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

2011-03-17 Thread mike smith
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Preet Sangha preetsan...@gmail.com wrote: This powershell command dumps the Pid and the Command Line Get-WmiObject Win32_Process -Filter Name like '%chrome%' | Format-List ProcessId, CommandLine Google don't make their command line easy to read! I suspect the

Re: Detecting PDF Printers

2011-03-20 Thread mike smith
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Matt Siebert mlsieb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, Does anyone know how to programmatically detect PDF printers? I need to list just the PDF printers in my app and so far the only way I can see to do this is to check for PDF in the driver name. Is there a

Re: [OT] BYO Computer @ Suncorp

2011-03-30 Thread mike smith
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Joseph Cooney joseph.coo...@gmail.com wrote: Why would you get paid extra to work at home? You're leasing them office space and services (power/net) that they do not need to supply at their regular office. Therefore they can use a smaller, cheaper regular

Re: [OT] Lightweight laptop for dev and demos

2011-04-05 Thread mike smith
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.com wrote: oh, and the replacement Alienware m17x they sent me is 5.3kg So 3.5Kg is 1/3rd the weight. :) I know, heavy mothers. Been using the Apple one recently, and you think that you've forgotten to pack it, because you

Re: [OT] Windows 7 and Parallel port card

2011-04-10 Thread mike smith
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: is it a Windows 64 or 32 issue? I forgot to mention that it is a Windows 7 Pro 64-bit OS. Good luck finding 64 bit drivers for a parallel port card, I'd think. USB to serial/parallel often have 64 bit drivers, even if it's just a

Re: [OT] IT consultant Jeffery Clarke fined $1200 for assaulting shop assistant over Chiko Roll

2011-04-11 Thread mike smith
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Arjang Assadi arjang.ass...@gmail.com wrote: It was a good chiko roll! This is publicity that money can't buy Haven't had one for years, maybe decades. Hope they haven't put a ban on IT People! On 12 April 2011 00:33, Les Hughes l...@datarev.com.au wrote:

Re: [OT] Windows 7 and Parallel port card

2011-04-12 Thread mike smith
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Check whether the motherboard you bought actually has a parallel port on the motherboard itself (all mine do), if so you just need to buy a header card. Oh Lord! Don’t tell me that’s all I had to do? No, you might still need

Re: [OT] Windows 7 and Parallel port card

2011-04-12 Thread mike smith
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:40 AM, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Check whether the motherboard you bought actually has a parallel port on the motherboard itself (all mine do), if so you just need to buy a header card.

Re: WP7 - next OS (Mango) seems good

2011-04-15 Thread mike smith
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 4:58 PM, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Chris Walsh ch...@walshie.me wrote: Don’t forget Silverlight 4 on the phone with Generational Garbage Collector, background agents, background download service, access to contacts

Re: [OT] Mix11 What The...

2011-04-17 Thread mike smith
IWOMM in IE9 x64. On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Jorke Odolphi jor...@microsoft.com wrote: Works for me.. you wouldn’t be using ie9 x64?.. *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Liedig *Sent:* Thursday, 14 April 2011

Re: uninstalling SP1

2011-05-02 Thread mike smith
On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.au wrote: Wow – some serious stuff there. It almost sounds like a re-issued SP1 would be useful. I've been on a bit of an extended Easter, why are you uninstalling it? -- Ian Thomas Victoria

Re: INotifyPropertyChanged on nested objects

2011-05-03 Thread mike smith
I'd argue for not disabling Ok, regardless of whether the page is dirty or not. Just run with evaluating dirtiness after ok is clicked. It makes documenting easier, and running someone thru doing something over the phone easier. On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote:

Re: [OT] TabletPC recommendations

2011-05-05 Thread mike smith
That's how I run, javascript disabled. If it really needs it, I rightclick on enable for this page and reload it. I just put an order thru, we'll see if they notice... On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Michael Minutillo michael.minuti...@gmail.com wrote: Pfft... I just disabled Javascript and

Re: [OT] TabletPC recommendations

2011-05-05 Thread mike smith
, mike smith wrote: That's how I run, javascript disabled. If it really needs it, I rightclick on enable for this page and reload it. I just put an order thru, we'll see if they notice... On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Michael Minutillo michael.minuti...@gmail.com wrote: Pfft... I just

Re: [OT] Visual Studio 2010 Premium Edition

2011-05-09 Thread mike smith
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.com wrote: Interesting, My professional license has just expired this month which means it was only about 12 months ago I got the Premium license. It didn't specify same country on the logo. Yup, checked the dispatch date.

Re: [OT] Microsoft buys Skype for $US8.5 billion

2011-05-10 Thread mike smith
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:02 PM, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote: On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.au wrote: Saw this today – interesting, considering that the speculation was that Facebook and Google were the contenders. Andreessen must be smiling like

Re: [OT] Microsoft buys Skype for $US8.5 billion

2011-05-11 Thread mike smith
. Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia -Original Message- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of mike smith Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 10:38 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Microsoft

Re: [OT] Microsoft buys Skype for $US8.5 billion

2011-05-11 Thread mike smith
Gaaah! Reminiscent of debugging UI with breakpoints where the debugger and the app shared the same screen. (I'm thinking of repaint-like messages) On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 8:57 AM, David Richards ausdot...@davidsuniverse.com wrote: Actually, this could save us: Terminator: Target moved,

Re: [OT] Visual Studio 2010 Premium Edition

2011-05-12 Thread mike smith
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Les Hughes l...@datarev.com.au wrote: Greg Keogh wrote: Oh well, it seems that the Harris price is on the low end for SAO MSDN Premium with VS2010, so I've begrudgingly paid for the upgrade so I can get the Office and Expression suites and kits on top of the

Re: SSD minimum size question

2011-05-17 Thread mike smith
was expecting it to last about 14 milliseconds. Regards, Greg -Original Message- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of mike smith Sent: Tuesday, 17 May 2011 4:31 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: SSD minimum size question A desktop

Re: [OT] Windows Phone 7 Plans

2011-05-23 Thread mike smith
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 11:09 AM, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote: On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 11:07 AM, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote: Probably get the phone and plan separately.  With Android at least, you get far more timely upgrades if the phone maker delivers them rather than

Re: [OT] Windows Phone 7 Plans

2011-05-23 Thread mike smith
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Stephen Liedig slie...@gmail.com wrote: Cheers everyone, all good information. .net noobie, your Mozart review is interesting, all the others I have seen have been a bit average. And the reviews on the HTC HD7 have also been somewhat discouraging (not to

Re: .NET Consultant role - Microsoft

2011-05-31 Thread mike smith
Yes, you just did... and included a CV. Last time someone did that, their CV got dissected with a fine toothed comb. I'm not going to throw stones, I've mis-hit reply to all before when I didn't want to, and lived. On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Heinrich Breedt

Re: Word VSTO question

2011-05-31 Thread mike smith
Is there doco on the guts of Word documents? It has 'magic number start, but I never needed past that. On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 7:55 PM, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.au wrote: An explanation I received is as follows: The ProtectedForForms property is set by default but (is) only

Re: unit testing gone mad

2011-06-05 Thread mike smith
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Tristan Reeves tree...@gmail.com wrote: Hi list, I'll describe the situation in as little detail as possible. There's some code in which a class BaseClass, and a class ClassForUse : BaseClass are defined. BaseClass is used in a unit test that calls its

Re: [OT] Backups

2011-06-05 Thread mike smith
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Subversion. That way I get a change history as well. *Danger Will Robinson*! A version control system is not a backup. Greg Why? It's on a server on the other side of the world. The dudes that control it run backups of

Re: [OT] Backups

2011-06-05 Thread mike smith
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Bec, don't rely on memory sticks. I bought a 16GB stick at the swap-meet a few weeks ago and one morning when I put it in I was asked for format it. I brushed this off as a coincidence, so I formatted and it work fine to another

Re: [OT] Backups

2011-06-05 Thread mike smith
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 11:06 PM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: *Danger Will Robinson*! A version control system is not a backup. That seems like a strange statement. Surely it depends what you're backing up. Strange arguably, but no: who backs up the version control files? Version

Re: [OT] Backups

2011-06-05 Thread mike smith
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 11:19 PM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: I try to keep it simple. I use the old XCopy to copy what is important to external hard drives (2 Copies) and keeping it safe. Don’t use xcopy, use robocopy. SERIOUS WARNING: My wife ran a batch file I created for her

Re: [OT] Backups

2011-06-05 Thread mike smith
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: If there's a hole in my argument I need to know. Well, it seems clear to me that a version control system is written specifically for that purpose, and a backup system for that specific purpose (unless the designers and

Re: [OT] Anyone looking to sell an old laptop?

2011-06-13 Thread mike smith
If it's just for web surfing, shouldn't matter. Stick linux and chrome on it, to make it fast enough, and avoid the malware. One of the netbooks comes configured something like that. On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:59 AM, David Burstin david.burs...@gmail.comwrote: I think she wants to avoid

Re: Installed CLR versions

2011-06-16 Thread mike smith
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.au wrote: Thanks for suggestions. It's probably as simple to check the framework folders installed on the machine (and to test that each has some valid files and is not empty), as to try to interpret the registry subkeys. I

Re: [OT] ozdotnet own posts

2011-06-16 Thread mike smith
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 9:34 AM, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 9:30 AM, noonie neale.n...@gmail.com wrote: FYI, I'm using Gmail to subscribe and see my posts without any issues. Yes, but you're seeing the threaded gmail view which is the copy of your posts

Re: [OT] Software ownership (was BYO Computer @ Suncorp)

2011-06-21 Thread mike smith
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Mark Hurd markeh...@gmail.com wrote: I don't recall were I got this from (perhaps it was once explicitly in an employment agreement and I've assumed it was general) but I was under the impression that ALL employee's coding (at work or home and I am referring

Re: [OT] Software ownership (was BYO Computer @ Suncorp)

2011-06-22 Thread mike smith
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 9:42 AM, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:58 PM, Glen Harvy g...@aquarius.com.au wrote: On 22/06/2011 9:04 PM, Scott Barnes wrote: What if I wrote some code that I stole from someone else on Codeplex. If the company in question owns

Re: [OT] Computer freezing - Solved

2011-07-06 Thread mike smith
But was it working ok for a while before? Seems odd that it might have worked at 20 for a while. On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Folks, a few week ago I asked why my wife’s machine would be randomly freezing. I followed the advice of a few people and unplugged

Re: Keyboard Mouse Ergonomics + Qwerty/Dvorak/Colemak

2011-07-06 Thread mike smith
Problem with dvorak is most keyboards aren't - ie: laptops, computers you encounter in the field. On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Les Hughes l...@datarev.com.au wrote: Hey All, This is kind of long (eeep), but here goes: Lately I've have been getting a little tense in my mid-right back

g+ anyone?

2011-07-11 Thread mike smith
Let me know, I'll flick invite. -- 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: g+ anyone?

2011-07-11 Thread mike smith
AFAIK, I've flicked one to all who asked. THere doesn't seem to be a limit on them like in early days of gmail, so I still have em. Those that joined should as well :) On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 11:53 AM, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote: Let me know, I'll flick invite. -- Meski

Re: [OT] Renting a data projector

2011-07-14 Thread mike smith
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: If you fancy a flight to Perth and back you can borrow it for the weekend, but I need it back by the 27th. :) ** ** After an hour of searching and searching and searching (I think search engines are broken!) I finally

Re: [ot] Junior dotnet/web programmer required to start yesterday!

2011-07-17 Thread mike smith
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Les Hughes l...@datarev.com.au wrote: Michael Ridland wrote: Can we ban this spammer please? I think the general consensus from a while ago that posting jobs is okay, as long as it's not recruiters. Given that, the gmail address and name listed in this

Re: [OT] Domain rego

2011-07-19 Thread mike smith
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Tom Rutter therut...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the help guys, ended up going with NetRegistry , lots of people recommended them after asking and searching round. About $34 for 2 years. No idea why MelbIT are so expensive Oh and I couldn't find anywhere that

Re: Anyone got some sort laser cutter better than a CNC lathe?

2011-07-20 Thread mike smith
Sounds intriguing. If it aint secret, and you'd have to kill us all if you told us, go on... Ideas that occur are does it have to be metal, could you make it with some of the 3d printer stuff that's starting to happen? On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 7:37 PM, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote:

Re: Anyone got some sort laser cutter better than a CNC lathe?

2011-07-20 Thread mike smith
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:05 AM, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:04 AM, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds intriguing. If it aint secret, and you'd have to kill us all if you told us, go on... Ideas that occur are does it have to be metal, could you

Re: [ot] Junior dotnet/web programmer required to start yesterday!

2011-07-22 Thread mike smith
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 4:35 PM, ifumust ifum...@gmail.com wrote: ** On 18/07/2011 8:59 AM, Scott Barnes wrote: urgent Jnr Developer wanted = Can't afford Snr Developer Pay. Spidey senses tell me this is a classic case of McDonalds Cook vs Jnr Developer equation. My money would be

Re: Web Development

2011-08-09 Thread mike smith
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Nathan Schultz milish...@gmail.comwrote: I would advocate doing your own project or an open source project in your spare time - just so you have something to put on your CV. While there are some aspects of development from winforms development that can be

Re: I'm getting port scanned ??!!

2011-08-30 Thread mike smith
On Aug 30, 2011 7:24 PM, Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.com wrote: Not legally, anyway :) Take em out from orbit, its the only way :-)

Re: HEADS UP: Fwd: Microsoft: Windows Azure - Activation Benefits

2011-09-11 Thread mike smith
That's one of the more genuine looking scam emails I've seen. On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Glen Harvy g...@aquarius.com.au wrote: ** Hi, Last Friday I received a telephone call. The caller, a well spoken woman with a south-east asian accent asked to speak to me using my first and last

Re: Image meta data

2011-09-15 Thread mike smith
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Folks, just a heads up. Last night I was tweaking some old code that scans image files in folders and builds an “index” of them all in a SQLite DB. I wanted to extract some of the meta data from the images and add them to my

Re: ozdotnet vs ozwinrt etc

2011-09-26 Thread mike smith
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.comwrote: Lets merge them all into a new list called OzDotNet. Oh damn, that's taken. Damn squatters! Would posting C++ or HTML5 to OzDotNet be met with frowns and flames from the purists? What about XAML or UI

Re: [OT] Security clearance for work in Canberra

2011-09-27 Thread mike smith
Depending on the job, you might get 'make-work' til it does. On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Grant Molloy graken...@gmail.com wrote: I was told that when you lodge the paperwork, that is deemed to have satisfied the requiement of having the security clearance. It can take months to come

Re: Trap in strong naming from a container

2011-10-06 Thread mike smith
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Folks, here’s a heads-up! ** ** I got sick of having hundreds of identical SNK files in projects everywhere, so I ran a sn -i foo.snk MyContainer to put the key pair into a container. ** ** As far as i can tell,

Re: Other developers don't like dependency injection

2011-10-26 Thread mike smith
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Nathan Schultz milish...@gmail.com wrote: I'd probably sell it differently. Instead of saying you don't know where the objects come from, say that objects come from a centrally configured location (since in practice the objects are usually defined in

Re: [OT] Building multi-role Windows 7 installation DVDs

2011-11-15 Thread mike smith
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:17 AM, noonie neale.n...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, We've just received the first of our new developer PCs and I'm looking at options for building an image so that I can deploy Windows 7 for different developer roles. What spec machines did you get? I can have

Re: [Friday OT] unstoppable force meets an immovable object,

2011-11-22 Thread mike smith
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Scott Barnes scott.bar...@gmail.com wrote: See, i'm not buying that :) Risk matrix - Consequences vs Likelihood. Questions - Why are developers working with production grade data (customers info etc). Because only production data is a large enough set to do

Re: Odd combobox behaviour on one users machine

2011-12-15 Thread mike smith
Just a stab in the dark - does that machine have a slightly different default language? US vs UK english? Localised resources can make different dialogs load, combobox dropdown size is possibly the only difference. On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 12:42 PM, David Burstin david.burs...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Network shares as virtual directories (answer?)

2012-01-06 Thread mike smith
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: Domain Admin is definitely overkill. IUSR etc. are local accounts – whilst the username might exist on another machine, the password is most likely different (unless you manually sync the passwords). And they'd

Re: PI PL Insurance

2012-01-09 Thread mike smith
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Liam McLennan liam.mclen...@gmail.com wrote: That doesn't make much sense. I have a qualification but it doesn't decrease my premium. In fact the insurer cared so little that they didn't bother to ask. I've never been sued or known anyone who has. I suspect

Re: [OT] 10-11 inch notebook

2012-01-10 Thread mike smith
Tablet + bluetooth keyboard? On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Bec Carter bec.usern...@gmail.com wrote: G'day I'm after a 10-11 inch netbook/notebook which I will probably only use for internet, occasionally working on word or excel and of course I need a keyboard which is why a tablet won't

Re: [OT] 10-11 inch notebook

2012-01-15 Thread mike smith
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Wallace Turner wallacetur...@gmail.com wrote: i own one of these: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Ultraslim-Dell-Vostro-Laptop-13-3-V13-V130-4GB-DDR3-3G-WWAN-/180790486717?pt=AU_comp_laptophash=item2a17f3e6bd#ht_5764wt_1163

Re: [OT] bat file association problem

2012-01-24 Thread mike smith
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Here’s a warning, while checking-in via Tortoise SVN today I must have previewed (opened with) a bat file and forgotten to untick the “always open with”, or perhaps there was no option, I can’t remember. So this caused all

Re: [OT] bat file association problem

2012-01-24 Thread mike smith
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: Hmm - in Win7, there's no Explorer GUI way of changing .bat file extensions (as far as I can find). How did Greg manage to change it in the first place? Textpad preferences? or type associate into the help box off of

Re: [OT] bat file association problem

2012-01-24 Thread mike smith
Of mike smith Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 12:04 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] bat file association problem On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: Hmm - in Win7, there's no Explorer GUI way of changing .bat file extensions (as far as I can find). How did

Re: [ot] Port Forwarding LDAP

2012-02-05 Thread mike smith
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 5:07 PM, noonie neale.n...@gmail.com wrote: David, Bridging is prohibited. If I could get the hardware I'd stick it behind a real router :-( Isn't port forwarding a similar thing? If you explained it to whoever's prohibiting bridging, they'd probably prohibit fwding

Re: Detecting what an assembly was compiled with

2012-02-08 Thread mike smith
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 9:21 PM, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.au wrote: Another “environment” type question for those with more experience than I. I assume that (apart from Corflags CLI tool, which is inappropriate) the correct .NET method to detect what an assembly was compiled for

Re: vs 2010 keyboard driving me crazy solved.

2012-02-15 Thread mike smith
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms185330(v=vs.80).aspx maybe? there's a link that explains what it does too ... On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.au wrote: ** ** ** Anthony Can you attach a small pic of the setting in VS2010? (I have never

Re: vs 2010 keyboard driving me crazy solved.

2012-02-15 Thread mike smith
that. ** ** Does the application that your debugging adding any windows hooks or special keyboard handling? ** ** *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *mike smith *Sent:* Wednesday, February 15, 2012 5:47 PM *To:* ozDotNet

Re: [OT] Sample projects for 'testing' Reaction Time

2012-02-16 Thread mike smith
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 11:59 AM, noonie neale.n...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, These types of games are really testing more than reaction time (pattern recognition, spatial and trajectory analysis) and although we may assume that those cognitive abilities remain the same for an individual,

Re: New look of Visual Studio, what are your thoughts?

2012-02-23 Thread mike smith
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 4:15 PM, David Kean david.k...@microsoft.com wrote: We showed off the new look today: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/ Thoughts? I agree, somewhat, about the colour, but feel you've gone too far towards monochrome. And if you make me learn a new set of damned

Re: New look of Visual Studio, what are your thoughts?

2012-02-26 Thread mike smith
the 2012 UI, and not alter the project/solution/binary more than necessary. ** *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *mike smith *Sent:* Thursday, February 23, 2012 9:35 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: New look of Visual Studio, what

Re: Windows 8 Consumer preview

2012-02-29 Thread mike smith
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 4:35 PM, David Burela david.bur...@gmail.com wrote: The Windows 8 consumer preview was released today. You can download it from here. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/download There is a lot of buzz on twitter about it today (mostly critiquing the new start

Re: Windows 8 Consumer preview

2012-03-01 Thread mike smith
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.com wrote: I'm a Samsung fan. (Was going to say bitch... yeah. I'm their bitch.) Got me a Samsung TV, Phone, all my monitors, tablet. A sexy Windows 8 touchscreen Samsung laptop would make me complete. At least until the next

Re: Windows 8 Consumer preview

2012-03-01 Thread mike smith
and Visual Studio Express Beta for Windows 8 are free. :) -Original Message- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of mike smith Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 10:03 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Windows 8 Consumer preview On Thu

Re: Get target path for shortcuts

2012-03-05 Thread mike smith
Hard links next time? I think that would avoid the problem. (comment?) Mike On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.au wrote: I have 100+ shortcuts to files, the targets of which were subsequently moved. For a reason I won’t explain, these files need to be moved back

Re: OT: windows environment variables not working (SOLVED)

2012-03-14 Thread mike smith
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: I tried using the cable that came in the DELL box and it has made everything sharp and lovely. I noticed the cable has a different label on the end with fat embossed letters “DUAL LINK”. So there’s a trap! Thank heavens lots

Re: New look of Visual Studio, what are your thoughts?

2012-03-14 Thread mike smith
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Michael Minutillo michael.minuti...@gmail.com wrote: The first thing that I do when I install VS2010 on a new PC these days is install the Color Theme Editor extension and leach all of the saturation out of the IDE colors (making them all shades of grey). I

Re: [OT] My new monitor is unreadable

2012-03-15 Thread mike smith
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 5:22 PM, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote: Another thing about the U series ultra sharps - if the 27inch monitor is out of the range of anyone interested, their 23 inch equivalent is damned cheap. We specified 115 of them for a client 240 each (the client paid well

Re: [OT] My new monitor is unreadable (SOLVED)

2012-03-15 Thread mike smith
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 5:48 PM, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Use display port if you can. That presents the audio sockets on the monitor to windows as audio in/out etc for your desktop speakers/headsets etc.

Re: [OT] www.affordablelaptops.com.au

2012-03-27 Thread mike smith
Which office you in? :) What do you think of the Envy 14 Spectre? (1600x900) (similar disclaimer, but I work for HP Software) On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: Disclaimer: I work for HP Enterprise Services. Happy to give you any feedback on HP

Re: [OT] www.affordablelaptops.com.au

2012-03-27 Thread mike smith
-Original Message- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of mike smith Sent: Wednesday, 28 March 2012 8:03 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] www.affordablelaptops.com.au Which office you in? :) What do you think of the Envy 14 Spectre? (1600x900

Re: [OT] www.affordablelaptops.com.au

2012-03-27 Thread mike smith
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: -Original Message- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of mike smith Sent: Wednesday, 28 March 2012 10:55 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT

Re: Win 8 Tablet

2012-04-01 Thread mike smith
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 9:36 AM, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote: All the PC winslabs are pretty dear. We have a couple of them and Win8 really does need a bit of grunt to run. I can thoroughly NOT recommend the Dell Latitude ST (Atom + GMA600) as it runs like arse (and cost $1300) -

Re: Win 8 Tablet

2012-04-01 Thread mike smith
Pen for 'finger touch' screens - adonit.net (they were on kickstarter.com ) On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.com wrote: No battery. The pen that comes with it is quite cheap feeling. I bought a pen from Wacom but only the pen enabled ones will work, there

Re: Checking if I can write to a folder

2012-04-01 Thread mike smith
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Michael Minutillo michael.minuti...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I have an application that communicates with a document management system. Which one? I've got a good reason for asking :) In the case where the DMS is down the app should store files in a

Re: Checking if I can write to a folder

2012-04-02 Thread mike smith
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Michael, the only reliable thing to do if TRIM is down is to write to a substitute well-known local folder such as CommonApplicationData where the permissions are reliable. I don't know what difficultly this would present in your

Re: The cost of putting small websites online

2012-04-03 Thread mike smith
smirk Azure *after* Db? On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.comwrote: Damn it. Now I can't use cost as an excuse for not getting off my arse and learning more about Azure. Ok, I've put it on my list of things to learn, right after Db.

Re: Win 8 Tablet gestures

2012-04-03 Thread mike smith
Multiple screens (for mouse)? How well integrated is i with laptops that have a multitouch pad built in? And will they make the scroll work reversibly? On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 8:24 AM, Keir Nathan keirnat...@johndeere.com wrote: I remember reading somewhere that the swipe from top or sides of

Re: Powerpoint pain

2012-04-16 Thread mike smith
Would it be frivolous of me to suggest that Ctrl-Alt-Del or Alt-F4 helps moar with PowerPoint pain? Mike On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Greg Low (GregLow.com) g...@greglow.comwrote: Hi Andrew, ** ** Thanks. That seems to do basic stuff with fonts but not sizes, etc. ** ** It

Re: Users who compulsively highlight or click text as they read it -are you out there?

2012-04-17 Thread mike smith
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 9:43 PM, Peter Gfader pe...@gfader.com wrote: I am one of the highlighters-while-reading and know at least 2 others. I might, but I'm not keen on reverse video. A different type of hilighting might work. Also, highlighting some web pages doesn't work properly. For

Re: [OT] Removing private details on Internet

2012-04-23 Thread mike smith
Unless it's incorrect. I mean www.whitepages.com.au has most people on it. On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Michael Ridland rid...@gmail.com wrote: Is it an Australian website? On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Bec Carter bec.usern...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know if there is a body

Re: [OT] SkyDrive changes

2012-04-25 Thread mike smith
http://www.zdnet.com.au/google-introduces-drive-339336620.htm?ocid=nl_TNB_26042012_fea_1 Google outdoes Dropbox by giving you 5GB of capacity for free, 25GB for $2.49 a month, 100GB for $4.99 a month, or, if you're feeling like pushing the envelope, there are other tiers including $50 a month for

Re: Java to C#

2012-05-03 Thread mike smith
DO you work for Google? :^) On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Grant Molloy graken...@gmail.com wrote: Will Oracle sue me if I use it?? On 03/05/2012 4:03 PM, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.au wrote: ** ** ** http://blog.xamarin.com/2012/05/01/android-in-c-sharp/ ** ** Although

Re: Java to C#

2012-05-03 Thread mike smith
I feel the need to patent another hand gesture, a one fingered one. On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Grant Molloy graken...@gmail.com wrote: Yes.. It's just fantastic the way these copyright and patent wars are going! What are opinions of list members on patenting things like swipe to unlock

Re: unsubscribe

2012-05-04 Thread mike smith
However, it does usually work, the list owner is on the list. :) On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Preet Sangha preetsan...@gmail.com wrote: LOL don't mean to be rude but talk to the bot, the list ain't listening On 4 May 2012 19:21, David Loo david@itvision.com.au wrote: ** ** **

Re: Colour Returns to Visual Studio 11 User Interface

2012-05-08 Thread mike smith
What's a link for downloading? Or do I have to find the person around here that has msdn login details to do it? MikeS On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Bill McCarthy bill.mccarthy.li...@live.com.au wrote: - the red for stop could have been brighter (ditto for the green on go but not so bad)

Re: Colour Returns to Visual Studio 11 User Interface

2012-05-08 Thread mike smith
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 3:10 PM, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote: On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.au wrote: ** ** ** At a tangent, I hate Metro styling with a passion. Did MH have anything to do with its adoption? I couldn't agree more. Metro is shite

Re: Colour Returns to Visual Studio 11 User Interface

2012-05-08 Thread mike smith
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Les Hughes l...@datarev.com.au wrote: David Connors wrote: On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.aumailto: il.tho...@iinet.net.au** wrote: At a tangent, I hate Metro styling with a passion. Did MH have anything to do with its

Re: [OT] Windows 7 license keys

2012-05-28 Thread mike smith
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Grant Molloy graken...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah it's dodgy alright. Whois search shows address, but not company name. Address: 11400 W. Olympic Blvd. Suite 200 A quick google of address shows many sites registered to this address. Where do people shop for ms

Re: Free eBooks (Microsoft Press)

2012-05-31 Thread mike smith
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Grant Castner gcast...@castnerit.comwrote: Charles Petzold has a consumer preview for $10 of his new sixth edition of Programming Windows which includes developing for Windows 8. The price increases June 1. I wonder if you can upgrade. I've got a version 3.1

Re: [OT] 1TB disk shrinks to 32MB fix

2012-05-31 Thread mike smith
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Folks, Last year I purchased a brand new 1TB drive, brought it home and plugged it to find it was a 32MB drive. I took it back for a replacement drive which did not have the problem. That's some shrinkage! Yesterday I took a

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