Re: Here's a thought: give them to devs.

2013-07-24 Thread osjasonroberts
I’d happily take 20 or so and create a video wall in my house 😊 Jason Roberts Journeyman Software Developer Twitter: @robertsjason Blog: http://DontCodeTired.com Pluralsight Courses: http://bit.ly/psjasonroberts From: Tony Wright Sent: ‎Wednesday‎, ‎24‎ ‎July‎ ‎2013 ‎2‎:‎42‎ ‎PM To: ozDotN

Re: Here's a thought: give them to devs.

2013-07-24 Thread Arjang Assadi
Tony, The general problem has been "there are not as many apps available for Surface as there are for IPad" , they could totally covered a new kind of marked by allowing side loading that neither Apple or MS app stores cover. But hey some manager must have got a bonus for coming up with the idea o

Re: [OT] Notebook

2013-07-24 Thread Tom Rutter
Any cons you've noticed for the XPS 13? The reviews indicate flaky wifi and poor battery life. On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Stephen Price wrote: > Wow, you could buy just about anything and you'll have a major upgrade if > you are going from an 7 year old laptop. > > I recently got a Dell XPS

[OT] Looking for a contractor to work on an existing ASP.NET/WCF SaaS application

2013-07-24 Thread Anton Felich
Hey guys, We are a man down on our development team and looking for a full time contractor to help out. Description attached, please email me directly, the rest of the news group doesn't want to read our correspondence :) Cheers, Anton NGA_NET_Support_Developer_2013 07 24.doc Description:

Re: [OT] Looking for a contractor to work on an existing ASP.NET/WCF SaaS application

2013-07-24 Thread Bec Carter
Hi Anton, where is the position located? Bec On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 8:38 PM, Anton Felich wrote: > Hey guys, > > ** ** > > We are a man down on our development team and looking for a full time > contractor to help out. Description attached, please email me directly, the > rest of the news

Re: [OT] Looking for a contractor to work on an existing ASP.NET/WCF SaaS application

2013-07-24 Thread Bec Carter
oops, sorry list On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 8:55 PM, Bec Carter wrote: > Hi Anton, where is the position located? > > Bec > > > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 8:38 PM, Anton Felich wrote: > >> Hey guys, >> >> ** ** >> >> We are a man down on our development team and looking for a full time >> contract

Re: [OT] Notebook

2013-07-24 Thread Stephen Price
It's not got a battery life of 8 hours or anything but I tend to use laptops plugged in anyway so haven't noticed. I think its a couple of hours, depends on your power config setting. I guess a small screen would be a downside if you like a big screen. No CDrom can be challenging when you need it b

RE: [OT] Looking for a contractor to work on an existing ASP.NET/WCF SaaS application

2013-07-24 Thread Anton Felich
Hey Bec, Sorry I forgot that part, it's in South Melbourne, Victoria. Cheers, Anton From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Bec Carter Sent: Wednesday, 24 July 2013 8:56 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Looking for a contractor to work on an ex

UPS

2013-07-24 Thread Stuart Kinnear
I am suffering major degradation of power supply over these winter months. The voltage drops to 204V during peak load periods and sits any where between 215 to 230 during the day. Contacted United Energy several times - they are playing tricks like not turning up when the problems are manifested a

RE: UPS

2013-07-24 Thread GregAtGregLowDotCom
No UPS is going to generate power for you. You'd need a generator for that. Do United Energy have any sort of service level agreement? Or any agreement on what the tolerance should be? In the end, it sounds like you need new cabling to your area and only the supply company can do that. Last tim

Re: UPS

2013-07-24 Thread mike smith
Run it off a switchmode that has an input range of 90-250? Laptop supplies have these, LCD displays have these. I haven't seen a desktop that doesn't have a switch to go from one range to another, but they may exist. Mike On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 12:04 PM, GregAtGregLowDotCom wrote: > No UPS is

Re: UPS

2013-07-24 Thread Tony Wright
Perhaps you could use solar power to help top it up? On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 12:09 PM, mike smith wrote: > Run it off a switchmode that has an input range of 90-250? > > Laptop supplies have these, LCD displays have these. I haven't seen a > desktop that doesn't have a switch to go from one ra

RE: UPS

2013-07-24 Thread Paul Keen
I am a complete novice in this area but does rooftop solar have any impact on supply problems like this. Paul From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of GregAtGregLowDotCom Sent: Thursday, 25 July 2013 12:04 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: UPS

Re: UPS

2013-07-24 Thread Stephen Price
Option 3. move house. Personally, I research internet speeds and connection types when researching prospective living abode. Never had to look at power because we're blessed with "normal" power supplies here. 1st world problems hey... On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Paul Keen wrote: > I am a

RE: UPS

2013-07-24 Thread GregAtGregLowDotCom
Yep, Internet connection options are the 1st thing I’d look for when getting a property. I’m stunned how many devs I talk to that are living where they can’t get good Internet connections. But power??? Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410

Re: UPS

2013-07-24 Thread Tony Wright
Just spoke with my brother about it. He says unfortunately with grid connected solar you are still affected by the voltage of the grid. In his case, he can disconnect from the grid and in that case it outputs at 48v, then an inverter(?) boosts it up to close to 240v (48 x 5). He has measured and it

Re: UPS

2013-07-24 Thread mike smith
It'd be a worry trying to put 240 into a grid that was at 235... Something would melt. My money would be on it not being the grid that melted :) Mike On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Tony Wright wrote: > Just spoke with my brother about it. He says unfortunately with grid > connected solar y

Re: UPS

2013-07-24 Thread Tony Wright
Don't worry Meski, there are significant protections against that, nothing is melting - I believe it's even illegal to interfere with the grid. On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 12:40 PM, mike smith wrote: > It'd be a worry trying to put 240 into a grid that was at 235... > Something would melt. My mon

Re: SQL Server Developer Edition

2013-07-24 Thread Rob Farley
When I last looked into it, it came down to whether or not the data was being used for production purposes. For example - you could use it to test a bunch of orders, but if those orders are going to be real, then it needs a real (non-Dev) license. If you throw away those orders because they were ju