Quite a good guide to Mercurial here.

http://hginit.com/

I thought I gave credit to you and some other people in the readme?

Quote from Intrepid :

Well you can knock the propagandaesque 'Europe as one' nonsense That's all a bit weird!

You might, I don't. I love Europe.

No one has any right to knock Eurovision, you know what you're letting yourself in for when you watch it. It's lots of campness, bad songs and ferocious eastern-block voting. That's why it's so awesome.

I can't imagine watching Eurovision without the sarcastic insults.

I have to ask, in other countries to do you get someone doing really sarcastic commentary over the top, or is that just Britain?

I quite liked Belgium and Albania. I hope Iceland wins, cause I love Iceland. The British entry was really bad, not even good bad.

Last edited by DarkTimes, Sat 29 May 2010, 21:06.

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

Terribly acted and plotted. One of the worst shows on TV at the moment, rivaled only by V.

Huh? We watching the same show? I've been loving FlashForward, it's awesome. Not seen the final yet, as it's not on until Monday night in the UK.

Radiohead - Just is the sound of me being 15.

I don't think it's that good a save. All he did was go full-lock, it was luck and physics which righted the car. Sure, it was fun to watch and cool for him, but hardly a save that requires endless dissection.

My new favourite person ever is Janelle Monae. Original, weird and brilliant.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwnefUaKCbc

Quote from bunder9999 :

looks like the .com is taken.

your URL shortener interests me though. what's it coded in?

Yes, .com is taken, but gnat.me is a better name. It's a nice short URL and kinda cool. Plus you could make a cool insect logo for it. Easy branding.

* My app was written in ASP.NET MVC 2.0.

Last edited by DarkTimes, Mon 24 May 2010, 00:16.

I was thinking about setting up a URL shortening service called http://gnat.me/. You can use that name if you want. A Gnat is a small mosquito-like insect. That URL is available and I've deicded that the last thing the world needs is another URL shortening service. I did have fun writing it though.

Last edited by DarkTimes, Sun 23 May 2010, 23:51.

There is no built-in method, but there is a little trick for counting files and lines in a solution.

Go to Edit > Find & Replace > Find In Files, set Use to Regular Expressions and enter this as the text to find:


Then click Find All, and it will tell you the number of files and the number of lines of code in the Find Results window.

You don't need to remove the files, you just need to add the Apache 2.0 License and give credit to the original authors. As said the Apache license is pretty forgiving, it allows you to do pretty much anything you like so long as you put a notice explaining what's been done.

I'm not wanting to walk into a dispute, but having looked at the code for this and for PHPLFS, it seems they do bare a resemblance. However it appears PHPLFS is released under the Apache License 2.0 which allows derivative works, so long as they include the license and a prominent notice as to how it has been changed (give or take, I skimmed the license ). It seems that the issue with the code is not that it is derivative, but that it does not contain the required license and notices. The solution then is to add them.

Last edited by DarkTimes, Fri 21 May 2010, 21:12.

Heya - I posted a short C++ OutGauge example a while back.

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=1352574#post1352574

Last edited by DarkTimes, Mon 17 May 2010, 19:43.

Quote from Stefani24 :

I don't care so much about my hotmail account as much as WoW hangs on this email. And that's what worries me.

You do know you can change your WoW login email, don't you?

Damn - Alonso out of quali.

Yeah, it's like they came into my computer and moved my stuff. Feels weird, but I think I'll get used to it.

Quote from Becky Rose :

And today I read the news that my suspisions of the Torys have more than a little validity as they've just appointed Theresa May as, and check this out, Minsiter for Equality.

If you where still in any doubt over the Conservatives position on civil liberty issues, then surely the appointment of the woman who's consistently voted against establishing equality for gays throughout her career as an MP tells it all.

She voted against equalising the age of consent for gays, she twice voted against gay couples being allowed to adopt, she voted against lesbians being allowed to use fertility clinics/services and she voted against section 28. She didn't bother voting on the Gender Recognition act and only voted in favour of civil unions because the Conservative party was trying to appease the pink vote at the time (the whole front bench voted in favour of it), despite the Conservatives bargaining down the right to marry.

She is the most ill-equipped person to serve as a "Minister for Equality", holds prejudicial views and will not be able to function in any humanitarian role without leaving behind a legacy of hypocracy.

To me this spells out everything about Conservative attitudes towards civil liberties.

Ah, I'm reminded of this video interview where Big Dave C gets a bit confused as to what he thinks about gay-rights.

Nah, it just converts between base 10 and base 36, as that's all I needed it to do. I'm a firm believer in YAGNI.

I was just interested in how URL shortening services like bit.ly and tiny.cc work, so I wrote one myself. I created the short-URL by converting the database ID of the new URL into base 36, which I'm pretty sure is all those sites do anyway. They're very simple.

Last edited by DarkTimes, Wed 12 May 2010, 14:31.

Quote from Intrepid :

Labour, through my own experience of being self-employed and coming from a background which most would consider 'low-income', have made it very hard to do anything of any merit in the UK.

Could you please provide concrete examples of how the Labour government has impeded your ability to do anything of "merit" during the last 13 years. I would be interested to know exactly what actions you were planning that you were subsequently unable to follow through on.

I got a rescue dog about eight years ago, and while he has been kinda expensive (he's had multiple operations for tumours), it was the best decision I've ever made. You can do a hell of a lot worse than give a little dog a kind home.

I was just debunking Intrepid's statement that Dave C is considered a toff because he has aspirations for change, and not because he's a rich white guy who is related to the queen and went to Eton. I have nothing against Eton, if I was a rich toff I'd send my kids there. I just wonder how long I'll have to wait before someone from my old school gets elected...