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joanne



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PostPosted: Wed Aug 22, 12 11:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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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PostPosted: Wed Aug 22, 12 11:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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

A.

tahir



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PostPosted: Wed Aug 22, 12 11:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I'm not having much fine right now, doing the most complex select I've ever attempted

vegplot



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PostPosted: Wed Aug 22, 12 11:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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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PostPosted: Thu Aug 23, 12 8:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I shall read up further.
A.

bagpuss



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PostPosted: Thu Aug 23, 12 8:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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


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


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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PostPosted: Thu Aug 23, 12 7:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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



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PostPosted: Thu Aug 23, 12 9:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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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PostPosted: Thu Aug 23, 12 10:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I think you mean...

Code:
Pants cockup = new Pants();

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

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


A.

vegplot



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PostPosted: Thu Aug 23, 12 10:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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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PostPosted: Thu Aug 23, 12 10:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 24, 12 6:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 24, 12 7:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 24, 12 9:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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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PostPosted: Fri Aug 24, 12 9:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I may have to sweet talk Mochyn into knitting you a jumper festooned with punctuation.

A.

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