In the legal field it's comon to have a software package that drives Word. For example customer database entry + word template -> custom word doc. How does this scenario work in a web-only situation?
Posts by djnapkin
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What strange beauty is this? Microsoft commits to two more non-subscription Office editions
Ubuntu, Kubuntu, openSUSE to get better installation
Re: Non-issue
Yes, the Windows installer defaulted to preserving the existing data and saving the current OS as Windows.Old when I installed one the other day.
When choosing the 'clean slate' choice, it shows the existing partitions, which I delete one-by-one.
Once they are all deleted, the installation looks after creating whatever partitions it deems necessary.
Ransomware payment ban: Wrong idea at the wrong time
Re: Dont ban paying ransoms, ban Crypto
Much as I hate the waste incurred and so many other things about crypto, banning it won't stop ransomware.
If anonymity was critical, the gangs would be demanding payment in Monero, which is effectively untraceable.
Yet they quite happily ask for Bitcoin which is quite traceable.
If you're in Russia or a part of the CCP, you're untouchable.
Cybercrooks book a stay in hotel email inboxes to trick staff into spilling credentials
Missing the step between the download and the installation
I'm missing a step in the exploit chain here. Once the staff member downloads the google drive file, it wouldn't be automatically installed. I'm assuming the file is a .exe executable? Are the hotel staff double clicking it and clicking Yes on the UAC prompt?
UK officials caught napping ahead of 2G and 3G doomsday
Southwest Airlines lands $140M fine for that Christmas IT meltdown
Telco CEO quits after admitting she needs to carry rivals' SIM cards to stay in touch
Back in the day, someone would work their way through the organization, learning the ins and outs of telco operarion. They would understand the subtleties and needs of the various departments. This was the way they could lead the operation because they had been there and knew the realities on the "shop floor". .
Now, they fly in someone who has no background in and not the faintest idea of how a telco works. They only know financials and cost cutting.
This is the result.
Microsoft gives unexpected tutorial on how to install Linux
So I tried their instructions. Quote "Available to those with a Windows machine, this is the most simple way to install Linux. Just run the Linux install command: wsl --install to install the Ubuntu distribution."
According to that, wsl --install will do the job, in reality however, it just displays the help text and does nothing else.
It's a shame they let go their documentation team.
If you like to play along with the illusion of privacy, smart devices are a dumb idea
SAP CEO push for cloud-only 'innovation' shatters users' trust in German-speaking heartlands
Yes! This is effectively exactly the same as Atlassian's removal of on-prem and forcing into vendor-controlled cloud.
SAP's first attempt to implement a web-based ERP was using Silverlight. No idea how much they sunk into that before scrapping it.
For customers, it is hard to imagine a SAP-owned-and-controlled cloud solution being more affordable long term.
Stolen Microsoft key may have opened up a lot more than US govt email inboxes
Where I worked, the Java crew looked to add Navajo Systems technology to encrypt their data while at rest in the DB and seamlessly encrypt / decrypt it enroute between the DB and the application.
The cocept was great - but the obstacles weren't able to be overcome, whatever they were, and it did not go ahead.
MOVEit body count closes in on 400 orgs, 20M+ individuals
Was encrypting the data too hard for them?
What was stopping those who ran these installations of MoveIT from ensuring that the data sent to them was encrypted?
They could have easily used AES-passworded zip or 7z, combining the compression at the same time as the encryption. Different keys for each client, naturally.
Or they could have used PGP, giving out the public key with only the server operator knowing the private key. With this PGP approach, even the creators of the uploads could not decrypt it.
When are we going to start assuming we can be broken into, and working from that baseline?
One of the world's most prominent blockchain apps looks like being binned
I used to work in a firm that runs back-end processing connecting to the current ASX system, and it is well designed and engineered. Not sure what the goal was in this redesign.
Hey, the ASX only had to write off $250 million of investment, and as for another estimated $100 million spent by participants building to this scrapped model, well ...
All seems rather deja vu. Was working in a London software firm in the 90s when the Bank of England scrapped its stock exchange project, I think we lost a million quid on that.
India’s Supreme Court demands government detail internet shutdown rules
When I was in India some time ago there was a prominent story in the broadsheet Times of India. Students at some university were protesting that their "right to cheat" had been taken away for some examinations. Apparently cheating was a time honoured tradition at these exams. Wish I'd kept the newspaper. This was before the web took off. I assume they were using notes on paper?
Older AMD, Intel chips vulnerable to data-leaking 'Retbleed' Spectre variant
Apple Pay bags Cupertino another antitrust lawsuit
Creator of SSLPing, a free service to check SSL certs, downs tools
Pingu
I must be masochistic because I would be interested in the challenge of running such a tool. I've never let lack of prior experience get in the way.
On another angle ... I notice one of the major obstacles was keeping the *nix operating system up to date. If only he'd run it on Windows ... (ducking for cover :-)
Day 7 of the great Atlassian outage: IT giant still struggling to restore access
Crack team of boffins hash out how e-scooters should sound – but they need your help*
Mozilla founder blasts browser maker for accepting 'planet incinerating' cryptocurrency donations
Re: Expanding horizons and equations
That isn't how I took the comment and comparison at all.
The regex comment is very well known & high profile, but I'm sure I'm not the only person who enjoys it but didn't know who coined it.
The comparsion was purely pointing to Zawinski's excellent ability to turn a phrase - something that is well apprecited by the denizens here, to be sure.
Less than PEACH-y: UK's plant export IT system only works with Internet Explorer
Web trust dies in darkness: Hidden Certificate Authorities undermine public crypto infrastructure
Good news: Google no longer requires publishers to use the AMP format. Bad news: What replaces it might be worse
Re: Use Bing!
> If you have a specific fetish that you want to see images of, Bing beats Google hands down.
Absolutely. I reckon if I searched for "turtle" Bing would give me pictures of them humping or whatever it's called with turtles.
Back on topic though,. it really gripes me how much Javascript is in web pages and yes, as a web developer, I agree it is totally due to lazy programmers.
Wi-Fi devices set to become object sensors by 2024 under planned 802.11bf standard
Kinda goes without saying, but shore up your admin passwords or be borged by this brute-forcing botnet
Moore's Law is deader than corduroy bell bottoms. But with a bit of smart coding it's not the end of the road
Re: They shoot themselves in the foot
I had a rather different take on the article to you. I thought it was well laid out and covered the progress of the optimisation, with great clarity. I'd say the results from optimising on a multi threaded CPU were impressive. The overall message of optiising your software was well carried.
Threading is beyond many programmers, and running on a GPU is surely a specialised art - and I am not sure how many servers, either inhouse or cloud, would have GPUs. Perhaps they do. I just have not heard of that being a thing.
Re: DEC Fortran
512KB? We used to dream of having that much memory around 1980. The Unisys mainframe was as big as several cupboards, and had 192KB of memory. Each memory card was 16KB but was the size of what would be a large motherboard today.
Sure taught us how to make sure our programs were optimised.
JavaScript survey: Devs love a bit of React, but Angular and Cordova declining. And you're not alone... a chunk of pros also feel JS is 'overly complex'
Re: Frameworks
Web pages with all the framework overhead run like dogs. No one ever wants to optimise or cull. We devs only to add more stuff into the page. Performance dies as a result.
Clean CSS, just enough JS to do the job (and no more) - otherwise your pages suck. And you aren't a real programmer if you can't do it that way.
Australia on the cusp of showing the world how to break encryption
Why Firefox? Because not everybody is a web designer, silly
While Chrome is better for web designers (like me), for using the web, Firefox is massively better.
Firefox has features that make using it a pleasure. Whenever I use Chrome to surf the web, as opposed to debugging a DOM/CSS problem, I am reminded of how little attention Google pays to real world users.
Browser history searching and the URL bar are just one example.
Ombudsman slams Centrelink debt recovery system
Human memory, or the lack of it, is the biggest security bug on the 'net
Re: But users ARE the problem!
Indeed. For example my wife has KeePass with AutoType at her fingertips, and uses Firefox to remember her passwords for sites. Despite this she uses the same two passwords everywhere. Until I notice, anyway.
Was it Gary Clail who sang, "There's something wrong with human nature" ?
Top 10 SSDs: Price, performance and capacity
4K Writes much faster than Read?
In the last chart the small file throughput figures, shows the 4K writes as being faster than reads. Around three to four times faster than reads.
Is that right ? Am I missing something here ? Pretty sure there's no head movement latency in these critters. Sequential reads are all slower than writes, as I'd expect.
Apple Pay is a tidy payday for Apple with 0.15% cut, sources say
NFC already here in Oz
I am puzzled by these comments that the banks in UK or wherever need to get into the NFC game.
Because here in Australia, pay-by-bonk is quite widespread. Most of the retailers that do a lot of transactions via card, already have touch technology readers.
We just touch the card on to the reader for payments up to $100 and no PIN required.
These terminals take the traditional swipe, plus the chip-n-pin, and now PayWave as it is called here.
Is this really not widespread elsewhere?
Password manager LastPass goes titsup: Users locked out
Broadband slow and expensive? Blame Telstra says CloudFlare
Mozilla's 'Tiles' ads debut in new Firefox nightlies
Aussie telcos to sell user location data to marketers
Telstra 'issue' hid ADSL availability from rival carriers
Yes, it has been well known for years that Telstra would deny a connection from a competitor, and then magically the line would be suitable when you apply through them. This has been going on forever. The only surprise it that is has taken this long for it to official. Combat Wombat's advice was regularly doled out in the Whirlpool forum.
I cannot express my opinion of Telstra in a family forum such as this.