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by bananas 13y ago
This is true. It leaked from Mainsoft a few years back. Was great fun reading through the NT4 and 2k source. It has also been useful for working out what the hell goes on inside Win32 on occasion.
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by bananas 13y ago
Ultrabay as secondary battery. I had two batteries in the machine always. One 9-cell in the machine, one 9-cell in my bag and a 3-cell in the ultra bay. I could get 9 hours out of that without too much trouble and both the 9-cell packs were
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by bananas 13y ago
Any data format that is read by an unsafe language (i.e. C/C++ here most likely) is prone to remote execution. They are pretty much like wandering around with a machine gun with the safety off. This is perfectly fine if you're tra
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by bananas 13y ago
Unless it's multi-part MIME which is usually the encapsulation mode for RTF based email. In that case, there's usually a plain text copy attached to the body as well which doesn't need to be read by the parser or any of the r
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by bananas 13y ago
Yep. I could do this on my circa 2005 IBM T43.
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by bananas 13y ago
Agree with your assertion here. We've been approached by a couple of vendors to try and sell us OpenStack but it doesn't really buy us much. DO is what we need, except self hosted and supporting windows.
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by bananas 13y ago
Agree entirely. In fact we need to stop using proprietary software full stop and stop using SaaS and hosted platforms to save cost and shift liability. They're all the same turd rolled in different coloured glitter. The current company
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by bananas 13y ago
This was London. They still operate busses with trays almost universally and the driver gets to deal with the cash themselves. I've never actually seen that system in London - I have in Nottingham though. I don't tend to get busse
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by bananas 13y ago
Cool stuff. I worked with wayfarer kit. Absolutely indestructible by bus drivers by design. Right bunch of sods though bus drivers are. The worst class of "user" I've ever had to deal with.
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by bananas 13y ago
Pistachios surprisingly!
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by bananas 13y ago
That's not dynamic content. It's not. A company I worked for recently had a 2TiB S3 deployment for archiving insurance documents and the amount of hoops you gave to go through for it to be reliable is incredible (no uploads or dow
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by bananas 13y ago
I found nuts of all sorts just killed me too.
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by bananas 13y ago
A million upvotes for snacks. I work primarily from home now and they absolutely destroy you. Make sure you get out and do some exercise too!
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by bananas 13y ago
Bus companies in the UK have big coin counting machines. The total cash at the end of the route is tallied off at the end of a route against the charge sheet from the ticket machine which is printed out. Rejected currency is seen as an oper
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by bananas 13y ago
Depends how they implemented midi and the timers. If it's win32 MIDI API stuff and Win32 timers the messaging isn't real time so you will get jitter. That's going to be worse on win vista and above due to a number of issues.
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by bananas 13y ago
Unless you're in the UK, no.
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by bananas 13y ago
Shonky company. They wouldn't notice if someone nicked their servers.
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by bananas 13y ago
Because I've had literally piles of trouble with AWS over the years. Edit: plus I might need to add some dynamic content...
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by bananas 13y ago
I don't know what you're doing but I have rock solid midi timing from Windows 7 via a £5 generic MIDI/USB cable to my Korg Triton Studio. I'm using Renoise as a DAW. XP was crappy - it hit the disk so often and hung.
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by bananas 13y ago
This is quite funny because the other day I was asked by a friend to look at the box serving his company site just on a whim. I've never looked at or discussed the tech he was using. Turns out he paid a company for "managed servic
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by bananas 13y ago
I live right near an Apple store in Surrey, UK. I rarely see anyone buying anything - it's people playing with things.
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by bananas 13y ago
Glad I kept that ThinkPad T43! No wait... No Microsoft stores in the UK.
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by bananas 13y ago
A digital loan shark that will only let you have €5. Sound business model there...
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by bananas 13y ago
Are people really suffering from the bacteria on their phones? Genuine story: I started using a smartphone about 4 years ago and a nasty skin condition I had went away within a month and never came back. I suspect that it was bacterial or f
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by bananas 13y ago
That's news to me - not that I've logged into my accounts for a few months! :)
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by bananas 13y ago
My RBS and Natwest accounts both have CAP devices: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_Authentication_Program Edit: apparently I don't need them any more. HSBC does still require it though.
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by bananas 13y ago
The Windows EULA is quite scary in many places however the worst thing is the dev tools EULAs.
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by bananas 13y ago
I suppose that was a throwaway quip directed at HSBC who seems to have managed to get away with laundering on a large scale with some slapped wrists.
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by bananas 13y ago
Lots of us do this. If you're using an ORM then it makes sense to do it to keep unit test time down. We do it but have a full integration suite against the primary engine (SQL Server). Not had one discrepancy.
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by bananas 13y ago
They're pretty fine to be honest. They have mitigation and FCA oversight which means you're not in the shit as a customer (usually). Knight capital was a cock up in a high risk trading env. They paid for that. HSBC was money laund

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