Re: OT: Robo Vacs

I also have the Xiaomi S2 Robo and I love it. Also have the handheld Dreame from Xiaomi and that works great as well. I don't have carpets only laminate floors. Best part is integration with Google Mini. When I leave home I can say "Ok Google, Start vacuuming". Then "Ok Google, Good Bye" (to

Re: Web app development process

Greg, My 2 cents (I'm the sort of boffin that does both the code and the styling). I like starting from a bootstrap template and quickly learn the conventions. They are generally not that hard. Frankly I learned 2 templates that I bought of https://wrapbootstrap.com and I use them as the base for

Fwd: Very slow query on Persisted Column with Function call

Hi, I have a table with a persisted column that is build using a function call: This is the function: CREATE FUNCTION os.RemoveNonAlphaNumericCharacters( @Temp NVARCHAR(2048) ) RETURNS VARCHAR(2048) WITH SCHEMABINDING AS BEGIN DECLARE @KeepValues AS NVARCHAR(100) SET @KeepValues =

Re: Log filter / display dashboard - Looking for recommendation [Slightly off topic]

Greg, I've been looking into this as well and I'm not sure if there is a one-size-fits all. We've been using Seq in our app and we ingest ~1-6gb logs a day. Found seq ok but if you search ... well, anything past 24-48h is very very slow. We did various optimizations and move lots of the logs out

Re: [OT] Aurelia use

I'm one of the lovers of Aurelia (and I know Wal also on this list uses Aurelia). For me Aurelia is has one of the best designs possible. Clean and easy to use. Everything is simply obvious. With Aurelia I never had to think "how do you do this or that". It's all simple and natural. DI is

Re: [OT] Angular certification

gt; wrote: > > moved to Aurelia (www.aurelia.io) > > > Rob Eisenberg worked on Angular2 (and Caliburn*). He likes his conventions. > > > -- > *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com <ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com> on > behalf of Cornel

Re: [OT] Angular certification

You too Paul? I also gave up on Angular 2 and moved to Aurelia (www.aurelia.io) and I love it. I think Angular 2 has the "done by the big guys syndrome". I don't know anyone (yet) who used Aurelia and ever looked back at A2! On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 4:21 PM, Paul Glavich

Re: Entity Framework - the lay of the land

Stephen, My 2 cents without seeing the query. 1. Try to make a view that groups your main table with the detail table to calculate that extra status field. I'd expect that to be quick and easy to do. 2. Change your EF to not query the table + 100 queries for the status but query the view. On

Re: Entity Framework - the lay of the land

I'll jump in with my experience (just last year). Using EF7 (EF Core 1.0 now?) I always disliked EF version but I liked the original Linq2Sql which was quite lightweight compared to EF. 1. Database design and DTO design is very very strictly monitored and mapping Table > Entity is very

Re: [OT] web essentials vs grunt vs gulp

I use gulp (outside of VS) I don't think the integration with VS is worth it. gulp with a watch task to the job fine for me. I code all those in VS code On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 10:05 AM, Wallace Turner wrote: > for vs2013 and vs2015 which do you use ? > i see web

Re: SQL foreign key question

Inception :) On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 3:31 PM, David Burstin wrote: > I came across this (snipped to protect the innocent): > > > > CREATE TABLE [dbo].[V2_BREC_NMIStatusHistory] ( > > [NMIStatusHistoryId] INT IDENTITY (1, 1) NOT FOR REPLICATION > NOT NULL,

(Azure service) Logging

Hi, How do you guys do logging in your application? And how do you search through logs for various issues? We have a cloud app deployed in Azure and we implemented our own logging that logs both to disk in nice neat log files and to Azure table storage. This works great but it's hard to do

SQL DB Upgrades

Happy New Year everyone :) I was curious what are the best practices these days for doing data base upgrades. We currently use DbUp and we write all upgrade scripts by hand to allow us to verify them, tweak them, make sure upgrades work well. All scripts are idempotent and they can be run as

Re: [OT] WPF or Winforms?

Nope. They are dead. (As far as I'm concerned) unless you really really really really need to go down that crazy path. If you really really want a desktop app I'd look into http://electron.atom.io/ to run a cross-platform "desktop" app build with web technologies on top of Chrome. Atom editor is

Re: REST testing

I'm using DHC extension for Chrome for all my rest tests: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dhc-resthttp-api-client/aejoelaoggembcahagimdiliamlcdmfm?hl=en It's fantastic. On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Thomas Koster wrote: > Greg, > > On 13 September 2015 at

Re: [OT] Freelancer experience

Few years ago when I had lots more free time and no company to run and keep me busy I used to sell some of my time on www.elance.com (similar site with freelancer). I had some pretty unique skill set and I was not competing with the mass of developers on there and I was getting quite often offers

Re: Cross-platform charting

Have you looked at http://www.highcharts.com/ ? Don't know if it works with Xamarin but the graphics part is pretty damn nice :) On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 5:52 PM, Joseph Cooney wrote: > I've had good success in the past with flotr2 > >

Re: TypeScript summary

15 at 2:24 PM, Thomas Koster <tkos...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 9 September 2015 at 13:18, Corneliu I. Tusnea > <corne...@acorns.com.au> wrote: > > Compared to Augular2 Aurelia simply rocks and it's so dead easy to > > setup. > > Aurelia looks interesting, but a quick scan

Powershell UI + tabs

Hi, Is there a lightweight powershell UI that has tabs so I can have multiple tabs open? Google searches yield random useless results. Thanks, Corneliu.

Re: TypeScript summary

Greg, Interesting comments. I have to say I started about a week ago learning TypeScript + Aurelia ( http://aurelia.io/) which is an alternative to Angular2 and my experience it's been very very good. Yes, I had few bumps here and there as I need to use Typescript 1.5.3 beta and Aurelia is still

Re: Powershell UI + tabs

Oh yes, that looks awesome. Thanks!!! On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Stephen Price <step...@perthprojects.com> wrote: > Console2 for all your command line needs. > > On Wed, 9 Sep 2015 at 11:20 Corneliu I. Tusnea <corne...@acorns.com.au> > wrote: > >> Hi, >&g

Re: MVC Redirect and Async Operations

Task(()= { ... do stuff }).Start() On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 8:06 PM, Greg Low (罗格雷格博士) g...@greglow.com wrote: One for the MVC brains trust if I can: I want to add some basic link redirection and logging to a test MVC site. So, for example, if I have a calls like:

Re: MEF - Microsoft Extension Framework. Opinions requested.

Scott, I couldn't agree with you more. MEF feels one of those Patterns Practices thing that gets pushed onto us by MS at times but everyone hates and it's f* impractical in any real life scenario. On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Scott Barnes scott.bar...@gmail.com wrote: MEF was built to put

Re: MSDN Subscription renewal

Greg K, If your team is smaller than 5 people or you are an individual developer you can use it. I use it for my personal use outside of my company. I think it's a great product. Regards, Corneliu. On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 11:42 PM, Greg Low (罗格雷格博士) g...@greglow.com wrote: See the Q A at

Re: Best unit testing tools

BDD. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavior-driven_development There is a BDD package for .Net as well. Once you learn to write you test out of small bite-size pieces you'll love it's power. I hate unit tests. I think they are easy for simple code that is not worth testing and too complicated to

Re: [OT] Unbelievable ad tracking

Alternative 7) Install a Windows Media Center for your TV, record all the shows you want learn to skip the ads and never see an ad again on TV :) On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 5:54 PM, David Connors da...@connors.com wrote: Or: 7) Sit on your arse in front of the TV watching endless shit for

What happened yesterday with Azure?

Hi every, Yesterday Azure had a massive outage with 80% of the Azure going down world wide. At some point only the Australian, Brazil and Japan DCs were still working. http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/status/#history The outage took down XBox and Office 365 and of course everyone else running

Re: What happened yesterday with Azure?

20, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Corneliu I. Tusnea corne...@acorns.com.au wrote: Hi every, Yesterday Azure had a massive outage with 80% of the Azure going down world wide. At some point only the Australian, Brazil and Japan DCs were still working. http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/status/#history

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Re: Programatically paying BPAY invoices

Btw, is there any alternative to ezidebit? They seem to be the only ones doing DD. Even eway that used to have such a module has no support anymore. On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 10:07 PM, Jano Petras jano.pet...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Greg, Unfortunately, BPay is (or used to be 3 years ago) a batch

Re: [OT] Thurday afternoon rant

That piece of code looks so freaking ugly Greg. new XElement(dasdass,new XElement( ... )) .. w t f Why? Why can't we just have a nice clean way of dealing with XML like LINQ or even like Powershell? I agree with Preet. XML is a pain in the **. C'mon Microsoft. You build so many

Re: What's a million lines of code worth?

Doesn't sound that bad. Just thinking how many sub-systems they have and how much redundancy is in each system it doesn't sound that much at all. Also think that they are not running any of-the-shelf OS which means that part of those 19M lines of code they also have the HAL and various drivers

Powershell Training Course

Hi, I have a new sys-admin and before he starts I'd like to put him on an intensive 2 week powershell online training course. Anyone can recommend a PS course that is intense and well focused for sys-admins role? I'd like the course to have an Azure management component as well. Thanks,

Re: OT: Windows on a Mac Pro

I just saw a MacPro running WindowsXP this morning on the train. If that works .. anything will work :) As long as you can live with the keyboard and with heaps of missing keys the rest should be ok ... On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 5:11 PM, Bill McCarthy bill.mccarthy.li...@live.com.au wrote: Hi,

Re: Signing up for Azure - Mobile Verification Failed?

money. On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Corneliu I. Tusnea corne...@acorns.com.au wrote: It's the Austalian one and it recognized me as from Australia and asked for mobile in Au format 4xx xxx xxx The funny part is that it worked perfectly this morning. Exactly the same site, same browser

Re: Signing up for Azure - Mobile Verification Failed?

wrote: Is it an American site, and perhaps looking for an American based card? (maybe it just wants an American billing address, if it wants an SSN, you're SOL ) On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Corneliu I. Tusnea corne...@acorns.com.au wrote: Guys, I've been trying for the last 2h

Signing up for Azure - Mobile Verification Failed?

Guys, I've been trying for the last 2h to sign up for a new Azure Subscription and I always fail during the Mobile Verification. I've tried various valid mobile numbers but they all fail with *We were unable to verify your account.* This is very annoying and .. bad bad experience ... I really

SCCM?

Hi, Anyone has experience with SCCM? I'm trying to see if SCCM is the right tool to help me manage and monitor 20+ Windows 2012 servers (Web+SQL) and I find the documentation online to be very much all over the place. So much functionality, so hard to figure out simple things :( First question

Re: [OT] 43°C here

22°C in my office :) On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.comwrote: It's showing 26° for my suburb. :) On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 11:27 AM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: I'm 1.53 km from Moorabbin Airport tower which shows: METAR YMMB 170300Z AUTO 34013KT

WebApp Monitoring

Hi, We are deploying a new instance of our app for a customer and we need a good monitoring for the app (web, sql, mongo, disk, ) We currently use Datadog (www.datadog.com) but I think it's missing some functionality (e.g. ping a webpage). What are some great tools for monitoring a web app

Download BizSpark Older Licences Software

Morning everyone, I have a question about downloading licensed software from Microsoft. We used to be part of the Bizspark program which was very good to us. Part of the program we got licences to various software including SQL Server Standard. Our BizSpark program finished and we exited

Documentation Wiki?

Hi guys, Happy New Year. I have a bit of a trouble creating/updating the internal/development documentation of our project and I was curious how do other people handle documentation. Right now we are using Confluence which is very nice. I like their diagrams and integration of the diagrams in

Re: Documentation Wiki?

with conflicts. It's all on the public web via Office 365 and locally on our laptops. On 6 January 2014 17:23, Corneliu I. Tusnea corne...@acorns.com.auwrote: Hi guys, Happy New Year. I have a bit of a trouble creating/updating the internal/development documentation of our project and I

Re: [OT] Machine restart lock-up

Busted SSD? I had a similar one that was hanging at random times. Returned it back and got a replacement without any questions asked by the shop On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 7:54 AM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Folks, since I installed a fresh Windows 7 in a SanDisk 256GB SSD last weekend my

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Re: [OT] Online task management tool

Greg, We used Trello intensively for all our task management and project management for a long time until we graduated and moved to Jira. I love Trello and I think it's one of the best apps out there for shared task management. Very simple, very intuitive. On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 6:59 PM, Greg

Where to buy Sql Server Enterprise 2012?

Hi, I need to buy a licence for Sql Server Enterprise 2012. Any idea where I could get it? Microsoft site is a bit confusing. Thanks, Corneliu

Re: In praise of T4 code generation

Thomas, Never had an issue with generated code from T4. All our generated code also resides in source control so the moment you touched the .tt you also modified the .generated and you push the together in the repo. During a merge the same rules apply as any other merge, merge both .tt and the

Re: In praise of T4 code generation

Greg, I love T4 as well. A Massive part of my project is build around very custom T4 code generation that was all nicely coded to output very good, reliable and repeable bits of code that helps us mostly around some complex serializations. It would be great it VS would include a nice T4 editor by

Re: Code commenting

If it was hard to write it should be hard to read :) Why comment? On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Davy Jones djones...@gmail.com wrote: Hello If you are doing this in code. It points to the fact that someone is not pulling their weight. Code should not have comments. If you need them to

Re: Process.Start Stuck

in vs2010 if .net4 to see what that thread is doing. On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Corneliu I. Tusnea corne...@acorns.com.au wrote: Existing Logging left and right of the Process.Start :) On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Wallace Turner wallace.tur...@gmail.com wrote: this stopped

Re: Process.Start Stuck

running ie can u see it in task manager On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Corneliu I. Tusnea corne...@acorns.com.au wrote: Hi, I have a website that is running some background tasks as separate executables with Process.Start. This has been working like this for a long time. However recently

Re: Process.Start Stuck

: is the process you're starting still running ie can u see it in task manager On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Corneliu I. Tusnea corne...@acorns.com.au wrote: Hi, I have a website that is running some background tasks as separate executables with Process.Start. This has been working like

Re: [OT] Surface Pro 2

How is the Helix? On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 9:01 PM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: I replace my Surface Pro with a Lenovo Helix. However the person that has the Surface now loves it. They do a lot of PDF and Word annotations, and find the ability to just scribble notes, circle

Re: [OT] Windows Server 2012

I'm ok with it. Works quite nicely on my servers and I have heaps of them but no production on HyperV, only staging and only remote desktop which works ok. My main issue is that RPD keeps dropping out if I do nothing. If I use it it's all good and fast but if I leave it open for 3-4minutes it's

Re: decimal.ToString() (JSON Serialization)

Hurd, B.Sc.(Ma.)(Hons.) On 11 August 2013 14:32, Corneliu I. Tusnea corne...@acorns.com.au wrote: Hi, Anyone working today? How can I force the NewtonSoft Json Serializer to serialize two decimals the same way? decimal a = 1234.1200M; decimal b = 1234.12M; var sa

Re: decimal.ToString() (JSON Serialization)

would be cheaper faster more understandable? On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Corneliu I. Tusnea corne...@acorns.com.au wrote: Yes, that's my issue. It seems that if you somehow tell is there are multiple zeros is keeps than and displays them during the .ToString(). This is what I ended up

Re: Serializing large numbers of entities

Have you had a look at ProtoBuffers what Wal recommended? The payload is about 30% smaller and few times faster. There is a SL implementation as well: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/73901/Silverlight-Binary-Serialization-using-Protobuf-ne On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Greg Keogh

Re: FW: 240GB SSD?

...@ozdotnet.com [ mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Corneliu I. Tusnea *Sent:* Friday, 9 August 2013 3:39 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: 240GB SSD? ** ** Thanks everyone. Got a Crucial 240Gb M500 from MWave. Good price and it's already

Re: FW: 240GB SSD?

[ mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Corneliu I. Tusnea *Sent:* Friday, 9 August 2013 3:39 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: 240GB SSD? ** ** Thanks everyone. Got a Crucial 240Gb M500 from MWave. Good price and it's already getting installed

Network Location Private/Public

Hi, I'm trying to configure my new server and accidentally I've clicked on the Network icon in my computer and then on Turn on Sharing :) Yup .. I did it ... Now, I've turned off sharing however the network location for the public network was changed from Public to Private and I can't seem to

Share File Between Two Servers

Hi What's the best/safest way to share files between two servers. They are in the same location and have private IPs (10.0.40) but there are a bunch of other servers there so I don't want to open Network Discover Sharing. Thanks, Corneliu.

Re: Share File Between Two Servers

with UAC if its turned on (reduced access for local admin accounts connecting remotely). I think the work around is to connect with either a domain account, or tun off UAC. If it causes an issue. For copying files you might be fine. On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 9:38 PM, Corneliu I. Tusnea corne

Re: Share File Between Two Servers

familiar. If this one doesn't do it, you might find one similar that does if you search for similar... ** ** On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 10:47 PM, Corneliu I. Tusnea corne...@acorns.com.au wrote: I don't have file sharing turned on which I think it means \C$ is not available. I don't

Re: Share File Between Two Servers

, Corneliu I. Tusnea corne...@acorns.com.auwrote: I want to use to backup various files between servers so I'd like to have some type of security. I found UFTP http://uftp-multicast.sourceforge.netwhich is using multicasting and it's secure and looks very promising, except the fact that it's all

240GB SSD?

Hi, What's a good, fast and reliable SSD these days? My old HDD from my home workstation decided it's that time of it's lifetime when work is no longer on its books so I need to replace it. PS Maybe also a place I could buy it and pick it up today. Thanks, Corneliu.

Re: 240GB SSD?

stores/prices/stock. Then just pick a place close to you… ** ** Cheers Ken ** ** *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [ mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Corneliu I. Tusnea *Sent:* Friday, 9 August 2013 8:46 AM *To:* ozDotNet

Server Application Monitoring

Hi, I'm looking for some recommendations for a system that does Server Application Monitoring for our servers. I've tried NewRelic and while it's an impressive product they don't have very good support for custom metrics and instrumentation. I'd like to be able to publish my own metrics that

Re: Server Application Monitoring

Follow me on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/davidconnors Connect with me on LinkedIn: http://au.linkedin.com/in/davidjohnconnors On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Corneliu I. Tusnea corne...@acorns.com.au wrote: Hi, I'm looking for some recommendations for a system that does Server

Re: Livefan F2 - Windows 8 Tablet?

:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Corneliu I. Tusnea *Sent:* Monday, 29 July 2013 1:29 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Livefan F2 - Windows 8 Tablet? ** ** Hi, ** ** Anyone tried one of these Chinese W8 tables: Livefan F2? http

Re: Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

Isn't this funny? :) Who will accept his request on our behalf? On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 7:25 AM, Tejas Goradia byteb...@gmail.com wrote: [image: LinkedIn] * From Tejas Goradia * Microsoft Businesss Intelligence Consultant at DWS Melbourne Area, Australia ozDotNet, I'd

Livefan F2 - Windows 8 Tablet?

Hi, Anyone tried one of these Chinese W8 tables: Livefan F2? http://www.aliexpress.com/item/EMS-Shipping-wifi-3G-Windows-8-ATom-N2600-dual-core-1-6GHz-2G-RAM-32G-SSD/575960908.html Core i5, 4Gb RAM, 128Gb SSD, 3G? $999? It's not Surface but has 3G. Thoughts? Corneliu

Re: Livefan F2 - Windows 8 Tablet?

...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Corneliu I. Tusnea *Sent:* Monday, 29 July 2013 1:29 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Livefan F2 - Windows 8 Tablet? ** ** Hi, ** ** Anyone tried one of these Chinese W8 tables: Livefan F2? http://www.aliexpress.com/item/EMS-Shipping-wifi-3G

SQL Server Developer Edition

Hi guys, [cross post to ozDotNet and SQLDownUnder] I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out the licenceing of SQL Server Developer Edition. This is straight from the SQL_Server_2012_Licensing_Reference_Guide.pdf from Microsoft: *Licensing SQL Server for Non-production Use* *When using SQL

Re: Parallet.ForEach

David/Greg, Ihe IEnumerable is not an issue with Parallel.ForEach. The PFX library will look for few other interfaces for your object and decide the partitioning strategy based on that. There are multiple paritioners that will be picked up based on your source: Range (used for IList), Chunk (used

Re: Parallet.ForEach

Here is a very good (but very old) presentation about the PFX: http://blogesh.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/getting-the-most-out-of-pfx.pptx Slide 33 has the partitioning details. On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Corneliu I. Tusnea corne...@acorns.com.auwrote: David/Greg, Ihe IEnumerable

Re: Message Queing

works great. ** ** *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Corneliu I. Tusnea *Sent:* Friday, 21 June 2013 11:48 AM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Message Queing ** ** Hi, ** ** Anyone can recommend a good message queuing

Re: Site for suggestions to Surface Hardware (like Connect)?

Why would you need an insert key? You can either Remap the Resharper Shortcut (ReSharper_Generate is the name of the command) Or you can remap a key from the keyboard using SharpKeys (free via Codeplex) http://sharpkeys.codeplex.com/ On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Neil Young

Re: .Net based Email Newsletter

Why build? Why not use a proper newsletter system? MailChimp or any of the other million existing ones? They are very good. They can also give you some deliverability and open rate reports which can tell you if your newsletter have any value or they are simply money spend delivering noise. They

Re: .Net based Email Newsletter

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Re: Lightweight database

I'm using siaqodb (http://siaqodb.com/) which is a lightweight .Net object database and I'm very happy with it. Very fast and dead easy to use linq syntax. On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 12:42 AM, a...@nomscon.com wrote: I have to admit that I have not used it. But I have been following it for a

Re: Windows forgetting app passwords

Google said they do: http://www.google.com.au/policies/privacy/frameworks/ *As described in our Safe Harbor certificationhttp://safeharbor.export.gov/companyinfo.aspx?id=16626, we comply with the US-EU Safe Harbor Framework and the US-Swiss Safe Harbor Framework as set forth by the US Department

Re: 1300 Number

on any box (even runs on a raspberry pi if you want) and took about 1 hour to set up. HTH Matthew On 23/04/13 12:05, Corneliu I. Tusnea wrote: Hi, Could I get some recommendations for hosting our 1300 number? At the moment I'm with AllTel and their cost is quite acceptable but I'm

1300 Number

Hi, Could I get some recommendations for hosting our 1300 number? At the moment I'm with AllTel and their cost is quite acceptable but I'm thinking of finding a cheaper provider. PS Also, any recommendations for a VirtualPBX system? Preferably something cloud hosted, that can route numbers for

Commercial Source Code Licence

Hi, I have for our app few PHP plugins that we distribute that work in combination with our application. I need to add some licence information to these plugins but I'm not sure what would be a valid licence to allow users to change it if they need to make it work with our service but not

Re: MVC4 URLs

:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Corneliu I. Tusnea *Sent:* Friday, 12 April 2013 10:02 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: MVC4 URLs ** ** Greg, ** ** Instead of using the AbsolutUri and changing it look

Re: Open Source development and authenticode

Comodo: $166.95 http://www.comodo.com/business-security/code-signing-certificates/code-signing.php But I bought mine through Ksoftware which is a reseller of comodo: http://codesigning.ksoftware.net/ $95/year .. Corneliu. On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: I

Re: Open Source development and authenticode

cannot see them, remember? ** ** *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdottnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Corneliu I. Tusnea *Sent:* Monday, April 15, 2013 7:31 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: Open Source development and authenticode ** ** You need to install

Re: MVC4 URLs

Greg, Instead of using the AbsolutUri and changing it look at the HttpContext.Requst.Url.Host and add the Url.Action. However I'd strongly recommend you look at HttpContext.Request.Headers[host] and take the part before the : just in case your side responds to various host names. Eg..

Hosted/Cloud VirtualPBX that works with Skype

Hi, Anyone had any experience with any Cloud VirtualPBX service that can work with Skype? As skype removed the option to Transfer Calls I'm looking getting a pbx that still works with Skype. I've checked http://www.zaplee.com and looks very promising having all the functionality I need and a

Skype: Call Transfer removed?

Anyone has any idea why Microsoft decided to remove the Call Transfer feature in Skype? They just alienated every business customer possible and if this just a move to force us to move to Lync then they are very very stupid :((( https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA1241/how-can-i-transfer-a-call

Office365 ?

Hi, Anyone tried Office365 + Lync? Is it worth it? Is it only available via Telstra or can I buy it in other ways? How is customer support and what is the quality of Lync vs Skype? Thanks, Corneliu.

Re: Office365 ?

nothing much over this. Sorry don't know about AU offerings. On 12 April 2013 12:18, Corneliu I. Tusnea corne...@acorns.com.auwrote: Hi, Anyone tried Office365 + Lync? Is it worth it? Is it only available via Telstra or can I buy it in other ways? How is customer support and what

Re: [OT] Surface RT or Surface Pro?

Yes, but by the time .Net developers started to use WebServices everyone else moved on to REST as they figured out WS were bloody hard to use, incompatible between platforms, heavyweight, hard to upgrade and generally a pain in the *** to develop against :) Now everyone is talking lightweight REST

Re: occasionally connected application design problem

Greg, I'm sure the SQL guys will tell you about some magical tool that can do all of this for you hands free and without any headaches (fingers crossed) but my take would be the good old REST API model. 1. For every Table have two columns LastUpdated, LastUploaded and LastDownloaded. Every

Skywards (Emirates) sent me my password back in clear text

This is one of those OMG, there are still websites keeping passwords in clear text moments but Skywards happily sent me back my password in clear text. Anyone knows anyone in Skywards that I can get their a*** kicked for this? http://tinypic.com/r/10ds11y/6 [image: Inline image 1] Regards,

Re: Encryption

Stephen, Except using DAPI (which you know the issues) you are pretty much in a situation where any solution you pick can be reverse engineered by someone with enough access level. The next best way of doing it is to encrypt using a X.509 certificate. Generate a certificate with a private key,

Re: Crypto hash in a Parallel.ForEach

/system.threadstaticattribute.aspx On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Corneliu I. Tusnea corne...@acorns.com.au wrote: I hit exactly the same issue with calculating hashes. I don't think it's threadsafe to do it. Just initialize it in each thread. I found the performance to be acceptable

Re: Transcription software

Ask Hanselman .. he is always transcripting his recordings. I think he is using an actual person (elance, taskarmy) for few cents an hour. On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Greg Low (GregLow.com) g...@greglow.comwrote: Hi Folks, ** ** Anyone know if there’s anything better than Dragon

Re: Managing databases

We are using a system system and we use DBUP on top of it to help us deploy to production environments. On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Stuart Kinnear stu...@skproactive.comwrote: Over the holiday break I thought I might research how we can improve our approach. What systems have you or

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