RobAley

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by RobAley 14y ago
Apologies, by persist I meant just beyond the end of that run of the software (i.e. the software itself couldn't manage/delete the files), to see what went "wrong". Deleting at reboot is perfectly fine. /var/run "This directory contains sy
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by RobAley 14y ago
>If you're going to trash my /tmp with gigantic files please don't. Really I write statistical programs that often generate temporary intermediate files of multiple GB size, which need to persist at the end of runs for trouble-shooting,
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by RobAley 14y ago
The memory size issue is very much still an issue. I happen to have globs of memory on my machine, but for the very reason that I have software to use it. If large tmp files start eating into the resources available to my programs, its an i
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by RobAley 14y ago
That sounds more like problems with the deployment rather than the use of OSS. The other day I chatted to a governor of one of our local secondary schools, which recently upgraded from Windows XP to Windows 7. As you note, the teachers aren
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by RobAley 14y ago
Bear in mind that most large scale public organisations primarily rely on either internal IT staff or external contractors (as opposed to the OS/application vendor) for user-facing support for both Windows and Linux. The scale & cost of
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by RobAley 14y ago
No problems, if that ever changes be sure to let HN know!
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by RobAley 14y ago
Looks very interesting. Is it Mac only? If it'll run on Linux I'll give it a spin.
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by RobAley 14y ago
As a slight aside, I wonder if you would consider putting your name and/or relationship with PHP in your profile (particularly as you use "we" and "our" in relationship to PHP). It might help newcomers appreciate the particular (valuable) i
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by RobAley 14y ago
And its a big pile of pants. (N.b. I note from your CV that you work on "Development of large e-government" sites, so if it's one of yours, please don't take it personally!). The search is fairly useless, it misses large chunks of Governmen
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by RobAley 14y ago
I'm perhaps an odd case, because I work in academia in the area of government policy on health, but on a day-in day-out basis I see .nhs.uk, .gov.uk, .ac.uk, .org.uk and the occasional .mod.uk. As the parent of two toddlers, I'm starting to
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by RobAley 14y ago
Indeed, being in the UK postcodes are great. A short unambiguous way of identifying a fairly specific location (usually down to part of one street). From my limited knowledge of postal/zip codes in the rest of the world though, they aren't
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by RobAley 14y ago
I think so, see my reply to rorrr above. To my mind, revolutionary = patentable, evolutionary = not so much.
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by RobAley 14y ago
I would rather say that one (revolution) means turning the thing on its head and (often) starting from scratch. The other (evolution) means building incrementally on whats come before.
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by RobAley 14y ago
If you have internet access, Canonical have always provided a minimal CD installer (about 30Mb) that grabs packages over the internet. See : https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD 12.04 is on there, and I haven't seen an
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by RobAley 14y ago
The trouble with that is if like me you live on the edge of a city, the route you end up taking out of the city is very, very different than if you start in the centre where google will place you, and the time estimate etc. can vary by as m
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by RobAley 14y ago
It wasn't revolutionary. It was evolutionary. There's a big difference.
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by RobAley 14y ago
For many projects, if you wait until you're profitable before you jump in full time, you may never take that step. Some projects just need full-time attention to get them to the point where they pay your mortgage. Presumably (or rather, hop
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by RobAley 14y ago
HTML is for anything that would benefit from Hypertext. Text is for everything else. Some e-mails benefit from Hypertext, some don't. Some web pages likewise can be presented in plain text, most benefit from something more. Don't confuse fo
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by RobAley 14y ago
Virtually no cafe's (by which I mean I know of none and have heard of none) do what the Police are asking in your first link. It is completely optional, and indeed may break other laws such as the Data Protection Act if not done properly an
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by RobAley 14y ago
> the owners of the internet café also has to keep a record of all sites visited Sorry, but that is just not true.
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by RobAley 14y ago
The "They" would need to be the copyright holders or their agents, and as he wisely doesn't note the particular books he did this with, there is likely no one able to take him to civil court. It appears he hasn't done this commercially, so
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by RobAley 14y ago
I'm based in the UK, and corporate coffee service (I assume you mean coffee delivery to their premises) isn't really popular here. People either make their own coffee at work or go out to a coffee shop to get out of the office. We did have
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by RobAley 14y ago
I AM a former coffee shop owner. Our shop tanked for several reasons, but none of them were penniless startup founders or similar. In fact, business went up after we encouraged such frugal workers to come in and set up camp. I think this wa
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by RobAley 14y ago
Thats a good, diplomatic answer :)
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by RobAley 14y ago
So have the acquired you solely for your (current & expected) revenue, or will you bring other wider benefits to the group? Will you just be producing profits for them, or are you planning any kind of inter-play with other group compani
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by RobAley 14y ago
I wasn't nitpicking. I wasn't just saying mint wasn't THE most popular, I was actively saying that it wasn't even ONE of the most popular (by the definition I gave). And even if that still seems picky, packages make or break a distro, so be
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by RobAley 14y ago
While I agree with the gist of what he says, I disagree with his assessment of Unity. Specifically he compares it with Eazel and Ximian, but I think its different in that it has much more user acceptance, the backing of a much more popular
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by RobAley 14y ago
"It is one of the 2 choices of DE's for Linux Mint which is one of the most popular Linux distros out right now." Thats not quite true, Mint was one of the most (independently & newly) downloaded distros on several distro watch lists in
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by RobAley 14y ago
Can you list a few of the "many reasons" you talk about in the disclaimer?
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by RobAley 14y ago
Could you explain why PHP is not the right tool? I've written plenty of sockets based PHP programs that run reliably and were easy and efficient to create. I didn't come across any problems that weren't easily surmountable. If you're going

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