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by meaty 14y ago
That's only OK if your computer is still working.
182.
by meaty 14y ago
They already do this with WGA/Activation. It's a combination of disk IDs, MAC address, graphics card etc.
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by meaty 14y ago
Straw + Camel's back. I tend to switch machines at least once a year for various reasons. My office license goes with me and is removed from the original machine. If they won't allow that, then I won't be upgrading and will be preemptively
184.
by meaty 14y ago
They don't have a company registered in the UK under Python. Register a company called Python Language Limited and shorten it to Python in correspondence. You can trade under that name, even if it's a trademark. The same as you can call you
185.
by meaty 14y ago
Horse is great meat - you can't get it intentionally here in the UK any more, well I can't find it. My grandmother used to get it in her war rations. Last time I was in Calais, we found a place that did horse and chips :) +1 for steak. I
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by meaty 14y ago
Problem is the ready meals taste like shit and as recently discovered, you have no idea what mammal they've chopped up in it (even the high end M&S and Waitrose ones). You can cook well for one using the same method as I use. You just n
187.
by meaty 14y ago
Spot on. Those figures make me shiver. Branding is just not worth it on food when you know about the details. Small rant: I stopped buying brands years ago, avoid supermarkets like the plague and don't buy ready meals. Instead I purchase fr
188.
by meaty 14y ago
Agree about static sites being cool. It seems such a terrible waste of energy dynamically generating content each request.
189.
by meaty 14y ago
I agree but there is a difference between throwing out parts and assemblies to having to throw an entire unit out due to what could be a failure of a $1 part.
190.
by meaty 14y ago
Its quite easy to get it out. Took me about 20 minutes on one.
191.
by meaty 14y ago
It's there if you want to help :) The reason it was forked is due to people selling recompilations of it.
192.
by meaty 14y ago
If you're just reading, use Chrome's built in PDF reader or PDFjs for Firefox [1] [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pdfjs/
193.
by meaty 14y ago
And for something a little more modern (OpenPDN - a fork of Paint.Net which is comparable to photoshop in some ways): http://code.google.com/p/openpdn/source/browse/
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by meaty 14y ago
ThinkPad X220. Not a "newfangled" tablet, but about the most repairable thing out there and the hardware maintenance manual is 100% available here: http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/mobiles_pdf/0...
195.
by meaty 14y ago
So it's basically a disposable non-repairable piece of landfill fodder. Why do people accept this? Stuff breaks all the time either through accidental damage or otherwise. If it didn't, there wouldn't be literally millions of tech repair sh
196.
by meaty 14y ago
Hmm... http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Current-Foxit-Rea... Plenty more to come I reckon.
197.
by meaty 14y ago
Or read the source and see how it can be broken from a security perspective. VMware and windows source code leaks in the past have had the effect of "pant shitting" for their former clients in case there is a whopping great big hole in them
198.
by meaty 14y ago
Back in the day, the goatse was the preferred method of education.
199.
by meaty 14y ago
Sometimes the hard way to learn the lesson is the best way and sometimes a costly mistake by someone is an education for lots of people. It's an unfortunate side of human nature but it's valuable. My own experience by proxy: A colleague of
200.
by meaty 14y ago
AFAIK the basic cost of living and salaries are higher so is this really a problem? Its the opposite of people moaning that people in some 3rd world countries earn so little but this isn't usually a problem as every day essentials are act
201.
by meaty 14y ago
I've upvoted you because it's the same from us. We have had zero hits from opera for a couple of years.
202.
by meaty 14y ago
Would vs did. I think the comment is spot on and you are being a pedant.
203.
by meaty 14y ago
I genuinely can't see why anyone would pay that for a handset. They are an icon of conspicuous consumption, nothing more. Regarding the OS choice, they are right about market share which is why they were on Symbian and are now on android. O
204.
by meaty 14y ago
yes one of our 3rd party quoting engines' source tops 20mloc of java. Facebook is a really simple project compared to most of these sort of things.
205.
by meaty 14y ago
I disagree. We're not using the latest patches. We're using an independently verified and tested set of patches. The baseline is 2008.
206.
by meaty 14y ago
It's written in c#!
207.
by meaty 14y ago
Yes this is true but we proactively approach the problem rather than waiting for 3rd parties to find the holes. We are responsible for a couple of patch Tuesdays :)
208.
by meaty 14y ago
Yes but we don't cut the Mercedes in half and weld it to the Toyota...
209.
by meaty 14y ago
Bing are Microsoft dogfooding new tech. They will make mistakes. For those of us who are conservative there are very few opportunities to make mistakes. We have checklists, security policies, code reviews and even protection components in o
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by meaty 14y ago
We have our own model binder implementation (with circuit breakers) and UI framework and are using mvc3. And yes we're always fully patched.

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