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Submission + - Wiimote controlled SCM

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 02, 2007 @06:26PM

An anonymous reader writes: So far we have seen PC games controlled by the "wiimote" (the wii remote), the wiimote emulating a PC mouse, playing drums and a huge amount of totally useless stuff.

But, what I've found today really goes further. Who would ever use a wiimote in his daily job?

Well, it seems these folks think someone is going to ever use a wii remote to control their "cool" (in their words, I would say pointless) version tree.

Here is the full story

Submission + - Subversion is pointles - Linus said (blogspot.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 02, 2007 @06:19PM

An anonymous reader writes: A few weeks ago Linus Torvalds gave a speech at Google, talking about Source Code Management and GIT. Despite of the big number of Subversion developers hired by G$ (some of them were even present at the speech) Linus made really strong assertion: "Subversion has been the most pointless project ever started". But Linus folk didn't stop there he continued with really "nice" sentences like:
- "Subversion used to say CVS done right: with that slogan there is nowhere you can go. There is no way to do cvs right"
- "If you like using cvs, you should be in some kind of mental institution or somewhere else"

- "Get rid of perforce, it is sad, but it is so, so true"

He just talked wonders about his great version control system (GIT), which he said he "wrote in a couple of weeks". Well, I believe it is true: we wrote it in two weeks, and it only took two years to make it usable for the rest of the world... But it seems Linus was all about strong opinions that day: "not everybody can write something right the first time, just me".

Well, if you want to watch Linus being more rude than ever, find the whole story here

Submission + - .XXX domain name plan revived

Submitted by

Wim van Neuken

on Sunday January 07, 2007 @04:37PM

Wim van Neuken writes: "http://www.comcast.net/news/technology/index.jsp?c at=TECHNOLOGY&fn=/2007/01/06/556539.html&cvqh=itn_ redlight

After rejecting an earlier proposal to create the XXX tld for pornographic sites, it appears ICANN has now relented and is laying out a plan to create the tld. However, it looks like the policing will be stepped up as part of the revived plan."

Submission + - How To Use NTFS Drives/Partitions On Ubuntu Edgy

Submitted by

hausmasta

on Sunday January 07, 2007 @07:06AM

hausmasta writes: "Normally Linux systems can only read from Windows NTFS partitions, but not write to them which can be very annoying if you have to work with Linux and Windows systems. This is where ntfs-3g comes into play. ntfs-3g is an open source, freely available NTFS driver for Linux with read and write support. This tutorial shows how to install and use ntfs-3g on a Ubuntu Edgy Eft desktop to read from and write to Windows NTFS drives and partitions. It covers the usage of internal NTFS partitions (e.g. in a dual-boot environment) and of external USB NTFS drives.

http://www.howtoforge.com/ubuntu_edgy_eft_ntfs_ntf s_3g"

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