This confused the hell out of me. The last time I used one of these machines was in primary school when a police officer came in and gave a speech.
Back then you had to blow in a tube for about 5 seconds so I was expecting to do the same.
But you basically just talk over this machine and it picks up your blood-alcohol level.
I don't know if these machine were just in NSW or if they have been deployed across Australia.
Just thought I'd share.
Friday, December 18, 2009
Google no longer loves me
A search of "pimaster" is no longer showing this blog near the top of the search listing.
I blame myself, I really haven't had anything to add to the world of the Internet. I've gone from updating my blog 4-6 times a month to barely 1 a month.
I blame work. Oh, which I haven't posted about.
Back in May I started work for Majitek. I joined the Product team and was looking forward to a maintenance/feature improvement sort of development. I was hoping to see how problems that I've had come up in the past had been solved in their products.
But it was not to be.
The product I am working on really hasn't reached a mature level. We are still trying to work out how to solve certain problems.
There are some good days, but some are frustrating.
I've started a few little things to tinker with, but haven't really got around to finishing anything. Which sucks.
I've been enjoying the company of friends a lot more than I used to. It's good in breaking up the weeks, but also takes time away from just sitting in front of a computer.
I'd love to update this clog more, but we'll see how we go.
I'm still with the TF2 clan I joined back in early 2008, http://mofoclan.forumotion.com/forum.htm
I've also been posting a bit on twitter https://twitter.com/the_pimaster if you are into that sort of thing.
I blame myself, I really haven't had anything to add to the world of the Internet. I've gone from updating my blog 4-6 times a month to barely 1 a month.
I blame work. Oh, which I haven't posted about.
Back in May I started work for Majitek. I joined the Product team and was looking forward to a maintenance/feature improvement sort of development. I was hoping to see how problems that I've had come up in the past had been solved in their products.
But it was not to be.
The product I am working on really hasn't reached a mature level. We are still trying to work out how to solve certain problems.
There are some good days, but some are frustrating.
I've started a few little things to tinker with, but haven't really got around to finishing anything. Which sucks.
I've been enjoying the company of friends a lot more than I used to. It's good in breaking up the weeks, but also takes time away from just sitting in front of a computer.
I'd love to update this clog more, but we'll see how we go.
I'm still with the TF2 clan I joined back in early 2008, http://mofoclan.forumotion.com/forum.htm
I've also been posting a bit on twitter https://twitter.com/the_pimaster if you are into that sort of thing.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
CSS awesomeness
I was forwarded a link today at work that I just have to share:
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/css/gallery/slide1.htm
Yeah, it looks that bad in a modern browser.
But at the height of awesome (*chokes*), in IE 3.03, there is some magic-fu.
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/css/gallery/slide1.htm
Yeah, it looks that bad in a modern browser.
But at the height of awesome (*chokes*), in IE 3.03, there is some magic-fu.
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Finally, a result for the Compact Flash card
Since I had some plans canceled yesterday, I decided I had enough time to re-shuffle my disks around, put the CF card first and install XP onto it and see what would happen.
As expected the install took a lot longer to complete that a standard disk. I wasn't really expecting 4-5 hours though.
It was when I got into Windows that my heart sank though. Trying to install the drivers for my system was extremely slow. Loading IE (which starts the driver installation) was slow. Trying to check out where the bottle-necks were was slow.
Basically the CF card was being hammered nearly all the time. I managed to move swap onto a real disk and "Program Files", but couldn't get my "Documents and Settings" reliably moved to another disk. I don't think it would have helped enough though.
So I timed a fresh boot from start up to shutdown on the CF card and it took nearly 8 minutes.
I re-installed onto a standard disk and did the same task in a minute.
It isn't a complete failure though. The animation during Windows XP was noticeably faster on the CF card compared to a standard disk. So there is hope for booting from CF. It was just everything after that that was slow.
My next task is to install *nix to CF and find out if it can be tweaked to boot with all haste.
As expected the install took a lot longer to complete that a standard disk. I wasn't really expecting 4-5 hours though.
It was when I got into Windows that my heart sank though. Trying to install the drivers for my system was extremely slow. Loading IE (which starts the driver installation) was slow. Trying to check out where the bottle-necks were was slow.
Basically the CF card was being hammered nearly all the time. I managed to move swap onto a real disk and "Program Files", but couldn't get my "Documents and Settings" reliably moved to another disk. I don't think it would have helped enough though.
So I timed a fresh boot from start up to shutdown on the CF card and it took nearly 8 minutes.
I re-installed onto a standard disk and did the same task in a minute.
It isn't a complete failure though. The animation during Windows XP was noticeably faster on the CF card compared to a standard disk. So there is hope for booting from CF. It was just everything after that that was slow.
My next task is to install *nix to CF and find out if it can be tweaked to boot with all haste.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Compact Flash to SATA
My XP install has become fairly slow and I want to move away from my RAID 1 configuration because it is not offering me anything I actually need.
So I figured the easiest way to transition all of my data is to have a free disk, a disk with all my old content and another disk for my OS.
Solid state disks have been making their rounds and I thought it would be cool if there was a SATA to CF adapter that allowed be to boot of a generic solid state media.
Now I have an 8gb solid state disk for my OS.
I opened up Nero (as it is the only thing I know that has some sort of disk speed test) to find out what the performance was.
15MB/s as apposed to the ~65MB/s I was getting for my other media. I'm fairly sure that is only a read speed (the only thing that is important for buffering before burning to cd), but it is as expected. I'm hoping the speed of CF cards will pick up in the future.
I'm hoping the seek speed comes into play when the OS is finally loaded onto this thing, but it could take a fair amount of time to do the actual install.
I've got a game on tomorrow night, so installation will have to wait till at least Thursday.
So I figured the easiest way to transition all of my data is to have a free disk, a disk with all my old content and another disk for my OS.
Solid state disks have been making their rounds and I thought it would be cool if there was a SATA to CF adapter that allowed be to boot of a generic solid state media.
Now I have an 8gb solid state disk for my OS.
I opened up Nero (as it is the only thing I know that has some sort of disk speed test) to find out what the performance was.
15MB/s as apposed to the ~65MB/s I was getting for my other media. I'm fairly sure that is only a read speed (the only thing that is important for buffering before burning to cd), but it is as expected. I'm hoping the speed of CF cards will pick up in the future.
I'm hoping the seek speed comes into play when the OS is finally loaded onto this thing, but it could take a fair amount of time to do the actual install.
I've got a game on tomorrow night, so installation will have to wait till at least Thursday.
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