[OT] Lightweight laptop for dev and demos

2011-03-21 Thread Bec Carter
Apologies for asking about laptops once again, I know this comes up lots on this list. I'm looking for a small laptop for occasional .net development and demonstrations of web apps mostly, something light and between 10 and 12 inches, maybe 13 inches not sure. Alienware M11x is one that has the

Re: [OT] Lightweight laptop for dev and demos

2011-03-21 Thread David Connors
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Bec Carter bec.usern...@gmail.com wrote: Apologies for asking about laptops once again, I know this comes up lots on this list. I'm looking for a small laptop for occasional .net development and demonstrations of web apps mostly, something light and between

Re: [OT] Lightweight laptop for dev and demos

2011-03-21 Thread Wallace Turner
I just bought a Dell Vostro V130 (13) corei5 4gig ram 64 bit. (http://www.dell.com/au/business/p/vostro-v130/pd) $924 to the door. I am very happy with it; I spent *alot* of time umming and arring over what to get, including looking at Sony Vaio's, ASUS, Lenovo etc. The Vostro is not much

Re: [OT] Lightweight laptop for dev and demos

2011-03-21 Thread Noon Silk
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Bec Carter bec.usern...@gmail.com wrote: Apologies for asking about laptops once again, I know this comes up lots on this list. I'm looking for a small laptop for occasional .net development and demonstrations of web apps mostly, something light and between 10

Re: [OT] Lightweight laptop for dev and demos

2011-03-21 Thread Stephen Price
Is it me or do the Lenovo laptops look exactly the same as they did 20 years ago? On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 6:30 AM, William Luu will@gmail.com wrote: Consider waiting for the Lenovo Thinkpad X220 to arrive in Australia (currently only the X201 is available) as another option -

Re: [OT] Lightweight laptop for dev and demos

2011-03-21 Thread Stephen Price
Thank goodness! Hell ugly laptops. Always have been. Maybe i'm just superficial. :) I was looking at the Vostro V130 Wallace recommended. Looks very nice. I get these Dell emails about the Vostro's all the time and to be honest I've always been underimpressed by them. I look at the business range

Re: [OT] Lightweight laptop for dev and demos

2011-03-21 Thread Grant Molloy
Stephen, Get her a stable table.. She sits it on her legs, and the laptop sits on a flat surface allowing the vents to breath !! On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.comwrote: Thank goodness! Hell ugly laptops. Always have been. Maybe i'm just superficial. :) I

Re: [OT] Lightweight laptop for dev and demos

2011-03-21 Thread Stephen Price
She got one for christmas and doesn't use it. (I think its a stable table clone. I wouldn't use it either). Pillows are so much handier... lol will have a look at a real stable table and see if they are any nicer than the horrible thing she got. The thought was there... (no, I didn't buy it) On

Re: [OT] Lightweight laptop for dev and demos

2011-03-21 Thread Grant Molloy
Well you can only lead a horse to water can't you !! On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.comwrote: She got one for christmas and doesn't use it. (I think its a stable table clone. I wouldn't use it either). Pillows are so much handier... lol will have a look

Re: [OT] Lightweight laptop for dev and demos

2011-03-21 Thread William Luu
It may look the same/similar. But they do tweak the design a little over time. I guess it is their look. On 22 March 2011 10:33, Noon Silk noonsli...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.com wrote: Is it me or do the Lenovo laptops look

RE: [OT] Lightweight laptop for dev and demos

2011-03-21 Thread Chris Walsh
The only thing they've tweaked is putting a windows button. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of William Luu Sent: Tuesday, 22 March 2011 1:14 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Lightweight laptop for dev and demos It may look the same/similar.

COM Interop broken in 2010

2011-03-21 Thread Kirsten Greed
Hi All I am working with some other co-developers on a VB6 upgrade project, which we are tackling by using COM Interop. Now we have upgraded to Dot Net 2010 we are experiencing problems. We have VB6 DLL files called jtNodes, jtBusObjDataTran, and jtBusinessObject My collegue describes

RE: COM Interop broken in 2010

2011-03-21 Thread Bill McCarthy
Is Embed Interop Types Off on those assemblies ? |-Original Message- |From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet- |boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Kirsten Greed |Sent: Tuesday, 22 March 2011 1:24 PM |To: 'ozDotNet' |Subject: COM Interop broken in 2010 | |Hi All | | | |I am

Re: [OT] Lightweight laptop for dev and demos

2011-03-21 Thread David Richards
Give them a break. Faults can sometimes get through QA :P David If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes  will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!  -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 13:17, Chris Walsh ch...@walshie.me wrote: The only thing they’ve tweaked

Re: [OT] Lightweight laptop for dev and demos

2011-03-21 Thread William Luu
Well, the other tweak they made was to make it lighter :P At least it's no longer still 3.5kg+. Anyway, I don't own one (never have). But thought the specs sounded pretty good. Plus they seem to have been built pretty solidly, and most of the staff in my office who have a laptop have one of the

FW: ASP.NET application in IIS7

2011-03-21 Thread Peter Maddin
I found the problem (me) after I put tracing in my code. It was a database login that had failed. If nothing else I have refreshed my knowledge on debugging ASP.NET. Its been several years since I last touched this. Regards Peter From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com

Re: FW: ASP.NET application in IIS7

2011-03-21 Thread Arjang Assadi
Hi Peter, That is stange, when running it on the local machine you should have seen an error message saying the login failed for the user Blah, etc. Was there no error being displayed? Regards Arjang On 22 March 2011 16:28, Peter Maddin petermad...@iinet.net.au wrote: I found the problem (me)