Re: OT - wondering; c# direction

2010-02-11 Thread David Connors
ous movement; at least that is the only reason I can figure out why anyone would endure a Steve Yegge talk or blog post. The same people probably believe Erlang propaganda. Their bossman needs to give them more work to do so they can stop trying to figure out how to invent 1995. -- David Connors (

Re: OT - wondering; c# direction

2010-02-11 Thread David Connors
all our woes by some idiot with a blog doing crazy man hand waiving that "YOU'RE DOING IT ALL WRONG" and we need to throw out everything and go back to re-education camp to learn the new thing that is going to fix everything. [ ... ] David. > > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:58

Re: [OT] Blogging

2010-02-12 Thread David Connors
We used Wordpress on Windows/IIS7 for www.techedbackstage.net and I recommend it highly. The authoring experience is really nice, there is an iPhone app for it, and about a billion plugins to go everything imaginable. -- David Connors Software Engineer Codify Pty Ltd - www.codify.com Phone: +61

Re: [OT] Blogging

2010-02-12 Thread David Connors
Btw; I learned from www.techedbackstage.net that it is a bloody lot of hard work to run one with good content. Make sure you set aside time so it doesn't become abandonware. -- David Connors Software Engineer Codify Pty Ltd - www.codify.com Phone: +61 (7) 32106269 | Facsimilie: +61 (7) 321

Re: [OT] Facebook data mining

2010-02-14 Thread David Connors
(i.e. it operates at a pretty massive scale and yet, say, Twitter, can't stay up just storing 160 byte strings). As it stands, FB is really the only medium out there at the moment for effortlessly sharing content between close family and friends *securely* (at least that is the perception an

Re: [OT] Facebook data mining

2010-02-14 Thread David Connors
e way to be able to present awesome figures to investors! 250million users and 0% churn! It also had a hard time coping with my so-called "name change". As if > Facebook somehow knows, better than ME, what my own name is. > That is not entirely implausible. [?] David. > >

Re: Exchange Web Services Development

2010-02-16 Thread David Connors
them. If you have a Mac running OSX Snow Leopard, all of the native apps (mail, contacts and calendar) directly sync against Exchange using those web services - which is pretty cool I think! My only gripe is why they are needed in light of activesync (MSRPC+MAPI vs ActiveSync vs Web Services ALL t

Re: Connors makes Slashdot : The Rick Roll

2010-02-18 Thread David Connors
oints to: > > http://www.techedbackstage.net/2010/02/17/bittorrent-traffic-shaping-and-trusting-users/ I did notice that post myself as well. :) -- David Connors (da...@codify.com) Software Engineer Codify Pty Ltd - www.codify.com Phone: +61 (7) 3210 6268 | Facsimile: +61 (7) 3210 6269 | Mobile: +61 4

Re: Connors makes Slashdot : The Rick Roll

2010-02-18 Thread David Connors
ns ... >> >> Lets analyse the data and see who's presentation coincides with the >> most bit-torrenting ... >> >> > I was also trolling reddit a while back, and there was a photo thread... > was clicking on them, and who should pop up about 15 pics down!? >

Re: Connors makes Slashdot : The Rick Roll

2010-02-18 Thread David Connors
causes global bananas. That was probably the easiest bit of misdirection I've ever done. I should apply for a job at the UN IPCC. -- David Connors (da...@codify.com) Software Engineer Codify Pty Ltd - www.codify.com Phone: +61 (7) 3210 6268 | Facsimile: +61 (7) 3210 6269 | Mobile: +61 417 189 363 V-

Re: Connors makes Slashdot : The Rick Roll

2010-02-18 Thread David Connors
On 18 February 2010 21:45, Nick Hodge wrote: > This is the ultimate awesome. Slashdot! Wootage! > We'll see if my RAS smart card still works in a few hours when the PR guys at corp roll out of bed. Wordpress is a PoS for scalability!! -- David Connors (da...@codify.com) Softwa

Re: Connors makes Slashdot : The Rick Roll

2010-02-18 Thread David Connors
ends up caching the submission forms (you submit a comment and it just shows up as an empty form again) - which is not great. wp-supercache plug in looks like the go but I am extremely reluctant to start a deployment of it close to midnight when I've not used it before. -- David Connors (d

Re: Connors makes Slashdot : The Rick Roll

2010-02-18 Thread David Connors
I think my phone is going to explode with bandwidth warnings shortly as the yanks roll out of bed. How many SMSes can I fit in 32 GB and how bankrupt will I be from paying to have them sent? On 18 February 2010 22:17, David Connors wrote: > > > On 18 February 2010 22:16, sil

Re: Connors makes Slashdot : The Rick Roll

2010-02-18 Thread David Connors
bout people using too much bandwidth to download bullcrap is going to go international. -- David Connors (da...@codify.com) Software Engineer Codify Pty Ltd - www.codify.com Phone: +61 (7) 3210 6268 | Facsimile: +61 (7) 3210 6269 | Mobile: +61 417 189 363 V-Card: https://www.codify.com/cards/davidc

Re: Connors makes Slashdot : The Rick Roll

2010-02-18 Thread David Connors
On 18 February 2010 22:16, silky wrote: > http://www.mirios.com.au/adhoc/no.html > Boom Tish! I have resisted posting that three times now. -- David Connors (da...@codify.com) Software Engineer Codify Pty Ltd - www.codify.com Phone: +61 (7) 3210 6268 | Facsimile: +61 (7) 3210 6269 |

Re: Connors makes Slashdot : The Rick Roll

2010-02-18 Thread David Connors
have even read the friggin article). > The guy who worked for a charity - Did you dob him in to his employers? I > would have! > Me too. Alas They put me back in my box when I start firing up. David. -- David Connors (da...@codify.com) Software Engineer Codify Pty Ltd - www.codify.

Re: Connors makes Slashdot : The Rick Roll

2010-02-19 Thread David Connors
t" is >>>> than the "Slashdot Effect". On 19 February 2010 13:48, David Connors wrote: > On 19 February 2010 12:56, Ian Thomas wrote: > >> OT the current flavour of this thread, but I’m reading your latest >> backstage blog article and like your analytic

Re: Connors makes Slashdot : The Rick Roll

2010-02-19 Thread David Connors
Not = Now On 19 February 2010 21:20, David Connors wrote: > Ah this just keeps on getting more insane. te09 is not part of the > wikipedia definition of rickrolling: > >- http://bit.ly/bTUfPT > > it made techcrunch today: > >- http://bit.ly/aGdWNo > > T

Re: [OT] Bill gates on our energy futures - some tech miracles needed

2010-02-21 Thread David Connors
u're a roof insulation installer in Australia). David. -- David Connors (da...@codify.com) Software Engineer Codify Pty Ltd - www.codify.com Phone: +61 (7) 3210 6268 | Facsimile: +61 (7) 3210 6269 | Mobile: +61 417 189 363 V-Card: https://www.codify.com/cards/davidconnors Address Info: https://www.codify.com/contact

Re: [OT] Bill gates on our energy futures - some tech miracles needed

2010-02-21 Thread David Connors
he destruction of our habitats is by far the biggest worry at present. > Quite right. I'd actually argue that cr4p government in most of the developing world is a cause of such problems - not a carbon debt. Buy anyway... hey! Is it Friday already? It feels like Monday! -- David Connors (d

Re: [OT] Bill gates on our energy futures - some tech miracles needed

2010-02-21 Thread David Connors
On 22 February 2010 10:22, Ken Schaefer wrote: > DC> Quite right. I'd actually argue that cr4p government in most of the > developing world is a cause of such problems - not a carbon debt > > The cause of what problems? > Deforestation. -- David Connors (da...@codify

Re: [OT] Bill gates on our energy futures - some tech miracles needed

2010-02-23 Thread David Connors
he gross figure is the only one that matters - bulldoze Australia into the Pacific tomorrow and the gross improvement for the planet is stuff all. -- David Connors (da...@codify.com) Software Engineer Codify Pty Ltd - www.codify.com Phone: +61 (7) 3210 6268 | Facsimile: +61 (7) 3210 6269 | Mobile: +61 417 189 363 V-Card: https://www.codify.com/cards/davidconnors Address Info: https://www.codify.com/contact <<330.gif>>

Re: [OT] Bill gates on our energy futures - some tech miracles needed

2010-02-23 Thread David Connors
r present. Some of the source code is *cracking* reading. It left me shaking my head. Don't get me wrong (as I fear you already have). I'm all for us lowering our environmental foot print wherever possible. I am somewhat amused, though, when I look back, that it was IPCC and realclimate.org t

Re: [OT] Bill gates on our energy futures - some tech miracles needed

2010-02-23 Thread David Connors
1%/decade change would have them waving their arms running in circles going "DANGER WILL ROBINSON!" You tell me who's right out of your reference or mine (hint: f'd if I know! ... it is not a trick question ... I really don't know!! :) David. -- David Connors (da...@codi

Re: [OT] Bill gates on our energy futures - some tech miracles needed

2010-02-23 Thread David Connors
conclusion is wrong btw) money should be spent on adaptation measures. 7. Bonus answer - Yes I think we should do what we should to preserve the environment, use less energy where it does not inhibit the prosperity of future generations of mankind. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b49Iwfp8U-U

Re: [OT] Bill gates on our energy futures - some tech miracles needed

2010-02-23 Thread David Connors
t on the citations in AR4 and almost none of it has come from within the established scientific community. Hell, even Greenpeace Britain are calling for Pachauri's head. Anyway - this has been fun but I have a metric pant load of work to do over the next few days. -- David Connors (da...@co

Re: [OT] Bill gates on our energy futures - some tech miracles needed

2010-02-23 Thread David Connors
On 24 February 2010 12:59, Tiang Cheng wrote: > Any scientist can claims they can forecast a change in temperature better > have won a nobel prize for their work before I'ld believe them. > You actually don't need to do the actual forecast, just make a movie about it. ;)

Re: [OT] Bill gates on our energy futures - some tech miracles needed

2010-02-23 Thread David Connors
T list have failed as far as I know. In the absence of any sort of charter for the list ... there is always the mute button. -- David Connors (da...@codify.com) Software Engineer Codify Pty Ltd - www.codify.com Phone: +61 (7) 3210 6268 | Facsimile: +61 (7) 3210 6269 | Mobile: +61 417 189 363

Re: [OT] Bill gates on our energy futures - some tech miracles needed

2010-02-25 Thread David Connors
ou think you've won an > argument. So tell me, seeing as it is that important that you win an > argument - what argument did you win? > I wasn't trying to win an argument. My position remains flexible and nuanced. -- David Connors (da...@codify.com) Software Engineer Co

Re: [OT] Bill gates on our energy futures - some tech miracles needed

2010-02-25 Thread David Connors
proves any particular scientific theory re AGW. "If you take 10 years of emails and correspondence between people in an organisation and pick out a few little bits here and there you can pretty much come up any conclusion you want about someone." The above is not a 'few bits here a

Re: [OT] Multiple questions in an email

2010-02-25 Thread David Connors
It is funny you should say this. One of the guys i work with at a partner company and I always say "include only one fact per email". :) I try to do that but when requirements get complicated it can get hard. -- David Connors Software Engineer Codify Pty Ltd - www.codify.com Pho

[OT] All is not what it seems

2010-02-26 Thread David Connors
Something for an end of OT Friday: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clnozSXyF4k Quite incredible how much mundane stuff you watch on TV is 90% fake. The scenes from Ugly Betty are incredible. I guess footpath permits are damned expensive to justify this. -- David Connors (da...@codify.com

Re: [OT] Bill gates on our energy futures - some tech miracles needed

2010-02-26 Thread David Connors
ounts that are intended to promote an agenda. > The same clerk or gonk fortuitously chose a starting date of 1913, neatly excising the federation drought (by exactly a decade) from the start of that in-flow graph - as well as any inflow records that led up to the Murray River being bone dry in 1

Re: [OT] Bill gates on our energy futures - some tech miracles needed

2010-02-28 Thread David Connors
in AR4 was SO embarrassing that it would result in staff being sacked in any normal organisation. Anyone who says that the stuff in the CRU archives is 'quoted out of context' has not read any of the material. When you add context back in - some of it gets far worse. What did Pachauri

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2010-02-28 Thread David Connors
offers of fixes/time (though complaints with offers of fixes/time are welcome! [?]) Any questions, this is the thread. -- David Connors (da...@codify.com) Software Engineer Codify Pty Ltd - www.codify.com Phone: +61 (7) 3210 6268 | Facsimile: +61 (7) 3210 6269 | Mobile: +61 417 189 363 V-Card: ht

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2010-03-01 Thread David Connors
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