geek travels

I am no fan of piracy but I firmly believe that intellectual property law is being twisted, abused and exploited for the profit of large companies at the expense of citizens right and intellectual advancement. In the world where savage violence is okay but nudity is wrong the MPAA now wants to impose jail time on people who swap movies online. The kicker is that the person would not even have to have infringed on any copyrights to be convicted under the proposed law.

"A memory starvation denial of service vulnerability in the ls program was discovered by Georgi Guninski."
-- Mandrake Security Advisory

Geek meets PR? Buzzwords are so much fun!

A cvs "feature" keeps cvs update from pulling directories created since the module was checked out. For years I've been hacking around this by checking out the new directory (cvs co modules/newdirectory) and then manually editing CVS/Entries to add the D entry for the new directory. Low and behold there is actually a flag to tell cvs to pull new directories. Just toss a -d after the update (ie cvs update -d). This is different than the -d that is used to specify the cvs root when checking out a module.
Using the exact same flag for two completely seperate functions must break every usability guideline.