[OT] Microsoft filled patent applications for scoped and immutable types

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 9/1/2014 12:50 PM, Brad Roberts via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 9/1/2014 12:30 PM, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On 9/1/2014 2:31 AM, Chris wrote:
>>> Good on you! But make sure the evidence does not disappear
>>> miraculously, if you
>>> get my drift.
>>
>> Another indispensable feature of github is everyone who forks it has a
>> clone of the entire repository, usually on their own machine. Deleting
>> all of those forks seems to be thoroughly impractical.
>>
>> I'm more worried about bugzilla. One reason I keep all the bugzilla
>> email notifications is it is a last resort, albeit crude, backup.
>
> The database (along with everything else) is well backed up every night.
>
> Also, didn't you setup a cron job to also download the db every night? I've been
> putting up a nightly tarball of it (in addition to the backup system) every
> night since about the day the system was setup.
>
> No need to be nervous about bugzilla.

I'm a failure at using cron. I follow the directions, but it doesn't work :-(

I know, I know.