Technically it was just only recently that ms no longer has mainstream support for 32bit oses, as they only dropped that with windows 11.

Makes me think that might be the reason for valve choosing now to do this.

Ok so this one is someone trying to move to “the cloud.”

They had a database they used. It was on a server in the office. We were tasked to clone the db server to a hosted VM. Due to order of creation this got put on a new host without anything yet on it.

They needed a site to site VPN to keep privacy, that was all fine. However after the clone and during testing, their guy there said that this one part was really slow. We take a look and everything is good with performance of the server and of the VPN. I have to pop on to take a look.

It was in an office app and written in VB. (I forgot which one.) It was indeed slower on the hosted server. So I took a look at the function (he got it up for me) and I could instantly tell the issue.

This part was a lookup page that searched for you input. The function retrieved the entire table, then filtered the results in the client. I explained that transferring the whole table over the internet would be slower than on the local lan.

This guy said he originally wrote this, but “forgot VB.”

In the end they decided not to update the app or keep the server in the office, but instead they rented some VDIs in the same data centre as the db.

I know a couple of people who think they are clever for these kinds of substitutions, I can probably use this fact on them. Not sure they will change their ways after, they kinda oppose any change.

Great! We can get (almost) a whole year of using it with Exchange Online before EWS is turned off!

I once saw someone get an ad for the new phone as a notification on their current one. They had never had a notification from Samsung like that before. At that point I knew they would build in advertising for all their other products in to the products.

I have never bought a Samsung device since. Some people I know live them, but it put me off so much.

No way, those gem costs are way off, they have to be just larger than one of the packs. Minutes would cost 550 so that you either need to buy 2 500s or a 1250 pack.

Honestly I expect someone to make custom cases for it. If valve don’t release a model there will at least be someone doing a 3d printed model that fits the board.

Probably unrelated, domain spoofing is common, but miss-configured mail servers will accept those emails and process auto replies. They can also abuse input forms to try and send out emails, but that typically does not have much control over content.

If you are getting more emails than you can deal with, than can be used to try and mask other emails by burying them in a large email volume. In that case you should be looking for emails from important accounts you do own (eg banking.)

If you have a high pressure hot water system, then the heater doesn’t touch what comes out of the tap. In those you have a closed system from the heating to a tank. That tank contains fresh water, but the heating loop only interacts with it via a heat exchanger.

That’s watts multiplied by time, aka energy.

Considering it shows on the capture widget, probably Settings -> Gaming -> Capture.

Iirc Amazon has a special tooling for creating iot devices. It’s supposed to make creating the communication easier so you don’t have a bunch badly implemented communication systems. Ofc it uses Amazon’s cloud.

I would not be surprised if they all failed this way due to using the tool. As in the Dev’s code might not even get to know there was an outage, and the tool just keeps telling it the last state it got.

But we are running out of unique bus numbers! What will we do when they run out?

I think this question is about making sure you state thinks in a formal manner. It is obvious, but you need to do state that as a mathematical proof.

Note that you need to use disk space to describe where all the slices of a file are. There are some limitations to how many pieces your files can be in. Not sure on exFATs limit, but on NTFS I know it’s a soft cap around 1.5 million parts.

The push for the rulling was that the word “woman” in the equality act, should apply only for those assigned female at birth. So they would have to use their assigned at birth gender. Do note that they only ever shouted loudly about trans women, never that a trans man would be using the mens instead.

I don’t think they ever said they plan to require it for Windows Pro or above skus. It’s only home (you know the one business shouldn’t be using anyway) that they said they wanted to enforce it on.

Probably the indexing service, it’s always the indexing service.

At least those are not contradictory. Imagine being told that someone was dusting a room. Well that is removing small particles! But if you are dusting some icing sugar on a cake, you are adding it!

For the record I always thought the 3dfx glide render looked the best, d3d and open gl were kinda a bit blurry. I think these days it shows it up even more as not being a d3d first engine. I think Deus ex probably suffered from the same fortune.