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Last night I accidentally pulled out the wrong power plugs, crashing my computer. For some reason this meant it wouldn’t start properly. I don’t quite get why that would mean it wouldn’t start as the hard disc didn’t fail, but none the less it wouldn...
Well if you mark your methods as being void from the outset …….
The user experience of Live Maps completely sucks compared to Google Maps. It’s that bad I really don’t think they even bother testing it. Live Maps experience: go to maps.live.com. Here it redirects to http://maps.live.com.au/? which seems to...
In breaking news today Microsoft announced it will be releasing Windows 7 and Office 2010 on floppy disk ! Microsoft said it heard complaints from customers that their old floppy drives were made obsolete because Microsoft didn’t release software...
I was reading yet another VB versus C# rant: I don’t want to get sucked into wading into that, but I will say that anyone who thinks folks that use VB can’t use C# has really got things back the front. Most people who use VB can read and write C#...
you can tell from the title there’s a Friday rant coming can’t you ? Well yeh, sometimes what should be a simple task of writing code becomes painstakingly slow. Take for example this one line of code: Dim doc = XDocument.Load( "abc...
So if OSLO and the new language for it named “D” are part of Visual Studio, that means we’d have VB, VC++, VC#, and now VD. I wonder if Visual D and OSLO will still let you use Strongly Typed Datasets. OSLO: for VD with STDs I can see marketing...
Via Nancy’s blog , I saw the link about Apple’s claim for accessibility features on the iPhone. Have a look at this picture of their claimed “ Giant font for Mail messages ” Maybe they could have made the picture a bit bigger, but...
(photo courtesy of wikipedia) As software architects today we are faced with an increasing dilemma of do we design our application to have stairs or ramps. In building terms, stairs can make a grand visual presence, but provide no access...
Windows Defender told me it scanned 12,843,673 objects !!! Admittedly that included another drive with Win 2008 on it, but that's still a lot of files. I noticed that the objects includes the contents of help files including MSDN. Even still, I figure...
If you have Foxit PDF reader , make sure you update to the latest build, V2.3 Build 2923 . This fixes a potential bug in the way script is passed that could lead to a buffer overflow exploit . If you don't have Foxit, get it now, and dump that old...
I was reading Kathleen's recent blog entry about Office and Windows and accessibility. Kathleen was referring to the cases where you don't have a mouse, only keyboard, and the fact that CTRL+I wasn't discoverable in that scenario. I have mixed...
I turn off Aero and themes, and all is good except for the start menu shut down and log-off icons which are just incredibly ugly: Notice the search icon is showed in colour, but the shut down and log-off are some crappy black and white images. What the...
I wasn't going to install VS 2008 SP1 Beta on my main development machine until I read a MSDN blog that said the final SP1 will install over the top of it. So I figure there's more good in getting feedback into the system now, than waiting. Installing...
It's bad enough when the Windows Live team continually releases their SDKs omitting VB, but when XNA 3.0 CTP is released and STILL NO VB support, it's getting beyond a joke. XNA 3 is for Visual Studio 2008 and lets you do cool things like create...
I got an email inviting me to take part in some great deals on some books from a certain company ( name withheld to protect the innocent). As the site was new, they were also encouraging some feedback. As it turned out a lot of the site didn't work...
I was just reading a work around for timestamps with LINQ or WCF, and I must be stupid, but I just don't get it. In fact, ever since dotnet came out mapping timestamp to a byte array or SqlBinary, I never got why they did that. Timestamp is 8 bytes...
What is up with Apple Computers ? Now they are taking GreenNYC to court because they use an apple as their logo. What's next, they'll be telling me I can't refer to any of the individual apples in my orchard as an Apple, instead I must call...
Why do they make it that we need to get up at 3AM to set the clocks back to 2AM ? Is it so when you go back to sleep you get to have the same dreams again ? And what about those poor shift workers ? Imagine if your shift finished at 4AM, then as you see...
I'm in utter disbelieve that people don't automatically know the 1962/63 cult classic film, " the day of the triffids "
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