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chrislomax commented on "Pwned Passwords" V2 With Half a Billion Passwords   troyhunt.com/ive-just-lau... · Posted by u/explodingcamera
roymurdock · 8 years ago
Bit off topic, but I was searching for a better way to manage passwords a few weeks ago (rather than have 1 or 2 master passwords across all websites).

I found KeePass through an old ask HN thread. It's a great little free, open source key/password storage app that works across all my devices (iOS, macOS, windows). https://keepass.info/

I'd be interested to hear any suggestions for similar apps I could recommend to my parents, who expressed concerns about their online passwords. KeePass would be the ideal solution, but I don't think it would hold their hand through download, setup, and password generation enough to be 100% ideal. Any suggestions?

chrislomax · 8 years ago
Again, 1Password.

It allows you to login to multiple workspaces so you can have your family plan and your work team plan at the same time.

There is a cost but I can guarantee that it’s saved me more in time than the cost could ever amount to.

I’ve never used an insecure password since using it. All completely random and it’s so easy to use.

The different vaults means I can grant my little boy access to the stuff he uses whilst having my credit card and server details in other vaults without fear that he can access them (more the credit card details). I just need to get the wife into using it now...

chrislomax commented on Apple Says It Slows Older iPhones to Save Their Battery Life   text.npr.org/s.php?sId=57... · Posted by u/lyk
valuearb · 8 years ago
The last time I heard of someone buying an iPhone in a non branded box, she ended up getting a box filled with potatoes. Your wife is already ahead on that person.
chrislomax · 8 years ago
She didn’t buy an iPhone in a non branded box, it’s how Apple sent the replacement phone.

I thought it was weird when we got the replacement though.

chrislomax commented on Apple Says It Slows Older iPhones to Save Their Battery Life   text.npr.org/s.php?sId=57... · Posted by u/lyk
valuearb · 8 years ago
Was her replacement phone a refurbished or new unit? Either way, she can probably get a brand new battery just by taking it in to the Apple Store.

Also, battery age isn't actually time based, it's cycle based. If your wife uses her phone so heavily that she has to recharge it multiple times a day, she's putting more cycles on the battery. Still should last more than 6 months though.

chrislomax · 8 years ago
I’m not 100% on whether it was refurb or brand new. It came in a non branded box without a charger etc. The phone looked brand new.

I’m going to install the app to check what the CPU is running at.

It’s still ridiculous that she was running 10.x fine, she only updated because someone sent her some emojis that her phone didn’t understand and now is it’s running like crap

chrislomax commented on Apple Says It Slows Older iPhones to Save Their Battery Life   text.npr.org/s.php?sId=57... · Posted by u/lyk
chrislomax · 8 years ago
My wife had a phone replaced off Apple about 6 months back because it was shutting down for no reason about 40% battery life.

She’s recently upgraded from 10.x to latest version. She’s noticed an actual decrease in performance to the point where she’s nearly punching the phone. It just locks up for no reason.

I’d like to blame this on the battery or age of the phone but I can’t. It is an iPhone 6 but it is only half a year old.

I believe that this phone should be able to handle the latest release just fine.

She’s now looking at upgrading the phone.

chrislomax commented on Show HN: CloudBuddy – Pay less for online storage   cloudbuddy.cloud/... · Posted by u/CloudBuddy
LogicX · 8 years ago
well, you can with backblaze b2... which is also far cheaper than their price per gigabyte.
chrislomax · 8 years ago
Sorry yes I was referring to the personal backup plan.

We use b2 at work for our corporate offsite backups and I can’t praise it high enough.

We’ve had it running for over a year and it’s just been set and forget.

We use cloudberry as the backup tool and it’s been great.

B2 is obviously our third line backup for when all else fails but I have confidence in it and it’s cheap.

chrislomax commented on Show HN: CloudBuddy – Pay less for online storage   cloudbuddy.cloud/... · Posted by u/CloudBuddy
chrislomax · 8 years ago
How does this beat Backblaze? I pay $5 a month and I’ve no data caps?

I know I can’t start at a dollar but I can’t imagine many people backing up 0-10gb a month and that’s it

chrislomax commented on Why I Left the .NET Framework   blog.jonathanoliver.com/w... · Posted by u/scottc
_random_ · 11 years ago
That would be a good experience!

You probably know this, but just a couple of generic facts up front:

Node.js is basically a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactor_pattern implementation with some package management on top (similar to NuGet) plus a bit of healthy hype (solves all problems!). Microsoft is going to add this option as well it seems: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2014/02/18/introducin...

Angular is basically an MVVM implementation for JS, where most things are observable by default plus all the benefits and disadvantages of dynamic weak typing and lack of OOP. Directives are a new concept I guess, scope inheritance is another concept to watch out for (don't forget to install the Chrome extension for scope inspection - Batarang; .NET Demon + Chrome LiveReload is a nice thing to try as well when going WebAPI on server side). It is probably the best MVVM JS framework so far, so a good thing to know. Microsoft guys are using it too sometimes it seems (check the sources): http://status.modern.ie.

chrislomax · 11 years ago
I didn't know any of that so I appreciate the comment.

I think my next "fun" app will be a real time app using as many of the "new" technologies as possible.

I've been stagnant far too long now and it's beginning to show

chrislomax commented on Why I Left the .NET Framework   blog.jonathanoliver.com/w... · Posted by u/scottc
pjmlp · 11 years ago
On my case, Germany with lots of Fortune 500 clients.
chrislomax · 11 years ago
What size of projects are they?

We do a lot of integration projects with our clients, ie integrating with CRMs / ERPs and the timescales on these projects is usually about 10/12 weeks. I enjoy this project turnaround as it means I'm never stagnant on the same project for long and I get to experience new things.

I imagine the projects for a Fortune 500 is 1 or 2 years long with thousands of man hours?

EDIT: Clarified a question

chrislomax commented on Why I Left the .NET Framework   blog.jonathanoliver.com/w... · Posted by u/scottc
codexon · 11 years ago
Maybe because of license issues? Windows also uses more resources.
chrislomax · 11 years ago
I think this is what frustrates me. We've slowly started reducing the amount of Windows machines in our cluster as the licensing for SQL went from £160 a month per CPU up to £240 per CPU in the space of 2 years.

This is unacceptable.

We can't run a business trying to guess what this will be in another 12 months time.

Resource is a big issue, I recently fired up a small Linux box on Digital Ocean as a test; it's 512mb with a small CPU. The machine barely runs at any overhead when dormant. A Windows box is using 1GB before the operating system has finished loading

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