How complicated is the HTML? Is markdown too complicated for them to learn? If the HTML would be handled by Markdown and the users are savvy enough to learn it, you could have them write markdown in any old text editor and then run it through a tool to convert it to HTML.

> I would really really love it if I could cmd+tab to a specific application > window rather than just an application - something you can do in Windows > and Linux but not Mac. I love this feature on the Mac. CMD+TAB cycles you through the Applications CMD+~ cycles you through the Windows of *that* application (unless you are already cycling through applications and then it cycles backwards.) Did I mention that track-pad actually works? On Windows(or Linux) I have yet to have a track-pad that actually works. I always end up selecting/moving/deleting stuff while I am typing on Windows and Linux. I never have that problem on the Mac. And if you really can't stand OS-X buy a Macbook anyway and run windows on it. It's a better Windows laptop than most (all?) Windows laptops. I mean it was declared the "Best Performing" Windows laptop in 2013. There are some things I missed when moving over but I have forgotten what they are.

Wayne J.

Sometime around 1990 I went with a class to tour an IBM facility in San Jose, CA. One of the rooms we visited was full of the 25 MB version of this drive. The customer apparently did not want to upgrade the system ...

I personally like SourceTree. I use it on my Mac but because of the tools we use at work I have to use Windows XP and SourceTree does not support it. However, I have been the administrator for and SVN repository for close to 10 years. For that entire time I have followed at least the TSVN users list and for a lot of that time the SVN users and developers list. I have *never* heard of anyone loosing data like that. You should verify that your repository is not corrupt. If it is then you may have a hardware problem (eg, bad ram or disk) or you did not setup SVN correctly (eg, share a repository that's accessed as a file etc.) Information does not "just vanish" out of the repository. In fact Subversion does not even support removing data from the repository. Oh, you can delete a file but if you go back to a revision where that file existed, it's all still there. Now, I am not trying to convince you not to switch. I like git too. I am just suggesting that there may be an issue here that you have not thought of. For example, if you server is having problems and you migrate to git you will just have problems with git. Also, git has its own set of minefields so make sure you understand them. Good luck. :)

Wayne

Last time I purchased a server from Dell it took two days of back and forth trying to figure out exactly what license I needed. It finally ended up as a 3 way call with Dell and MS on the phone for an hour or so. I still ended up with the wrong thing. I could not even use the server because the licensing was incompatible with another MS server already on the network. You were only allowed to have one of this particular type of server on a network. I definitely prefer Linux. It has as steep learning curve but it's so much easier once you figure it out. Our dev server now runs on Linux. It takes about 3-5 hours to install from scratch but it takes less than an hour of my time. I have the distro on USB memory stick. It takes me about 5 minutes to start the installer. I come back an hour or so later and run update (a single update I might add, not update after update after update.) I come back in an hour or so and run a simple script that installs all of our software. I come back in another hour and unzip the latest server backup, copy a copy of config files, reboot the server and everything is running. I really don't understand why anyone would use MS server unless they just had some money burning a whole in their pocket.

It's been a while since I have done a lot of work with graphics cards (and I don't have time to read all the posts, maybe this was already suggested.) Have you tried putting the old graphics card in, firing up windows, and switching to the generic VGA driver (can you still do that with newer versions of Windows?) and then putting the new card in? Wayne

I don't think you could lift a book that went into all that in any kind of detail. When making the transition from Windows device drivers to 'embedded systems' I found the book "MicroC OS II" by Jean J. Labrosse very helpful (on Amazon here http://tinyurl.com/pgluzvd[^]) There is a newer version of the book but I have not read it and I don't think it's as good because the OS is closed source. Jean has another book, "Embedded Systems Building Blocks" where he goes into interfacing with devices ( [on Amazon here:]) This is geared towards smaller systems. There are 2 basic types of embedded systems, "super loop" and using some sort of embedded OS (such as uCOS/II.) Most of the engineers that I have worked with struggle with the concurrency issues. Get a handle on these first and you will be a step ahead of most people. Wayne

loctrice wrote:

So the complaint was that some basic things that are the same across os's are different here.

But that's really not fair since many of these conventions predate Windows...

"Its concept of 'workspace' is just bizarre and confuses me." I can live with the weird project concept. What I don't understand is how so many people can be fanboys for an editor that doesn't even properly support "undo" It's mess, there is no way to know what will actually be undone (or what was actually undone for that matter.) Did you click on another part of the UI after that typing mistake? Don't worry we'll just use the global undo stack and undo your last refactoring instead of the typing error. Did that refactor include creating a new file (that you edited?) No problem we'll throw that away too...

The reality is that all circuits are really analog, they don't instantly change from one state to another. So, the transition is never at one extreme or the other. If the chip claims to work at say 0 and +5 there is some point before +5 that the circuit decides the signal is a 1 and some point before 0 that it decides that the signal is a 0 (replace 0 and +5 with your favorite voltages for representing 1 and 0.) In diagrams they like to draw straight lines and sharp corners but the reality that none of the lines are straight and none of the corners or sharp. In fact, there is usually some amount of overshoot at the corners and a certain amount of settle time. They have a couple of pictures here of what overshoot looks like. So, if they used the 0 or the +5 for the actual 1 and 0 indicator it would get very tricky because the signal (at least at the corners) tends to bound around the min and the max voltage...

Though counter intuitive, hot water actually freezes faster than cold water... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpemba_effect[^]

We use Redmine. It's pretty easy to setup and includes integration with Subversion, git and mercurial. What exactly do you want the bug tracker to do?

Seriously?? Linux is not Windows. You have been using Windows for years. You have already gone through all the pain of learning the quirks and the gotchas. Hence the reason, try it for a year and then complain. Because all you are doing right now is complaining that Linux isn't Windows ...

Please tell us you are not using the file:/// protocol... I have been using Subversion of years. I have run into problems but nothing like you describe. And trust me, we get file conflicts all the time.

Until a bunch of them decided their ideas were technically superior and decided to fork the government.

Yeah, having some random guy who might not even be using his real name decide who and expert and what's authoritative on a particular subject is fine. I mean would could go wrong? Actually, I find reading the discussions behind a controversial page quite enlightening and entertaining.

If it's Builder 6 turn on CodeGuard. Run the application and then look at the code guard log. There's a decent chance it will just tell you what's wrong. It could be as simple as an assumption about paths and/or permissions. It could even be an issue of finding DLL's

Because it's not the 90's anymore and there are better ways to know what a variable type is? You should be using an editor that will tell you what the type is; then you will *know*. You will know even when the type changed from signed to unsigned or from short to long. Besides it has been my experience that most people use Hungarian notation so they don't have to come up with decent variable names: I always see functions with crap like this: int iValue; char *strzValue; double dValue; float fValue;

Hmm... Even in C we talk about an array, element array[0] is the 1st one, isn't it?

I know some very good musicians that have no interest in selling records and I hardly think Megan Fox's Oscars have much to do with the type of talent were talking about here. And I am sure that you would want Michael teaching your talented kid dance because it one of the best... Talent is only about 90% of being good at something. The other 90% is just plain hard work. Do you really have to be the Rembrandt of UI design to be good at it?