Nevermind. We aren't moving to Subversion. I guess it was fun playing with it for a few days - I learned quite a bit about Apache 2.
*sigh*, I don't think I've ever done anything important.
Today is the day that we begin the process of moving from CVS to Subversion at work. I spent about a week evaluating CVS for use by all employees in the office - including the Web designers. After running into a problems with automatic deploying of files to our Web servers, I decided that we could not use CVS and expect any sort of reliable behavior.
No matter what I tried, I would receive the following error when hooking a script into the end of a commit using loginfo:
cvs [server aborted]: received broken pipe signalI searched and searched for solutions to this problem, but mostly found people having the same problem and no resolution. The CVS manual has this to say:
This message seems to be caused by a hard-to-track-down bug in CVS or the systems it runs on (we don't know--we haven't tracked it down yet!). It seems to happen only after a CVS command has completed, and you should be able to just ignore the message. However, if you have discovered information concerning its cause, please let us know as described in Dealing with bugs in CVS or this manual.
Unfortunately, the broken pipe kills the cvs server process on the remote host, meaning commits accross directories stop, usually after the first directory. This leaves the CVS repository in an inconsistent state, which is never good.
So, we're moving to Subversion, which means I will probably make the move at home also for my personal and school files. I'll probably wait until the end of the semester (my last as an undergraduate!), since there's only a month left and I've already trained a few group members to use CVS.
With AT&T's purchase of US Cellular customers, I finally had a way to move to T-Mobile (yay GSM!). Knowing that at least one other customer had taken her US Cellular number with her to T-Mobile, I was hopeful that I could keep my current number. Unfortunately, I've had little luck porting my number.
I called T-Mobile before setting up service to check if my number was eligible. They told me it was, and so I was happy. I bought a T610 from Amazon (great rebates), and followed their instructions for beginning the process of porting my number to my new service.
The next day, T-Mobile called me back to tell me that they were having trouble porting my number over. They asked me to call US Cellular to verify that my number was eligible. US Cellular told me it's not, since I'm not in one of the top 100 markets. Okay, so how did my friend port her US Cellular number to T-Mobile?
If I want to keep my current number, I have the option of continuing my service with US Cellular/AT&T until May 24. I don't particularly want to do that, since US Cellular and AT&T haven't handled the buyout very well (sure, let's sign up three of my phones on a plan with only 45 minutes per month). Another reason I don't particularly like AT&T right now: According to one person I spoke to, I could cancel my service at any time without any early termination fee (which is largely why I went ahead and started service with T-Mobile). According to another person I spoke to, I will have to wait until March 28 to cancel my service. Grr.
So I'm glad the FCC is requiring cellular carriers to do number portability, and I understand the reason for the 6 month testing phase (November 24-May 24), but I'm VERY frustrated that a carrier can tell customers that their number is eligible only to later find that it's not. If I had known, I would have either (1) not gotten my hopes up or (2) waited out until May 24 with AT&T.
Well, I always thought Wednesday Update walked the line between useful email and spam, but SpamAssassin is less forgiving than me.
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OPPORTUNITY autolearn=no version=2.63Oh, this uncertainty is taking me over
Much like Mark, I'm anxious to try Bluetooth. I'm tired of US Cellular and their poor selection of phones. Luckily, their customers in this area were recently purchased (?) by AT&T Wireless, so I have the option of canceling my service at no cost. I want to sign up for T-Mobile, but it's not that simple.
First, some history.
When my initial contract with US Cellular ended (in 2001), I agreed to renegotiate for another 12 months and add a phone for my mother. I wasn't using very many of my anytime minutes, so an extra $20 a month didn't seem all that bad. When that contract ended, I (foolishly) agreed to a plan with more minutes so that we could add two more phones for my brother (18 years old) and younger sister (16 years old). When US Cellular switched from regular letter-sized envelopes to 8.5"x11" ones, that should have been a sign of things to come.
Just to give you an idea: In 11 months, I've paid $1564.13 in cell phone bills. My mother paid a few of the bills, so the total is probably close to $2000. One month, the bill included 4761 minutes, for a total of $416.44. My brother's phone accounted for 3297 of those minutes. Last month, when my brother's cell phone was disabled by US Cellular, our usage was 3288 minutes, for a total of $344.07. Whose phones did he use? Our mom's and sister's.
How one person can talk that much on a cell phone (or any phone, for that matter) is completely beyond my comprehension. I've probably never used more than 500 minutes in one month on a cell phone.
So with the AT&T buyout of US Cellular in my area, I'm finally in a position where I can get out of paying for at least his cell phone. Since I have absolutely no control over what the others do with their phones (I don't live at home), I'd like to go back to paying only for mine. (Having at least an extra grand a year sounds perfectly fine to me.)
So why can't I just cancel my US Cellular/AT&T contract and sign up for T-Mobile? My mom wants my younger sister to have a phone for "safety", which I mostly agree with. Am I supposed to feel guilty about leaving them to find their own service?