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   7 <p>No vim!  Argh</p>
   8 <p> <code>
   9 kpb1363@achilles:/usr/local$ git<br/>
  10 ld.so.1: git: fatal: libcurl.so.4: open failed: No such file or directory<br/>
  11 Killed
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  13
  14 <p>
  15 What you have to understand about what makes my job so difficult is this:
  16 some people don't let you control their computer.
  17 </p>
  18
  19 <p>
  20 My presentation went really well today, in 30 minutes I managed to keep 3
  21 people entertained and they didn't walk out of the room until the time slot
  22 was at an end!  After that, I came back to the same room and heard a person
  23 talk about Nethack for 30 minutes, it's arguable that my presentation was
  24 more or less valuable than his, but in the spirit of fostering collaboration,
  25 </p>
  26
  27 <p>
  28 I'd rather say that we both did a good job.
  29 </p>
  30
  31 <p>
  32 But, as for the casino simulator... these levers are a mess!  Someone told
  33 me that git has been installed on the machines in the CS department, well
  34 that's nice but I don't believe it... refer to the error message at the top
  35 of this post, and you will see that it's not running.  I can't (and surely
  36 I shouldn't) really compile curl just for git, even though I need git...
  37 </p>
  38
  39 <p>
  40 Why do I need git?  Because my subversion repository is down.  It's actually
  41 not down, it's been replaced by another one that sits behind a firewall.  And,
  42 I don't feel comfortable installing OpenVPN instances on random people's pcs,
  43 and there's not really any way to get at the repo otherwise because I haven't
  44 configured mod_proxy, because of bandwidth restrictions, the expense is too
  45 prohibitive.
  46 </p>
  47
  48 <p>
  49 It would be OK if I could mirror my whole SVN repo every couple of days to
  50 the central office with all of the bandwidth, but I can't.  It's not engineered
  51 that way, I would have to restrict against writes to the big repo, or have all
  52 of my small offices write to the big repo which brings up again the bandwidth
  53 concern.
  54 </p>
  55
  56 <p>
  57 Long and the short is this: if I could use git instead, my workflow becomes
  58 more flexible.  But, this brings up a new concern of release management: I can
  59 have open and closed codebases, and I can access them both in a controlled way
  60 using no firewalls if I use a repository with access control like
  61 </p>
  62
  63 <ul>
  64 <li><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/tues-crep.git">repo.or.cz</a></li>
  65 <li><a href="https://github.com/kingdon/tues-crep/tree/master">github.com</a></li>
  66 </ul>
  67
  68 <p>
  69 Either of those will allow me to control writes.  github.com also allows
  70 restricted reads.  the reason that repo.or.cz is different from github.com is
  71 because repo.or.cz stipulates that your products must be GPL!
  72 </p>
  73
  74 <p>
  75 Now, why haven't my facebook feeds updated... my internet connection is fast,
  76 so it must be facebook that is slow!
  77 </p>
  78 <p> <code>x kpb</code> </p>
  79 <p>PS: <a href="delicious-yebyen.htm>The top 54 links on this page are not new anymore.</a>
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