Posts by dogged

Interesting. I see plenty of "locals" asking for "power posting privs" in the cookie jar ...

Re: Re: break it?

Should have used the "joke alert" icon. Inline javascript was one of the first things that was tested.

break it?

<script type="text/javascript">while(1){alert('Restart your brower to close this box!')}</script>

Help - Shogun 2: Total War

Help - Shogun 2: Total War

Can anyone advise on how to stop this game from eating my entire life?

Thank you.

Apple issues invitations to March 7 iPad roll-out

That would definitely have been newsworthy.

O2 to balance work, life on smartphones

MPD-developers.com

Multiple personality disorder should interest the XDA guys, I guess.

Molesworth and the New Latin

Re: veritam?

Okay, but not bad getting the noun right after 30 years...

Graecum in veritas est to the populace, sadly.

Forum request - "Armchair CEO"

Re: Re: Re: Re: Forum request - "Armchair CEO"

well, until Drew helpfully posted a URL, I couldn't see what forums actually existed so I was stuck with this one and any that I created topics in.

I notice there isn't one anyway, so no biggie.

Re: Re: Forum request - "Armchair CEO"

it's a little more selective :)

Forum request - "Armchair CEO"

A place to suggest, criticize and act like we're smarter than the people who make billions running companies.

Toyota, Samsung partner on car, phone connectivity

"voice-free calling"

wat

Science is an illusion ...

Like this, you mean?

Oracle - love or hate?

Oracle really does do everything it can to make itself a complete pain in the arse if you're not wholly bought into the Oracle experience on RHEL.

Try using the .NET provider for Oracle sometime. Hell, try just installing it. Good luck iof you think Java is insecure and buggy! And then you have to dick around for an hour or so with TNSNAMES to try to make it actually work.

Once it's working, it's fine. But every time I have to go to a new site and set up to code against Oracle, I consider walking straight back out again.

Reading this? You're probably planning to skill up on HTML5 in 2012

Re: JavaScript, C#, .NET and HTML5...

sorry, did you just use "Java" and "respect" in the same sentence without irony?

Leap-day Visual Studio beta provokes 'passionate' response

@Andrew 59

It's true that VB6 needed MSVBM60.dll, but to take a random example, VB3 needed MSVBM30.dll. In much the same way, C# software targetting the .NET4 framework need the .NET4 framework installed where C# software targetting the .NET2 framework needs the .NET2 framework installed. An no, VB DLLs were not cumulative either - if the "right" DLL was not installed, the program didn't run.

The nice is that these days, we can specify which framework we're writing for regardless of the version of Visual Studio we're using, retrospectively at least. So even if I'm using VS2010 which is natively compiled for .NET4, I can still write code which only requires .NET2

It's the same, except a bit better. You'd know this if you were any bloody use at "supporting" it.

The emo version could be Expression Blend's twin.

Drew's Cookie Jar - psst. want a forum upgrade

My problem with all this is....

finding the actual forums in order to browse them.

Seriously, if there's a quick link you've hidden it astonishingly well.

Re: Re: By the power of greyskull...

Oh, this guy is good.

Re: dogged, moiety, Shades, durandal - our wish is your html command

Grazie

Re: Loverly and thanks :-)

I'd like a crack at that. I have some thoughts on hardware/software demand that I'd like to run by the assembled worthies (and Barry).

Death to Office or to Windows - choose wisely, Microsoft

"ride successful coat-tails into a the big corporate tablet market"

er...

The single most successful company at selling corporate software is Microsoft. I know there's this whole movement to erect a Jobsian Reality Distortion Field over that and claim that Apple and/or Google are the only companies that are ever successful but sadly for those people responsible, it's not what's generally called "accurate" or even "true".

Re: The Curse Of The 21st Century: MS Office

The programmer may or may not be lazy but the line-manager who commissioned the software almost certainly wants it yesterday. COM is quicker to write than parsing XML.

Which is sad, but horribly true.

Asus teases MWC 'retina display' revelation

Re: Re: sub editing can be fun

does it matter?

sub editing can be fun

"Will Asus - as many fans will hope - be able to get its ultrahigh-res offering out before Apple does with the 2048 x 1536 iPad 3 early next month. More importantly, with doing so prevent Apple suing everyone who goes over 1280x600?"

Fixed that one for you.

Xeroxiraptor: Boffins to print 3D robot dinosaur

I just wanted to say

huge kudos for "Xeroxiraptor" since this bunch of ingrates didn't bother.

Govt warns 4G may make Freeview UNWATCHABLE

Unwatchable

I presume they're referring to ITV2, ITV3 and ITV4?

Samsung Series 9 skinny laptop priced for Blighty

"The fact its not an Apple?"

Awesome. Sign me up.

And it looks nothing like an Air, unless everything which falls under "thin laptop" is an Air ripoff in your little world. Which it apparently is.

Will Windows 8 sticker shock leave Microsoft unstuck?

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: wat

Thanks for that, it's an interesting one. It doesn't explicitly answer the question, though.

AllThingsDigital had an interview which did indeed confirm what the article says, so I concede defeat.

But thinking about it...

Is this actually a bad thing? I'm undecided.

Re: Re: wat

Not really, because you can develop desktops apps against WinRT (it ain't just for Metro) and, according to the same entry distribute them through MS Windows AppMarketStore™, and those'll run on ARM.

So saying "there's desktop but only for office and IE" is sort of, er, not true.

Re: It's amazing

Well, the precedent's been set now. And the x86/x64 versions are still yours to fool with as you will.

I still want to know which fantasist made up the entire premise of this article though - WOA will run Desktop apps if they're compiled with WinRT and downloaded from the Windows Store/Shop/Market/Poundsaver/whatever.

There's a need to distinguish the fact that you can't load your own software on an ARM tablet but have to get it the "approved" way, I suppose, but the "tablet" and "slate" distinctions should help with that.

wat

"If you don’t like Metro, WOA won’t let you seek refuge in the more conventional Windows desktop. That’s because while WOA will have a desktop option, just two apps can use it – Microsoft’s Office 2015 and Internet Explorer 10."

Source, please. Because that's not what Sinofsky's blog says.

LG touts Tegra 3 talker

agreed

there's something worryingly paedo about the whole thing.

Ubuntu for Android: Penguins peck at Nokia's core problem

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: obsolete single-core

Yes, the first batch (reportedly, I haven't got one and don't work for Nokia or MS so I can;t state with certainty) had shitty battery life. It was apparently an implementation thing. Later batches don't have the issue (also reportedly).

We can all be snide, you know. If I went looking, I expect I could battery-draining reports on some early or shoddy Android implementations. Or exploding iPhone batteries. But that wouldn't do anything except make both of us look like we're trying to score cheap points instead of discuss the issue, would it?

Re: Re: Re: Re: obsolete single-core

I thought this was about shoddy OS implementation driving ever hungrier chips. And you know as well as I do that all you fat dual-core smartphones guzzle juice like an American economy car.

The continued "WP7 is shit because it doesn't support hardware you shouldn't need" thing is getting pretty old, dude. As well as not really relevant.

obsolete single-core

I have to ask, I mean really.

Why the HELL is making phone chips more powerful and more thirsty regarded as a good thing? Why would I want to buy more expensive hardware in order to make up for the failings of a crufty and poorly optimized OS?

In my little word, software needing more powerful horsepower is a bad thing. Your mileage clearly varies.

Re: I'm already running this type of config

> "Give it a quad core and it'd FLY for an hour"

Fixed that for you.

Microsoft denies report of Office coming to iPad

@squilookie

According to Steven Sinofsky's blog, Office is baked in to Windows 8 on ARM. Which confirms your speculation. Although again, there's no Office sale there since it's a part of the OS.

Microsoft claims Google bypassed its browser privacy too

Re: quick....

wholly inexhaustive and spur-of-the-moment testing prompted by your query indicates that Bing does indeed honour P3P codes although I can't test live.com services without actually logging into them (and thus using Passport, which pretty much ruins any test).

So, MS apparently honour privacy, Gioogle don't and MS are pathetic and desperate scumbags? What an odd world you live in.

Climate models need revising: Droughts, heat waves not such a big deal

Re: Would be nice...

er, we eat cows.

Unless you're a vegetablist, in which case your extinction is assured anyway. I realize this will come as a shock, but we all die eventually. Even if we jog and eat tofu.

Philips intros dual-view telly tech

Re: I'm confused

Is the dual-view gubbins 3D only? That would kill it for me.

New Mac OS X: Mountain Lion roars at unauthorised apps

"corporate apps for Mac"

I agree entirely with your logic but how big is the corporate apps for Mac market, compared with consumerware?

OSX is not exactly a corporate staple.

NHS Direct

Re: Ugh.

I understand there's about five million apps for that.

The Transformer and the Atrix - the future?

The Transformer and the Atrix - the future?

I'm interested in how you guys see the evolution of technology from here. Given the following basics -

ARM SoCs are now as "powerful" in raw terms as whole desktop computers were 5 years ago. The Atrix is a phone that runs into a laptop. The Transformer is a tablet that turns into a laptop.

Is the future modular?

Paper PCs design rolled out

Re: Re: Re: Not really

Fair enough, then ;)

Re: Not really

I doubt that. You could burn this stuff on your wood-burner and it'd be carbon neutral and likely less rich in all those really nasty organic mixups you so often get from burning plastics.

Microsoft code not the security sieve sysadmins should be worried about

Re: Re: @the coward

In any case, "just switch everything to linux" is a retarded idea.

Suppose you, with 10 years of experience in various linux flavours, are suddenly told everything is going Windows/Active Directory. Will you secure it well?

No. Because you don't know what you're doing.

The same is true for somebody who can design and implement a secure Active Directory forest - at least as secure as anything you can create. He can't just switch over to linux and magically make everything "better". And linux-based networks he puts together will be crap, just as any windows-based networks you put together will be crap.

Is it possible to create a secure Windows network and desktop? Absolutely. Try working some of the places I've worked, the military establishments, the defence ministries, the high finance houses. Windows has been evolved to sell into those houses.

All security is a trade-off against convenience. Those people don't care about convenience. and their networks are solid. Cold that be done with linux? Quite probably, yes. Should it be? Only if you want to spend far more than the cost-price of a Windows environment on retraining.

Could it be done _better_? Almost certainly not.

Re: @eulampios: e cazzata cosi

It is not and cannot be invulnerable. You're comparing a fortress which has been attacked and taken many time to one which has never been properly tested. NOT because it's clearly "better" in any way, merely because more obvious (and profitable) targets exist.

@AC: 14:56GMT

The point is, any application is a threat vector. ANY application, regardless of OS.

So I shall continue to laugh at people who think "oh I'm on linux/OSX/whatever and therefore I am a) safe and b) MORALLY SUPERIOR to anyone on 'doze".

Because the real threat vector is those idiots. Stupidity is the largest possible threat to security.

Mobile chiefs warned: Ditch unlimited tariffs... or else

In Singapore, the answer is PAYG

It costs 18 dollars (less than a tenner) for a PAYG SIM, you get S$20 credit, you can buy 5GB for S$7 which is available over seven days. And, and this is important, you buy data with your call credit. Not with extra payments. And you can very easily negotiate/haggle with top-up vendors over the face cost of added credit. It's great.

If you happen to be passing through, I recommend it. Never had a problem.

Sony pitches pay-as-you-go power sockets

Re: Well, obviously you don't sell electricity at cost price.

Those exist and they cost £5 last time I used one.