Thursday, April 7, 2011
An Adventure in Car-less-ness
Today marks day 4 sans car. It's also raining. I find most places I can get to by foot or by the motorcycle. So far, I'm not for wanting for the car, in fact I've only had one issue. I can't buy cake, it doesn't hold up well in a backpack. We'll see how this goes after 2 more days of rain.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Subversion Needs to Die
I'm sorry, it's time subversion was put out to pasture. I spent the better part of two hours recovering from the damage dealt from a subversion bug. The final solution was to give up, and recheck out the entire repository.
Frankly, subversion wouldn't even be *that* bad if not for it's issues as a resource hog, and speed. In this day in age, dead locking a machine during a sync, taking over 5 minutes to sync two dozen files, in general, being unresponsively slow just isn't acceptable for a version control system. Let's not even go on about handling of large binaries.
I don't advocate for Perforce, or Git. Both are better options. But this morning in between cursing subversion, I found myself actually saying. I'd rather have source safe, or a thumb drive. It's a quality of life thing. Give me fully functional version control, with easy to use branching, easy sandbox generation, or give me a thumb drive.
Frankly, subversion wouldn't even be *that* bad if not for it's issues as a resource hog, and speed. In this day in age, dead locking a machine during a sync, taking over 5 minutes to sync two dozen files, in general, being unresponsively slow just isn't acceptable for a version control system. Let's not even go on about handling of large binaries.
I don't advocate for Perforce, or Git. Both are better options. But this morning in between cursing subversion, I found myself actually saying. I'd rather have source safe, or a thumb drive. It's a quality of life thing. Give me fully functional version control, with easy to use branching, easy sandbox generation, or give me a thumb drive.
Amazon FTW
Me:According to the tracking number provided my order <redacted> is at my front door. In Las Vegas. That would be an issue seeing as how I live in California.
Reena:Hello, my name is Reena. I'll be happy to help you.
Me:Groovy, the tracking number attached is : <redacted>
UPS claims it was delivered
Reena:Clayton , do you mean to say that you din't receive the item.
Me:Well, Yes
I mean it was shipped to Las Vegas apparently
Shipping Information
To: NORTH LAS VEGAS, NV, US
Directly from the UPS tracking site
Reena:May I please take the order number ?
Me:First thing I sent
(First message)
<redacted>
Reena:Oh, yes my apologies.
Can you hold for a minute or two while I research this for you?
Me:Sure thing
Reena:Thank you, Clayton, I have checked the order and the delivery status shows that its in transit.
And shipping information is <redacted>, CALIFORNIA <redacted>
United States
Me:Despite the fact UPS' own website says delivered to Las Vegas?
Status: In transit
Location: Front door
From ya'lls
Reena:let me check with ups.
Me:UPS has a delivered on, proof of delivery
the whole nine yards
Dear Customer,
This notice serves as proof of delivery for the shipment listed below.
Tracking Number: <redacted>
Service:UPS Ground
Weight:8.00 lbs
Shipped/Billed On:04/06/2011
Delivered To: NORTH LAS VEGAS, NV, US
Left At:Front Door
Okay, that would have been better with carriage returns <edit: i added them for the blog>
Reena:I understand your concern however the estimated delivery date is 8th April so you will need to wait.
Me:I get that, I'm saying UPS clearly says it was delivered
that blob of text up there. That's the Proof of Delivery for it.
Reena:And if you still don't get the item we will consider it as lost and then create an replacement for yoyu.
Reena:Yes, I have seen that but we cannot create replacement until the estimated delivery date is not passed. I am so sorry about this.
Me:/facepalm
So, since the estimated date hasnt passed, the fact it got shipped to the wrong state is irrelevant?
Reena:Clayton, there might be some confusion but please don't worry you will get the item by 8th of april and else we will refund you.
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