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 feel like you should at least have the ingredients that are in the name of the dish.

Parts also tend to be to easy to get. So even if the drum is almost done, you can easily find a replacement. I find business stuff tends to have actually useful manuals and maintenance guides.

What I find strange is in cases where I can say: “sorry that is not that good of a deal, you should spend twice that and get this instead as it is a good deal.” They always just ignore your advice.

I sometimes find people already bought it. They only wanted my opinion if it agreed with them.

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.

Glad I have GTA:sa on dvd still.

I always assumed this was due to the bandwidth of interfaces at the time. It would be to much for the hardware decoder to copy the output back for compositing. Thus the card rendered directly onto a mask.

You have to admit, there was a lot of baryonic matter onboard.

Randall Munro has a recent quote about being hit by a sun laser. “You don’t really die from it, you become physics.” I think this would apply in this situation.

Yea what is with the tv manufactures not making hdmi 1 the “feature” input. It makes no sense to me! Make 1 the best and sort the others to worst.

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

Bright is probably would be the closest for me, but it also depends on usage. I’m not using it as a wall colour.

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.

Would you like to activate this annoying feature!

1. Yes.
2. Remind me later.

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.

The ltt vid said that valve were not going to produce the index hardware anymore. So probably not. But they were open to someone else taking on the index if they wanted.

So we should make sure to buy dumb x64 processors without ai accelerators?

Is that white deck going to be an official colour or is it them just showing of custom cases? They also sneaked in a translucent case.

Even if you have a proper clean IP, running a mail server is a hassle imo. By far having a single relay to send is fine if you get things set right, but also dealing with incoming spam is just way more work than paying to have it hosted.

I much prefer paying for email hosting and just dealing with outgoing emails if needed.