harrytuttle

To be honest our webforms app is tiny and only does basic integration tasks between legacy software and our web app so there are no points it can block.

We do everything synchronously with respect to databases. Integration is all docoupled into workflows.

We use appfabric and workflow to handle all 3rd party integration. Nothing blocks threads. But we don't use async language features to do that. Workflow could be considered async but it's a tenuous link.

95% is 41ms.

Genuine question...

We have way over a million lines of c#, in asp.net, mvc and windows forms. We get 80,000,000 http requests a day.

We have no async (delegates or 4.5 stuff), no threading other than what WCF, AppFabric and ASP.Net give us.

About 25% is generic CRUD code but the rest is complicated matching, integration and math code. We also touch most fundamental computer science domains.

This begs the question: you really need async in the language?

His sentence was before prison was about rehabilitation. That didn't really kick in until the (late) 90's. Before that it was purely about punishment.

I hit someone with a golf club once. In the right circumstances this could have been any one of us.

Agree entirely. I think it hurts his credibility as well.

From my days working at a defence contractor: you should NEVER take security advice from one person.

Yay someone else who had actually used it. This is the same experience i had which is why I'm glad they removed it and promote that fact in other posts.

That's fine. As per windows since 2.0, you can copy files to another disk then using the GUI.

Shadow copies, archive bit?

That's a lie. It doesn't do that.

It gives you the option to create a local account on installation regardless. You have to follow my instructions which were discovered in about 20 seconds.

I've done this on two network connected physical machines and a VM.

Like i said this is all FUD from emotional people who just want upvotes for shitting on Microsoft for not noticing the damn option.

For reference, it's documented as well.

Yes i saw that. It's true, but its not a substitute for a backup setvice. If it was, they wouldn't have the discontinuation of service and disclaimers in their T&C.

If you read their terms and conditions they say it's not a backup system as well.

People really need to read the SLAs etc.

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Not true. Total FUD.

you click create account, then select local account at the bottom.

Enterprise edition also doesn't prompt for a Microsoft account.

The users always blame everyone else for their extreme ignorance. That's IT for you as a whole.

Yes there is. You can copy files to another disk. Third time I've said that.

you don't need an app for that.

It's also the simplest solution that fits in the head space of a user.

Linux doesn't come with a backup app either. You have some tools (dump/tar/dd) from which you can build one or you buy one in (bacula, Amanda etc). Same with windows (powershell, vhd cmdlets etc).

The problem is that the old backup solution was crappy anyway so I'm glad they removed it.

The basic options were:

1. System image backup. Backs up your fucked system with fucked files.

Oh that's it. Not very helpful.

As before, everyone just buys 3rd party backup software, sticks it on a USB stick or doesn't bother.

Yes, download a new OS and Tor. That'll surely protect the network layer between X and Y!!!

This article is idiotic: Cloud synchronisation is not backup. If you think that, you are a wally, despite the vendor's promises.

This is a new feature they have added that allows sync between devices. It doesn't stop any of the old ways of doing stuff from working other than windows backup which was a piece of shit that didn't work properly anyway.

Sync is always notoriously problematic at the best of times so YMMV always with that approach.

Realistically, most people just drag stuff to a USB stick periodically and that's good enough for backup. That's how it really works.

You'd think but the two penalties I've been issued by the police which were speeding and talking on a phone whilst driving were wrong. I wasn't doing either. The first one was trickery by the officer who persuaded me to admit to it as it's be easier. The second, i was actually scratching my head after chicken pox.

Both of those i had to appeal and won instantly when talking to the magistrate.

Allowing these morons to issue fines and penalties for more complicated issues such as in this case is a very bad idea.

The newest supported on the machines (they are quite old). We tried another vendors disk in it and the array rebuild failed.

Well we're fucked then. The police are not domain experts on the law. They are the halfwit broken outsourcing company.

Dell servers are shit. Currently trying to source a disk for a 3 year old poweredge which is stupid. Pay £700 for a Dell one or £122 fir a generic one but the array won't build with the generic one as the PERC doesn't like it (even though its the same model disk). Dell modify the firmware.

+1 for supermicro and they're fun to build as well as bomb proof

You can do that on their web site. Just enter the bit on the bottom such as 7661-12G and it'll give you a list per os.

Actually on behalf of is correct. If you know about DKIM and SPF then you'll work out what an arse pain all this is.

Office 365 support has been ok to us so far (unlike partner support which is shit). Had a couple of hours here and there down but compared to the cost of self-hosting exchange, it's pretty damn good.

I agree with you but the expectation always needs to match reality. Many civilization had fallen to this sort of ignorance.

Diddums. Most of it goes over SMTP in plain text anyway.

If you want secure communications, you don't use email or you use something you control.

Err if you put all your eggs in one basket then you're just being an idiot.

Get a domain, forward it to service X and Y, back it up regularly, sorted.

This applies to ALL services be they free or paid.

Saying that I've had the same hotmail/msn/live/outlook account since 1997 without a problem.

Perhaps the NSA are giving Google kickbacks as well...

To the downvoters, this was supposed to be sarcastic :)