I am far from being good with my hands. Although I have improved over the years.

At college our computing course split into a business stream and a software engineering stream....

Jeff Moden (4/29/2014)

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schleep (4/29/2014)

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I'm getting a new Windows 7 desktop. From a powershell perspective, probably a good thing.

But, I have a goodly number of Network Places mapped on my XP...

djackson 22568 (4/29/2014)

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Eric M Russell (4/29/2014)

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Net Neutrality is a double edged sword; sure your Netflix movies...

I guess the current threat on Net Neutrality plays into this discussion too.

...or be maintained.

More in principle than in practice, I...

I see your point of view. I even held a similar one back when I was a C++ developer. I knew the standard inside out. I knew where MS had...

I'm not convinced by Dalkeith's arguments here. Everything is in a constant state of change, even if only slowly in some circles.

David.Poole (4/29/2014)

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In today's news the US Government have decided that Microsoft data held in Ireland must be made available to the US government. If that decision is upheld then...

Totally agree. This is the point when...

Alex Gay (4/29/2014)

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There is no way that we in the NHS could use cloud computing in general, or Azure in particular, especially for databases that contain patient data. The...

I really hope that the split between SQL Azure and on-premises SQL Server is somewhere close to 50/50 just so that both remain equally valuable to Microsoft. Perhaps they will...

I find it frustrating when lower management say that they agree with you that something needs streamlining or even just doing in order to stop wasting a whole raft of...

Eric M Russell (4/24/2014)

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If a software application is hard coded to use the "SA" account, you can rename it and then create a new account named "SA" with limited permissions....

jarick 15608 (4/24/2014)

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"Then people should vote with their feet. '

Gaz, The problem is that the software companies and developers who use the worst security practices in their works also seem...