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by csmuk 13y ago
This really doesn't make sense apart from for the sake of pushing Chrome, which is using the same bait and switch tactics that Microsoft used in the late 90's and early 00's. Don't be evil eh? If you look at the FULL cha
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by csmuk 13y ago
Easy. Add to .mailcap: image/*; yourviewer %s Then hit "v" on the image attachment and it pops up in a window. I use xv (still) to view it which runs under X. Hit "d" to download it. I handle HTML mail, PDFs
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by csmuk 13y ago
Easy: 1. Edit registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon 2. Change Shell to whatever exe you want. Lots of people do this to run IE as the desktop shell and lock the entire machine down by simply
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by csmuk 13y ago
With pleasure... Bugs, bugs, bugs galore. Not joking but I'm sure they have no tests. We regularly fall over trivial shit that should work but doesn't. Page state problems everywhere. You eventually learn not to use the browser ba
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by csmuk 13y ago
I've been using mutt for 16 years and self hosting email. It's currently hosted on bigv.io. Spam is handled by spamd (ships with OpenBSD) and SMTP by OpenSMTPd. Local delivery is via procmail. I have 40,000 messages archived with
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by csmuk 13y ago
Agree entirely. My point was really directed at the situation we're all in regarding cross platform dev tools. We settled on SVN as its the only thing that's fairly easy to get running cross platform as we have both windows and Li
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by csmuk 13y ago
After being a JIRA administrator for 2 years I will never touch another Atlassian product again...
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by csmuk 13y ago
No I mean both. You don't need JavaScript for a blog unless you've loaded it with crapware and tracking stuff. Just lose the extra requests/code.
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by csmuk 13y ago
Install VisualSVN and use TortoiseSVN if you want a centralised server running on Windows. Seriously. Nothing works properly on windows like this - you're going to end up hacking together UNIX things. Let someone else do it for you. Ho
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by csmuk 13y ago
Have you actually used it? 1. It does come with a simple self-contained server. 2. Why would you run anything off a network drive? Has no one learned from Visual Source Safe and the lessons of the definitely not glorious history of NFS file
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by csmuk 13y ago
If it's static content and not chock full of JavaScript and other stuff it should be fine. I managed to shift serious amounts of pages out of a 75MHz SPARC 20 back in the day.
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by csmuk 13y ago
I can't draw on it.
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by csmuk 13y ago
Definitely. I write C on a non-valgrind capable platform. It's literally scary what you missed when you take what you think is working properly and throw it through valgrind.
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by csmuk 13y ago
http://www.thebunker.net/
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by csmuk 13y ago
Wouldn't poke them with a 20' long stick. When we spoke to their rep about data security and access in the UK they made no guarantees about our stuff being secure from meddling by their own staff or external agencies. They literal
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by csmuk 13y ago
I remember doing that but it was a shit. We didn't have mobile phones back then as a side channel so the outcome was basically designing a manual protocol in case of failure. This consisted of stuff like assigning who was responsible f
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by csmuk 13y ago
They certainly can but the input experience is shit and the piddly little screen gives you a headache. Mobile gaming is ok for chopping ropes, throwing birds or cutting up fruit but I'd rather have a windows 95 game with a keyboard and
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by csmuk 13y ago
Nice to see a mention of RPL. Still use an RPL machine daily (HP50g)
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by csmuk 13y ago
Forth is actually pretty high level. You just have to get there first by building up the abstractions. You can end up with an almost Ruby/Python like language on top of it if you want. But you probably won't want that after using
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by csmuk 13y ago
That's fine but you can still install stuff and leave it. It's not hard. For ref, I'm currently fixing something on a Windows NT4 VM in Visual C++ 6 for a client (they are tied to this configuration before you ask). I've
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by csmuk 13y ago
I think you missed my point. It's not the type of the file but the source of the file that is the issue. It is also that these sorts of scripts are the source of many untrusted, unsigned and unverified files as well and you cannot nece
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by csmuk 13y ago
Yes and we don't allow use of NuGet due to this amongst other reasons.
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by csmuk 13y ago
Some of us work in compliance based industries where its a necessity rather than a choice. We still use what could be considered a favourable stack on HN but we deal with masses of sensitive personal data. We're not oppressed: we'
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by csmuk 13y ago
Why? I've been doing it since 1992 without the aid of this!
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by csmuk 13y ago
Or organisations that don't want Joe user (that includes Joe developer who thinks he understands security but does not) running random powershell scripts off the Internet written by god-knows-who that have access to COM, their AD and l
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by csmuk 13y ago
That's a fairly arrogant statement. You might know LINQ but does the consumer of your IEnumerable<T>? Not all team members are equal.
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by csmuk 13y ago
With my .net cap on, a big chunk of my day is navigating around things like this.
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by csmuk 13y ago
Makes a change. I see a lot of tech sites and blogs these days that barely work in IE.
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by csmuk 13y ago
Actually they're right. It's very easy to fuck up in LINQ and end up with code that balloons memory or scales poorly for example.
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by csmuk 13y ago
Agree with your point about hibernate and its derivatives. Unfortunately with .Net you're stuck with that or EF which is even worse or something off the shelf and even crappier. TBH I've actually used raw ADO.Net with provider abs

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