Re: AI

"old system views" That makes me wonder if it has any way of differentiating between something it found from a decade ago to more recent data. Mike On Fri, 23 Feb 2024, 11:43 Dr Greg Low via ozdotnet, wrote: > Hi Tom, > > > > For me, it depends what you want it to do. It certainly can appear

Re: Private Apple App distribution

e the rest of the planet has > moved on. > > On Wed, 17 Jan 2024 at 15:08, mike smith via ozdotnet < > ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com> wrote: > >> Didn't the Euros make them go to USB C? >> >> On Wed, 17 Jan 2024, 15:31 David Connors via ozdotnet, < >>

Re: Private Apple App distribution

umb ideas. They're still > selling stuff with lightning connector in 2024. > > On Wed, 17 Jan 2024 at 14:12, mike smith via ozdotnet < > ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com> wrote: > >> So the "way" will be to use a VPN, and set your Apple devices up in >> Europe?

Re: Private Apple App distribution

So the "way" will be to use a VPN, and set your Apple devices up in Europe? I'm wondering if any other countries will jump on board. Mike On Wed, 17 Jan 2024, 14:29 Dr Greg Low via ozdotnet, wrote: > Interesting that there’s been a discussion going on with the EU about > this. They’re

Re: Web app large uploads and downloads

It's not a direct answer, but I'd feel happier uploading to OneDrive and passing the server a link to that. Mike On Sat, 30 Dec 2023, 08:29 Greg Keogh via ozdotnet, wrote: > Folks (anyone working?) > > I've been asked to add a feature to a Blazor Webassembly app to allow > uploads and

Many years ago

We'd post invite codes for Gmail, when it was beta and invite only. Here's some bsky invite codes, 3, if it doesn't work its been used Mike -- ozdotnet mailing list To manage your subscription, access archives: https://codify.mailman3.com/

Re: A real C++ vs C# story

Back then C++ wasn't so complex. The STL was in the process of being developed. Pentiums were state of the art On Fri, 1 Sept 2023, 10:57 Greg Keogh via ozdotnet, wrote: > I have never understood the fixation with C++ unless you're in the >> business of writing kernels, device drivers,

Re: A real C++ vs C# story

You really need to be generating the pdb files and storing them in a symbol server. If you want to view the source code associated with it, store that as well. For every build you want to be able to debug. I used to store it for all builds, and clean up later, because internal builds sometimes

Re: [OT] Junked business registry overhaul blew out by $2.3b

Why does every state government want to build their own Myki? Mike On Wed, 30 Aug 2023, 10:47 Greg Keogh via ozdotnet, wrote: > Maybe we should set up OzDotNet Consultants specializing in government >> contracts? We could be swimming in cash! >> > > Yeah, when I see news about a planned $4bn

Re: [OT] Junked business registry overhaul blew out by $2.3b

Here's a non paywalled one https://www.innovationaus.com/burning-12m-a-month-govt-scraps-business-register-overhaul/ On Tue, 29 Aug 2023, 14:34 Tom Rutter via ozdotnet, wrote: > Another one bites the dust… > > >

Re: [OT] "Shrinking" IDs in SQL Server

Possibly both. Use the hash for your original table, and setup a secondary table with hash as the key, and a zipped file as data. But you'd need to have some provision for the inevitable collisions. On Tue, 14 Mar 2023, 09:47 Greg Keogh via ozdotnet, wrote: > Hi Tom, I think this is a maths

Re: [OT] APNIC charges for historical resources

It may get worse: https://blog.rwts.com.au/apnic-under-threat/ On Wed, 1 Mar 2023, 14:54 David Connors via ozdotnet, wrote: > You should be able to sell the /24 for $15-20 bucks an IP so I'd just pay > the fee then get a broker to market it for you and flog it off if you're > not using it. > >

Re: Platform x64 argument

Sneak some x86 test cases into the build and have it break. On Thu, 13 Oct 2022, 11:07 Tony McGee via ozdotnet, wrote: > My understanding is that you target what you want to support, so if he's > only shipping fully managed code and supporting x64 systems then it doesn't > matter too much but

Re: [OT] Stephen Toub's impacts

That can be uniquely impactful. :^} On Thu, 1 Sept 2022, 18:50 David Richards via ozdotnet, < ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com> wrote: > I always mentally replace "impact" with "affect" and it tends to have a... > positive impact... on readability. > > David > > "If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of

Re: VS2022 recent list stall

Is it the old scroll lock bug? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/259398/visual-studio-find-results-in-no-files-were-found-to-look-in-find-stopped-pr On Mon, 29 Aug 2022, 11:53 Greg Keogh via ozdotnet, wrote: > Has anyone else got a problem with the *Open recent* list in the latest > VS2022?

Re: Blazor deploy error

Unhappy memories of "redo from start" On Wed, 6 July 2022, 12:15 Greg Keogh via ozdotnet, wrote: > After hours of ruling out a mistake on my part, or some change in the > compile and hosting options, the only thing left is the tooling. Adjusting > my searches slightly and haphazardly, I finally

Re: It's that time of year - F#

Do languages need constant evolution to be seen as successful? As a recent post said, look at c++ Mike On Wed, 29 June 2022, 11:06 Dr Greg Low via ozdotnet, wrote: > In fact, the messaging changed fairly abruptly. > > > > Compare Kathleen’s article in Nov 2018: >

Re: Xamarin development environment

Not that the Mac is too old, but that it refuses to install Big Sur? I've been hitting a lot of apps that require a later version of macos, been looking at installing big Sur as a VM on Parallels. Anyone tried? On Wed, 16 Feb 2022, 13:55 Greg Keogh, wrote: > Folks, for the last 4-5 years I've

Re: Regex and Span

Was it maybe a translate from fortran? Ijk has that sort of sound On Wed, 26 Jan 2022, 20:48 Greg Keogh, wrote: > Sorry not helpful for your situation exactly, but I don’t know about regex >> being easier to read than an old C style method. >> > > Ah, a religious coding war. > > The C++ raw

Re: [OT] log4j Internet Doom

Two red rated ones. https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-26/product_id-43007/Microsoft-.net-Core.html On Wed, 22 Dec 2021, 19:33 Greg Keogh, wrote: > Word has spread far over the last week. I've had a few queries about > vulnerabilities in software I've participated in, from

Re: [OT] log4j Internet Doom

The fix for it is fairly trivial, the issue is getting the fix into all the IOTs and routers etc that aren't updated much. And there's a lot of kit out there that manufacturers aren't doing security updates for anymore. That internet TV from 2015 that no longer talks to the manufacturer, but

Re: Xamarin Forms xcode and Mac

I'm also wondering if you can run big Sur as a guest os on a older Parallels/Macos host system. I'll give that a try too. Mike On Thu, Oct 14, 2021, 08:05 mike smith wrote: > How about running Big Sur on a VMWARE (or similar) system? There's some > Hackintosh links around a

Re: Xamarin Forms xcode and Mac

How about running Big Sur on a VMWARE (or similar) system? There's some Hackintosh links around as well, for running it directly on non apple hardware. I'm getting tired of the Apple ecosystem refusing to allow updates, and apps refusing to upgrade unless you have the latest sparkling new

Re: Core 3.1 500 Internal Error

What about a folder permission from a parent that's inherited? Mike On Wed, Oct 13, 2021, 15:15 Greg Keogh wrote: > Permissions on the published folder? I suspect that would be one way to >> get an instant 500. >> > > Procmon shows no activity in the folders where my app is stored during a >

Re: Android App Center?

I've not done this, but my thoughts went in the direction of running your apps on development certificates. Something like https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/ios/get-started/installation/device-provisioning/manual-provisioning?tabs=macos That's for macos, but maybe iOS too Mike On Wed,

Re: Android App Center?

It's rough, but it's a whole lot worse if it was happening with the iOS store. No sideloading allowed there at all, you'd need to root the phones. How about getting a previous copy of the Center app from a mirror site? Mike On Wed, Aug 4, 2021, 12:34 Greg Keogh wrote: > I found this >>

Re: Android App Center?

I found this https://github.com/microsoft/appcenter/issues/2174 On Wed, Aug 4, 2021, 11:50 Greg Keogh wrote: > Two of us just opened the Android App Center app to select the > latest release of our Xamarin app and we get "Error loading releases". Some > web searches suggest that an update to

Re: [OT] Windows 365 - The Verge

There seem to be a lot of vulnerabilities that tie in with Remote Desktop, though. On Fri, Jul 16, 2021, 11:04 Greg Keogh wrote: > TGIF -- A colleague forwarded this link to me: Microsoft puts PCs in the > cloud with Windows 365 - The Verge >

Re: An interesting change of direction by MS

eat these days ... on a larger virtual machine the Windows Server license >>>> is a BIG chunk. >>>> >>>> With the earnest move to PaaS and SaaS and things like AAD instead of >>>> AD, I'm not sure what the value prop of Windows Server is any more

An interesting change of direction by MS

https://www.sqlservercentral.com/?na=v=43198-5c996ba084cea=1013 Are they ceding the server market to Linux? Mike

Re: [OT] Reliable external storage drive

I'm curious, what are they dying of? Wearing out, or something else? On Wed, Jun 30, 2021, 10:11 Tom Rutter wrote: > Hi folks, > > Another of my recently purchased external SSD drives has just died on me. > Can anyone here recommend one they have and are happy with? Ideally I would > like it

Re: [OT] Credit check for new contract

And the same recruiters with those duplicate ads expect exclusivity from you. Mike On Wed, Jun 2, 2021, 21:19 Tony Wright wrote: > I do start with the job boards. Seek and Linked in first. Most companies > these days put their own ad up and then recruiters come along and put the > same ad up

Re: Azure App Logging missing

Does it have a debug /release setting? All sorts of things used to be NOP for release builds. On Thu, May 20, 2021, 12:32 Greg Keogh wrote: > Not done this myself, but have you configured tracing to write to App >> Insights like >>

Re: [OT] UHF Check

I do get messages when they get too big, for example when we've been replying and not trimming the ends of the email. ;) On Tue, Mar 23, 2021, 09:30 David Connors wrote: > Couple of messages were clogged in the moderation queue because they're > too big apparently. > > Do you guys get a

Re: Unable to locate the .NET SDK

Which encourages me to run it all on a VM, and use snapshots liberally so I can revert. On Sun, Dec 13, 2020, 13:53 Greg Keogh wrote: > Have a check of your path variable? Some install/updates are fairly brain >> dead when they modify it, periodically I copy it out to a text editor and >>

Re: Unable to locate the .NET SDK

Have a check of your path variable? Some install/updates are fairly brain dead when they modify it, periodically I copy it out to a text editor and clean up removed apps, check for valid paths etc On Fri, Dec 11, 2020, 07:22 Greg Keogh wrote: > Folks, I sat down this morning and found that

Re: [OT] Reading utf-8 text file in C/C++

It's number of characters, not bytes, and it includes the termination - I'm inclined to declare like this: wchar_t buff[128]={0}; So if it fails, you have zeros in it, instead of what was left in the stack ... On Sun, Dec 6, 2020, 11:27 Greg Keogh wrote: > > Did you look at the iconv API? >>

Re: [OT] Reading utf-8 text file in C/C++

Did you look at the iconv API? Mike On Sun, Nov 29, 2020, 18:34 Greg Keogh wrote: > Some of you may remember learning C, and somewhere around page 4 of your > textbook you learn how to use *fopen*, *fgets *and *fclose *to loop and > read the string lines out of a file. But times have

Re: Dotfuscating

It's not really answering your question, but what about this; https://www.infoworld.com/article/3131551/microsofts-corert-turns-c-into-cross-platform-c.html Mike On Thu, Oct 1, 2020, 07:37 Greg Low wrote: > My guess is that for $15700 upfront payment, you’d get a pretty reasonable >

Re: Dotfuscating

If there's good obfuscation routines, it occurs to me there's deobfuscators, aka pretty printers. No, I've not tried it, just a thought. Obviously variable and function names don't get fixed. Mike On Tue, Sep 29, 2020, 08:59 Preet Sangha wrote: > I think you can use the command line for

Re: [OT] Employer wants photo of passport

Not like a passport can actually be used for anything other than id at the moment, sadly. :( You could use one of the third party authentication companies like Certsy, but then that means trusting them. On Fri, Aug 21, 2020, 08:12 DotNet Dude wrote: > Worse case scenario you ask them if it’s

Re: [OT] 1970s computer articles

We should have stuck with Pascal On Sun, Aug 9, 2020, 15:20 Greg Keogh wrote: > I couldn't face any more code today, so I scanned the covers and > "interesting" article pages of my 1970s issues of Scientific American > magazine. This page >

Re: ASP.NET Razor Pages

On Thu, Apr 2, 2020, 09:38 Paul Jackson wrote: > Razor is so 2019. > I'm missing 2019 > They’ve come out with Blazor > now > > Not sure how widely used it is, but it does reduce the number of files to > create. > > > Do you actually

Re: [OT] C++ directions

On Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 17:11 Greg Keogh wrote: > > Still using c++ here... >> > > What sort of applications? Do they pre-date .NET? -- *GK* > Yeah, ported from Borland. So, predated a lot

Re: [OT] C++ directions

Still using c++ here... But templates get freaking annoying. If it's a new project, I'm unlikely to pick c++. Even for low level microcontroller apps, there's better choices. Eg python. Mike On Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 11:40 David Richards wrote: > I remember when I first started using c++ (late

Change passwords, maybe?

https://www.itnews.com.au/news/config-flub-by-microsoft-exposed-millions-of-customer-details-536911

Re: OT: Robo Vacs

The cheap ones don't have a very good coverage, I keep meaning to hack the code with something better On Mon, Jan 20, 2020, 21:20 David Connors wrote: > Hi All, > > Very off topic but what success has anyone had here with robo vacs? > > Our 11 month old German Shepherd is blowing her coat and

Re:

Consider that ultimate of all log files, a .dmp file. Everything is going to be in that, and they typically get automatically sent when something goes wrong. Mike. On Thu, Dec 19, 2019, 09:03 Alan Ingleby wrote: > I guess the key requirement here is "I'm about to write this string to a > log

Re:

There's the odd number/arrangement that amex uses to check for as well On Wed, Dec 18, 2019, 16:14 Eddie de Bear wrote: > Hi Preet, > > I always check when somebody mentions credit card processing.. > > Anyways, off the top of my head I don't know of any component that can > easily identify

Re: I wonder how much they saved on those job cuts, vs the fines and reputational costs?

On Tue, Nov 26, 2019, 12:44 mike smith wrote: > > https://www.itnews.com.au/news/westpacs-hopeless-monitoring-software-festered-for-a-decade-534293 >

Re: Marshall C++ string to C#

EG this https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winreg/nf-winreg-regqueryvalueexa?redirectedfrom=MSDN On Tue, Nov 26, 2019, 12:35 mike smith wrote: > Or one 'old world' technique some win APIs use > Pass in a null and the call tells you what size buffer you need,

Re: Marshall C++ string to C#

Or one 'old world' technique some win APIs use Pass in a null and the call tells you what size buffer you need, create it and pass it in on a second call. Mike On Tue, Nov 26, 2019, 11:53 Tony McGee wrote: > You could return a BSTR and let the interop marshaling do clean up for > you: > > >

Re: Marshall C++ string to C#

msg is a stack variable, you can't return it iirc. Either create a var on the heap, or pass msg in as a parameter. Mike On Tue, Nov 26, 2019, 08:03 Greg Keogh wrote: > Folks, I have to make a quick demo of how a VS C++ coder can return a > Unicode string from a function back to a C# caller.

Re: [OT] Fines Victoria crisis deepens

Reposted, cos it bounced ;) Mike On Tue, Nov 19, 2019, 13:23 mike smith wrote: > Another article > > > https://www.itnews.com.au/news/fines-victorias-it-woes-force-21m-write-down-534151 > > On Wed, Nov 13, 2019, 22:44 Ken Schaefer wrote: > >> This works for build

Ping

Anyone else getting server timeouts?

Re: [OT] Fines Victoria crisis deepens

t;> >> >> Dr Greg Low >> >> >> >> 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913 >> fax >> >> SQL Down Under | Web: www.sqldownunder.com >> <https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sqldownunder.

Re: [OT] Fines Victoria crisis deepens

Manual intervention by local staff until they outsource that to India as well. And the data center On Wed, Oct 23, 2019, 14:20 DotNet Dude wrote: > I actually know someone who worked on the system at Civica. The system was > an old legacy system from the UK which they butchered to fit the very

Re: [OT] Fines Victoria crisis deepens

Success stories don't seem to make it into MSM. pity, because you'd think there's more successful outcomes than failures On Wed, Oct 23, 2019, 12:24 Greg Keogh wrote: > Interesting front page article in The Age newspaper today >

Re: [OT] GitHub busy?

Isn't edge chrome now? Or are we now into the second E of embrace, extend, extinguish? On Fri, Aug 23, 2019, 16:08 DotNet Dude wrote: > Who the F uses Edge? Seriously > > On Fri, 23 Aug 2019 at 14:15, Greg Keogh wrote: > >> It seems to be an Edge browser problem. I just installed and ran the

Re: Versioning Solutions

I'd wonder if it wouldn't be easier to have just one version, but with extra features enabled or not, depending on customer. Having to maintain fixes in multiple versions gets to be a lot of work, testing, etc. Mike On Sat, Aug 17, 2019, 13:15 Glen Harvy wrote: > Hi, > > Up till now I have

Re: 3 x senior .net developers needed

Nearly all the government work requires you to already have a security clearance of some kind. On Fri, Jun 28, 2019, 09:19 DotNet Dude wrote: > I’ve heard similar about Canberra. Most govt tech is like 10 yrs old > (exaggerating a bit) and things move super slow so depends on what you’re >

Re: [Off Topic] Drop Box alternatives with a large number of files (about 0.5M+ files).

Why not turn indexing off for it? I used to make sure it never indexed source or compiled output files On Thu, May 23, 2019, 17:44 David Rhys Jones wrote: > Hi, > I use onedrive, with the save space and download files as you use them. I > also limit the amount of bandwidth it's using. I've not

Re: [OT] New job

Looking for a c++ position in Canberra myself On Thu, May 9, 2019, 10:47 Tom Rutter wrote: > Back to the original question, sorry nothing here. > > Melbs market is quite tough at the moment. Not many positions for straight > .NET devs (my sister in law is in recruitment). Many agency

Re: Slightly off topic - Pros and con of moving to an Apple machine

Yes, you do need a license, if you don't have a corporate license//msdn etc On Sat, Mar 16, 2019, 12:44 Preet Sangha wrote: > I see that parallels is VM software.I assume that I will need a windows 10 > license to go with it? > > regards, > Preet, in Auckland NZ > > > > On Sat, 16 Mar 2019 at

Re: Slightly off topic - Pros and con of moving to an Apple machine

Parallels will let you run windows oses, mostly just a matter of having a powerful enough machine, either way. On Sat, Mar 16, 2019, 10:28 Preet Sangha wrote: > I am starting with a new role in a few weeks and I've been asked the > question if want a windows or apple laptop. I do .net

Re: [OT] 5G

The argument seems to be that it's no different to WiFi and cellular phone networks, just more pervasive. I'm not convinced it's valid, having seen a lot of studies showing existing systems are safe. On Mon, Mar 4, 2019, 06:52 Tom Rutter wrote: > Hi all > > What are your thoughts on 5G? I’m

Re: [OT] C++ language war

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1324919/what-language-is-net-framework-written-in C++ and assembly. Is that an answer? It'd mean something written on top of dotnet won't run faster. But faster is seldom the main criteria On Fri, Jan 18, 2019, 15:59 Greg Keogh Folks, back in the old forum

Re: [OT] Server 2008 R2 to 2019

MFC hasn't been deprecated yet? On Thu, Dec 27, 2018, 17:54 DotNet Dude Mother in law got me a book on c++ MFC. 100% serious > > On Thu, 27 Dec 2018 at 18:15, Preet Sangha wrote: > >> Merry Xmas etc. I bought myself a welder but I also gave away some tech >> does that count? >> >> On Thu., 27

Re: Trusted cloud based source control system where the code is Australian domicile? [Slightly off topic]

https://www.itnews.com.au/news/us-bill-would-allow-cross-border-data-access-demands-484674 On Mar 22, 2018 11:32, "Greg Harris" wrote: > Thank you David times 2, that will save me quite a bit of pain :-) > > Greg Harris > harris.gre...@gmail.com > phone: 0407 942 982 >

RE: Internet access from development machines [OT]

On Jan 23, 2018 12:49, "Greg Low" wrote: My concern, is that in several sites, what I now see is frustrated people who can't get their work done, at least not efficiently. Mind you, one of the sites was also worried about power. They have all the developer machines running

Re: Internet access from development machines [OT]

Lots of version control systems rely on internet connectivity, they might be firewalled but they are still connected. On Jan 17, 2018 17:59, "Stephen Price" wrote: > I did some Angular 2 Dev in 2016 while it was in late beta. Our internet > was whitelisted. > > It was

Deja vu, somewhat

Stack Overflow Stats Reveal 'the Brutal Lifecycle of JavaScript Frameworks' from the reacting-to-React dept. A developer on the Internal Tools team at Stack Overflow reveals some new statistics from their 'Trends' tool:JavaScript UI frameworks and libraries work in cycles. Every six months or so,

Re: [OT] Internet use on 4G LTE

Supportive of the NBN before it got nerfed by the LNP. On Jan 4, 2018 16:59, "Tony Wright" wrote: > Gosh Dave, you're not telling me you're still supportive of the hugely > expensive backward step this nation took with the NBN are you? > > On 4 Jan 2018 12:05 PM, "David

Re: [OT] Azure impacts

Starting at PST? Shouldn't there be a time before this, like 1300h PST? On Jan 4, 2018 13:10, "Greg Keogh" wrote: > If anyone in this group knows anyone in the Azure Team, can you please > pass my following message and advice on to them? ... > > Dear Azure Team, > > For the

Re: [OT] Big Windows 10 update

ps, and then having to be >> dragged there crying. ;) >> >> Welcome to the future. Let's hope you like it because you can't go back >> in time (yet) >> >> On 12 Dec. 2017 12:42 pm, mike smith <meski...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Makes you wish there w

RE: [OT] Big Windows 10 update

Makes you wish there was an os you could compile with what you wanted in it. Oh wait there is On 12 Dec. 2017 15:29, "Greg Low" wrote: > I’ve had the last two updates break mobile device configuration as well. > > > > Can’t say I love the random, forced breaking of my machine

Re: Creating a browser-based product

https://www.itnews.com.au/news/microsofts-vmware-azure-stack-neither-certified-nor-supported-478352?eid=1=20171124_source=20171124_AM_medium=newsletter_campaign=daily_newsletter But yeah, VMware would say that, I guess. On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 5:12 PM, David Connors wrote:

RE: Creating a browser-based product

http://issurvivor.com/2017/11/20/opinionization-in-the-cloud/ On 21 Nov. 2017 22:15, "mike smith" <meski...@gmail.com> wrote: > Browsers as virtual OSes, or VMs themselves as virtual environments to > separate the applications or services? > > I was reading an article

RE: Creating a browser-based product

Browsers as virtual OSes, or VMs themselves as virtual environments to separate the applications or services? I was reading an article suggesting that fortune 500 companies that bought Amazon, MS style cloud services were being lazy, and should be building their own. I'll look up the link On 21

Re: Creating a browser-based product

On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 8:06 AM, Greg Keogh wrote: > Can you afford to wait for http://webassembly.org too get to production >> ready??? >> > > A bit of reading on this does give me some optimism. The idea of a widely > supported general purpose bytecode that runs in browsers

Re: Fw: Re: [OT] NBN and phone

On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 3:43 PM, Greg Keogh wrote: > My 'solution' was to get a double wireless DECT phone, the base station >> plugs in near the NBN modem, the remote just needs to plug into power. A >> plus is DECT phones show caller ID. >> > > Yes, all solved. I just

Re: Fw: Re: [OT] NBN and phone

My 'solution' was to get a double wireless DECT phone, the base station plugs in near the NBN modem, the remote just needs to plug into power. A plus is DECT phones show caller ID. On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 9:14 AM, Greg Keogh wrote: > $19 at Bunnings. Does CAT5/6 and Phone.

Re: [OT] Post NBN problem

ng. I've noticed it usually takes about an hour for DNS changes to > propagate, but it was about 24 hours this time. > > So I'm no longer hosting anything public. Thanks heavens! > > *GK* > > On 13 September 2017 at 08:31, mike smith <meski...@gmail.com> wrote: > >&g

Re: [OT] Post NBN problem

On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 11:07 AM, David Connors wrote: > > > On Mon, 11 Sep 2017 at 11:04 Greg Keogh wrote: > >> I just discovered that my NBN IP silently changed again overnight without >> any apparent interruption, so it's an ongoing problem. >> > > It

Re: Context menus for .sln file

x86 vs x64 locations of registry?(assuming you run with x64 Windows) On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 2:44 PM, Greg Keogh wrote: > Hopefully I'm not breaking any rule to give Directory Opus a plug, it's >> great for this stuff and loadsmore. >> > > That's an impression utility, and

Re: [OT] Sit/stand desk results

Ketogenisis is too close to ketoaccidosis[1] for someone with insulin dependent diabetes to want to try. But if you don't, then sure :) Vegan diets, I suspect work because you have to monitor what you eat to get a balanced diet. Avoid sugar? I do that. Also 'empty carbs' It's unlikely you

Re: [OT] Sit/stand desk results

Do they? As a diabetic, I oughta look at this. OTOH being on my feet is a bit contraindicated On 19 Jun. 2017 16:33, "Tony Wright" wrote: > Hi Tom, > > No, not the back for me. They say that your body stops regulating insulin > properly after 4 hours of sitting, and that's

Re: List is back

/cry What's it running on the Windows side? M On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 12:54 PM, David Connors wrote: > Hi All, > > Sorry I had to patch the physical host that the list is on due to > wannacry. > > The linux box came back as saved instead of started after the reboot. > >

Re: Modern C++

On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 11:34 AM, Greg Keogh wrote: > Haven't used printf or scanf (or their friends) in ages. >> > > They were the first things to be highlighted when I compiled my old source > for the first time. > Not much of that around for windows code now > I also

Re: Modern C++

On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 4:57 PM, Greg Keogh wrote: > Not missing C++ because I'm still using it day-to-day :) >> > > How's the experience? Using all the new fangled styles, libraries and > compilers that appeared in the last 14 years? -- *GK* > Using boost in lieu of std,

Re: Modern C++

Not missing C++ because I'm still using it day-to-day :) On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 11:50 AM, DotNet Dude wrote: > I miss C but not C++ at all > > > On Tuesday, 18 April 2017, Greg Keogh wrote: > >> Folks, those of us writing managed code in here should

Re: installing multiple things on my development machine. Are Virtual machines still the way to go?

On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 2:45 PM, Greg Keogh wrote: > Do watch out for having too many versions of SQL Server installed - it can >>> end up making your PATH environment variable too big and then "bad things" >>> start happening. >>> >> > I just had a look at my default login

Re: installing multiple things on my development machine. Are Virtual machines still the way to go?

On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 11:13 AM, David Gardiner wrote: > VMs and Docker are great for isolating things. > > Also now with Windows 10 being able to do a 'refresh' (leaving all your > documents and source files etc alone) combined with something like > Boxstarter (or even

Re: [OT] iMac backups

; *Adrian Halid* > > > > *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-bounces@ > ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *mike smith > *Sent:* Tuesday, 24 January 2017 7:02 AM > *To:* ozDotNet <ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com> > *Subject:* Re: [OT] iMac backups > > > > I'd

Re: [OT] iMac backups

I'd go for TimeMachine as well. Just plug a external drive in, and turn Time Machine on for it. Or googledrive or dropbox if it needs to be offsite. (has anyone used these successfully as a target drive for time machine?) On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 9:33 AM, Steven Parish

Re: Friday Rant (today!)

We use it to generate fairly complex MSIs, and MSPs for patches and hotfixes. The WXS and WXI files make your eyes bleed, but once you get over that, it's ok. It's almost unavoidable to use it if you have customers that want to use enterprise policy setups. Mike On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 6:37

Re: [OT] Accepting a one off credit card payment

Or maybe other bank apps. I mentioned CBA because it's what I use On 13 Jan. 2017 12:40, "Tom Rutter" <therut...@gmail.com> wrote: > They're not with cba unfortunately > > On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 12:35 PM, mike smith <meski...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> With

Re: [OT] Accepting a one off credit card payment

With the combank app they could pay into your BSB / account number. On 13 Jan. 2017 11:53, "Tom Rutter" wrote: > Hey folks > > I have a client who can only pay me with a credit card. is there something > I could use to accept this payment as a one off? Paypal? Something

RE: [OT] IT in 'The Martian'

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hardening I'd guess that modern CPUs are too ephemeral to be considered for radiation hardening. (A different model of the family comes out every year) On 7 Jan. 2017 8:32 pm, "Ken Schaefer" wrote: > In what way are they not

Re: [OT] HP Spectre x360 thoughts

It's a touch-screen, is that a feature you're looking for? On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 7:11 AM, Tom P wrote: > I'll mostly be using it at my desk but I guess I'd like the option to > travel with it so I wouldn't go for anything larger than a 15". RAM I > thought 8GB would be

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