cowabunga

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by cowabunga 12y ago
Yes thank you for the clarification. My point is more that regardless of the syntax, runtime or approach, the same outcome is possible without having to enter a risky niche. PHP does nothing, but if you throw it in a prefork MPM module in a
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by cowabunga 12y ago
Thanks for the clarification! My bad. Yes it is far superior from a representation point of view at least there. I have no doubts about that.
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by cowabunga 12y ago
Not sure I agree with the conclusions: 1. Binaries: this isn't really an issue. We ship the JVM with anything that we do in Java. Unzip, run, done. Go is probably ideal there but it doesn't support embedded resources without som
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by cowabunga 12y ago
Good for you :) I would check the Lenovo recall page (google it) before paying for one. That's where I got my new one from - they replaced it free of charge ;-)
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by cowabunga 12y ago
FreeBSD 10 r10 stable with some ACPI frigs and dpms set up (I didn't write them down) Windows 8.1 Pro with Lenovo power manager installed via windows update. Dual boot.
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by cowabunga 12y ago
Well I was in emotional, physical pain and panic like (I assume) a crack addict for a couple of weeks. It was horrid. Then I was sitting down reading a book (Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card) and realised I'd blown 4 hours on i
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by cowabunga 12y ago
That was my day today I.e. untangling one of those bags of shit that someone had tangled even more by converting it to a VSTO add in. It's now a nice clean late-bound C# command line tool and powershell cmdlet.
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by cowabunga 12y ago
Exactly. I don't actually carry a phone these days and people think I'm crazy. Personally I just don't want to be available all the time but it has certain privacy advantages.
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by cowabunga 12y ago
Another spy in the house listening to you like the telescreen in 1984.
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by cowabunga 12y ago
Your 9 cell is probably knackered. I get about 7 hours out of mine and its two years old.
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by cowabunga 12y ago
My X201 is fine with FreeBSD. in fact the battery life is slightly better than windows 8.1. Hibernate doesn't work so I just shut it down. Performance isn't an issue really even though its an i5. If it is too slow, I ship the prob
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by cowabunga 12y ago
Well it's awesome until you want to leave or want support or thought wave was good or one of your users violates their ToS and they take your entire account out before you are even notified or its down for a few hours when you're
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by cowabunga 12y ago
In my sector (finance), literally everyone has some automation junk set up somewhere. They're usually written by one person and mailed around or stuck on fileservers somewhere or copied off a website somewhere badly. It's surprisi
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by cowabunga 12y ago
The majority of the power of Office is only available on the desktop: COM, automation and integration. This isn't a total give away, this is a loss leader which is just selling an editing front end for the files, not anything like the
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by cowabunga 12y ago
Oh it's certainly memorable after spending three hours arguing with COM interop today! :(
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by cowabunga 12y ago
I worry about my father in this respect. He's getting on a bit and has been in and out of hospital with heart problems for about a decade now. He also has about 1TiB of crap on a NAS that I'm going to have to go through. Most of t
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by cowabunga 12y ago
My mother in law broke after 30 years of this. She now costs thousands each month in disability, housing, medical and mobility costs.
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by cowabunga 12y ago
Regarding your first paragraph, I'm right there now and proud of it. And that's exactly how it should be. I will say that this time is only available from ruthless automation and organisation. I spend the other 20 hours making sur
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by cowabunga 12y ago
I had all sorts of sync problems with OneDrive so I canned it. I now keep a central SVN repository with all my stuff in it. I use svn because TortoiseSVN tooling allows diff/merge of documents, it is centralised so there is a single so
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by cowabunga 12y ago
I'm a BSD guy and have pretty shallow knowledge of Linux but isn't that what LXC is?
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by cowabunga 12y ago
I think you nailed it. I was trying to articulate this point to a colleague the other day and couldn't do it but that is perfect.
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by cowabunga 12y ago
Well the first point depends on what platform and how the kernel memory allocator is configured. It's possible to overcommit on Linux for example which is acceptable for short windows. NT will most likely tell you to go away. Now that
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by cowabunga 12y ago
This doesn't always work. When you have 512MiB of memory and your current allocation is 256MiB, where do you go? Also when your dataset allocates 64MiB up front, then chucks two bytes on the end, where do you go? Know thy data and test
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by cowabunga 12y ago
Actually no as that signs the communications and not the software. If the target server is compromised then you are screwed. Also for example there is no guarantee that github.com isn't serving malicious traffic from one user under a l
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by cowabunga 12y ago
"enterprise architect" here. Yes you just stamped on a lot of our toes and rightly so. There is a lot of batshit out there which is what you've most likely experienced. There are a few of us working to destroy this batshit wi
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by cowabunga 12y ago
COM is the reason.
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by cowabunga 12y ago
Thank you - completely missed them :)
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by cowabunga 12y ago
I wish there was a tl;dr version as its quite hard to find the time and motivation to sit there and watch something like this for over an hour.
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by cowabunga 12y ago
No it's not because MSI packages and EXEs are signed so there is at least a chain of trust. SmartScreen kicks you in the face if it's not "known" by various metrics and it's hard to get around that these days (as so
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by cowabunga 12y ago
The canonical example: http://www.zombo.com/

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