chrisjsmith

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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
Oh pedant, I thoroughly apologise for my ignorance. May my vegetables all die, my breath smell for eternity and my armpits flood with hair and engulf the earth.
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
Does it matter? Governments are bullies. http://www.vvsss.com/grid/xkcd-on-crypto.gif Here in the UK, we already have to hand over our keys or be chucked in jail.
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
As far as we know. The Russians weren't always that honest about who they blew up by accident.
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
If these are the problems you are trying to solve, just don't buy something with iOS on it.
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
That looks painful. I'd rather like to move it to an SOA and split it into logical feature partitions and use service composition and windows workflow to integrate it all. Typically, I don't think anyone wants to pay for that though.
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
"Vista Security 2012". It can't touch the root certs as you need elevated privileges to do that. The entire thing hijacks the user's shell via the registry. You can log in as another user on the machine and it appears not to be infected.
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
Agree about Notes being as awful. I had to suffer that from '99-'02. Looked like it improved after that but you can't polish a turd as they say. I've watched SharePoint go with a spectacularly large boom when some muppet renamed the AD do
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
VS2010. Mainly the fact that the user interface is painfully slow[1] (either that or I'm unreasonably fast which is rediculous as Vim can keep up with me) and it just dies about 5 times a day on a good day. It might be the solution size t
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
Fair point. I'll give you that.
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
Visual Studio is an awful product. It's bloated, performs badly, expensive and extremely unreliable.
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
Don't they run Django? Is there something we should know about?
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
Forget the UI. It's not important. It MUST be common user functionality both for private and corporate users. People have completely unjustified trust for these cloud-based services when in the face of it, they screw people's data up all t
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
Because there are consultants. That is the only reason!
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
SLL certificates bring nothing other than a false peace if mind. I've seen fake antivirus software that goes to great lengths to provide verified (!) SSL encrypted pages to steal your credit card details.
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
I'd say that's not necessarily an advantage. Sharding is incredibly complicated to get right considering all factors such as balancing and recovery. I'd rather partition the data based on function onto distinct clusters, you know like eBay
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
You HAVE to buy Outlook to get the PST file out by syncing your local outlook with the Exchange Live server which is unacceptable. You can't access the data any other way.
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
That will end up in pain and tears for thousands of students and staff alike. My trial of Office 365 lasted 45 minutes i.e. until I realised how much pain it is to get data back out of the Outlook and Sharepoint implementations. They just
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
The irony of this is that it's actually quite easy to build a document store on top of PostgreSQL that performs very well indeed. I tried it. I used a similar approach to the one described at [1]. You get the advantage of years of experi
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
I think the rediculous thing is more that he spent that much time making a blog post because he made a mistake whilst obviously trying to do something quickly without thinking.
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
I think the blogger was being an idiot. You should check the authenticity of what you are downloading, not just snag it. It's like eating a kebab dropped in the street.
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
Interesting - thanks for the link.
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
Centralised DNS = bad. That's the issue.
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
Yes the DPA does cover you on the same basis that linked parties on a credit file can be obtained under the act.
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
Stored lists of related individuals are covered by the DPA 1998, just not their personal details other than their name. This is not explicit but implied by the fact that related people on a credit file can be obtained under the DPA setting
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
And you believe the mind and its internal processes are capable of surviving that long even with no ageing? As with all chaotic processes, I reckon it will decay faster than our no longer ageing meat containers [1]... [1] http://baetzler.d
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
A lot of assumptions there. Most of us die old bar any Darwin award entries. We're just redefining the term/symbol "old" when looking at anti-ageing. Circumventing "mother nature" will just get us fucked another way. I reckon the first wi
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
My hypothesis is that population is self-regulating in some way, be that socially or evolutional. Personally, I really do think the fact that people put their careers before reproducing, therefore leading to problems later on is why there a
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
You are welcome :-)
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
I'm against life extension. I think science has the wrong end of the stick. Whilst death looks like a scary thing and the primary motivation is to avoid the scary bit, people need to keep dying or the population increase caused by them not
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
Anything which is not tactile is bad if you ask me. That means capacitive buttons, touch screens etc. Even Star Trek shot themselves in an episode when a blind person had to use a panel: http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Tactile_interface No

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