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Re: Fork discussion at SMF
« Reply #30, on August 18th, 2011, 01:19 PM »
Then in the spirit of what Pete noticed, that board is full of little Harry Potter wannabes. "Wedge? Why can't I name it? Wedge, Wedge, Wedge!" :lol:

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Re: Fork discussion at SMF
« Reply #31, on August 18th, 2011, 01:30 PM »
There is also a greater irony in the fact that I've spent a good deal of my free time in the last week playing Lego Harry Potter, and interestingly getting about as frustrated by it. :lol:
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Re: Fork discussion at SMF
« Reply #32, on August 18th, 2011, 02:37 PM »
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There is also a greater irony in the fact that I've spent a good deal of my free time in the last week playing Lego Harry Potter, and interestingly getting about as frustrated by it. :lol:
Couldn't you have just waved a 'WedgeWand' at the Lego?  :whistle:

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Re: Fork discussion at SMF
« Reply #33, on August 18th, 2011, 02:39 PM »
I have a Wii remote for that :lol:

Honestly, the frustration comes from the fact that the Lego HP game is surprisingly buggy (there are two game-stopping bugs I've encountered, and quite a few niggles) and the fact it has points where you have to use your wand to levitate bricks and assemble platforms and stairs for things out of multiple separate bricks.

So while you're holding down a button, you're squinting to see which of the studs you're lining up with and whether it's the right one, only to mis-align it with a twitch of the nunchuk thumb joystick.

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Re: Fork discussion at SMF
« Reply #35, on August 18th, 2011, 03:30 PM »
Yep, saw that too while I was writing my blog post about forks... (Well, right now I'm busy looking into Pete's latest commits so that'll have to wait :P)

JBlaze is a Friend here, but he hasn't posted in over 3 months. I was considering removing his Friend badge because here, Friend = active member. (I may make later a new group for inactive members, but right now there's only Friends and Consultants. And us.) Now if I do that, he'll think it's a declaration of hostility :lol:

I must say, though, that I'm a bit... circumspect, when it comes to the timing of it all.

It's also interesting that vblamer's and JBlaze's forks will both remove support for PGSQL and SQlite. I'll start counting the number of features they're taking verbatim from the Wedge Feature List... :niark:

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Re: Fork discussion at SMF
« Reply #36, on August 18th, 2011, 03:35 PM »
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It's also interesting that vblamer's and JBlaze's forks will both remove support for PGSQL and SQlite. I'll start counting the number of features they're taking verbatim from the Wedge Feature List...
It's also not that surprising, given how immature that support really is for PGSQL and SQLite. There are still some show-stopping bugs in it because no-one's using it.

I understand that vbgamer's choice was simply about the timing of acquisition of a domain name, i.e. ezforum in the com TLD. As for JBlaze, he has threatened to do something like this for a while...
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« Reply #39, on August 18th, 2011, 03:53 PM »
His domain name was created in 2002 and has the same expiration date day, which shouldn't have happened if the domain was transferred in the meantime... Usually the expiration date gets reset. Sounds odd to me.

As for JBlaze, I find it odd that you should choose the word 'threatened'... It applies best to vblamer's... Poor users :P

@Ara Potter> Neither can commit while the other codes! Err...

@DC> With 29 posts, you could be Ron Wedgely's rat. :niark:

@AngelinaBelle> Admit it, you have a thing for Snape! :P

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Re: Fork discussion at SMF
« Reply #40, on August 18th, 2011, 03:55 PM »
Sirius Shadow? I'm bad with names. Wanted to adopted Snape but a member here already had it. :P
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Re: Fork discussion at SMF
« Reply #41, on August 18th, 2011, 03:59 PM »
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His domain name was created in 2002 and has the same expiration date day, which shouldn't have happened if the domain was transferred in the meantime... Usually the expiration date gets reset. Sounds odd to me.
Don't know. Don't care. Simply that as I understand it, he has entered into a private transaction with the previous owner.
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As for JBlaze, I find it odd that you should choose the word 'threatened'...
Common English expression, referring to something you state intent to do but never carry out, i.e. like a threat.
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@Ara Potter> Neither can commit while the other codes! Err...
SVN locks are a bitch, ain't they?
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@DC> With 29 posts, you could be Ron Wedgely's rat.
That would make him an Animagus working for the bad guys, who's been hiding in secret for years. There are very few people I would suggest are worthy of such a title...
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@AngelinaBelle> Admit it, you have a thing for Snape!
You should hear my other half about him. Mind you, anyone that can make a single word feel like a very definite sentence earns respect.

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Re: Fork discussion at SMF
« Reply #42, on August 18th, 2011, 04:57 PM »
Why do you think I mentioned him, DS :P
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@Ara Potter> Neither can commit while the other codes! Err...
SVN locks are a bitch, ain't they?
Are they the reason for your forehead scar?
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That would make him an Animagus working for the bad guys, who's been hiding in secret for years. There are very few people I would suggest are worthy of such a title...
I don't know, depends if you like Timothy Spall... I've loved him since his part in Red Dwarf Back to Reality, where he delivers this excellent line: "Ah ah, that's a classic!" I always quote it ;)
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You should hear my other half about him.
Well, if I were a girl I'd probably be drooling over him as well... :lol:
Or his characters in H2G2, Sense & Sensibility or Galaxy Quest...

Anyway.

A few minutes ago, the fork board was gone... They had only one topic in it. The rest was gone. I thought, "already the end eh...?" Then it came back a couple of minutes later. Weird!

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Re: Fork discussion at SMF
« Reply #43, on August 18th, 2011, 05:43 PM »
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Are they the reason for your forehead scar?
I do actually have a scar on my head, though it's on my left eyebrow, not my forehead. Imagine me, aged 3, running round and round in circles in the living room, mostly because my parents told me not to, and promptly got dizzy and tripped and cut my head open on the TV stand.
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I don't know, depends if you like Timothy Spall... I've loved him since his part in Red Dwarf Back to Reality, where he delivers this excellent line: "Ah ah, that's a classic!" I always quote it
I don't mind Timothy Spall, his performance in Auf Wiedershen, Pet was good enough for me. My other half is really not a fan, because she thinks he looks like a weasel, so just right for the part in HP as well as Tim Burton's adaptation of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.[1]
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Well, if I were a girl I'd probably be drooling over him as well...
Or as my other half does, the aforementioned Sweeney Todd, the first Die Hard film, and in Love Actually...
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A few minutes ago, the fork board was gone... They had only one topic in it. The rest was gone. I thought, "already the end eh...?" Then it came back a couple of minutes later. Weird!
There's all kinds of reasons that could happen. Caching is the most likely suspect though.
 1. Incidentally, Alan Rickman's in that as well as the bad guy, Johnny Depp as the "good" guy and Sacha Baron Cohen's best performance yet, in my book. Couldn't have happened to a nicer person. I do not like SBC.

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Re: Fork discussion at SMF
« Reply #44, on August 18th, 2011, 07:27 PM »
Sorry to butt in, I do not know much about open source license but I find it very weird for a BSD licensed software to impose restriction such as not allowing linking to a non-BSD licensed fork....

I thought by going BSD, it does not matter if the forks are BSD or non-BSD (because BSD license allowed such thing)...

So if Wedge chooses not to go BSD at the moment, it does not hurt if it is being discussed or mentioned at the original board...in fact they should be proud of it (that the software is being forked by many)...

Just my 2 and 1/2 cents...
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