Posts by FrankVanRiet

Microsoft throws a bone to those unable to leave the past behind: .NET 5 support on the way for Visual Basic

Vincent, seems you are a VBA wizard. That is not what the discussion is about here. VB.NET is a totally different beast. VBA resembles the most VB6.

Also most of the stuff you are describing can only be done in an interpreted environment as it is the interpreter that is in control of the complete environment (program counter, variable management, stack management, etc vs compiled where the program talks directly to the CPU. (well not really with MS languages..but almost).

Know that MS is also pushing to get rid of VBA... eg. in Office 365. From what i hear they are talking javascript, HTML5 etc .

This being said, i'm more inclined to have similar feelings on all this semicolon, etc stuff..

Still missing the good old Clipper compilers... :-) Or to dig even further in my past..Cobol/Assembler :-)

And now i'll retire in my bunker until the flack wares off :-)

So you locked your backups away for years, huh? Allow me to introduce my colleagues, Brute, Force and Ignorance

bloup bloup?

Yup, sounds like a good old Seagate ST-238 starting up..it would spin up the motor, and then move its heads up and down a bit as part of a self-check..

Those were indeed the days.. they were notorious for locking up if you powered them off for a while. Always had a small plastic hammer in my toolbox :-)

Enjoying that 25Mbps internet speed, America? Oh, it's just 6Mbps? And you're unhappy? Can't imagine why

You all live in the wrong country..

At least for internet connectivity.. i live outside the city of Antwerp in a rural village. Internet speeds are 169Mb/s download and just shy of 20Mb/s upload. Just tested with internet speed test. And that is through a VPN..

And yes i pay more, but it also includes my cable television, a landline phone, free video on demand content (mostly older movies, but most of the current TV series)..for about 100$.

But i must also sa y : our country is small, and every home has cable to it.

I used to have ADSL (now DSL, symmetric) , and i know people who still use it and that is really a disaster.. you never get even near the advertised speeds..

Adi Shamir visa snub: US govt slammed after the S in RSA blocked from his own RSA conf

Re: I understand the Netherlands are beautiful this time of year....

Euh, i think you forget Zaventem... which AFAIK is still in Belgium, and the closest major airport with connections all over the globe. and is about an hour drive from Bruges. (yes, a bit biased as i'm Belgian)

Gone Goel: HPE changes storage leadership

HPE Storage Strategy..easy as proverbial pie

The going forward HPE storage strategy is easy as proverbial pie : one side is system defined, AKA with hardware designs (so, 3PAR for file and block), the other side is Software Defined (StoreVirtual, StorOnce for Backup. ). That is what internal development uses going forward. However, as not everything is a nail and eg. both XP and MSA still have more than enough use cases out there; those 'traditional' platforms are not forgotten and not only continue to be supported but also continue to receive regular enhancements and updates. For object and large scale file HPE has agreements with Scality. And indeed..EVA went EOL on dec. 1st, 2013..so if your sales teams are still selling those..you may have found some hidden stash we don't know about? (Yes, I'm an HPE storage guy)