I use VisualSVN with TortoiseSVN and it works great. I also use their free VisualSVN server. I tried setting up other servers, but I am not keen on spending more time working with the server than working on my code. I also like that VisualSVN server can use encryption to send the data to and from the server. Since I work outside the network it is kind of nice.
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OK, this is strangely becoming more like a personals ad. Maybe, you don't feel apart of the geek community, but I do think that for the most part software engineering does attract people that may be considered geeks or nerds. Although, that seems to be mostly an U.S. thing. Outside of the U.S. those people just seem to be considered very smart.
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"h, by the way, I was in mechanical engineering for many years before switching to software engineering, so I have many traits of a mechanical engineer, I like beer and cars for example, and not those of a typical software engineer. " I don't think being a software engineer excludes a person from being "cool". I like shooting assault rifles, classic rock, and racing cars(I used to race cars). I have more geek attributes than nerd attributes (if there is a difference), but I still like "normal" stuff. However, by most accounts I am a geek and I think most software engineers are too. I actually find it more interesting to be around geeks. They aren't all caught up in Berry Bonds steroid use or the Jeff Gordon nascar crash. I prefer discussing how Intel and AMD are scamming consumers by holding back on releasing better technology just so they can get a better return on their R&D, or how OSS is OK, but it will never become what MS has become. I think this is clear. Geeks (nerds) are cool. Everyone else is just boring. :laugh:
Ben
I recommend Avira AntiVir[^] This has worked very well for me. I have used the free version, and the paid version. I highly recommend it.
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I am not sure where I should ask this question, so sorry if this is not the right place. I use the code project browser, and I have read that the site has been changed completely. Now, when I open Visual Studio, I get an error that it cannot log on to the code project server. I am guessing this all has changed. Is there going to be an update to the browser, or is there a way I can correct the issue. It isn't a huge deal, but it is kind of annoying. Thank you.
Ben
I think you may not have understood my point about an items utility. Your house is probably similar to mine, if so, then our houses have more functionality than the hut in Somalia. For instance, they provide climate control, electricity, a greater resistance to deterioration, and other things. If one had to chose between a hut and a house, it could be justified that the house provides a more functional living environment. This in turn creates a more productive citizen because they can spend more time contributing to society, instead of just trying to sustain their existence. I fail to see how the house on the mountain does that same thing. Maybe, there is something I am missing about the house on the mountain. Perhaps if it were energy independent, then I could see how it could be justified. I am not trying to argue, I just wanted to point out that there was more to the picture that I thought was getting glazed over.
Ben
Actually, your analogy is not very good. The difference is the that the luxury items that wealthy people spend their money on does not always rate well in its utility. A vehicle has a function, so does good food, haircuts, and other things we use on a daily basis. The T.V. is questionable because it can be used for a purpose that is constructive and beneficial, or not. A 50 million dollar home that is dangling off the side of a mountain is not very utilitarian. There is a case to be made for some of the luxury items that wealthy people spend their money on, such as expensive clothes, but it is the excesses that I think most people have a problem with. I think that, in general, people get paid in proportion to the size of the problem that they solve. While software is everywhere, and the world would be less efficient without it, there are a lot of people that can do it. Far more people than can run a company, especially one that leads an industry. The flip side of that is that people are getting paid even when they run the company into the ground, that is the kind of crap that makes people want to riot. I think it is the double standard that people really have a problem with.
Ben
Not very hight tech, but I use a pen and notebook. I have tried software and such, like StarUML, but I realized that I would have to learn so much just to make it right that I went back to a pen and paper. I will still learn UML, just not "today".
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I don't see what he is saying as an insult to programmers. I enjoy programming, but I would have to agree that it would be nice if it were more respected, and understood. A set of industry wide standards about how IT should be ran would be very nice, as long as they were made to benefit the programmers. It does get kind of old hearing, "I know this wasn't in the original requirements, but it can't be that hard to change ___Enter change here____.":)
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Comcast, haha, now instead of $60.00/month it will go up to $200.00 a month. Now all the web surfers will load their 12kb pages at 0.0001 seconds, instead of 0.01 seconds.:laugh:
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