chrislomax

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by chrislomax 9y ago
Again, 1Password. It allows you to login to multiple workspaces so you can have your family plan and your work team plan at the same time. There is a cost but I can guarantee that it’s saved me more in time than the cost could ever amount t
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by chrislomax 9y ago
She didn’t buy an iPhone in a non branded box, it’s how Apple sent the replacement phone. I thought it was weird when we got the replacement though.
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by chrislomax 9y ago
I’m not 100% on whether it was refurb or brand new. It came in a non branded box without a charger etc. The phone looked brand new. I’m going to install the app to check what the CPU is running at. It’s still ridiculous that she was running
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by chrislomax 9y ago
My wife had a phone replaced off Apple about 6 months back because it was shutting down for no reason about 40% battery life. She’s recently upgraded from 10.x to latest version. She’s noticed an actual decrease in performance to the point
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by chrislomax 9y ago
Sorry yes I was referring to the personal backup plan. We use b2 at work for our corporate offsite backups and I can’t praise it high enough. We’ve had it running for over a year and it’s just been set and forget. We use cloudberry as the b
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by chrislomax 9y ago
How does this beat Backblaze? I pay $5 a month and I’ve no data caps? I know I can’t start at a dollar but I can’t imagine many people backing up 0-10gb a month and that’s it
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Office 365 site down(office.microsoft.com)
1 points by chrislomax 12y ago|0 comments
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by chrislomax 12y ago
I didn't know any of that so I appreciate the comment. I think my next "fun" app will be a real time app using as many of the "new" technologies as possible. I've been stagnant far too long now and it's be
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by chrislomax 12y ago
What size of projects are they? We do a lot of integration projects with our clients, ie integrating with CRMs / ERPs and the timescales on these projects is usually about 10/12 weeks. I enjoy this project turnaround as it means I
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by chrislomax 12y ago
I think this is what frustrates me. We've slowly started reducing the amount of Windows machines in our cluster as the licensing for SQL went from £160 a month per CPU up to £240 per CPU in the space of 2 years. This is unacceptable. W
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by chrislomax 12y ago
We are based in the UK. I don't know if it's the clients and the type of work we are filling but we seem to be migrating a lot of people from Wordpress so typically they expect everything to still run on Linux. Our clients are nor
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by chrislomax 12y ago
Thanks. I know this is something I can do right now but a few things I wanted to look at was node.js and Angular. I'm definitely in need of catching up on some new techniques, I've been so engrossed in doing paid work that I'
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by chrislomax 12y ago
While I agree with some of these points the biggest one for me is client adoption. All clients assume everything is run in Linux. I don't even know why this mindset is so popular. When we develop something and the client wants to host
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by chrislomax 12y ago
Interesting, it's probably the type of software I would build and enjoy building. I never thought the market could be so niche to barbers though, guess that trend hasn't made it t'up North of UK Ironically the website does no
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by chrislomax 12y ago
I think I was expecting it to be a normal forum layout but faster. I must admit, it didn't feel faster. The fade feels like a cop out on speed and acting as a mask. Also when going onto the forum, I was clicking links but nothing was h
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Ask HN: Best server backup / backup as a service
1 points by chrislomax 12y ago|1 comments
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by chrislomax 12y ago
Sorry I didn't make it clear at all! We had 3 months where we had 20 minutes of downtime. The edge router was ~15 minutes and there was a denial of service on a machine in the same portion of the network which took a few minutes to iso
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by chrislomax 12y ago
How do you find node performs on those $5 boxes? What's your traffic like on it? I've not used node before but it is a language / tech that interests me
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by chrislomax 12y ago
I'm interested as I have a customer who pays around £200 a month per dedicated box at the minute for nearly half the spec. They are true dedicated boxes though and the network they are on hardly ever goes down (roughly 20 minutes downt
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by chrislomax 12y ago
I did it for two reasons really; I wanted to test out DO as a service to see what it had to offer (at $5 a month at my own expense it's written off easy) and I like to learn new things. I'd done a similar thing on AWS before on th
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by chrislomax 12y ago
I see quite a few hosting on DO, how does that suit you for a production environment? I've heard the structure is becoming more stable now? I have a VPS with them but it's purely for a USA VPN to watch Netflix through so it doesn&
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by chrislomax 12y ago
Yes and No. How do you know that something that doesn't fit now won't fit on the next iteration? Can you honestly say you haven't built a site before that you wish you had built differently? I know I have. These regrets make
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by chrislomax 12y ago
Although I'm a fan of not over complicating things; generally when you re-build something for someone and they see the potential of their new site then 1 of 2 things happens. 1, They let the site go stagnant again like their previous s
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by chrislomax 13y ago
Although I generally do not post something that is not constructive to an article, I have to say, I bought the same magazine when I was younger with Borland on and that is what made me want to become a programmer! I was amazed when I read t
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by chrislomax 13y ago
The problem does ultimately lie with the tie in, I can appreciate that. I suppose my question was almost rhetorical as I know where the problems lie. I wanted to redevelop our CMS in MVC (we missed the MVC train by about 2 months so it&#x27
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by chrislomax 13y ago
It pains me if I am honest. Our CMS is built on .NET and it's like an uphill battle selling it as it's on IIS and it's .NET. I have played around with the idea of reworking it into an open source language and open source data
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by chrislomax 13y ago
I signed up as it does look interesting. Some people say it's been round for a while, I didn't know about it. Tried to sign up and got a "Federation error"! Excellent
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by chrislomax 13y ago
You might not need [Insert Library Here]. Although this is true, you don't really need any library. The problem comes when you start to need that library. You make a decision to not use it at the start of the project and then the depen
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by chrislomax 13y ago
Simple one really and probably most common. Realise a data integrity issue on DB, try to load from backups and notice that the backups have the same integrity issue. Find a backup from about 2 weeks previous where data is intact and piece t
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by chrislomax 13y ago
I guess you're right in a respect. I think I trusted this to be right though, I never imagined that you could change something so dramatically to the point where it isn't even the same product any more. With Chrome having such a g

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