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  • RE: The Gadget Itch

    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....

    May 2, 2014 at 12:54 am

    #1710259

  • RE: Add Network Places using PoSh

    Jeff Moden (4/29/2014)

    schleep (4/29/2014)

    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...

    April 30, 2014 at 1:18 am

    #1709715

  • RE: The Subtle Push to the Cloud

    djackson 22568 (4/29/2014)

    Eric M Russell (4/29/2014)

    Gary Varga (4/29/2014)

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

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

    April 29, 2014 at 9:09 am

    #1709509

  • RE: The Subtle Push to the Cloud

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

    April 29, 2014 at 8:30 am

    #1709480

  • RE: The Subtle Push to the Cloud

    Dalkeith (4/29/2014)

    ...

    Software only becomes valueless if it can't run.

    ...

    ...or be maintained.

    April 29, 2014 at 8:23 am

    #1709470

  • RE: The Subtle Push to the Cloud

    Dalkeith (4/29/2014)

    Surely software at the end of the day is digital information so in principle it could be immortal if it can still run.

    More in principle than in practice, I...

    April 29, 2014 at 8:22 am

    #1709468

  • RE: The Subtle Push to the Cloud

    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...

    April 29, 2014 at 7:01 am

    #1709422

  • RE: The Subtle Push to the Cloud

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

    April 29, 2014 at 6:10 am

    #1709401

  • RE: The Subtle Push to the Cloud

    David.Poole (4/29/2014)

    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...

    April 29, 2014 at 4:24 am

    #1709370

  • RE: The Subtle Push to the Cloud

    Dalkeith (4/29/2014)

    ...When vendors push people in directions they want rather than what their clients want - it is often an inspiration for open source.

    Totally agree. This is the point when...

    April 29, 2014 at 3:23 am

    #1709352

  • RE: The Subtle Push to the Cloud

    Alex Gay (4/29/2014)

    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...

    April 29, 2014 at 2:15 am

    #1709332

  • RE: The Subtle Push to the Cloud

    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...

    April 29, 2014 at 1:41 am

    #1709327

  • RE: Running With The Red Queen

    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...

    April 28, 2014 at 1:55 am

    #1709078

  • RE: Good Practices for Software Development

    Eric M Russell (4/24/2014)

    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....

    April 24, 2014 at 7:29 am

    #1708404

  • RE: Good Practices for Software Development

    jarick 15608 (4/24/2014)

    "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...

    April 24, 2014 at 7:20 am

    #1708401

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