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I feel old - remember having access to Delphi 1 alpha as we were one of the first third-party VCL components. I was moving from VB3 and Delphi felt like a major upgrade and super cool!

Same here - signed up and got the 404

You are giving the EU ideas!!!!!

I think auth0 has some, which are free but maybe based too much around there product, which I use and think very good.

https://auth0.com/learn

Has no one considered that ChatGPT itself has ousted them, the AI is taking over its own company :)

I have worked with a few CEOs like this; the last was an old company (25 years) in dire need of a digital transformation to survive. The company had more than 300 employees and was still using Excel and Lotus Notes on-prem server room. I started a move to Office365 and Azure Cloud .NET, but the CEO showed no interest in the technology and gave me a few months to complete the transition. He came up with some unrealistic ideas for accomplishing the move when timescales were not met.

After a year, I left the company after delivering a few things. Recently, I visited their website and found only a single home page with several PDF documents embedded within it and no sign of any client-facing solution. Assume they are back in Excel again.

There are plenty of CEOs / Founders out there that would love to find a great CTO / CIO so don't give up looking :)

My advice is to start looking for a new job or go freelance. I started doing fractional CTO work - which is interesting but challenging to find new clients.

The old age problem of having an open project where people don't understand what an alpha is.

You give this out to the world for feedback and people moan its not working.

I am old geek and back in the day you knew an Alpha was just for the playground to kick around - most likely will crash, worse case will destroy you PC but you have a play / provide some feedback and wait for the next release.

A lot of other projects do everything in the dark and do a big ta da at the end - and missed the opportunity for the community of "alpha" or "beta" testers to provide some feedback along the way.

Keep going - its added to my list to take look once in beta as I prefer to play in that playground rather than the alpha one these days.

I like the idea!

According to unconfirmed reports, a French airline entered a flight plan incorrectly, resulting in some form of data corruption. https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/is-one-badly-filed-fligh...

NATs has reported that the system is now back up and running. It is possible that the secondary system took over with data syncing having to take place before the switchover?

My original post was about my interest in the technical aspects of redundancy and failover mechanisms in something as mission-critical as air traffic control.

I come from a background in broadcasting, where failover is critical, and redundancy is built into any broadcast chain. e have multiple backups and jumping-off points to deal with any issues that arise. It's pretty rare we could ever go to “black”.

How is this even possible in this day and age? The Redundancy for this must be crazy

It's based on the handshake blockchain https://handshake.org/ and yes, it's outside of DNS from what I have read. I originally assumed that had bought 1,000,000 TLD at $240k each :) which is crazy as its sounds.

As i understood it the difference was esignature (was what this was providing) and esign was to sign with a digital certificate. esignature is plenty for most things.

Docudeal looks really cool and simple! and compared to the crazy costs of HelloSign, Docusign etc.

One thing I would say is provide a RestAPI so easy to integrate into our own applications so we can have the GUI on our side.

Overall, I think the project looks great, and the fact that it's open-source is a big plus. However, there are a few issues that I noticed:

- The web editor doesn't seem to display pages 2, 3, etc.

- The biggest concern I have is how the platform handles the end of a page and page breaks. Specifically, the text seems to be too close to the bottom of the page, with no footer padding. If I were to add a new role to the CV and include the company name, I'd expect the platform to be smart enough to recognise that there isn't enough room for the entire entry and to move the name and the first couple of associated bullets to the next page instead of awkwardly splitting them across two pages.

- I also noticed that my Word CV fits on 2.7 pages, while the document on your editor spans 3.5 pages, with identical font sizes and types. Is there any way to adjust the text width which is what i think the issue is.

There are hundreds of phones stolen by the youth with hoods and stolen e-bikes in London each day. If they grab your phone in the seconds before it locks your screwed. That’s my biggest concern!

Best i have found is https://www.macgpt.com/

fair point - but pretty cool about your ruby script - taking a look :)

Thanks

I maybe being dumb here - but why can you not plugin a USB-C dock that has dual HDMI output ? I get you cannot dual monitor direct from laptop > screens. I would always use a dock with single cable. e.g https://www.belkin.com/uk/docks-hubs/connect-pro-thunderbolt...

It gets worse. So you fall for this trap you get to the end of your contract and you forget to cancel they just start it again with no warnings!!!! Total scam.

wow - just lost a customer in Novmeber 2021. Its the cancel and you get nothing, cancel and you can use until November would be fair. But they auto-renew you into a new contract without you noticing is a scam.

So i had an account which looks like they renewed my account in November 2021 without asking me.

Logging into my account there is NO refernce to the start and end date of the contract i agreed to, i never agreed to renew. I tried to cancel and says £178 to cancel.

Adobe you are now the worse company for this crap.

My first real computer after my BBC Micro B - oh those were simple times :)

Is the issue here not the software who cares what he hardware is ? MacOS will be ARM based, but if all the software out there needs to be rewritten for ARM then we will lose a lot of great software. A lot of indie Mac software refuses to use the AppStore for commercial reasons, and maybe now will be locked out forever? I understand there will be an emulator but won't we end up with what we had before when we moved from PowerPC > Intel where the old software was slow and buggy and no one wanted to update as was not worth commercially worth it

Is this a open source version you can download and use yourself ? How was this built ?

Thanks for the replies. I need someone that works via an API - as will be coming from a platform sending to many B2B suppliers. problem with things like Gdrive, firefox is you are uploading the confidential data into their systems. A lot of files going to lots of different people. We are Microsoft / Azure stack - so maybe do somethig from them.

The link below to Cisco might be an option - looking I guess for enterprise style solutions.

serious life lesson here. Unless you have a lot of money now, take the 14m and run! I am 40+ now, but at 23 I was offered £5m for a business. I tuned if down because I would have to wear a suit and goto a stuffy office in a 2-year lock-in. I turned it down and lost the lot. I was a total idiot looking back on it now. You are better to have something than nothing at all. With £14m you can come up with the next great idea, and you still have a few million left over!

Another example of UK banking going wrong is the story of a number of companies including a Noel Edmunds (deal or deal fame) that went under after massive fraud caused "allegedly" by bank staff!

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jul/25/noel-edmond...

As a company director, you have a legal responsibility to pay your bills, knowing you cannot (because your bank account is frozen) means technically you are in breach and trading insolvent which is an offence (criminal?) I wonder what companies house would say - how long before you have to tell them!

We should all move to Amsterdam :) Sounds much better!

how do you pay your lawyer if your account is blocked? :)

Basically yes - the law changed and the banks are just taking advantage of it.

Part of this is that while under investigation they are not allowed to talk to you, and have no motivation to act quickly. I have read in a lot of cases, once they start the process it is very unlikely it will end well. You will, of course, get your money back (assuming you can prove everything they want).

They will close your account and the damage is done regardless if you are guilty of something or not. Quicker for them to close an account, then carrying on investigating a backlog of cases.

Of course, at some point, they will lose customers from a bad reputation but can take years before this becomes a mainstream problem.

I think the odds are small of this happening to you by accident, but it is happening.

This problem has not happened to me but did to a friend and I had to loan him money to pay his rent, bills etc. Took 3 months to resolve. Was with Halifax bank.

Personally, the main problem I have experienced is around credit cards and reducing limits when you pay off lumps sums. Worse still - I had a credit card closed and they took the money directly from my savings account as part of their T&C ability to garnish money from any other source linked to the bank. There was nothing I could do about it.

Lesson learned NEVER have a loan/credit card in the UK with the same bank as the one you have savings or your salary goes into Also, NEVER have your personal accounts and business accounts with the same bank!

The other comments on here about having multiple accounts for businesses can be a little tricky as some banks will not open a second business account if you already have done opened with someone else. e.g I had Lloyds business bank, tried Metro bank but they refused to open until I could prove Lloyds was closed.

Not sure if you're in the US? where that maybe possible. In the UK this is not that simple. Not even sure how you would sue them, their T&C would cover this under AML / Knowing your customer legislation. The problem is the knee jerk reaction from the government on stopping the bank's bad practices without thinking what happens, in reality, day to day.

I think this is a huge problem and one that is going to continue and get worse. How is it the banks were the ones at fault, but the customers are paying for it. They just hide behind AML / Knowing your customer and say talk to your MP.

I was locked out of internet banking for my business account with Lloyds for over 3 months due to a technical fault in the way it was setup. Was paid compensation in the end, but already had moved to another bank. They could not have cared less.

Some people will say no smoke without fire, but if you read on moneysavingexpert about people being locked out of their personal accounts for the same reason. Any transfer that is slightly different from your day to day will be flagged and risk having your account locked for weeks / months on end.

It happens more than we realise. A bit like winning the lottery, it could be you :(

The further we go down the road of electronic payments, and a cashless society it could get really messy.

The only way to solve in the short term is to spread the risk across many banks, and never keep your money in one place. Keep hold of some cash!