Except you forgot about that fact that Windows's (MS CRT) version of snprintf DOES NOT Null terminate if the string will be equal or greater in length than n - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2ts7cx93(v=vs.80).aspx

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It's courious, I think such scenario does not work well for my concentration.

I prefer when I can work from home, sometimes I realize I've been many hours in absolute silence working without distraction, in the morning, with not more noise than birds and my keyboard.

Other thing about sound Vs concentration I've realized, it's about sound origin.

I work better if "sound" (i.e. a playlist of music) comes from the front of my head, than if it comes from behind me. When sound (music, radio, tv, anything) comes behind my head and my eyes are working in front, it distracts me more often than when it comes from the front.

I hope I could concentrate in a cafe... maybe just spain is different

This is about the people who make the software getting feedback. Debian already has popcon, which is an inadequate feedback mechanism for Debian. Not upstream.

popcon also doesn't provide an answer to the question "are there people who like this software" as opposed to "how many people happen to have this software installed".

Lars, how many users really use shared systems so much they're going to start rating packages? The host/user distinction seems mostly irrelevant to me.

I don't see much use of this in debian; popcon already says how much packages are used, project websites allow some feedback, and bug reports allow some feedback (though I don't know how many users report wishlist items — maybe only consistent users).

What I'd like to see is more are library rating systems (how many projects, including private closed-source ones, use a library?).

Elessar, a simple like/dislike is, well, simple. Having to read a lot of textual feed back would eat up a fair bit of development time. Anyone who wants to provide thoughtful feedback already has the addresses to do so in the About dialog.

Bob, the Debian popcon is per-host, not per-user, which is an important distinction. It also gathers information to Debian rather than sending it directly to the developers of the software. This is also an important distinction. There's no need for Debian to act as a middleman here. In my opinion, of course.

It already exists Debian Popularity Contest ( http://popcon.debian.org/ ) to measure diffusion of a given package. Probably that same tool can be extended with an interface to the user, a "Like" button, an area for comments and so on. It would be better to add that kind of informations in the graphical package manager, too.

Well, with a comment area, then. I doubt that the simple information that a user likes or does not like a piece of software would be useful without a little more detail.

Firstly, I wasn't trying to be offensive, just realistic. Further, there are already tons of reliable backup solutions out there which are mature and stable and Free. Creating a new one only seems useful as an excersize for a student programmer else it smacks of the 'not invented here syndrome'.

As to the distinction between a file synchronizer and a backup tool... I think you're arguing semantics there. If "synchronizing" files between computers or between hard drives isn't a form of backup creation, well, I guess I'm just out to lunch huh? Unison is mature and very stable. rsync is one of its components. It's perfectly suitable for my own needs and actually does a perfect job in most use cases.

There is nothing at all wrong with creating tools for oneself. All good developers "scratch their own itch". But expecting to create something which would replace time-honored tools seems like a stretch unless you're talking about inventing a new data transfer protocol ala bittorrent. In any case, good luck to you.

STDOUBT, Unison is a file synchronization tool. It's not a backup tool, though I'm sure you can build a backup system on top of it, just like you can on any tool that make a copy of a file.

I'm sorry your chosen tool isn't as good as you'd like. That's not a reason for you to be offensive towards other people and the tools they're making for themselves.