I do this, too. I do it on sites that support multiple answers to the same question. The idea is to have a range of different answers to pick from.

Bullshit. PHP doesn't load everything into its core: it has a well-developed system for managing optional extensions (PEAR). "Core" extensions are the ones that come with PHP.. This is pretty standard terminology. You just can't be bothered to look it up. Then why reply at all?

Please note that the article claims nothing of the kind.

"Bash Unix" is lingo IT for "interpreter line command".

See? It wasn't that hard to figure out.

As they say: free software is only free if you don't value your time. So free software that saves me from having to spend time on things I'm not interested in spending time on is of huge value.

For logged-in users, put a 'hide' button next to every mention of a story. When clicked, no more links to the story will be shown. The quality of the stories appears to have improved sharply. If this continues, I will return to reading Slashdot on a regular basis.

The same thing happened on Wikipedia. It seems rather inevitable.

Still, I don't think it required more than a short email exchange.

I think you can have nation-specific technology trees with custom rulesets. That would allow you to do this.

The problem is that organizing stuff and keeping it organized requires a tremendous continuous investment of time on the part of the users no matter how much support you get from software. There is no magic bullet. Something flat and amorphous at least stands a chance of being used at all. Wikipedia has a couple of post-hoc information structuring projects; I think it's a better approach than overdoing organization before the content is entered.

So if you won't need to merge much, and development is going to be pretty much linear, SVN is OK. If not, use Git or another distributed VCS. There is no excuse for using CVS for new projects these days. SVN improves on it in every possible way.

I fell on my knee and cleaned and bandaged the wound all by myself. Anyone can do it with some googling.

I'm so glad you don't work in education.

I have a name for people with your attitude. Do you?

*nod* I once tried Debian, intending to switch to it, but I never got beyond the initial installation attempt. The abrasiveness on #debian was my primary reason for giving up and never looking back. (Hint: pick a Debian derivative.)