In my last couple of posts I've been writing about a problem I encountered when I moved into the 64 bit world of computing, but still had to work with a 16 bit DOS program and analyse its reports.
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Posted by Richard Isaac on
21 February 2012
In my last post I talked about a problem I had after I upgraded to 64 bit Windows and needed to archive a text based report output by an old DOS program which was now hosted in a virtual machine. I ended the post by giving an example of the report, which I replicate here:
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Posted by Richard Isaac on
31 January 2012
Just over a year ago I had a problem, I'd just bought a new PC and since it had 8Gb RAM it had to run 64bit Windows (see this post for an explanation on what that's all about). But 64 bit Windows doesn't support DOS based programs, now I'm happy for that to be the case as DOS is a very old technology and at some point I think that modern systems need to leave the past behind.
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Posted by Richard Isaac on
11 January 2012
We've recently been discussing a project where one of the concerns was to tighten up on user authentication. The customer raised the concern that by expecting the user to enter just a user name and password that the proposed web application wouldn't be secure enough for the confidential nature of their data, as such an alternative security technique was wanted.
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Posted by Richard Isaac on
14 December 2011
Back here I wrote about my search for my 'perfect' Twitter client. Since then I've tried Seesmic and now MetroTwit which is my current favourite. Having not gotten on very well with Adobe AIR based clients (probably due to my own expectations rather than there being anything 'bad' about them as such), I've tended to look for clients written in the technologies that I like working with, WPF or Silverlight. Both Seesmic Desktop and MetroTwit tick those boxes.
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Posted by Richard Isaac on
07 November 2011
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