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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
Similar, but with IBM Websphere MQ. Why a message queueing technology is branded under 'Websphere' I have nooo idea, but it turned out to be a nightmare of various configurations jammed together and not working well. Tibco Enterpr
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
I dunno, if you look at the incredible hoops the iMessage exploit had to go through in order to work, then there must be a point where the effort involved in finding new exploits would far outweigh the benefits ... assuming Apple is acti
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
My preference is never to use _com_ptr_t et al. (instead CComPtr for a nicer RAII) since they throw exceptions, and almost none of the developers I worked with expected that, so lots of unhandled exceptions at runtime was the result. One o
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
>The performance of COM is incredible. Agreed, the performance of COM is pretty good in-process, and can even be extended to allow other applications to script your objects (via the IDispatch interface). So it's a pretty versatile t
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
And speaking of RPC and COM+ ... Here's what I believe inspired a lot of what's in DCOM and COM+ (formally MTS) https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/nsdista...
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
It was an amazing technical achievement that they pulled off, but also a lot of work instantly destroyed with one patch. Somebody's day got ruined when that was discovered. And kudos to the Google project zero guys for an amazing wri
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
Exploited even whilst attempting to report an exploit. Poetry indeed.
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
>Picking any language that embraces bounds checking enabled by default, and proper string/arrays, is already a major improvement. Even bog standard C can be made safe, and include bounds checking if you create and consistently use
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
I always wondered the same thing. For a while the 680x0 in Macs, Amiga and Atari was the most popular CPU, and I'm sure the first HPUX workstation I used in my Uni. had a 68040 so even in Unix and NeXT workstations. But after the 68040
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
>I’m only aware of tea and silkworms.. And er... china. That stuff you make nice cups and saucers from.
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
... played a lot of snake ... If it was anything like my old Nokia dumb phone days.
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
Right-click on Desktop -> Personalize Colors -> scroll down to 'Choose your accent color' click a nice colour from the 'windows 'colors' tile. Scroll down to: 'show accent color on the following
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
Windows 7 was probably the best it's been for a long time. But you're right, they completely screwed up the control panel. If not for that then it would've been the new pinnacle (let us never discuss Vista).
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
I'm similarly confused that anybody would even think Apple claim to have invented these things. Particularly so since in the Keynotes where SJ introduced e.g. the iPod he shows the state of the competition and has a good critique befor
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
>Monitors are bigger than ever with huge resolutions, and yet UIs are being dumbed down to >uselessness and alienating an increasing number of users. This! so much this! Never have we had so much screen real estate, yet UI designers
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
But even then, probably still a better engineer than many people who are smugly declaring that he wasn't a good engineer. After all, he was hired by Atari, and got parts delivered to him personally by Bill Hewlett and an internship at
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
I'm not sure that these drone 'swarms' are going to have enough of a payload to take out anything significant like strong armour or heavy emplacements. But against small units of well dug in, or hidden enemies - mortars, snip
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
Yes, but probably by being much more conservative and relying on the branch managers to have a close working relationship, or long standing banking relationship with the people seeking credit. When that gets more automated - i.e. giving cre
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
The Chad is sinking.
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
> In fact no European country should be OK with that Russia's brutal annexations in the east following WWII pretty much assured that all European countries were, in fact OK with it.
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
>However, the Crimea is quite different in one key respect: most of its people, being Russian, prefer to be in Russia. In fact, one can >argue that it is in the political interest of Ukrainian nationalists to have Crimea in Russia. Wi
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
>the energy grid of the region is still very tied into Russia which is of a critical concern right now This however makes the relationship somewhat symbiotic, as Russia also depends on EU money. I remember reading recently (somewhere?) t
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
It would actually be nice if the developers of these old applications would upload their source somewhere so that enthusiasts can build on them. GNUSTep is an implementation of the Openstep spec, so there's a good chance that that old
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
>Well how will you get it installed? download source code ./configure make sudo make install seems to work for lots of software. By default it should install in /usr/local/<bin/lib> but I've done this
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
>Most employment contracts are actually enslavement when it comes to IP Note this is a mostly US perspective, e.g. AFAIK in Switzerland what you do in your own time, and with your own equipment is entirely your own under Federal law. And
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
But it only takes one losing side to decide - Fuck it, we're losing so 'fire all your guns and explode all in space' to destroy everything in orbit with a massive amount of debris that'll last for years. Russia's li
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
I think you're a decade too soon there. Windows 95 & 98 would crash pretty frequently. Not as badly as win 3 though. NT 4.0 was no bastion of stability either. Windows didn't stabilize until well after Win2000 versions. MacOS
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
I personally love stored procedures, and Postgres, MSSQL, Sybase and Oracle all provide pretty good languages to implement them in. In my experience the most reliable and long living projects treat the DB as its own separate product, whose
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
That's largely because alternatives like Postgres exist. If they didn't then I'm pretty sure the the conversation would be more along the lines of "take it or leave it." People shouldn't underestimate the commo
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
Yes, there's nothing like 2 straight hours of "Building". "Deploying" "Sandworm Attack!" To get you into the Dune mood :)

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