One of the companies I worked for used an applet to load data from a webapp and insert it into an Access 1.0 DB file in the users hard dr...
One of the companies I worked for used an applet to load data from a webapp and insert it into an Access 1.0 DB file in the users hard drive. After exporting the data, the user would have to run a really old gov't program (to which the Access DB file belonged) to upload the data to a legacy server, over X.25 (click an icon on the desktop). The most important requirement is to use the DB file installed in the user's hard drive (always same directory, no way to change it): can't generate new ones because the gov't program stores some cryptic arcane data in it, and even though we could reverse engineer it, we wouldn't be legally covered if we sent the wrong cryptic data. Second requirement is: users are ignorant, don't know how to save files and how to navigate directory trees, 'computers = magic' to them. How would you address this situation?
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Legit what one of our clients problem was.
sounds painful, just searched on "how can i get ms office running in linux using wine" and the results included a containerised windows v...
Appreciate MCP server availability, will help integrate with Claude.
Maybe a different take, but as someone that manages a large public API that allows anonymous access, IPv6 has been a nightmare to try and...
Why is there no write through unionfs in Linux?
> why is there no in-memory kafka server that I can use for simple testing purposes https://github.com/embeddedkafka/...
> why is there no in-memory kafka server that I can use for simple testing purposes.
I went from daily driving mac and being very used to the desktop environment, and i am really hating everything i've tried in Linux.
One of the companies I worked for used an applet to load data from a webapp and insert it into an Access 1.0 DB file in the users hard dr...
One of the companies I worked for used an applet to load data from a webapp and insert it into an Access 1.0 DB file in the users hard drive. After exporting the data, the user would have to run a really old gov't program (to which the Access DB file belonged) to upload the data to a legacy server, over X.25 (click an icon on the desktop). The most important requirement is to use the DB file installed in the user's hard drive (always same directory, no way to change it): can't generate new ones because the gov't program stores some cryptic arcane data in it, and even though we could reverse engineer it, we wouldn't be legally covered if we sent the wrong cryptic data. Second requirement is: users are ignorant, don't know how to save files and how to navigate directory trees, 'computers = magic' to them. How would you address this situation?
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