I bought a gaming laptop from Affordable Laptops a couple of years ago. One of
the memory sticks was defective and the warranty support was great – I could
have sent the whole laptop back for them to replace but after discussion and I
told them I’d build lots of PCs over the years they sent a
I recently bought two Sony VAIO Pro Ultrabooks. First one was for my wife and
then she got sick of me stealing it when I travelled so I had to buy myself one
;-)
http://www.sony.com.au/product/svp13219pg
Note that the model in the Sony store has been superseded by the SVP13229PG. We
have one
My guess is a drive based on a SandForce controller.
You've described the symptoms I had before my SandForce SDD died a couple of
years ago. I was going to replace it with a newer SandForce drive until I
Googled a bit and then opted to go with an Intel 510 which used a Marvell
controller and
Trello.com is an option and is free. Cloud hosted and has iOS and Android
clients.
I use it for shared to do and tasks for personal use, and also for my
private work-todo list, but I haven't used it for software development.
There are some examples of companies that do use it for software
I believe you misread this. The quote below was with respect to deciding
whether or not to install an app, not whether or not they had a mobile phone.
...6 in 10 Australians chose not to use certain smartphone apps because...
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com
The only thing I recall having problems with after disabling my swap file in
Windows were some games that looked for a swap file and wouldn’t run if there
wasn’t one (or it wasn’t big enough). I think one was Company of Heroes. It
didn’t actually *need* to use the swap file as the PC has 16 GB
Or you could move to Kansas...
https://fiber.google.com/about/
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On
Behalf Of Ian Thomas
Sent: Sunday, 29 July 2012 12:43 PM
To: 'ozDotNet'
Subject: RE: [OT] Detect ADSL modem in use
Nooo... months is my firm belief.
Thanks Maniac!
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On
Behalf Of ManiacD
Sent: Thursday, 5 July 2012 1:30 PM
To: ozDotNet
Subject: Re: Australian Postcode data source
You could have a look at GeoPostcodes
http://www.geopostcodes.com/australia_zip_codes
I agree that is what my layman’s understanding of the intention of the terms
is. However, I’m not a lawyer and our lawyers think it isn’t black and white
and we are struggling to contact Australia Post to obtain clarification…
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com
Thanks David.
That's the interpretation that I had with regards to the conditions on the
linked page.
But IANAL and unfortunately our in-house counsel had a different opinion...
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On
Behalf Of David Richards
Sent:
Yep, at the start of the year I bought a Metabox P150HM from them. I went with
them after looking at heaps of options from Dell (what I normally get) to Acer
and many others too and for a PC with a high-end graphics card so in addition
to work it can also be used for current games at high
I don't know if its a .NET application, but if it is then you should have a
look at all your finalizers. Any unhandled exception in a finalizer will cause
your application to disappear without warning or any chance to catch or recover
(since this is happening on the GC's thread, not your app
Create a collection of Button references and then reference the buttons via the
collection.
ListButton buttons = new ListButton(NUMBER_OF_BUTTONS);
buttons[0] = button0;
buttons[1] = button1;
...
buttons[i].Text = Hello
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com
I get 20.8 km.
Assuming (from Wikipedia):
diameter of Sun = 1.391980 x10pow9 metres
dist to Alpha Centauri = 4.37 light years
1 light year = 9.4605284 x10pow15 metres
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On
Behalf Of
Also nitpicking: If the numbers in red are meaningless then you only know dist
to AC to two significant figures. Therefore the rescaled distance is 21 km. I'm
happy to round my 20.8 km to 21 km so I'm glad we agree ;-)
And if we're getting *reeeally* nitpicky then the grain of sand was only
I'm another happy iiNet customer. The service is good and reliable and they
have good peering for free quota for ABC iView, gaming etc. I was also
previously an Internode customer and they are also excellent. I switched from
them to iiNet only because iiNet provided much more bandwidth for my
I'm not sure if any laptops exist that have the option of having Win Server
2008 R2 installed. If they do they are likely pretty expensive.
Here's a reasonable Acer laptop for $1,050 (after cash back from Acer) that
will meet your specs once you add another 4GB of RAM (comes with 1x 4GB but can
Sorry Tejas
There's been so many threads about laptops recently I just assumed that this
was another one! I'd definitely get a desktop unless you need the portability.
If you are up for building a machine yourself (rather than buying one) then IMO
you can't go past the Intel 2600k CPU (~$320)
In my experience, if it just locks up solid with no blue screen, or if it just
randomly reboots without warning, it's likely to be a hardware problem.
Could really be anything but start by running memtest86 on it overnight. If
memtest is stable then try a CPU burn in utility. Ideally you want
Refactoring like this is where R# really pays its way...
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On
Behalf Of Anthony
Sent: Friday, 29 April 2011 8:02 AM
To: 'ozDotNet'
Subject: RE: Is it possible to override a class?
By an easier approach I assume you mean a time machine to go back and a crystal
ball to ensure that the people that developed the system you are now working on
do everything perfectly and with perfect anticipation of future changes to
requirements...
-Original Message-
From:
I think you're thinking of Blackberries ;-)
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On
Behalf Of Jorke Odolphi
Sent: Wednesday, 30 March 2011 6:58 PM
To: ozDotNet
Subject: RE: [OT] BYO Computer @ Suncorp
Isn't that why a lot of
If you are making minor changes to existing Excel files then Matt's approach is
reasonable and sensible. Create a template/baseline spreadsheet and save it as
a .xlsx file and then open, modify and save that using OOXML and send that to
your clients.
If you are making quite significant changes
I did actually send another 'contact us' message with feedback after I
(finally) sent the first message. It took me 3 goes to strip out all the
'insecure' characters.
-Original Message-
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com
[mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Price
I don't think it's nonsensical to expect a sane user feedback form on a
web site for an enterprise by a large corporation like Westpac,
particularly when a major redesign/upgrade of the web site was completed
only reasonably recently. I've worked on enterprise systems myself and
to be honest I'm
Rant
I just ran into the following text on the Westpac Altitude Rewards web
site. I am amazed that in this day and age that the developers and/or
designers for a banking-related web site have just *given up* and are
forcing their customers to clean their data.
Note that if your message does
I'd go with the little locked form in front. Otherwise it will appear to
the user that the main application has hung (when they click on it
nothing will happen and they won't know why because the modal form is
not visible).
From:
We used to use sharpziplib but changed over to Ionic.Zip (DotNetZip) some time
ago and haven't looked back.
The interface is so much cleaner and straightforward it is ridiculous. When we
went through the codebase making the changes the code was often 10-20% of the
size (eg. 20 lines of calls
If you are buying R# 5.0 it is compatible with VS 2008 and VS 2010
(although there are separate downloads), so no worries there. I'm
assuming the R# 4.0 in the last sentence is a typo.
If you are unsure you can try R# 5.0 for 30 days free (with VS 2008
and/or VS 2010) and if you like it then buy
Assuming it is a well-written class with a single specific
responsibility then the fact that you are using it everywhere means it
is a success.
Look at it this way, is there anything wrong with using System.String or
ListT in heaps of places? If you've written your class well then it
should be no
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