chrisjsmith

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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
Unfortunately yes. It was 9350 lines of string concatenation that called sp_executesql at the end (T-SQL/SQL2005). I had to remove all the injection attacks...
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
So let's not give them any rope :)
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
It's mainly due to the fact that MORE abstraction means MORE complexity. I currently have to deal with an NHibernate mess of over 1000 domain objects (!) at the moment and it's an absolute nightmare on the performance and maintainability f
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
I imagine they are trying for simplicity, on the lines of Guice. I know Google are obsessed with SCons for building other stuff so I get the feeling we're going to get a Java version of Scons.
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
For any .Net people here, this is a great piece of kit: http://code.google.com/p/stateless/
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
Mashable as a citation... whatever next. Define "competitor" and "popularity". It's all damn lies and statistics. My old Windows tablet could be a competitor. Dell do a tablet Windows machine. Motorola do a hybrid device. Is an ebook re
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
I think people are going on the assertion that every-day apps written with WPF (i.e. Visual Studio 2010) are a step back from their old GDI-based ancestors with respect to performance. I mean we've had to buy a shit load of graphics cards t
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
You wouldn't apply it alone. Group policy (gpedit.msc) which IE only respects will allow you to block access to the remainder of the machine.
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
Replying to my own post. It still sucks for getting shit done.
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
Incorrect. It makes up 50% of the SALES of an unclearly defined MARKET and term TABLET.
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
Back in the past, we just made knives with what we had. Sticks, couple of nettle stems and a few minutes flintknapping and you had a perfectly good blade. I've actually done it myself. Metal is way higher tech than is required to survive.
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
I don't see the point of all the hype here. It's not exactly innovation. You can do that with windows by setting the shell to: "iexplore.exe -k http://startpage/" You have been able to do that since Internet Explorer 2.0 on Windo
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
The problem is that there are now a pile more mediums to deliver the message on depending on how much you can afford to pay out. The information should be uniformly available to all, which I believe is the point of the British Library. Howe
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
However there are totally open formats which you could use on all platforms... I'm not sure the popularity of the iPad is actually as high as everyone thinks. I think that's the Apple marketing reality distortion field. I see WAY more Kin
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
Spot on.
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
Text files and PNG files then for the images then. What people don't realise is that the content is important and the format is not.
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
I'd rather have a thousand text files which are platform portable.
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
Excellent - thanks for posting that. I ironically moved from FreeBSD to Debian about 10 years ago. Perhaps it's time for another look.
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
Pfft - Back in '00, I shifted a million requests a month across 22 static (using SSI though) sites off a circa 1991 SparcStation 2 (weitek 80MHz upgrade) with 64Mb, NetBSD, thttpd and a couple of 4.3Gb SCSI2 disks. It finally gave up in 20
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
I tend not to use the desktop that much other than as a terminal multiplexer and convenient container for firefox. I think for the highly technical and remote users which seems to make up a fair proportion of the userbase, it's good. The
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
Mine is fine (it's the smaller of the two without the release clips). Unfortunately the USB plug on the other end has split AFTER the strain relief resulting in sticky tape bodge.
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
I've known two people who've been on this stuff. It's pure evil - nearly killed both of them through side effects and made the problem significantly worse: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paroxetine The mind should not be fucked with if pos
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
I think that should be "there is an epidemic of diagnosis of mental illness".
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
And the resulting way is far simpler and didn't require paying for anything.
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
I don't think it was siezed for copyright infringement even though it's pasted all over it now. Bloody lying Ogliarchies.
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
These guys aren't much better in the UK. They transparently break bits of the Internet regularly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Watch_Foundation
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
That is precisely it.
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
I'd be embarrased if I posted them (they are crap) however here is how they work... My mail comes directly into a Debian box running postfix on the end of my ADSL line. new-alias: Echoes the alias onto the end of /etc/aliases, then runs new
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
Why? I have two scripts "new-alias" and "kill-alias" that do all the work that took about 5 minutes each to write. I automate everything.
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by chrisjsmith 15y ago
I use aliases (one shots) for most sign-ups so it's very unlikely to happen. Only 5-6 trusted people know my real address. Also allows me to find the source for all incoming crap email and bin it quickly so I don't have to dredge through

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