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I've only dealt with their escalation engineers on sql server within a production scope, but i can say that in every incident, they have been top notch, world-class professionals (cannot say the same with other software vendors). I agree it's a waste to have the tickets and not use them. You end up learning other things during the investigation.

If in doubt, just ask... I'm sure the first tier folks would verify if your issue was within scope.

to answer the question about reproducing in the non-prod environment... i think this is a gray area. some things are impossible to reproduce especially if there is a load component or "you simply don't know" component to the issue.

instead of mapped drives, can you use fqdn?

the who is the app pool identity running under?

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also, which user are you intending to have access to the shared drive? the impersonated end-user? network service? the app pool identity? you have to decide this first and verify those permissions on the shared folder. if your intention is the impersonated end-user you may have to set up delegation/kerberos for multi-hop credential passing.

okay, who wants to host a bunch of macs and farm the compiler and xcode binaries to the visual studio diehards? 

you could even rent session time on the ui designer!

j/k... i'm sure there's some silly legal reason why you can't do this.

in addition to the high entry price, a major turn off for me in the past was the inherent choice you had to make based on your dev platform... you could either target ios/android on mac OR android/windows on pc. if they figured out a way to break that barrier and still offer the native bindings... this is huge.

still $999 to get visual studio support though... i wish they would adopt a licensing model like unreal sdk. you can use it for free and you only pay royalties if your app nets certain $ thresholds.

wow. native ios development in visual studio on windows? what kind of sorcery is this?

if you bring your own domain, you may find blogger (google) a good fit. with some css tweaks you can un-brand it and make it look like anything you like. it's 100% free which is nice.

i think there are tools to import wordpress too.

2 hours ago, Erisan wrote

I'm going to make my own packages in the future and use kickstart that builds whole system (bootable and installable ISO-file) with latest system/drivers/applications/etc. with one command.

if you can sort out the kinks and document what supported hardware works, i think people would pay for that.

2 hours ago, Erisan wrote

I'm running my gaming Linux from hard disk over USB3 which works perfectly. I made a bootable USB stick which boots directly to Steam "Big Picture" UI - works without problems as well.

^ that's cool as heck. how portable is that? i'd imagine video and audio drivers would be a problem if you wanted to go over to a buddy's house and just plug in. how cool would it be if someone had all the major video drivers pre-installed on the stick and the boot would just figure out which driver it needed to use!

i'd love to see a top-to-bottom mvvm dev stack built around webapi and javascript/typescript with a prescribed security model, databinding from client all the way to the database, maybe even html5/javascript "controls" you could drag and drop onto a design surface ala webforms.

@JohnAskew: very cool! good luck to him.

firey moon is nice too... good on him for not being satisfied with boring 4/4 timings.