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I remember calling MS support, vaguely related to this project. For example, if the Edmonton office needed to send a welcome letter to a new client, the flow might look like this: …

It was amazingly easy to interact with other apps via OLE Automation (aka, COM Automation). About 25 years ago I wrote a program that would look for requests (in the form of XML fi…

I'm surprised that Canada doesn't seem to be talking about doing this. We've already got a strong payment processing brand with Interac, it's used daily for millions of debit trans…

Running two Lenovo ThinkVision displays off of my work MacBook Pro. On the MBP built-in display, the upper-left and upper-right corners are rounded. I believe this is due to the sh…

> - If you are thinking of ZFS/TrueNAS because of the scrubbing functionality, RAID1 + BTRFS also have scrubbing. In my experience, BTRFS is to be avoided. It's the only FS that I'…

Honestly, the big thing that the Pi has is the support and mindshare. Compared to many equivalents (e.g., the Banana Pi) you'll find much better documentation and have a much more …

Worked issued me a Windows Mobile based Palm Treo (probably a 700wx), but I'm honestly not sure. It was decidedly not great, but mostly did the job. It was eventually replaced by a…

I had a number of PalmPilots over the years, I loved those little devices! I also remember using a keyboard dock with one of them to take notes during meetings. I'm pretty sure I h…

What DNS features are you missing? Is this a weird UXG limitation? I have a UCG-Ultra and was able to set up DNS just the way I wanted. My needs aren't extreme, but I was able to s…

Rather than regulating features, I'd start with a dependency list. So a smart plug might have a list saying: - Functionality requires 2.4GHz WiFi, Internet access, access to whatev…

How does this prevent a random application from making an HTTPS request to a random hard-coded IP address? Similarly, how does this prevent an application from making an HTTPS requ…

To play devil's advocate, shoving everything into HTTP/HTTPS also allowed a ton of innovation. Would video streaming sites (Youtube, Vimeo, etc) ever have gotten off the ground if …

I can see a future where Chrome will use the system resolver for everything except Google's advertising domains, and those name resolutions will be impossible to block because they…

Usually. Some middleboxes inspect the TLS session setup (e.g., SNI sniffing) and in some corporate environments they even decrypt the traffic (this relies on the endpoints having a…

There's no reason you couldn't, and this would actually be fine in my view. The problem is that with DoH the applications themselves have their own resolver built in that doesn't r…

The thing that bothers me most about DoH is that it moves the responsibility for name resolution from the operating system to each application. So now you don't have the ability to…

I see the carbon tax as a 'stick' (to penalize undesired behaviour, in this case emitting carbon), but it needs to be coupled with a 'carrot' to encourage the desired behaviours. I…

Do people not look at the operating costs before buying a vehicle? Do they really just negotiate a monthly payment and get surprised at the amount they have to pay for fuel/mainten…

The section on the author's background could have almost been written by me. I'm also a PeopleSoft developer, and the ability to build fully-functional CRUD apps without needing to…

There's a $100 one for making desktop apps with SQLite support, which doesn't interest me. $399 gets you to the Web tier with PostgreSQL support, which is the feature set I'm most …

Wow, a quick cruise through the documentation suggests that this is EXACTLY the kind of thing I'm looking for! I find myself waffling between "This is too expensive for me to play …

Is https://delphi.fandom.com/wiki/Delphi_for_PHP the one you're thinking of? This is truly interesting, and the description on that wiki page suggests that it might be exactly what…

I would love something like Delphi/VB6, but made for web development. My day job involves working with PeopleTools, which basically does this. Draw forms (and build all of the supp…

I've only bought two toasters in my life. The first was a two-slice Kenmore (RIP Sears) which still works. It cost $20 and was purchased close to 25 years ago. I only used this a c…

From my predictions: > Your deep dive into embedded systems will lead you to create a heated keyboard powered by the same batteries as your Milwaukee heated jacket. While I don't h…