RE: [OT] Weird symptoms and SSD

2014-03-25 Thread Ken Schaefer
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of mike smith Sent: Tuesday, 25 March 2014 4:55 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Weird symptoms and SSD After reading some technical stuff on SSDs several weeks ago and how they work and wear-levelling and

Re: [OT] Weird symptoms and SSD

2014-03-25 Thread David Connors
On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 3:55 PM, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote: Whilst the idea of a really fast swap file is nice, the implementation of SSD's suggest that its a bad combo. Unless you do something like use a dedicated SSD for the swap drive, and eat the cost when it dies. I'm still a

Re: What would you ask Satya?

2014-03-25 Thread Stephen Price
Why have you forsaken us? Do you require more sacrifices to be pleased with us? Seriously though, can we change the name of Legacy apps to something a little less negative? Just because we are still writing non Windows 8 Store apps doesn't make them Legacy. Then again, maybe hes seen my code? ;)

What would you ask Satya?

2014-03-25 Thread Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA)
If you had an opportunity to ask Satya Nadella a question in front of several thousand developers, what would you ask him?

RE: [OT] Noise cancelling earphones for a quiet programming environment?

2014-03-25 Thread Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA)
Hey AB – I haven’t flown with them yet, but I’ve worn them for several hours at a time in a noisy environment with no discomfort. Coming home from the US later this week will be a good test. Very impressed so far. One thing I like about them is that they still allow you to listen to your

RE: What would you ask Satya?

2014-03-25 Thread Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA)
Nice - I like. Keep 'em coming. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Price Sent: Tuesday, 25 March 2014 8:02 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: What would you ask Satya? Why have you forsaken us? Do you require more sacrifices to be pleased

RE: What would you ask Satya?

2014-03-25 Thread GregAtGregLowDotCom
Given his engineering background, I'd love to hear his thoughts on building products that actually solve problems. One of the real challenges in recent years seems to be the endless focus on shiny new things that make good 7 minute demos rather than working on existing products until they solve

Re: unsubscribe

2014-03-25 Thread mike smith
Won't someone please think of the bandwidth! On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 7:32 PM, Preet Sangha preetsan...@gmail.com wrote: man I wished I could send in colour. But I grew up in the 70's and we couldn't afford it. On 25 March 2014 18:58, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote: Like this.

Re: unsubscribe

2014-03-25 Thread Scott Barnes
hmmm your ideas intrigue me, tell me is there a newsletter that i may unsubscribe from for more information :D --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 9:42 AM, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote: Won't someone please think of the bandwidth! On Tue, Mar

RE: unsubscribe

2014-03-25 Thread Nathan Chere
Give the guy a break. Poor bugger was probably reading his email through Outlook 2013 at anything less than full screen @ 1080p and didn’t notice any of the footer under all the unnecessary metro-fied chrome and crap like non-removable/shrinkable viewing pane header. Which brings me to my

Re: unsubscribe

2014-03-25 Thread mike smith
I wasn't really being nasty, its more - teach a guy to fish, rather than give him a fish. Besides it'd need the admin to unsub him, if you don't use self-serve. (and I did it by 'show headers' - I don't think it shows in the footer :) Oh yes. For amusement value.

RE: What would you ask Satya?

2014-03-25 Thread Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA)
Thanks Greg - I particularly like the services question. Andrew Coates, ME, MCPD, MCSD MCTS, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft, 1 Epping Road, NORTH RYDE NSW 2113 Ph: +61 (2) 9870 2719 ∙ Mob +61 (416) 134 993 ∙ Fax: +61 (2) 9870 2400 ∙ http://blogs.msdn.com/acoat Sent from the new

RE: unsubscribe

2014-03-25 Thread Ken Schaefer
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Nathan Chere Sent: Wednesday, 26 March 2014 12:28 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: unsubscribe Or to put it another way, going back to Outlook 2003 is a purely positive experience and I can’t think of a single

Re: unsubscribe

2014-03-25 Thread mike smith
inline On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Nathan Chere *Sent:* Wednesday, 26 March 2014 12:28 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* RE: unsubscribe Or to

Re: unsubscribe

2014-03-25 Thread Thomas Koster
Speaking of Outlook issues, I hope all of you Outlook users realise that whenever Outlook auto-replaces your smilies it looks like garbage Latin glyphs on every other mail user agent in the universe. Apparently it is replacing your smilies with spans of wingdings. It took me ages to figure out