On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 09:46:27AM +, Tuomo Valkonen wrote:
A path in NTFS is not allowed to be longer than 255 chars...
Path? You mean file name? It's the same on ext2/3 as far as I
recall,
Just tried it out of curiosity, I got bored after about 6000
characters.
and no practical
On 2009-03-31, Yves Rutschle i...@rutschle.net wrote:
Yeah, the biggest problem is Windows users naming
directories like Program Files, Last year's review,
Deliveries for this and that, which means the 255
limitation actually comes up quickly. Then try to convince
them to use short names and
On 2009-03-31, Adam Duck adam.ian.d...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, it is possible to _create_ such file names, but you can't use
them. Here at WinXP I can create (best under Desktop) dirs close to
255 chars.
Actually, I've been succesfully using file names with colons in them
in Linux on NTFS
Yeah, it sucks.. but it's coming in Linux too.
I absolutely fucking hate the Desktop directory
that every now and then shows up in ~.
IT'S MY HOME DIRECTORY YOU GNOME FUCKTARDS! DON'T PUT ANYTHING
VISIBLE THERE! I'S ***MNE***, NOT YOURS, YOU PIECE OF SHIT
RETARDS!! GET IT?!?!?
No, I
On 2009-03-31, Daniel Clemente dcl441-b...@yahoo.com wrote:
Yes, I also hate it, but I have learnt to ignore it with version
control. Or better, I use it to store trash.
And if I want a directory
that I control myself, I create one, it's not so complex.
But it's not ~, it's ~/my or
On 2009-03-28, Klaus Umbach treibholz-...@sozial-inkompetent.de wrote:
Ah, OK. So it's a driver and a service. Anyway, it was pretty stable.
Maybe I'll try it one day. No time now.
Yes, but I can use both my cores and don't have to reserve one for my
virus-scanner. From my point of view,
Tuomo,
2009/3/29 Tuomo Valkonen tuo...@iki.fi:
On Windows I can just download software from the ISV, and
easily run it. In a sandbox if I want to.
I'm curious. Does Windows have that capability built in or do you use
some kind of sandboxing third party solution?
Rui
On 2009-03-27, Nicolas Schier sch...@shf.de wrote:
have you already decided which SCM you want to switch to? I have noticed
you took a look at mercurial... I for myself am very content with it,
but I know that your requirements have mostly a little higher level.
Probably Mercurial. I've been
If only Apple wasn't so blur-fascist, and had 4:3 laptops with a nipple...
And non-glossy screens for all configurations, not just for 2000€ ones.
Although, I did try the _huge_ touchpad on one of the newer
Apple laptops recently, and it was far better than most I've come
across: no need to
On 2009-03-27, Sylvain Abélard sylvain.abel...@gmail.com wrote:
If only Apple wasn't so blur-fascist, and had 4:3 laptops with a nipple...
And non-glossy screens for all configurations, not just for 2000⬠ones.
Well, yes, but the situation is almost the same on PCs: all the
affordable
On 2009-03-27 08:19 +, Tuomo Valkonen wrote:
On 2009-03-27, Nicolas Schier sch...@shf.de wrote:
have you already decided which SCM you want to switch to? I have noticed
you took a look at mercurial... I for myself am very content with it,
but I know that your requirements have mostly a
On 26/03/09 21:39, Tuomo Valkonen wrote:
On 2009-03-13 12:09 +, Tuomo Valkonen wrote:
Has anyone any experience of a simple coLinux setup?
That wouldn't mess hibernate/standby up? With internal
samba? No udev and other crap; Windows handles devices.
I used to use it for a while with the
On 2009-03-13 12:09 +, Tuomo Valkonen wrote:
The Ion darcs repositories have been taken offline, and I will
switch away from darcs. Reason: no version for the most viable
*nix platform of the day, Cygwin. The website will be upgraded
when I manage to replace Ikiwiki, which also does not
On 2009-03-26, Tuomo Valkonen tuo...@iki.fi wrote:
This is going to take some time. I, of course, can't even use the
usual tools to convert from darcs to another format, because
the non-deterministic windows-cygwin hybrid darcs does not even
print dates etc. in a standard format, so parsers
The Ion darcs repositories have been taken offline, and I will
switch away from darcs. Reason: no version for the most viable
*nix platform of the day, Cygwin. The website will be upgraded
when I manage to replace Ikiwiki, which also does not work under
Cygwin.
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