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joanne

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Morecambe, Lancashire

Posted: Wed Aug 22, 12 11:36 am Post subject:

bagpuss wrote:

How have you found using the Amazon system, I haven't used it myself but I have heard very good things said about it and all our data is up there for people to use freely

I'm loving it, you can create time limited secure urls that secure our documents something we've not had before without a lot of faffing about and is a big improvement, it's also very very cheap, I've uploaded something like 30,000 files in the past couple of weeks and so far it's cost the company less that $10 which is great for us because our documents are our 'product' and although we have to keep them indefinitely, they are very rarely accessed more than once as most clients receive them by email

I'm very very impressed all round - I'd really like to see us move our server to the cloud as well as I think it will handle our growth better than traditional hosting models

Barefoot Andrew
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Location: In the 17th century

Posted: Wed Aug 22, 12 11:40 am Post subject:
Following this discussion with interest. S3 or glacier could be the solution I've been looking for for off-site NAS backups. A.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45670
Location: Essex

Posted: Wed Aug 22, 12 11:40 am Post subject:
I'm not having much fine right now, doing the most complex select I've ever attempted

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Wed Aug 22, 12 11:49 am Post subject:

Barefoot Andrew wrote:

Following this discussion with interest. S3 or glacier could be the solution I've been looking for for off-site NAS backups.

A.

S3 is quite good.

Barefoot Andrew
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Posted: Thu Aug 23, 12 8:45 am Post subject:
I shall read up further. A.

bagpuss

Joined: 09 Dec 2004
Posts: 10507
Location: cambridge

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 12 8:53 am Post subject:

joanne wrote:

bagpuss wrote:

How have you found using the Amazon system, I haven't used it myself but I have heard very good things said about it and all our data is up there for people to use freely

Certainly the project I used to work for uses amazon very well to give users in the US and Asia quicker service than they can get from the Cambridge hosted website

Barefoot Andrew
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Posted: Thu Aug 23, 12 7:45 pm Post subject:
I meanwhile have realised that I've gone about a particular problem The Wrong Way. My algorithm is a bit pants Time to go and organise dinner and mull over it. A.

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 12 9:29 pm Post subject:

Barefoot Andrew wrote:

I meanwhile have realised that I've gone about a particular problem The Wrong Way. My algorithm is a bit pants

Time to go and organise dinner and mull over it.
A.

If isPants = true then
OrganiseDinner
else
OrganiseDrink
end if

Barefoot Andrew
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Posted: Thu Aug 23, 12 10:13 pm Post subject:

I think you mean...

Code:

Pants cockup = new Pants();

if (cockup.dire()) {
Bottle.hit();
}

else {
cockup.fix();
Beer refreshment = new Beer();
refreshment.sip();
}

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 12 10:28 pm Post subject:
If you clear those squiqqles and dotted things it would look a lot cleaner. Whoever invented C type syntax was a heavy drinker or on drugs.

Barefoot Andrew
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Posted: Thu Aug 23, 12 10:33 pm Post subject:
I briefly toyed with the idea of rewriting it in some flavour of assembler for you, but then lost the will to live. A.

joanne

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 7100
Location: Morecambe, Lancashire

Posted: Fri Aug 24, 12 6:26 am Post subject:
Nah it just doesn't look right without brackets and semi colons - for me it makes the code easier to read and helps delineate

arvo

Joined: 04 Dec 2006
Posts: 3321
Location: Somerset

Posted: Fri Aug 24, 12 7:57 am Post subject:
My smugness on the 'pute episode this week was getting the scanner to work in ubuntu. Required using 'sudo' and everything . I have a long list of things I'm ticking off one by one. Printer - Scanner - DVD drivers - Back-up - Delete windows partition - Find some way of running Lovefilm -

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Fri Aug 24, 12 9:43 am Post subject:

joanne wrote:

Nah it just doesn't look right without brackets and semi colons - for me it makes the code easier to read and helps delineate

NOOOO!

So much tidier (IMHO)...

Being serious though I have never got on with the brackets and semicolons. It's as though I have a phobia of them, a very awkward uncomfortable feeling every time I see them. It's not to denigrate the language (JavaScript mainly) in the slightest it's more to do with aesthetics than anything else.

Barefoot Andrew
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Posted: Fri Aug 24, 12 9:56 am Post subject:
I may have to sweet talk Mochyn into knitting you a jumper festooned with punctuation. A.

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