Re: [OT] NBN revisited

2013-09-03 Thread mike smith
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 2:37 PM, David Richards ausdot...@davidsuniverse.com wrote: Apart from the use of impacted, a nice article. At least it wasn't impactful. For some reason, this whole argument reminds me of the republic referendum some years back. I knew a number of people who

Re: [OT] Nokia sells smartphone business to Microsoft

2013-09-03 Thread mike smith
.** ** ** ** *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [ mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *mike smith *Sent:* Wednesday, 4 September 2013 10:45 AM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: [OT] Nokia sells smartphone business to Microsoft ** ** On Tue

Re: [OT] NBN revisited

2013-09-03 Thread mike smith
Looking at the rollout, it's scheduled to be available for me by end of year. Which is somewhat unfair, being I've already got vdsl2. On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 2:51 PM, GregAtGregLowDotCom g...@greglow.comwrote: Like most people, I’d love to have FTTH. ** ** However, I have zero

Re: [OT] Nokia sells smartphone business to Microsoft

2013-09-02 Thread mike smith
Color me confused, I thought MS owned Nokia On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.au wrote: Announced yesterday. It will be all over the Australian ICT press in a couple of days L ** ** -- **Ian Thomas** Victoria Park, Western

Re: [OT] Developer keyboard

2013-08-29 Thread mike smith
: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *mike smith *Sent:* Wednesday, 28 August 2013 4:26 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: [OT] Developer keyboard ** ** On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Nathan Chere nathan.ch...@saiglobal.com wrote: If it was wireless and had an option

Re: Developer keyboard revisted

2013-08-29 Thread mike smith
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.au wrote: That BT keyboard looks useful, for connectivity to other devices than a Windows laptop/desktop. Having the USB is a bonus. But at ca $200 and weighing well over 1kg it’s a bit “heavy” for me. My requirements for a

Re: [OT] Developer keyboard

2013-08-28 Thread mike smith
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Nathan Chere nathan.ch...@saiglobal.comwrote: If it was wireless and had an option for other keys (eg Cherry blue) it would be near perfect. Or at least if not wireless, have a built-in USB hub… but would definitely prefer wireless. ** What's

Re: Silverlight on Windows 8

2013-08-28 Thread mike smith
The answer is appoint a dev to replace Ballmer. David, are you keen on applying? (I can't believe I did that) Mike On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Katherine Moss katherine.m...@gordon.eduwrote: If .NET dies, then I’m leaving. See you over at Novell HQ. LOL ** ** *From:*

Re: Visual Studio 2012 diseased

2013-08-21 Thread mike smith
NCB file corruption? (delete solutionname.NCB) Symptom of that is that the ncb file grows a lot. On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Folks, sometime in the last two weeks my VS2012 has become diseased with the following symptoms: (1) It *sometimes* forgets which

Re: [OT] Developer keyboard

2013-08-20 Thread mike smith
It's the 'transformers' look. It doubles as a backup drive. On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.comwrote: Slick looking mouse. *want* On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 7:38 AM, David Richards ausdot...@davidsuniverse.com wrote: Just an epilogue for those that

Re: [OT] Developer keyboard

2013-08-14 Thread mike smith
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 12:04 PM, David Richards ausdot...@davidsuniverse.com wrote: A bit off topic and a bit on topic. I've been in the market for a good developer keyboard for a while but never seem to find anything I like. I was just wondering if others on this list had found a decent

Re: [OT] Developer keyboard

2013-08-14 Thread mike smith
, Aug 15, 2013 at 1:08 PM, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 12:04 PM, David Richards ausdot...@davidsuniverse.com wrote: A bit off topic and a bit on topic. I've been in the market for a good developer keyboard for a while but never seem to find anything I like. I

Re: FW: 240GB SSD?

2013-08-09 Thread mike smith
True enough, I think. I've got it on my MBP, and the speed it boots into Win7 on Parallels... Mike On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Preet Sangha preetsan...@gmail.com wrote: Once you go SSD you don't ever want to go back On 9 August 2013 18:03, Corneliu I. Tusnea corne...@acorns.com.au

Re: Swap File [Was: 240GB SSD?]

2013-08-08 Thread mike smith
...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *mike smith *Sent:* Friday, 9 August 2013 10:12 AM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: Swap File [Was: 240GB SSD?] ** ** ** ** On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 10:46 AM, James Chapman-Smith ja...@chapman-smith.com wrote: What's

Re: Pin the breakpoint on the donkey

2013-07-31 Thread mike smith
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.comwrote: I used to click the left margin to set a breakpoint. These days I have to guess click three to five times on average to hit the right spot, the column is much wider now. VS2012. Anyone else find this? Why is my

Re: Pin the breakpoint on the donkey

2013-07-31 Thread mike smith
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 9:06 AM, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.com wrote: I used to click the left margin to set a breakpoint. These days I have to guess click three to five times on average to hit the right spot

Re: Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2013-07-28 Thread mike smith
I'd laugh, but I did this once myself a while ago :( Gmail I think adds anyone you've ever sent or received mail from to your contacts. LinkedIn then gives you this huge list to approve sending invites to, by default invites are on. After a few pages of looking at contacts, you miss out on

Re: Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2013-07-28 Thread mike smith
Even easier to do, from a mobile app :) Nevertheless, what happens if we click the 'confirm' button? :) On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Tejas Goradia byteb...@gmail.com wrote: I am very sorry for this one folks, I downloaded the LinkedIn andriod app and the next-next clicking in the crowded

Re: UPS

2013-07-24 Thread mike smith
Run it off a switchmode that has an input range of 90-250? Laptop supplies have these, LCD displays have these. I haven't seen a desktop that doesn't have a switch to go from one range to another, but they may exist. Mike On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 12:04 PM, GregAtGregLowDotCom

Re: UPS

2013-07-24 Thread mike smith
It'd be a worry trying to put 240 into a grid that was at 235... Something would melt. My money would be on it not being the grid that melted :) Mike On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Tony Wright tonyw...@gmail.com wrote: Just spoke with my brother about it. He says unfortunately with grid

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 mike smith
on !!?? ** ** *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *mike smith *Sent:* Sunday, 21 July 2013 9:15 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: [OT] Search engines (not a complaint) ** ** But if you can't be found on a search engine, who's going

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

Here's a thought: give them to devs.

2013-07-20 Thread mike smith
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/07/19/013/microsoft-is-sitting-on-six-million-unsold-surface-tablets -- Meski http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, but it's going to be rough - Adam Hills

Re: [OT] Find in files

2013-07-18 Thread mike smith
Have you tried pressing ctrl and scroll-lock? (No, i'm not taking the piss, it used to work) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/259398/visual-studio-find-results-in-no-files-were-found-to-look-in-find-stopped-pr On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.comwrote:

Re: the Open Source community for .NET developers: the value of joining and developing OS VS. for-proffit development

2013-07-09 Thread mike smith
With many employers, it's a universal paragraph in employment contract. If what you want to do isn't too similar, *or* would result in other conflicts, most are not unreasonable about it. Safer to check. Mike On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 10:01 PM, Katherine Moss katherine.m...@gordon.eduwrote:

Re: HTML5 capabilities

2013-06-30 Thread mike smith
+1 the comment on DRM licensing. It's got no place in dev tools. On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Nathan Chere nathan.ch...@saiglobal.comwrote: Let’s say you want to use Visual Studio and target at least 2 platforms (Android and iOS). I would expect that’s the most common scenario. That’s

Re: Tablets - WinRT and Android

2013-06-25 Thread mike smith
Is that a Slate in your pocket or are you just pleased to se... Sorry, had to use that meme... It'll be interesting to see when it arrives. That's a decent size touch surface. On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.au wrote: Mike – no comment possible, I guess?

Re: Tablets - WinRT and Android

2013-06-25 Thread mike smith
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 11:48 AM, David Connors da...@connors.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.auwrote: Mike – no comment possible, I guess? HP’s Android-based desktop –

Re: A simple tick the boxes data entry system

2013-06-24 Thread mike smith
PDF doesn't work with screen readers Katherine? I'm a little surprised, PDF is a language inside the file. (PS) Mike On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Katherine Moss katherine.m...@gordon.eduwrote: Acceptable, and not to mention, accessible. You never know whether the folks you are working

Re: [OT] My New Pluralsight Course

2013-06-20 Thread mike smith
So I heard you liek Pluralsight courses... :) Another meme for Friday. On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.comwrote: True unsolicited goes in there with the meaning of spam, but it was not indiscriminately sent. It could easily be considered to be on

Re: VS2012 hacks

2013-06-20 Thread mike smith
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 12:29 PM, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote: I don't get Apple design. How could the designers of OSX have come up with a dog like iOS? Mike On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Scott Barnes scott.bar...@gmail.comwrote: VS2012 design could have been worse.. Apple

Re: VS2012 hacks

2013-06-20 Thread mike smith
Australia ** ** *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *mike smith *Sent:* Friday, June 21, 2013 9:33 AM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: VS2012 hacks ** ** Nice quote. Google says it's *skeuomorphism *though. (what kind

Re: VS2012 hacks

2013-06-16 Thread mike smith
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Ian (et al), I have also taken a lot of steps recently to restore old colours and behaviour to recent Microsoft product releases. I don't normally do that. We all expect complaints when new versions of products are released,

Re: VS2012 hacks

2013-06-16 Thread mike smith
THanks for all these. On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 11:49 PM, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.au wrote: More ** ** Visual Studio Icon Patcher http://vsip.codeplex.com/ ** ** Visual Studio 2012 Color Theme Editor

Re: VS2012 hacks

2013-06-16 Thread mike smith
I don't get Apple design. How could the designers of OSX have come up with a dog like iOS? Mike On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Scott Barnes scott.bar...@gmail.comwrote: VS2012 design could have been worse.. Apple could have designed it :)

Re: If-else vs switch - declaring inner variables (a philosophical question)

2013-06-04 Thread mike smith
On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Fredericks, Chris chris.frederi...@hp.comwrote: Microsoft has left some room for ReSharper. :P ** ** Without braces:error - ‘Invalid embedded statement’ With braces:warning - ‘Local variable ‘foo’ is never used’ ** And then there's

Re: If-else vs switch - declaring inner variables (a philosophical question)

2013-06-03 Thread mike smith
It isn't the flow control constructs doing it, it's the scoping. Possibly the scoping in a for statement is more confusing, but then again, you can alter its behaviour with a compiler switch. On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 1:27 PM, David Burstin david.burs...@gmail.comwrote: Ok. Brackets will create a

Re: If-else vs switch - declaring inner variables (a philosophical question)

2013-06-03 Thread mike smith
On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 3:22 PM, David Burstin david.burs...@gmail.comwrote: On 4 June 2013 15:08, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote: It isn't the flow control constructs doing it, it's the scoping. Agreed. It is quite clear when there is 'explicit' scoping (curly brackets

2 problems

2013-05-27 Thread mike smith
- Some people, when confronted with a problem, think, I know, I'll use regular expressions. Now they have two problems. https://joindiaspora.com/posts/1653418 Multithreading's my favourite. -- Meski http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to

Re: BankWest: Dear Sir/Madam?

2013-05-13 Thread mike smith
. David If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards... checkmate! -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama On 13 May 2013 15:45, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 3:31 PM, David Richards da...@davidsuniverse.com wrote: I had those exact

Re: Is Surface really failing? (tangent # 99)

2013-05-13 Thread mike smith
! *** * ** ** *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *mike smith *Sent:* Sunday, May 12, 2013 10:05 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: Is Surface really failing? (tangent # 99) ** ** THis is just for Office-in-the-cloud, right? There's a lot

Re: Is Surface really failing? (tangent # 99)

2013-05-12 Thread mike smith
NET Framework support in Office by touting their stupid HTML crap, so it’s almost like it matters not anymore. ** ** *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [ mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *mike smith *Sent:* Saturday, May 11, 2013 1

Re: BankWest: Dear Sir/Madam?

2013-05-12 Thread mike smith
, May 13, 2013 at 11:52 AM, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote: I had no idea so many characters were legal for local-part of an email address. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address Looks like a lot of web-designers don't read the email RFC's On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Nathan

Re: BankWest: Dear Sir/Madam?

2013-05-12 Thread mike smith
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 12:18 PM, David Connors da...@connors.com wrote: On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 12:14 PM, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote: [ ... ] A quick question, to the guardian of the list: Are the archives for this list on the google crawl list? (i ask because googling my name

Re: BankWest: Dear Sir/Madam?

2013-05-12 Thread mike smith
Back in the beginning days of gmail, you were required to have at least one dot. I'm thinking that when they relaxed this, there must have been a failure in their uniqueness algorithm. On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: According to Google

Re: BankWest: Dear Sir/Madam?

2013-05-12 Thread mike smith
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: I could understand a validation issue (or even an issue that occurred post-migration), but I do wonder what the other guy’s user experience is now. Is he still able to login? If so, what email does he see (does he

Re: BankWest: Dear Sir/Madam?

2013-05-12 Thread mike smith
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 3:31 PM, David Richards da...@davidsuniverse.com wrote: I had those exact same thoughts. Which is why I stopped using the account. Which annoys me a bit because I was quit happy to successfully get my name rather than david12...@gmail.com or something. The other guy

Re: Is Surface really failing?

2013-05-10 Thread mike smith
Because there are a lot of legacy addons for Office that haven't been compiled for x64 Office. They will not work together (inProc calls) On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 6:09 AM, Katherine Moss katherine.m...@gordon.eduwrote: Oh funny. But in light of what somebody said about Office, why do you

Re: Is Surface really failing?

2013-05-09 Thread mike smith
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Unicorn.Consulting unicorn.consult...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/05/2013 10:03 AM, Fredericks, Chris wrote: Hi Matt, ** ** I have to use Office as it is a part of my employer’s standard operating environment. So I have grown accustomed to it – warts

Re: Windows forgetting app passwords

2013-05-08 Thread mike smith
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Corneliu I. Tusnea corne...@acorns.com.auwrote: Google said they do: http://www.google.com.au/policies/privacy/frameworks/ *As described in our Safe Harbor certificationhttp://safeharbor.export.gov/companyinfo.aspx?id=16626, we comply with the US-EU Safe

Re: Is Surface really failing?

2013-05-08 Thread mike smith
...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *mike smith *Sent:* Wednesday, 8 May 2013 8:03 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: Is Surface really failing? ** ** It's what you'd have to call a distant 5th (1.8%). If it was a horse race I'd be ringing the knackers yard

Re: Is Surface really failing?

2013-05-08 Thread mike smith
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Arjang Assadi arjang.ass...@gmail.comwrote: On 9 May 2013 07:22, Scott Barnes scott.bar...@gmail.com wrote: Ie Walk into a JB HIFI / Harvey Norman and spend some time trying to find the Windows RT surface tablet from all the others...then ask the sales people

Re: Is Surface really failing?

2013-05-08 Thread mike smith
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 2:53 PM, David Richards ausdot...@davidsuniverse.com wrote: Caller: I don't have a keyboard. Strangely enough, I bet real help desk calls are much worse :) David If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!

Re: Is Surface really failing?

2013-05-08 Thread mike smith
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Tony Wright tonyw...@gmail.com wrote: Um, people, as Ken so rightly points out, when you open the desktop, the quickest way back to the start screen is the Window Key. Give it a quick press and you're there. It's just like the Apple key in the Apple world. Stop

Re: Windows forgetting app passwords

2013-05-06 Thread mike smith
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 9:12 AM, David Connors da...@connors.com wrote: On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Williams, Thomas twilli...@phcn.vic.gov.au wrote: Does your work have a web proxy? No. It is definitely client based. As in Gtalk starts with an empty password box every time after I

Re: Windows forgetting app passwords

2013-05-06 Thread mike smith
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 7:08 PM, David Connors da...@connors.com wrote: On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 7:06 PM, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote: It'd be storing the hashed user/pw that gets sent off for authentication, or it should. Then when you change your pw on the domain, the hash no longer

Re: Visual studio and SharpDevelop: who uses which on this list and why?

2013-05-06 Thread mike smith
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 11:44 AM, David Burstin david.burs...@gmail.comwrote: On 04/05/2013 11:25 AM, Tristan Reeves tree...@gmail.com wrote: full featured meaning, um, not full featured. Or at least not if you consider having any plugin work with VS a feature. LOL. Ah Microsoft, gotta

Re: [OT] Gmail and spam

2013-05-03 Thread mike smith
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.comwrote: Maybe the spammers gave up? Mine's still sitting at 2-300 a month. I go in and look occasionally for false positives. Mike - Give a man a buck, and he'll be happy for a day, teach a man to phish, and he'll

Re: A quite revolution in programming

2013-04-21 Thread mike smith
On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Kirsten Greed kirst...@jobtalk.com.auwrote: ** Dr Dobbs on the increased trend towards working in multiple languages http://www.drdobbs.com/windows/the-quiet-revolution-in-programming/240152206 Because they are able to interface better than before? --

Re: [OT] Surface RT or Surface Pro?

2013-04-17 Thread mike smith
Paranoia about other apps/sites screenscraping content, do you think? THe tendency to bury text into bitmaps rather than display it in vanilla HTML happens because of this. Mike On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 6:27 AM, Scott Barnes scott.bar...@gmail.comwrote: REALLY?.. Had not known that... I mean

Re: [OT] Surface RT or Surface Pro?

2013-04-16 Thread mike smith
They should have done that to start with, from their position of starting way from behind, they need every incentive they can get. Apple and Android stores are so far ahead its laughable. On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 2:52 AM, Katherine Moss katherine.m...@gordon.eduwrote: Or some day, we won’t be

Re: Office365 ? Nope, now an argument on the NBN.

2013-04-14 Thread mike smith
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 7:52 AM, David Connors da...@connors.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 3:21 AM, Les Hughes l...@datarev.com.au wrote: My opinion: Labor's NBN is a good idea. In reality it will probably take 2, 3, or more times as long, and be the same in cost. Is fibre great? Sure.

Re: Office365 ?

2013-04-12 Thread mike smith
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.comwrote: This seems like an appropriate point to troll this thread and mention the NBN. Bwhahahahaha.. Hey it IS Friday. :) Vote for the NBN. Until it's finished, and then vote to your taste. On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at

Re: Office365 ?

2013-04-12 Thread mike smith
-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *mike smith *Sent:* Friday, 12 April 2013 4:22 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: Office365 ? ** ** On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.com wrote: This seems like

Re: Skywards (Emirates) sent me my password back in clear text

2013-04-04 Thread mike smith
I just joined one the other day that when I joined, sent username, pw in clear in the one email. Grrr! Mike On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 10:50 AM, David Connors da...@connors.com wrote: How about this? https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=624929134185803set=o.134450749975832type=1theater

Re: Skywards (Emirates) sent me my password back in clear text

2013-03-26 Thread mike smith
Many many websites send passwords back in clear. It's a good reason not to reuse passwords across sites, I guess. some reset it, and send back a new password, but that's not much of an improvement. Mike On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 9:42 PM, Corneliu I. Tusnea corne...@acorns.com.auwrote: This is

Re: Develop over RDP

2013-03-21 Thread mike smith
It's good for QA encountered faults, where IWOMM for the dev. You just RDP into the VM they have the fault on, and use the remote debug stub running on the VM, with VS back on your machine. Working from home, I sometimes VPN to my work box (from a Mac 27) - that's a lot less convenient, but

Re: IT IS FRIDAY: Chrome Maze

2013-03-21 Thread mike smith
That's amazing. True friday material. On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 3:15 PM, David Connors da...@connors.com wrote: They keep outdoing themselves: http://chrome.com/maze/ David Connors da...@connors.com | M +61 417 189 363 Download my v-card: https://www.codify.com/cards/davidconnors Follow me

Re: First Post!

2013-03-20 Thread mike smith
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:45 PM, jasi...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi all, Been hearing about this list in the Perth .Net user group community and finally got around to joining  Not sure what the list’s policy on shameless self-promotion is but apologies in advance  If it's relevant, sure :)

Re: [OT] Home setup

2013-03-12 Thread mike smith
Sounds like a case for a virtual machine, with snapshots. On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Grant Molloy graken...@gmail.com wrote: All of it.. Patches, updates, failed updates, PC worked yesterday but not today.. usual things. On Mar 13, 2013 1:48 PM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com

Re: [OT] Home setup

2013-03-12 Thread mike smith
Wish Windows Home Server still existed. :( A VM helps scrape viruses and malware off a virtual install, restore points don't begin to fix that issue. On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: In terms of patching, do you have this handled automatically at the

Re: [OT] Home setup

2013-03-12 Thread mike smith
. ** Firefox, Flash and Java all have their own auto-update mechanisms if you need/want to use that software. ** ** Cheers ken ** ** *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *mike smith *Sent:* Wednesday, 13 March

Re: Running code snippets

2013-03-11 Thread mike smith
A dialog app with a button on it? Then paste the testcode into the button press code. On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Folks, what's the best way of conveniently running code snippets from inside Visual Studio 2012? Years ago I used some app to run snippets,

Re: Does anybody know why the visual studio 2012 developer command prompt points to a 32-bit path when on a 64-bit OS?

2013-03-04 Thread mike smith
I thought there was an intent to release an x64 version this time around, but a fast google didn't show one. On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 8:59 AM, Katherine Moss katherine.m...@gordon.eduwrote: Dang, it shouldn’t be. What was Microsoft on when they made that decision? LOL. ** **

Re: Does anybody know why the visual studio 2012 developer command prompt points to a 32-bit path when on a 64-bit OS?

2013-03-04 Thread mike smith
, 2013 2:05 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: Does anybody know why the visual studio 2012 developer command prompt points to a 32-bit path when on a 64-bit OS? ** ** When I download from MSDN it only lists 32 bit versions. On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 9:02 AM, mike smith meski

Re: does anyone know a good technique to keep track of your braces in C#?

2013-02-13 Thread mike smith
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Katherine Moss katherine.m...@gordon.eduwrote: Hello all, Does anyone know any methods I could use when practicing programming in C# (I'm kind of just learning, so it can get annoying sometimes), to keep my braces straight? I will be writing something

Re: A book on DbContext

2013-02-05 Thread mike smith
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 6:25 PM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Even better. Save yourself the cost of postage and save a tree by ordering the book electronically. But I don't have an eBook reader (yet). Tragically I prefer to get large amounts of complex information from flattened

Re: SPAM-LOW Re: WCF service best practises

2013-02-03 Thread mike smith
On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Paul Glavich subscripti...@theglavs.comwrote: At the risk of being argumentative, we asked for this. Maybe not you or me specifically, but the community at large has. I agree the number of technologies at play, particularly in this space is large but it makes it

Re: 2012 process name disappeared

2013-01-16 Thread mike smith
I sometimes think that changing things is Microsoft's raison de etre. Mike On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Wallace Turner wallacetur...@gmail.comwrote: since we're all taking about 2012 has anyone else noticed this annoyance: The Threads window no longer shows the Process name: (only the

Re: vs 2010 and 2012

2013-01-15 Thread mike smith
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Wallace, Craig et al You may recall a few months ago I was stung by this subtle and easily missed change. As a migration test I opened all of my solutions in VS2012 and ran a bulk bouild and I was surprised when it hiccuped on

Re: Australian Weather Web Services

2012-11-27 Thread mike smith
+1 this. I've had home weather reports (what it is, not what they forecast) that vary a lot from reality. On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 9:31 AM, David Richards ausdot...@davidsuniverse.com wrote: With regard to weather sources in general, I've found international sources don't seem to have

Re: What type of Insurance covers using your own custom developer machine at work place?

2012-11-25 Thread mike smith
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 2:01 PM, James Chapman-Smith ja...@enigmativity.com wrote: Hi Arjang, ** ** I can't answer your question on insurance, but I can't help to think that you're potentially opening yourself up to legal issues. Even with checking things in to an external machine

Re: What type of Insurance covers using your own custom developer machine at work place?

2012-11-25 Thread mike smith
to your disk. ** Cheers Ken ** ** *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *mike smith *Sent:* Monday, 26 November 2012 3:27 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: What type of Insurance covers using your own custom developer machine

Re: [OT] Android - Windows communications

2012-11-19 Thread mike smith
GoogleDrive? It's supported by both Windows and Android. If both devices are on the internet, they can sync via that. USB between the two is certainly doable, if you have the ADT installed - http://developer.android.com/sdk/win-usb.html Mike On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Ian Thomas

Re: [OT] Android - Windows communications

2012-11-19 Thread mike smith
If you want it to be portable to Apple and Windows tablets, then Googledrive might be the answer, as it needn't involve too much specific API code for any one of the 3 platforms. On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.au wrote: Michael Cloud services was my

Re: [OT] Basic authentication fails when credentials are pasted with the mouse

2012-11-11 Thread mike smith
I'd suspect that their fix would be to prevent it working even with ctrl-v Having a password in the clipboard is not that secure. There are a few clipboard stack / savers that cache this to disk. On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 2:55 PM, noonie neale.n...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't downloaded Windows 8

Re: [OT] BigPond You Tube throttling

2012-10-30 Thread mike smith
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Tony Wright tonyw...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, ** ** rant ** ** I’m interested in seeing how many of you experience YouTube throttling.*** * ** Is it deliberate throttling, or what I'd call accidental (caused maybe by inadequate backhaul)?

Re: [OT] BigPond You Tube throttling

2012-10-30 Thread mike smith
..getting too powerful for my liking... ** When they get that big, the server/bandwidth costs mandate ads. ** *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *mike smith *Sent:* Wednesday, 31 October 2012 11:53 AM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject

Re: Just seen the prices of Window 8 RT Surface devices....

2012-10-17 Thread mike smith
I suspect. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cf7IL_eZ38feature=plcp Don't recall if it was here, or you've seen, but it is impressive. On 17 October 2012 18:37, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote: I thought Surface was the big coffee-table sized thing. Colour me disappointed

Re: Just seen the prices of Window 8 RT Surface devices....

2012-10-17 Thread mike smith
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Damon Pollard damon.poll...@birchmangroup.com wrote: http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msaus/en_AU/pdp/productID.257917600 Lovely. $60-90 price bump for the aussie-tax. I've given up paying it. :^) On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 2:13 PM, mike smith meski

Re: Just seen the prices of Window 8 RT Surface devices....

2012-10-17 Thread mike smith
at 2:13 PM, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote:*** * ** ** On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Preet Sangha preetsan...@gmail.com wrote: the new stuff is all part of the Surface brand I suppose. ** ** 599 for a coffee table that would get kids dropping plates on is not going

Re: Just seen the prices of Window 8 RT Surface devices....

2012-10-17 Thread mike smith
to the USA. On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Grant Molloy graken...@gmail.com wrote: Mike, what redirect service do you use?? Grant On Oct 17, 2012 4:38 PM, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote: If I buy it via my redirect address, in Florida, its zero state tax. And 30USD to ship. Where

Re: Just seen the prices of Window 8 RT Surface devices....

2012-10-17 Thread mike smith
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Tony Wright tonyw...@gmail.com wrote: Also, which would you prefer – a device that you can plug a SIM into, or one that you can’t? Microsoft’s tablet only has WIFI, which is a major market killer for business applications. ** ** So if you had to splurge

Re: Just seen the prices of Window 8 RT Surface devices....

2012-10-17 Thread mike smith
. ** ** *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *mike smith *Sent:* Thursday, 18 October 2012 9:39 AM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: Just seen the prices of Window 8 RT Surface devices ** ** On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Tony

Re: Just seen the prices of Window 8 RT Surface devices....

2012-10-17 Thread mike smith
Does consumers include business, in your opinion? On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 12:45 PM, David Kean david.k...@microsoft.comwrote: (My opinion, not Microsoft’s) ** ** In past releases we’ve focused on enterprise scenarios, with the thought that the consumer will buy what they use at work.

Re: Just seen the prices of Window 8 RT Surface devices....

2012-10-16 Thread mike smith
I thought Surface was the big coffee-table sized thing. Colour me disappointed. On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Preet Sangha preetsan...@gmail.com wrote: Looks like I wont' be splashing out for a while

Re: NuGet question

2012-09-25 Thread mike smith
I'm not trying to start a flame war (standard disclaimer) but isn't storing dlls in a source control system somewhat the wrong thing to be doing? Unless the source control is very smart about DLLs, it's going to store a total new dll every time you checkin new dlls, and your ability to see what's

Re: NuGet question

2012-09-25 Thread mike smith
I'm not trying to start a flame war (standard disclaimer) but isn't storing dlls in a source control system somewhat the wrong thing to be doing? Unless the source control is very smart about DLLs, it's going to store a total new dll every time you checkin new dlls, and your ability to see what's

Re: NuGet question

2012-09-25 Thread mike smith
be a waste. you might as well not use the package restore option and just check in your dlls. (which is what traditionally people do when they are not using nuget... ) On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 12:30 PM, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not trying to start a flame war (standard

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