For anyone that cares, I'll be off the grid for about three weeks while I take care of my annual military thing.
If you send me a patch and I ignore it, it's because I probably didn't see it rather than one of the other excuses I tend to use. If you need to be ignored by someone right away, email Randal. I'll be back to ignoring things in the usual manner in October (when I then have to ignore things because Randal is making me go on a cruise).
The only worrisome part is the beater Powerbook I'm taking with me. I just put Tiger on my old Titanium and have been installing things I think I'll need. I'm probably going to forget something essential (hey, I just thought tonight "I should install subversion", so that was close!). I should be able to still get work done although nobody will get to see the result of it for a while. No matter: the editor is cracking the whip for Intermediate Perl so I should hammer on that while I'm off the net.
The only worrisome part is the beater Powerbook I'm taking with me. I just put Tiger on my old Titanium and have been installing things I think I'll need. I'm probably going to forget something essential (hey, I just thought tonight "I should install subversion", so that was close!)
I've got into the habit of keeping everything I download. It just goes in an svk repository called 'installers'. Being able to just copy it across to new boxes has saved my bacon several times.
Re:Keep all your installers
brian_d_foy on 2005-08-29T13:11:44
Yeah, I used to do that, then I needed more space for pirated MP3s and internet porn. I'm going to need a terabyte drive soon.Re:Keep all your installers
Adrian on 2005-08-29T13:53:54
The scary thing is that terabyte drives are pretty darn affordable these days (although I want two so I can RAID them
:-) Re:Keep all your installers
drhyde on 2005-09-23T09:24:36
I <heart> LaCie's TB drives enough that I bought five of them. Two for data, two for backups, and a spare.Re:Keep all your installers
KM on 2005-08-29T14:18:19
Embed the MP3 data into the porn images (a-la steganography). Must be some space saving in there somewhere.. or at least it will cut down on your files!
