[OT] Shutting down an Azure VM

2013-07-21 Thread Greg Keogh
Does anyone know what one is expected to do with their Azure VM if it won't be used for some time? I guessed you'd just shut it down to save costs and stop sucking useless electrons out of the cloud, but when I try that through the portal it warns me that the VIP public IP address will be

Re: [OT] Search engines (not a complaint)

2013-07-21 Thread mike smith
But if you can't be found on a search engine, who's going to come to your site? Word of mouth isn't how you get most traffic. If you cut out the 52% of search engine bots, the other 48% won't know you exist. On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Just a bit of

RE: [OT] Search engines (not a complaint)

2013-07-21 Thread Paul Evrat
Your you could cut out the ones that can’t be relevant such as foreign language countries. One of my web logs shows substantial access from Russian Federation, China, Latvia, Ukraine, France, Germany, Moldovia, Netherlands, Slovakia, Malaysia, KAZAKHSTAN, and Israel. Is this normal – or am

Re: [OT] Search engines (not a complaint)

2013-07-21 Thread mike smith
I'd imagine that many users in those countries don't expect the web to be in their native language, but in English. OTOH, maybe you should filter .nsa.gov spiders :) (or is it .nsa.mil ?) On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 8:42 AM, Paul Evrat p...@paulevrat.com wrote: Your you could cut out the ones

Winforms\WIndows Service

2013-07-21 Thread ifumust
I found some code a while back that allowed me to have an application that could run as a service or a winform interface.anyone done this before? Anthony

Re: [OT] Search engines (not a complaint)

2013-07-21 Thread Greg Keogh
But if you can't be found on a search engine, who's going to come to your site? Word of mouth isn't how you get most traffic. If you cut out the 52% of search engine bots, the other 48% won't know you exist. I haven't blocked Google, I hope, but I did block Googlebot-Image which was all

RE: [OT] Search engines (not a complaint)

2013-07-21 Thread ifumust
Just block them..Google are becoming too powerful and hope to see a new player soon , maybe one that is decentralised. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Monday, 22 July 2013 10:30 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Search

RE: [OT] Search engines (not a complaint)

2013-07-21 Thread Katherine Moss
I have a bing preference. And thanks for the NSA blocking reminders; I'll remember to set up IP and domain restrictions and block any IPs that come from the government LOL. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of ifum...@gmail.com Sent: Sunday,

Re: Winforms\WIndows Service

2013-07-21 Thread Greg Keogh
I found some code a while back that allowed me to have an application that could run as a service or a winform interface…anyone done this before? If you want the same executable image to be both a Windows Service or a WinForms app, I've never tried to do that, but perhaps you can different

RE: Winforms\WIndows Service

2013-07-21 Thread ifumust
Found this article. http://coding.abel.nu/2012/05/debugging-a-windows-service-project/ From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Monday, 22 July 2013 11:58 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Winforms\WIndows Service I found some code

Re: Winforms\WIndows Service

2013-07-21 Thread Tom Rutter
Yeh I maintained an app back in the day that did this for debugging purposes. Just had 2 code paths. Don't really need it though. I can't think of a reason you would need this off the top of my head. On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 10:13 AM, ifum...@gmail.com wrote: I found some code a while back that

Re: Winforms\WIndows Service

2013-07-21 Thread mike smith
If you do need to debug the startup of a service with a debugger, there's a way to do that too. Use a conventional exe app to get the binary loaded under the debugger, set breakpoints in service, then use the net start/stop commands to hit them. You'll need to be swift, as services expect to

RE: Winforms\WIndows Service

2013-07-21 Thread ifumust
I have gui that provides extra functionality when required but installed as service so a reboot doesn't affect operation. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Tom Rutter Sent: Monday, 22 July 2013 3:26 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: