MikeW

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by MikeW 16y ago
Your performance will vary a LOT because there are so many changeable pieces. Mono 2.8 brought some perf wins with ASP.NET. mod_mono is the only recommended way of hosting ASP.NET right now. Because I can deviate from the defaults so much i
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by MikeW 16y ago
I haven't been able to find any English language reporting of the proposed update to their copyright law yet but Google translate has done a terrific job at it! http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ja&tl=en&u=...
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Japan to criminalize DVD ripping and breaking DRM even for personal use(asahi.com)
29 points by MikeW 16y ago|12 comments
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by MikeW 16y ago
Netflix on Linux via Mono MoonLight would only be possible if Microsoft were willing to license PlayReady DRM for it. There are over 8500 signatures on a petition to NetFlix to put pressure on Microsoft allow this. I don't see it happening
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by MikeW 16y ago
I don't believe there will ever be a clear "winner" because the landscape is constantly changing. Sourceforge was THE place to store your OSS code and provide downloads and there was a really great broad selection of code and a way to disco
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by MikeW 16y ago
What about all the services offering provider.com/~username. Scrolling status bars used to be all the range in the 90s, I wonder how long until url hacks allow for scrolling address bars with this.
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by MikeW 16y ago
I can't speak for their Cloud offering, but I have been using their Kimsufi Large (2.6GHZ) dedicated servers for around a year. It's renewal time next week and my plan is to stick with them and drop my Slicehost. Pros: - Pricing is great.
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by MikeW 16y ago
I've got a small webapp targeting ASP.NET MVC 2.0 (built with Visual Studio 2010) running on Linux with Mono 2.6 and served with nginx (using the fastcgi interface to mono) so if you put the time in, it's possible to deploy on an open sourc
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by MikeW 16y ago
Interesting. I do something with SVN (and haven't had a problem so far). I have my Visual Studio project directory located in my Dropbox so the current file saves end up backed up. I also have a local SVN server binaries and configuration s
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by MikeW 16y ago
Yes, I've upgraded from 2008 to 2010. The ASP.NET MVC tooling is a bit better, intellisense is smarter and multi monitor support is better. However I still design everything to be cross platform compatible and I deploy my asp.net mvc webapp
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by MikeW 16y ago
The main photo is the Windows Mobile powered HTC HD2. I'm not sure why the author of the post included not only a picture of the wrong hardware, but the wrong operating system too.
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by MikeW 17y ago
http://hypem.com is probably my favourite simply because I've learned of so much music I've bought because of that site. I especially love the remixes and mashups. https://old.thesixtyone.com is also a pretty good site for finding inter
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by MikeW 17y ago
I hate the Microsoft Natural 4000 so much - I have one here. Apart from the split layout there's not much for me to recommend. Problems I've faced on it are: 1) Long spacebar with pressing mechanism in the centre. Pushing from the side (whe
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by MikeW 17y ago
Yes. One account for AWS stuff Another account for books/dvds/etc.
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by MikeW 17y ago
I'll take a stab at it as I've used both. Or rather I've used both for actual work. DropBox wins for me because it can access their servers through our firewall (which only allows HTTP/S access to less than 5 ports). Live Mesh could not do
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by MikeW 17y ago
Good to see Con back. But three letter acronyms have too many collisions and this is one of those cases. As soon as I saw the title of this post, I was instantly reminded of BFS - the Be File System http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_File_Sys
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by MikeW 17y ago
Google, Bing and Yahoo do not have themselves as the top hit for that query either. Zoning in on Bing here and taking that as a recommendation is not entirely fair. http://www.bing.com/search?q=search+the+web gives google http://search.y
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by MikeW 17y ago
HN loads extremely quickly. I can generally scan through a page of comments quicker than the linked article while their rendering is blocked on 3rd party scripts/ads
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by MikeW 17y ago
I've been clicking around the web since 1996 and each year I find more and more data inaccessible because of DRM and region blocking. The content was there before, but in pirated form on youtube, etc... now it's being replaced by the copyri
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by MikeW 17y ago
The news item is not where the interesting discussion is happening, the comments on http://peterkleissner.com/?p=11 are worth reading. TrueCrypt encryption is not bypassed in the sense that you can taken a offline drive and get access to
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by MikeW 17y ago
My main laptop runs Windows 7 - nearly all development is done on this, compiles using Visual Studio 2008 and Cygwin. My netbook runs Windows 7 - I do nearly all my social/recreational stuff on that machine. Also it has VGA out and I've com
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by MikeW 18y ago
Thanks for the advice - I subsequently did that. But I have to point out you know nothing more about my situation than what I said in response to your comment. Just like GitHub are investigating possible outcomes of their situation - in my
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by MikeW 18y ago
I agree. I spent a considerable amount of time learning about/setting up/configuring my own SVN server and tools around it simply because I couldn't find a free hosted alternative that didn't expose my source code. If I had a free github/al
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by MikeW 18y ago
I had eactly €100 per 5day week for most of my first year at college. €65 was my accomodation (quite a distance from the college) which included breakfast €4.50 lunch at college x 4 days (I'd frequently get it for less + drink because the l
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by MikeW 18y ago
Oh how I wish I could do that. The majority of people (college students) who access my webapp do so on IE6 because: - They're accessing it during class time or hogging the computer labs/library throughout the day and IE6 is the only browse
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by MikeW 18y ago
I was going to buy this book until I came across this very poor review of it on http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R1BLJZBGOHH7F9/ref=cm_cr_pr_v... I figured http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p/cgi-bin/index.php might be a better alternati
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by MikeW 18y ago
I find http://hardforum.com/ to be excellent if you want to discuss hardware. It's the forum site from hardocp.com
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by MikeW 18y ago
PuTTY Connection Manager - http://puttycm.free.fr/
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by MikeW 18y ago
Dupe :) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=349078
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by MikeW 18y ago
Oh, then that confused me. Does luckycal not already have access to my facebook friends list? I thought when luckycal presented me with my friends list it wanted me to send an app invite to them all? I still think it's a fundamentally aweso

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