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Re: US cable-one

Jim McKeeth — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 02:37:38 -0000

Sparklight says it is a planned maintenance. Should take 2-6 hours. At least for internet in southern Idaho.

Re: Meaningful primary keys beat sequences and UUIDs

Jim McKeeth — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 00:57:59 -0000

Nice idea, but there are a few problems.

1) What happens when the same golfer plays two rounds of golf at the same club in the same day? Might not be that common of an occurrence, but if it could happen we either need to support it or prevent it.

2) What if we have two golfers with the same initials? We have to query the table until we find a variation that works. To make matters worse initialst distributed evenly over the alphabet, so the most common names will take the most time to enter since they have to hunt for an available variation.

3) What happens when a golfer changes thier name? Maybe it was entered wrong the first time, or they changed their name. Whatever the case people and clubs change their names. Do we update all the keys? What if we have archived some data, do we need to update the keys in all the data warehouses too? This brings us back to point 2 again if we have an initial collision.

At some point, the amount of data required to uniquely and clearly identify a row, and not result in collisions, will exceed that required for a UUID and will approach the number of bits in the other columns.

We had a system we were designing that had multiple disconnected databases that would eventually sync up. There was no way to have a centralized sequece generator. We finally came up with a system involving timestamps, unique identifiers, and local sequences that was satisfactory for uniquely identifying rows. It was 2 bytes short of a UUID, so we went with a UUID.

Oh, and that is not the usage of an HMAC.

Re: You are going to pay for bug fixes. And you’re going to like it.

Jim McKeeth — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 00:03:50 -0000

Luckily RAD Studio continues working if your don't renew as well. All the update subscription brings the updates.

I'm pretty sure Office 365 and Adobe, that Nick mentioned in his post, stop working if you don't renew, but you would need to check their documentation to be sure.

Re: You are going to pay for bug fixes. And you’re going to like it.

Jim McKeeth — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 00:00:58 -0000

Any product you get under the Embarcadero Update Subscription is perpetually licensed. The only things that stops when your subscription ends is getting updates. So your magazine analogy fits nicely.

Re: Developers: Free ARDroneSDK3 for Bebop Drone and MiniDrones – just released!

Jim McKeeth — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 21:51:28 -0000

Does the new ARDroneSDK3 also make use of similar UDP packets of strings like AT*PCMD that the AR.Drone 2.0 did? I made use of those strings in an exciting app, and am curious how much work it will be to port it to the Bebop (before I buy one). Specifically I am curious if I can use a similar method to connect to my drone from an unsupported platform (via WiFi).

Re: Vuze 4.5

Jim McKeeth — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:34:51 -0000

Major con for Vuze is it installs a bunch of Ad Ware on your computer in your browsers and changes all your homepages. I thought dirty tricks like that went out back in the late 90's. Really expected a warning about that from PCMagazine.

Re: Glenn Beck Says 3-D Printers Will Make America Great Again

Jim McKeeth — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 17:27:41 -0000

Speaking of the Napster of 3D physical items, The Pirate Bay just added a new category for 3D models: https://thepiratebay.se/blo...

Re: http://www.filehippo.com/download_beyond_compare/comments/11739/

Jim McKeeth — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:16:36 -0000

This one of my absolute favorite tools, both as a developer and as a power user. I even installed Wine so I could run it on Mac. Highly recommended!

Re: Pandora One: Is It Worth The Upgrade?

Jim McKeeth — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:56:17 -0000

I just made the upgrade to Pandora One too, and I don't know if I could justify it if I had to break it down, but I do enjoy it a lot more.

Re: Never Make Counter-Offers

Jim McKeeth — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:16:35 -0000

I used to work in the Banking industry, and it was even worse there. The industry standard was that the salary offered to new employees was more than the current employees, and if you came back to a bank you previously worked for then you would retain your original seniority.

The result was people would change which bank they worked for every 5 years or so. It was frustrating as an employee when someone would get hired back and jump ahead of you in seniority for vacation day selection, etc.

Re: How to Root Google Logitech Revue TV using both Hardware and Software Tweaks

Jim McKeeth — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:23:39 -0000

You say the Revue should not be updated. How do I tell if it is updated? What version of Android should it be running?

Re: How To Root Acer Iconia A500 Honeycomb Tablet

Jim McKeeth — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:15:34 -0000

15 minutes later nothing. I had updated my A500 to Honeycomb 3.2 which may have been the problem.

Re: How To Root Acer Iconia A500 Honeycomb Tablet

Jim McKeeth — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:03:21 -0000

Gingerbreak requires a MicroSD card to be inserted, and may erase it. Also I couldn't get it to work from /local/data/ so I put it on the SD card and installed it from there. It is running right now. Hopefully it works.

Re: Creating multiple objects using try-finally

Jim McKeeth — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:19:08 -0000

I did a session at CodeRage 08 about handling exceptions in destructors in that situation. Check out http://www.davinciunltd.com... to download the code and the video.

Re: Is Silverlight dead?

Jim McKeeth — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 06:00:34 -0000

In my opinion Silverlight is mostly targeted to the Enterprise application developer and vertical markets. Currently Silverlight is installed on roughly half the browsers: http://www.riastats.com/ which is still not quite enough for a general purpose application, but for an Enterprise or vertical market application it is not an issue. The corporate IT manager can push it onto all the machines overnight (if they are managing it right).

Silverlight isn't dead. It's only failure is it hasn't killed Flash yet. But it occupies a nice space for companies that have standardized on the Microsoft development stack who want something more like a desktop application, but that runs in the browser.

Like all Microsoft technologies, they bill it as changing the world, and it only changes a corner of the world. Not a failure, but it didn't take over the entire market to be sure. JQuery and similar frameworks and HTML 5 are very powerful alternatives, but they are much different development paradigm than Silverlight (when compared to WinForms or other desktop application development).

Re: See Backupify in Action

Jim McKeeth — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:29:18 -0000

Some of those links are not working (broken or go to wrong page.)

Re: DelphiLive 2009 – Physical Delphi Conference in the US

Jim McKeeth — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:31:54 -0000

Podcast with Olaf on Delphi Live 2009 is now available:

http://www.delphi.org/2009/...

Re: The 5 Stages Of Twitter Acceptance. Where are YOU at? | Blog of Mr. Tweet

Jim McKeeth — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:15:11 -0000

I am definitely at Collaboration. I think those are pretty good stages. I tend to unfriend anyone who is Dumping.

I think there is another stage though, for the celebrities. The dump a lot to a lot of people. To most people they are only dumping. But then the collaborate with a few others.

Re: Free Camtasia Studio 3.0.2 for c’t Magazine Readers

Jim McKeeth — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:58:22 -0000

Yeah, I think Camtasia 6 just came out. I've used CamStudio before, it is pretty good. Another one worth checking out is Jing www.jingproject.com - it is really nice, but has very limited editing functionality. As a plus it only publishes to SWF, the CodeRage format.

Re: Delphi back in Top Ten

Jim McKeeth — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:27:19 -0000

Excellent Olaf! If everyone does that and makes sure their pages about Delphi programming actually says Delphi Programming then we just might bump C# from number 8!

Re: Looking for Ideas

Jim McKeeth — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:28:41 -0000

You could do them like a slide show, one frame at a time. Or you could do vertical scrolling instead of horizontal scrolling. The great thing about making it so the last frame isn't immediately visible is it keeps the "punch line" a secret - especially since your punch lines are usually visual. Occasionally with horizontal layout comic my eyes scan the last frame first, and I get the punch line.

Scott McCloud http://www.scottmccloud.com/ has done some interesting work with vertical scrolling comics. You did a virtual scroll on this comic: http://truckbearingkibble.c... so just make it as wide as your other comics are and then you could get away with it.

If you want to go with a slide show you could use either flash where the user could click to go to the next slide, or javascript. If you converted it to a powerpoint then Slideshare.net would work for you, or you could just split it into 3 images and use Flickr.

Re: Delphi 2009 Beta: Installation speed much, much improved!

Jim McKeeth — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:12:50 -0000

That is pretty much boiler plate licensing stuff. I don't remember when Borland dropped the no-nonsense license / book license and switched to this boiler plate annoying license. They must have hired a lawyer who went crazy.