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W∴ Balboos wrote: sn't it great bitchin' about stuff that's free ?
Too Right. The local Chip shop offered Fish&Chips for a £1 yesterday(normally cost roughly £6) in honour of St. Georges Day. I was pissed off with having too wait an hour. 
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It was all part of the same free "newspaper", Metro that started out in Stockholm and then rapidly branched out over the world via the Metro International company.
So the Metro papers was once all part of the same company, regradless where in the world they were publiced. Now it seems that Metro International focuses on Latin-/South-America, but all other markets are still controlled by the swedish owners Kinnevik via other companies.
So even though it's not the same, it's still the same. Same name, same owners, same business model, the only things that change for different markets is the laguage and that there are local news.
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Or this one[^] - has Jeremy Clarckson been at the controls?
It's well known that if all the cat videos and porn disappeared from the internet there would be only one site left and it would be called whereareallthecatvideosandporn.com
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you mean the Windows 8 start screen?
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From Article:
the lack of decent men
Don't get your hopes up, I'm sure they're talking about the same "decent men" women talk about everywhere.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Women! 
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S Houghtelin wrote: I'm sure they're talking about the same "decent men" women talk about everywhere.
You mean the ones that when actually on offer get ignored by same said women who would otherwise only lament their absence?
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That would the the same, yes.
The one's who complain about their @%%hole boyfriends and wish there was some guy out there who listens to them, spends time with them, you know, someone just like you... just not you. 
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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I'm in. A mate's son went there on a stag weekend. He said the tottie was quite the best he's seen.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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mine too
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The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
modified 24-Apr-13 8:33am.
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I wonder if this[^] is related in any way... 
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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What is the opion of Tortoise Svn, I have used this before as an alternative to source safe back in VB6 days and got into a right mess with it and gave up. A few weeks ago I made a boob and altered an old version of a program sent it out (face, palm moment!) so I am now taking the down time I am having between projects to get my self upto speed with Tortoise SVN (and work on a Serial Comms artical). Tortoise seems to be working but in an odd way. I check in a folder I check it out it works, but try to a seperate folder the sorce for the installer in all ends up in one directory the web page says I should have two options which I don't. <<update>> Ah ha alter the URL it solves that problem!<<\UPDATE>>
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I use TortoiseSVN at work and at home, and it does the job quite well.
'Check out' doesn't mean what it does in VSS. Your standard actions are 'commit' and 'update'. 'Check out' means 'take a local copy of this repository'; you should only need to do that once per repo.
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We use SVN at work. Tortoise and AnkhSVN are the clients we use. For the most part it works OK, but has a tendency to send me into fits of rage on occasions.
It doesn't handle conflicts anywhere near as well as TFS. Sometimes update won't give me the properly marked conflicted file to sort out. Instead it'll tell me it's in a conflicted state, but no matter how many times I update it won't show me anything other than my working copy. Trying to force a commit eventually flipped a switch somewhere and I got the file with the conflicts correctly marked in the end.
If you're using it in conjunction with Jenkins as a CI and build server, watch out for problems with externals not being detected and the build job configuration not always doing what it says it will. If you set the job to always update first to emulate clean checkouts, chances are that it won't remove stuff that's no longer part of the solution - we removed some projects and their unit tests from the solution, they're no longer visible in the repo browser but for some reason they're still in the bin folder of the CI job with tests still running. I either have to delete the files manually or wipe out the workspace using the Jenkins web interface as a last resort - a full checkout takes about ten minutes.
I've used both SVN and TFS in the last few years and for me TFS wins hands down.
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TFS: that's okay if you work for a company that can afford to pay a team of administrators to keep it wrapped in cotton wool and molly-coddled.
SVN: It's alright. We use it because the alternative is SourceSafe and I'd rather use a pile of dog shite (excluding SourceSafe) to handle our source control. I need to take another look at AnkhSVN. I used it about three years ago and it wasn't worth a jug of flea's piss. Maybe it's got better over the years?
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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I don't know whether I agree with your TFS comment. I installed and ran the TFS at my previous employer and hardly ever had to touch it.
For individuals and small companies there's the totally free-of-charge TFS Express as well.
AnkhSVN is functional these days, just don't expect any miracles. Or the same update in Ankh and Tortoise yielding the same changes.
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I've never understood the animosity towards VSS. I've used it solo and on teams and have always had a good experience with it. Perhaps my needs (check in / out, version label) are too simple to make it squeak?
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Interesting you should say that as our experience with TFS is uniformly negative.
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Well, reading a user manual/tutorial would help...
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/index.html[^]
We've been using SubVersion with TortoiseSVN for many years with no real issues except when working with branches that stay away too long (difficulty with complex merge).
Nihil obstat
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While I prefer VSS for its simplicity and checkout model, I've used SVN with the Tortoise client in the past. Configuring SVN is a typical Unix experience. Lots of power but it felt like you needed to dedicate an entire day to RTFM before understanding the configuration process. Fortunately, a Linux geek on our team dealt with that and I just used the client.
Tortoise is nice software and performed as expected. My primary twitch factor for SVN beyond the initial configuration is the multiple checkout / merge on checkin model. It's a good approach if you're concerned about team members locking a file and then going to the Bahamas for a month. That said, merging code is always an exercise fraught with peril regardless of how good the source control software is.
When we installed TFS a year or so back, it didn't support version snapshots. No, really. I think it does now but at that point I said screw it and installed VSS. It's a much hated product (though I don't know why) but I've always found it reliable and easy to use. But then, it's a well known fact that my mother dropped me on the head as a small child, so factor that into your considerations.
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"Rotten strike, operating with loud noise heard, used in court action."(9,7)
I think this will be solved fairly quickly.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
CCC Link[ ^]
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Just got home from a trip away for work and was very surprised to see the CCC was not solved.
Rotten = bad
strike = mint
operating = on
loud noise = racket (heard .. sounds like) ==> racquet
badminton racquet is used in court action
I did suggest last night that I smelt a theme developing
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