wumbernang

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by wumbernang 11y ago
An anecdote... My father did the same thing in a mid 80s scenario in the UK. He took me to work. At the time, he was importing containers full of stuff from Taiwan for the the new PC clone market i.e. building PCs, assembling them and resel
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by wumbernang 11y ago
Only because they are then fungible. Once you dispose of that calculator that takes 4xAA batteries and lasts 6 months, you can whack the cells in a Furby's butt and charge them up once a week until your children get rid of the damn thi
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by wumbernang 11y ago
As much as I like Dave Jones, I think he's concentrating on the wrong bits here. The idea is completely bad. Sorry. It's a pile of crap. It shouldn't be on the market. Sure you can build a boost converter that gives you a con
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by wumbernang 11y ago
Bollocks. Simple boost converter used to step up the voltage. If you run alkalines too low they leak. Plus the 8x claim is quite frankly ridiculous. Just buy some Sanyo eneloops.
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by wumbernang 11y ago
You can. Half way through a powershell script you can switch to C#, VB, JavaScript if you want and implement a pipeline or shell out to a C++ program, talk to something over the network or even Cygwin if you really want.
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by wumbernang 11y ago
ls != list files in powershell. ls is an alias for Get-ChildItem which is simply "get me a list of objects attached to the path". That's about as orthogonal as you can possibly muster. It's actually more like plan 9 than
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by wumbernang 11y ago
No we don't use nginx. F5 big-ips in front of a large IIS cluster serving through WCF + ASP.Net MVC.
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by wumbernang 11y ago
70% of this is required to be this complex as the sector we work in is very rule and workflow heavy and the customisation support is immensely complicated. 30% is hacked in stuff for single clients and legacy stuff from the dark ages that w
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by wumbernang 11y ago
Good question. It's not about efficiency; it's about productivity. It would be impossible to build a system of this complexity for the budget specified with Erlang. This is not a limit of Erlang but a limit of who we have availabl
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by wumbernang 11y ago
I'm with you. I really don't think people with that mindset could put together the sort of shit we do on the enterprise mindset side of things. The tools are carefully picked to be entirely the opposite to the contrarian mindset.
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by wumbernang 11y ago
Probably UTC. But with a minor note: Time dilation applies. http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/crew/exp7/luletters/lu_l...
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by wumbernang 11y ago
I've been burned a number of times. Both from audits (that was expensive, even after we were told we were compliant) to spending all night up because ReaderWriterLockSlim deadlocked across our entire cluster and took our entire platfor
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by wumbernang 11y ago
I had a cheaper $1000 Omega and got rid of it for a cheap Casio. I found that I needed the function for a bit rather than the form and it stuck. Alarm, stopwatch and backlight are killer features. New F91W is bought every time the strap fal
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by wumbernang 11y ago
Interesting - thanks for posting. Will grab a copy of that. I seem to collect mathematics books. However this is still my favourite book on mathematics and only because it was written by a surgeon rather than a mathematician: http:/&#
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by wumbernang 11y ago
You can use WinDbg and a checked build and actually find the answer to the question. Why ask when you can check? All vendors are shits on this front. Look like a good boy on paper and do all your naught stuff via a side channel.
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by wumbernang 11y ago
I use bitlocker on my laptop and my portable backup usb stick. I have no illusion that it's probably back doored but I continue to use it simply as a casual insurance policy against doing something stupid like leaving the storage devic
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by wumbernang 11y ago
Now that's the daredevil attitude I like to hear :)
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by wumbernang 11y ago
So everyone else who dies is just dude and wifey? Way to devalue 99.999% of the population. My wife was a palliative care nurse. She taught me that everyone is remarkable but when it comes to dying, for one person to be valued higher than a
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by wumbernang 11y ago
I went on that in the early 1990s when it opened. Hope you didn't get injured!
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by wumbernang 11y ago
AFAIK it didn't on bbc.co.uk. Perhaps bbc.com but I don't look at that. It's all about FIFA bribes and rollercoaster accidents.
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by wumbernang 11y ago
Thanks. That's the tl;dr I needed. Coming from the UK, this made no sense whatsoever to me.
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by wumbernang 11y ago
Where did I imply or state that? Nowhere! What does that have to do with security updates and reboots? Nothing!
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by wumbernang 11y ago
Not a bad text. Didn't find anything obviously wrong in a quick scan. Two comments: 1. As usual, and as per all electronics resources, its pretty much devoid of the practicalities of BJT/FET amps. Sort of, here are some facts, now
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by wumbernang 11y ago
Windows phone.... http://i.imgur.com/Vo68qcm.jpg
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by wumbernang 11y ago
No wink. Doesn't involve betting. Although that's a good idea :)
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by wumbernang 11y ago
http://www.ntfs.com/ntfs_optimization.htm Old but good. fsutil wraps all the registry poking for reference.
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by wumbernang 11y ago
Fire up PowerShell ISE (comes with windows) as administrator and type: Update-Help This will download all the help. Then you can type "Get-Help About_" and hit tab to see the master topic lists.
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by wumbernang 11y ago
That's probably the NTFS MFT rather than the actual runtime. Git plops lots of small files on the disk which end up in the MFT. The MFT is really slow. We have the same trouble with SVN. You can tune this a bit with fsutil and turn off
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by wumbernang 11y ago
a) Human error is a possibility but that's not something that can be eliminated. b) They won't download anything wrong. There's no route to the internet for this machine. c) They won't visit any web sites. There's n
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by wumbernang 11y ago
Name a feature. I've ported tonnes of POSIX stuff to windows. 99% of it's there and the rest is easily plugged into a bit of win32. I tend to use PowerShell ISE that is built into windows rather than cmd, which you're right,

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