Re: [OT] Free Forum Software and Mailing list software.

2010-03-03 Thread mike smith
On 4 March 2010 14:00, Adrian Halid adrian.ha...@itvision.com.au wrote: Hi All, I am looking for some free forum software. I have used PHPBB before and found it easy to setup and great for plugins or modifications. But I need to find some software to host on Windows IIS with a MS

Re: [OT] External hard drives

2010-03-03 Thread mike smith
On 4 March 2010 12:49, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: My wife needs an external hard drive for backing-up and carrying around her couple of hundred MB of work files. I’ve never owned an ext HDD or looked at them, so before I drive down to the local MSY (parts

Re: [OT] External hard drives

2010-03-03 Thread mike smith
. Just *try* doing this with USB. :) Cheers Ken *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *mike smith *Sent:* Thursday, 4 March 2010 11:57 AM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: [OT] External hard drives On 4 March 2010 12:49, Greg Keogh g

Re: Developer apathy...

2010-03-21 Thread mike smith
On 19 March 2010 16:53, Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.com wrote: I've come across something that perplexes me today... Just curious if others have hit it. I asked about the office when we'd be starting to use Visual Studio 2010, and if anyone was excited about it and all I got back was

Re: Code Camp Oz - question to those who would like to attend.

2010-03-30 Thread mike smith
On 31 March 2010 10:56, Mitch Denny mitch.de...@readify.net wrote: Hi folks, I’m looking at dates for Code Camp Oz 2010, and it’s looking like it is going to be at the tail end of the year based on the availability of the CSU campus. Given that what if it was in late November to early

Re: [OT] MSAccess developer wanted

2010-04-13 Thread mike smith
[mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *mike smith *Sent:* Tuesday, 13 April 2010 10:20 AM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: [OT] MSAccess developer wanted On 13 April 2010 10:02, Greg Shaw g...@decisionware.com.au wrote: A friend asked me if I knew any MSAccess developers and I

Re: VS2010 Professional Pricing

2010-04-16 Thread mike smith
software from overseas. Why would there be markup on a RRP? David Loo. *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *mike smith *Sent:* Friday, 16 April 2010 8:38 AM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: VS2010 Professional Pricing On 16 April

Re: Environment.GetCommandLineArgs at runtime

2010-04-27 Thread mike smith
Pass a pipe as a parameter? On 28 April 2010 12:13, Anthony asale...@tpg.com.au wrote: Am i able to pass parameters to an application when it is already open.  I know i can use Environment.GetCommandLineArgs at execution startup but what about when its already open Is your website being 

Re: Cheapest way to get VS2010 Professional?

2010-05-05 Thread mike smith
On 5 May 2010 10:10, Arjang Assadi arjang.ass...@gmail.com wrote: BizSpark, DreamSpark, what about Tony Stark?  :) No seriously what is the cheapest way to get it, client won't be paying for it so it will be coming out of me own pocket. I just can't do without at least VS2010 Professional.

Re: [OT] Odd Question/Situation

2010-05-12 Thread mike smith
On 12 May 2010 15:04, Arjang Assadi arjang.ass...@gmail.com wrote: Got eye exam, got reading gleasses, But when there is zoom do we need gleasses? If we can change the size of what we read do we really need to use reading glasses (and keep the font the same size)? It just doesn't make sense

Re: [OT] Odd Question/Situation

2010-05-12 Thread mike smith
On 12 May 2010 16:09, Michael Minutillo michael.minuti...@gmail.com wrote: You fix that by having two tvs each showing a different channel Can you get optically corrected 3d lcd shutter glasses? I'm thinking it could be just software. -- Meski Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to

Re: [OT] Odd Question/Situation

2010-05-13 Thread mike smith
On 12 May 2010 17:21, Michael Minutillo michael.minuti...@gmail.com wrote: I'm fine with all of that except the bit where you're awake watching them do it. I don't care how much Valium or how many anesthetic eye drops I'm given I'm not doing that. DO you *have* to be awake? -- Meski Going

Re: [OT] Toner hell

2010-05-13 Thread mike smith
On 14 May 2010 11:03, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote: On 14 May 2010 11:01, David Burstin david.burs...@gmail.com wrote: I hated this ridiculous situation too, until I realized that there are benefits. I get to try out a printer for 6 months to see if I am happy with it, and the ability

Re: [OT] Toner hell

2010-05-13 Thread mike smith
On 14 May 2010 13:08, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote: On 14 May 2010 11:03, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote: On 14 May 2010 11:01, David Burstin david.burs...@gmail.com wrote: I hated this ridiculous situation too, until I realized that there are benefits. I get to try out a printer

Re: [OT] Odd Question/Situation

2010-05-13 Thread mike smith
On 14 May 2010 11:57, Michael Minutillo michael.minuti...@gmail.com wrote: Yes. Otherwise your eyes roll up and they can't lase you bro. GROAN On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 8:10 AM, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 May 2010 17:21, Michael Minutillo michael.minuti...@gmail.com wrote

Re: How To do something every so often

2010-05-18 Thread mike smith
On 18 May 2010 14:19, Dylan Tusler dylan.tus...@sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au wrote: Is = slower than by itself? Not at all. if (foo == 1) 00053EEC cmp dword ptr [ebp-54h],2710h 00053EF3 jne CTrimAutoDeployModule::main+8Ch (53EFCh) { foo=0;

Re: [OT] Sky spraying again in the northen suburbs of vic

2010-05-18 Thread mike smith
On 19 May 2010 13:09, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote: On 19 May 2010 12:28, Anthony asale...@tpg.com.au wrote: Anyone see the chemtrail in the sky? Are they spraying for mind control or weather control today? CO2. Oh, you said that. :) David. -- David Connors (da...@codify.com)

Re: How To do something every so often

2010-05-20 Thread mike smith
On 20 May 2010 15:54, silky michaelsli...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 3:54 PM, David Burela david.bur...@gmail.com wrote: But would one of them be easier to implement with the .Net 4.0 parallel extensions? I see what's happened here. I've somehow subscribed to the ironic humour

Re: ASP.NET Control databinding, member properties, dynamically fetch property name?

2010-05-25 Thread mike smith
On 26 May 2010 08:35, Winston Pang winstonp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, This is more of a question of whether or not this sounds feasible and has anyone seen anyone do this: Typically with most ASP.NET controls, lets take the ComboBox for an example, it'll be like

Re: Ignoring excpetions in catch

2010-06-01 Thread mike smith
On 1 June 2010 18:37, James Chapman-Smith ja...@enigmativity.com wrote: Handling exceptions requires exceptional programming - literally figuratively. I find that there are very few times that you actually need to handle exceptions. Very few. Rampant exceptional handling creates more

Re: Ignoring excpetions in catch

2010-06-02 Thread mike smith
-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of mike smith Sent: Wednesday, 2 June 2010 1:14 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Ignoring excpetions in catch On 1 June 2010 18:37, James Chapman-Smith ja...@enigmativity.com wrote: Handling exceptions requires exceptional

Re: .NET Obfuscator Software..free!

2010-06-03 Thread mike smith
On 4 June 2010 11:19, Jason Finch jason.fi...@gmail.com wrote: Different approach, Don't obfuscate your code, give them the entire source code. Then attach a restrictive usage license. Then hope that they ignore the license and intergrate your code into their critical systems. Then audit

Re: .NET Obfuscator Software..free!

2010-06-03 Thread mike smith
On 4 June 2010 13:47, Iain Carlin cut...@gmail.com wrote: Which is where escrow agreements come in in the software world. In my previous job as a contractor, we had an escrow agreement with our customers. Source code was held in escrow by a third party. If we went out of business they handed

Re: Visual Studio output window

2010-06-03 Thread mike smith
On 4 June 2010 14:37, Dylan Tusler dylan.tus...@sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au wrote: Dylan, I look at the Error Window to navigate to compile errors (hitherto I didn’t realise you could click on warnings/errors in the output window) Naturally, I don't get any warnings or errors in my output window,

Re: regarding db sync

2010-06-09 Thread mike smith
On 10 June 2010 12:00, silky michaelsli...@gmail.com wrote: I know there was a thread on this recently. The versioning inside the DB is obviously one component of this, but scripting the changes is the other part. Does anyone automate the scripting? It seems to me that it would be cool if

Re: regarding db sync

2010-06-09 Thread mike smith
On 10 June 2010 15:11, silky michaelsli...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Mark Ryall mark.ry...@gmail.com wrote: I meant to say this in one of the previous threads on this topic. The conventional approach seems to be to manage a set of sql files per database (one file per

Re: [OT] Laptop - Dell vs Toshiba

2010-06-15 Thread mike smith
On 15 June 2010 14:20, Corneliu I. Tusnea corne...@acorns.com.au wrote: I had a Dell XPS 16 Core i7 + 8Gb Ram + SSD (aftermarket) and returned it back to Dell after 4 months of use due to incredible heating and constant crashing. The laptop has a design flaw that the vents get covered by the

Re: KPI's for software developers

2010-06-25 Thread mike smith
On 25 June 2010 12:43, Michael Minutillo michael.minuti...@gmail.com wrote: I am never going to a hospital again Having been in one last week, I can only agree. Sleep deprivation as a means of torture has *nothing* on what a hospital will do to you. -- Meski Going to Starbucks for coffee is

Re: Microsoft Songsmith - Is it friday yet?

2010-07-01 Thread mike smith
On 2 July 2010 08:33, Alastair Waddell alastair.wadd...@dsc.wa.gov.au wrote: After watching these videos, who wants to collaborate on a project… Collaborate, like the French did? On Behalf Of Dylan Tusler   And my favourite: Queen - We Will Rock You (salsa style) 

Re: Microsoft Songsmith - Is it friday yet?

2010-07-01 Thread mike smith
On 2 July 2010 09:12, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote: On 2 July 2010 08:33, Alastair Waddell alastair.wadd...@dsc.wa.gov.au wrote: After watching these videos, who wants to collaborate on a project… Think Been Folds Five.. Give me my bandwidth back Not really wanting to collaborate,

Re: [OT] Friday - Conway (or.. Labor govt) once again delays Internet Filter

2010-07-09 Thread mike smith
On 9 July 2010 20:27, noonie neale.n...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, I remember a recent election with 20+ candidates on the ballot paper. The way one is supposed to vote, as shown on the how-to-vote cards, is to select your most favoured candidate and place a 1 against his/her name, then a 2

Re: [OT] Friday - Conway (or.. Labor govt) once again delays Internet Filter

2010-07-09 Thread mike smith
On 9 July 2010 20:43, .net noobie dotnetnoo...@gmail.com wrote: Gillard. more Spin than Rudd I just hope the Australian public realise it before the election, this labour party has done alot of damage in 2.5 years, we don't need 3 more years of it Not trying to be too political, but

Re: [OT] Friday - Conway (or.. Labor govt) once againdelaysInternet Filter

2010-07-12 Thread mike smith
On 12 July 2010 21:41, .net noobie dotnetnoo...@gmail.com wrote: Or building an NBN I was under the impression that we were building the 40+ billion NBN to have TWO networks to increase/create competition Er, since when would that increase competition? Do we have two sets of roads, two sets

Re:

2010-07-21 Thread mike smith
Snicker On 22 July 2010 11:13, Michael Minutillo michael.minuti...@gmail.comwrote: Good point On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 8:31 AM, silky michaelsli...@gmail.com wrote: -- silky Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy — the joy of being this signature. -- Michael

Re: An actual subject

2010-07-22 Thread mike smith
Close enough On 22 July 2010 11:41, silky michaelsli...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Michael Minutillo michael.minuti...@gmail.com wrote: I guess they never thought of that. Either that or they decided not to support the scenario where the subject line is blank. A

Re: An actual subject

2010-07-22 Thread mike smith
If they don't respond the source is available, if you want it do insert then feel free. Oh, and you can merge the change back, and we might accept it :^) On 23 July 2010 06:21, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote: On 22 July 2010 11:41, silky michaelsli...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 22,

Re: OT - Mathematical computing

2010-07-31 Thread mike smith
You could always use Fortran :^) On 31 July 2010 11:29, silky michaelsli...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone do anything of this type? I'm currently playing with MATLAB, and it's pretty fun. There are some things that require a bit of getting used to, but it seems like it's the most used and

Re: Remote debugging outside of domain

2010-08-08 Thread mike smith
as it doesn’t recognise the PDB’s. - Michael Lyons *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *mike smith *Sent:* Monday, 9 August 2010 1:26 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: Remote debugging outside of domain It's

Re: [OT] Does anyone know a good Access list?

2010-08-15 Thread mike smith
export to excel workbook seems to export to a xlsx (2007) format ok. On 16 August 2010 15:29, David Burstin david.burs...@gmail.com wrote: Or have an answer to this: I'm helping a client with some problems they are having with an Access 2007 application. They have reports based on queries

Re: [OT] Does anyone know a good Access list?

2010-08-16 Thread mike smith
I thought when I saw this that it shouldn't matter. My bad there, the options are different. I was doing it from a table. Would exporting it as xml work then? On 16 August 2010 16:11, David Burstin david.burs...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 3:47 PM, mike smith meski...@gmail.com

Re: [OT] Does anyone know a good Access list?

2010-08-17 Thread mike smith
On 17 August 2010 11:28, David Burstin david.burs...@gmail.com wrote: S Again, this would be useful for importing the raw data from Access. What the client needs is to be able to import the generated reports, including calculated fields, totals, formatting, etc. *exactly as they see it on

Re: Properties

2010-08-24 Thread mike smith
About the only time fields might be preferable is where you want to read a file (a bitmap, say) and then cast it to a class. A lot of the lower-level classes in MFC did that. CRect, CPoint, etc. On 25 August 2010 12:07, Mark Ryall mark.ry...@gmail.com wrote: If you create some library that

Re: [OT] SQL injection attack vectors

2010-09-01 Thread mike smith
On 1 September 2010 15:06, Craig van Nieuwkerk crai...@gmail.com wrote: I don't see how any legitimate programmer could claim to be unaware of such an issue; it's a core concept about how programming works. They may as well be confused that comments don't compile. Of the hundred plus

Re: Win Phone 7 RTM

2010-09-01 Thread mike smith
On 2 September 2010 11:53, Nick Randolph n...@builttoroam.com wrote: Lol – but RTM != In-Stores-Soon…. You’ve got to allow a couple of months for the rtm build to be round tripped through OEMs, Telcos and back to MS J That's what I like about Android. Gets updated to your existing phone.

Re: Win Phone 7 RTM

2010-09-01 Thread mike smith
On 2 September 2010 13:47, Sam Lai samuel@gmail.com wrote: On 2 September 2010 13:27, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 September 2010 11:53, Nick Randolph n...@builttoroam.com wrote: Lol – but RTM != In-Stores-Soon…. You’ve got to allow a couple of months for the rtm build

Re: verdict on kindle/ebook reader?

2010-09-03 Thread mike smith
, which requires the backlight to all be on. On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 2:12 PM, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote: On 3 September 2010 15:05, Simon Reed simon.spectre.l...@gmail.comwrote: +1 agree with Ken Also compared to a backlit device such as an iPad or tablet I find the eye strain

Re: ASP.NET POST variables missing

2010-09-06 Thread mike smith
On 7 September 2010 11:48, Matt Siebert mlsieb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I have a relatively simple page that processes PayPal Instant Payment Notification (IPN) messages. Basically, PayPal just POSTs a bunch of variables to this page which contains logic to process the order (i.e.

Re: Re:

2010-09-06 Thread mike smith
On 7 September 2010 11:37, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: Both my Kindle and my Sony have the split-second black flash. Before I bought my Sony, I read every review of an e-Ink device I could find, and they all seem to mention it. Which brings up a question, can you set it to

Re: Access Database Replication

2010-09-06 Thread mike smith
On 7 September 2010 15:01, noonie neale.n...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, On 7 September 2010 13:36, Les Hughes l...@datarev.com.au wrote: Ian Thomas wrote: What are the problems of putting the MDB back-end in the cloud (using the term loosely)? Surely both ends have a permanent always-on

Re: Access Database Replication

2010-09-06 Thread mike smith
On 7 September 2010 15:15, silky michaelsli...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 3:09 PM, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote: [...] Probably why some people have stopped asking me questions :-P And the downside is? That looks suspiciously like a question, meski. ¿sorry

Re:

2010-09-08 Thread mike smith
You may say that, I could not possibly comment. On 9 September 2010 10:26, David Burela david.bur...@gmail.com wrote: inside joke I have no interest in this /inside joke On 9 September 2010 09:44, DotNet Dude adotnetd...@gmail.com wrote: Indeed :p On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Matthew

Re: 'Padding Oracle' Crypto Attack Affects Millions of ASP.NET Apps

2010-09-13 Thread mike smith
On 14 September 2010 10:01, Damian Maclennan damian@gmail.com wrote: ouch. That could get ugly. However, there's one fairly eyebrow raising line in there : The attack allows someone to decrypt sniffed cookies, which could contain valuable data such as bank balances, Social Security

Re: 'Padding Oracle' Crypto Attack Affects Millions of ASP.NET Apps

2010-09-17 Thread mike smith
On 17 September 2010 14:24, silky michaelsli...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:26 AM, silky michaelsli...@gmail.com wrote: [...] The cookie might have the hashed result of an SSN. Shouldn't, but might. I don't think it's hashing that is at risk (they mention AES). I think

Re: [OT] Creating new posts

2010-09-20 Thread mike smith
On 21 September 2010 03:21, Richard Carde rich...@carde.id.au wrote: A simple request which, perhaps, can be filed under 'etiquette' in the (unwritten) list charter? Some mail clients, in particular the iPhone, thread mail based on headers/metadata contained within messages. This is either

Re: [OT] Random numbers

2010-10-01 Thread mike smith
On 1 October 2010 14:42, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: They haven’t mentioned that you need a toroidal flux tube made of pure Iridium-Cobalt alloy allow weighing 75 tons powered by a suburban substation to surround the device inside your machine to maintain the quantum vacuum. It leaves no

Re: [OT] Random numbers

2010-10-01 Thread mike smith
On 1 October 2010 14:43, silky michaelsli...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 2:29 PM, David Burstin david.burs...@gmail.com wrote: This article: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19520-random-numbers-created-out-of-nothing.html sounds interesting, but being Friday, I was

Re: IDataErrorInfo issue

2010-10-10 Thread mike smith
On 11 October 2010 12:34, Maddin, Peter peter.mad...@pathwest.wa.gov.auwrote: I have an Infragistics UltraGrid that is bound to an EntitySpaces entity collection via a binding source. EntitySpaces entities support the IDataErrorInfo interface so that one can do validation either via a

Re: OT: Rant

2010-10-27 Thread mike smith
On 27 October 2010 12:21, ben.robb...@jlta.com.au wrote: 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

Re: [OT] WP7 Handset/device

2010-11-04 Thread mike smith
On 5 November 2010 00:38, .net noobie dotnetnoo...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone going to make any WP7 Apps? Not til it takes off. You're better off targeting Android, or even %diety% help us, the iPhone, with its crap developer contract. On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 11:36 PM, Stephen Price

Re: Why DVCS, was Re: TFS Feedaback? Anyone moved away from it?

2010-11-04 Thread mike smith
On 5 November 2010 09:55, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote: On 5 November 2010 08:37, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, this is what I thought. And I can't help but feel this is totally overrated. I mean, I don't know a single person who would say using SVN is slow

Re: Why DVCS, was Re: TFS Feedaback? Anyone moved away from it?

2010-11-04 Thread mike smith
On 5 November 2010 10:59, silky michaelsli...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Grant Molloy graken...@gmail.com wrote: Putting the flavour of your DVCS aside for the moment... How secure do you feel having all your code, IP, etc, sitting on somebody elses servers ? If they

Re: User control registration source path

2010-11-09 Thread mike smith
Would relative paths work? On 21 October 2010 12:34, George Zafir george.za...@gmail.com wrote: Hey guys, was just wondering whether anyone has a solution for the following; We're developing DotNetNuke modules which live in a custom VS 2008 solution. Each module is contained within a new

Re: Help with Filesystem

2010-11-16 Thread mike smith
On 17 November 2010 11:13, David Boccabella dav...@shamirlens.com.auwrote: Hi folks I have a NETMF project I am trying to work on – but the code from C# Framework 4.1 should work. My target is an SD card and I do not have any database capabilities like SQL.. In the old VB6 days you

Re: Help with Filesystem

2010-11-16 Thread mike smith
...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *mike smith *Sent:* Wednesday, 17 November 2010 12:06 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: Help with Filesystem On 17 November 2010 11:13, David Boccabella dav...@shamirlens.com.au wrote: Hi folks I have a NETMF project I am trying to work on – but the code

Re: Unable to log in via Windows Auth during high load

2010-11-28 Thread mike smith
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 9:19 AM, silky michaelsli...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone noticed this before? This happened to one of my personal sites on the weekend. Windows Server 2003/IIS 6/ASP.NET 2.0 It's confusing because every other page was loading fine, (and in a reasonable amount of

Re: OT - iPhone Programming

2010-11-28 Thread mike smith
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Corneliu I. Tusnea corne...@acorns.com.au wrote:  I left my iphone for an android now! I left my iPhone for my WP7 now :) There are still some issues with WP7 (it's clearly a v1.0) but I have to say that I went back to the iPhone 3GS two weeks after working with

Re: OT - iPhone Programming

2010-11-29 Thread mike smith
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Corneliu I. Tusnea corne...@acorns.com.au wrote: Android just feels like a cheap-unfinished clone of the iPhone :) Or an unrestricted version, that runs things that Jobs disapproves of [Now let the war begin] On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 5:03 PM, mike smith

Re: Setting CMD-window title

2010-11-29 Thread mike smith
*After* you've started it? Or before you do process.start() On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.au wrote: From .NET, I am starting a Win32 application with process.start –    process.StartInfo.FileName = var1    process.StartInfo.Arguments = var2   

Re: Setting CMD-window title

2010-11-29 Thread mike smith
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.au wrote: Michael, that may be the only remedy. But it isn’t appropriate, as I will explain later. I tried the SendMessage() approach, with WM_SETTEXT but it’s not useful. Using a SendMessage(_hwnd, WM_SETTEXT, 0, My new text)

Re: Setting CMD-window title

2010-11-29 Thread mike smith
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.au wrote: meski – the Notepad was cited as an example, I think. If you follow the StackOverflow discussion, one person just would not back down on the general statement that it is necessary for the called application to accept /

Re: Setting CMD-window title

2010-11-29 Thread mike smith
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of mike smith Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 1:08 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Setting CMD-window title On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.au

Re: Quote of the day

2010-12-19 Thread mike smith
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Michael Ridland rid...@gmail.com wrote: I've just read more about static and global variables and feel like I could take over the world! From a friend that just asked me if he should do programming at uni or teach himself. From the above, I'd say Uni

Re: [OT] Windows 7 with SD Card?

2010-12-19 Thread mike smith
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Chris Walsh ch...@walshie.me wrote: They are “supported”.  They just haven’t released any that are certified with WP7. You’re after a card with high “random access performance”.  The Class indicator isn’t relevant in this category.  If you’ve got a card with

Re: [OT] Windows 7 with SD Card?

2010-12-19 Thread mike smith
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Chris Walsh ch...@walshie.me wrote: Yes, they're executing code on it.  That's where your applications are executed.  And when I say applications, ones that are downloaded from the marketplace.  The OS stripes the storage across the NAND the microSD card.  

Re: [OT] 64-bit traps

2010-12-25 Thread mike smith
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Hello from my new PC ... my Xmas present to myself: an AMD 6-core with 8GB of RAM in a silent case. I put the parts together on Thursday afternoon and I am attempting to launch the thing and go experimentally live now, at 5pm on

Re: Merry XMas everyone

2010-12-25 Thread mike smith
On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 3:42 PM, silky michaelsli...@gmail.com wrote: And Merry Christmas from me; even to those who program in VB! How about Fortran and Cobol? Merry Christmas, from a C++ coder. On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Fredericks, Chris chris.frederi...@hp.com wrote: Thanks

Re: [OT](ish) Interview Questions

2011-01-19 Thread mike smith
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:56 AM, djones...@gmail.com wrote: I've interviewed hundreds of candidates over the years. I start with. There is no pass or fail here, I'm going to start simple and if you know the answers then I'll ask more difficult questions, if you don't know the answer

Re: [OT](ish) Interview Questions

2011-01-19 Thread mike smith
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: It' s not Friday but: Ask them Do you code in VB? If they answer yes, then you call security to frogmarch them to the front door. I thought of phrasing that in McCarthyism. Do you now, or have you ever... -- Meski Going to

Re: Mobile Camp Oz call for Presenters

2011-01-23 Thread mike smith
files. The views or opinions expressed are the author's own and may not reflect the views or opinions of Built To Roam. -Original Message- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of mike smith Sent: Thursday, 20 January 2011 4:08 PM

Re: [OT] [Job]Junior Programmer/IT required

2011-01-30 Thread mike smith
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Corneliu I. Tusnea corne...@acorns.com.auwrote: Anthony, Honest and Can meet deadline are contradictory requirements :) Plus no-one can meet deadlines ... add all of the time and I'd agree. -- Meski Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison

Re: Fwd: Red Gate will be charging $35 for .NET Reflector

2011-02-02 Thread mike smith
Seems too little. $350 would be a more reasonable price. On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:20 AM, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote: On 3 February 2011 10:19, Joseph Cooney joseph.coo...@gmail.com wrote: I'm going back to anakrino. Who's with me? 35 smakers too rich for your blood joco? --

Re: Red Gate will be charging $35 for .NET Reflector

2011-02-03 Thread mike smith
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 1:59 PM, David Richards ausdot...@davidsuniverse.com wrote: Wow, I feel like I was just told to shut up. I think I'll assume that wasn't you're intent. Otherwise you would have gotten such a frowny face it would have haunted you even more than this thread :) It's

Re: [OT](ish) Interview Questions

2011-02-03 Thread mike smith
, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Dylan Tusler dylan.tus...@sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au wrote: Seriously, though, I was reading a book called The Gift of Fear recently, and in a section about avoiding hiring people who are likely to go postal on you

Re: Handling 3rd party assemblies with build servers

2011-02-07 Thread mike smith
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 3:48 PM, David Kean david.k...@microsoft.com wrote: Now I’m from Microsoft, so bear in mind that we tend to over engineer solutions, however, we typically make sure *everything* is in source control. (In the Developer Division case, this even extends to.NET [and VS!],

Re: Red Gate will be charging $35 for .NET Reflector

2011-02-10 Thread mike smith
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:27 AM, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote: On 11 February 2011 09:25, Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.com wrote: Just thought I'd share this... Red-Gate are providing me with 25 licenses (enough to cover every member on our meetup group) of Reflector Pro (not

Re: Databases for Windows Phone 7.

2011-02-14 Thread mike smith
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:19 AM, David Burela david.bur...@gmail.comwrote: Found a quick video from the presentation of them demonstrating the HTML5 rendering speed vs. an iPhone http://wmpoweruser.com/ie9-on-windows-phone-7-will-make-browsing-much-faster-than-iphone/

Re: Something for Friday

2011-02-17 Thread mike smith
Well, actually, buying 6 cartons of milk wouldn't be so bad, if they were UHT. :^) On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Michael Minutillo michael.minuti...@gmail.com wrote: Ooh. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memetics in action -- Michael M. Minutillo Indiscriminate Information Sponge Blog:

Re: [OT] post woes

2011-02-17 Thread mike smith
Why is Wallace getting mail from it now? his MTA only thinks its sporadic spam? On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 11:17 AM, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote: Yes. When an external MTA/MX bounces the messages the return path is ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com. MailMan processes the mail at that

Re: Kinect SDK from Microsoft

2011-02-21 Thread mike smith
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:49 AM, David Burela david.bur...@gmail.comwrote: The question now of course, is will those Kinect powered Windows 7 applications be written in WPF, or HTML5 And will you be able to connect the sensor direct to a desktop Windows 7 box. On 22 February 2011

Re: Excel in .NET (C# or VB)

2011-02-21 Thread mike smith
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 8:04 AM, Arjang Assadi arjang.ass...@gmail.comwrote: On 21 February 2011 18:08, Andrew McGrath andrew.mcgr...@workslink.com.au wrote: Using xlsgen to manage situation very similar to yours. Has worked very well on a variety of projects. Website is at

Re: Kinect SDK from Microsoft

2011-02-21 Thread mike smith
Ah, just needs more power. On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:56 AM, David Burela david.bur...@gmail.comwrote: Yes, you can do it already with homebrew SDKs. The Kinect just uses a USB cable. On 22 February 2011 11:47, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:49 AM, David

Re: [OT] Global Roaming data plans and WiFi hacking

2011-03-03 Thread mike smith
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Dylan Tusler dylan.tus...@sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au wrote: Got a colleague who is travelling to UK, Greece and Turkey, and she wants to be able to do some internet stuff (banking, email etc) via mobile handset while on the move. Better to look for a data

Re: [OT] Global Roaming data plans and WiFi hacking

2011-03-03 Thread mike smith
? Does an app that uses .NET Membership Provider have this kind of vulnerability (encrypted login, but unencrypted cookies.) Cheers, Dylan. -- *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *mike smith *Sent

Re: [OT] Global Roaming data plans and WiFi hacking

2011-03-06 Thread mike smith
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 12:50 PM, William Luu will@gmail.com wrote: Facebook recently enabled the to ability to Browse Facebook on a secure connection (https) whenever possible - http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=486790652130 Yeah it took them a long while. And it definitely should be

Re: I.T. resume

2011-03-09 Thread mike smith
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Grant Molloy graken...@gmail.com wrote: Don't forget to mention your 5yrs experience with .Net 4.0... I wonder if we could poison their data and claim experience with .Net 5.0? They'd then put that in their ads, revealing how clueless some of them are.

Re: I.T. resume

2011-03-09 Thread mike smith
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Simon Kuldin sim...@prism-solutions.com.au wrote: No tables?  Why is that? No idea. But it reminds me of a sig in /. I just read. An SQL query goes to a bar, walks up to a table and asks, Mind if I join you? (but I wouldn't say 'An', because I pronounce SQL as

Re: IE9 RTW

2011-03-14 Thread mike smith
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 3:12 PM, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote: [Window Title] Windows Internet Explorer 9 [Main Instruction] Internet Explorer 9 is now installed [Content] Some Internet Explorer files were in use during setup. Restart your computer to use Internet Explorer 9.

Re: IE9 RTW

2011-03-15 Thread mike smith
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 11:26 AM, David Burela david.bur...@gmail.com wrote: Talking of which, I loved this quote from @DontSailBackwards Chrome has a bug, missing a feature - wait a week or get a plugin. IE has a bug, missing a feature. erm, umm, ah. ahem. Abandon it.

Re: [OT] Chrome command line to open multiple tabs

2011-03-17 Thread mike smith
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Bec Carter bec.usern...@gmail.com wrote: lol I swear I tried this before and it didn't work :-) Thanks On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Wallace Turner wallacetur...@gmail.com wrote: I just tried this, and it worked :)

Re: [OT] Chrome command line to open multiple tabs

2011-03-17 Thread mike smith
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Hoss Ravanparsa hitman.h...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 11:49 AM, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Bec Carter bec.usern...@gmail.com wrote: lol I swear I tried this before and it didn't work :-) Thanks On Fri

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