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Apache.org goes titsup.com [Apache.org goes titsup.com]

AndyC — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:37:56 GMT

The Infrastructure Team of The Apache Software Foundation is currently investigating a potential compromise of one of our servers. For security reasons most apache.org services are therefore offline, but will be restored shortly. We apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.

Perhaps someone from Microsoft Marketing can sell them some IIS boxes? :P

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Bold italic text broken [Bold italic text broken]

AndyC — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:19:22 GMT

This is BOLD

This is ITALICS

This is BOLD + ITALICS

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Windows 7 multi-touch [Windows 7 multi-touch]

AndyC — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:12:41 GMT

So, I've installed Windows 7 on my Latitude XT, and the N-trig Win7 beta drivers. Aside from playing with zoom in Windows Live Photo Gallery and Excel, is there anything exciting I should be trying? Any APIs (especially Managed ones) documented anywhere?

Also, if anyone in on the proper Beta has access to a tablet device, are the back/Forward flicks the wrong way round for you? I've sent feedback using the feedback tool but it'd be handy if someone with a bit more access filed that one if it's a repro. Otherwise Tablet PC owners will be well narked! :)

The new touch keyboard is a lot, lot better though. Have to give them that (though no multi-touch shift key support, which seems silly!)

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So how long before Apple pulls this? [So how long before Apple pulls this?]

AndyC — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:00:15 GMT

Truphone allows you to use your iPod as a phone.

Ok, so it currently appears a bit limited, but will Apple really allow VOIP software on the iPod to compete with the iPhone?

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VS2010 CTP VHD [VS2010 CTP VHD]

AndyC — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:01:15 GMT

Because a few people were looking and I've not seen anyone link to it yet:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=922B4655-93D0-4476-BDA4-94CF5F8D4814&displaylang=en

Looking pretty funky.

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I've finally seen the evil of Vista DRM in action. [I've finally seen the evil of Vista DRM in action.]

AndyC — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:18:44 GMT

Popped my Star Wars Episode II Soundtrack disc in the CD drive of my Vista machine. Silly, because it clearly says on the label that it won't play on PC/Mac and XP has never been able to do anything useful with it. Vista, on the other hand, popped up a nice box asking if I wanted to play or rip the disc, so now it's added to my music collection on my WHS the way it should be!

Damn you Microsoft for all your evil DRM schemes and plotting with the RIAA and so on.... :P

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George Lucas ruins another great trilogy... [George Lucas ruins another great trilogy...]

AndyC — Thu, 22 May 2008 21:53:07 GMT

... and this time Steven Spielberg helped.

Indy 4: what a waste. It's was like watching Phantom Menace all over again and feeling your childhood get dumped all over. Should've handed the whole thing over to the guys behind National Treasure 2, which was a much better Indy film even without Indy.

:@

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Menu/Silverlight video layering bug? [Menu/Silverlight video layering bug?]

AndyC — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:08:55 GMT

Anyone else notice that the new silverlight player on the main page obscures the rollover menus? Running IE7 on Vista (basic theme).

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MSDN forums b0rked? [MSDN forums b0rked?]

AndyC — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 12:17:33 GMT

Is anyone else having issues posting to the MSDN forums, or is it just me?

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First impressions [First impressions]

AndyC — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 10:06:53 GMT

As others have said, the fixed width 1024px design is quite annoying. It's made much worse by the fact that all the actual content is on the right hand side as opposed to the left, forcing horizontal scrolling all the time. Compare this to the existing design (particularly with small avatars turned on) which keeps all the key content to the left and as a result works a lot better. :@

For what it's worth it wouldn't be so bad if the navigation didn't break if you used IE7's zoom functionality as it currently does. Not sure if that counts as an IE bug or a Channel 9 one though.

The little pop-up niner info thing is cool, though doesn't seem to be entirely consistently applied - you can't see it hovering over the name in a thread post, for example.

Not quite sure about the AJAX next page thing either. It seems wierd after having scrolled down reading a page not to be taken back to the top to read the next page. Maybe that's just me though. :s

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Shouldn't have kept you waiting.... [Shouldn't have kept you waiting....]

AndyC — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:18:53 GMT

Looks like the xbox 360 guys were having a little fun at Sony's expense:

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=74495

:D

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Shared app data? [Shared app data?]

AndyC — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:52:13 GMT

If an application has a file which needs to be read/write accessible to all users of a machine, where is the best place to put it?

The best I could come up with is to create the file at install in CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA\AppName\ with non-default permissions, but I'm just wondering if there is a better way of doing it.

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Dave Massy leaves Microsoft [Dave Massy leaves Microsoft]

AndyC — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 23:15:35 GMT

Sad but true.

Thanks for everything you did on IE (especially braving it here!) and best of luck in whatever you do next! Remember, once a Niner, always a Niner!

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Office Team: Not everyone is in the US [Office Team: Not everyone is in the US]

AndyC — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:14:18 GMT

Whilst waiting for our purchasing department to sort out our volume Office agreement, I thought I'd save time by downloading the free trial advertised all over the Office website. Despite there being no mention of this being a US-only offer, it appears I can't get through the sign up because, living in the UK, I don't have a State or Zip Code.

Arrrrgh!!!

:@

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Vista MCE + XBox360 = Wow [Vista MCE + XBox360 = Wow]

AndyC — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 22:06:06 GMT

Just reinstalled Vista (5744) to clear up some of the mess from numerous upgrade tests and found that l can now use my 360 as a Media Extender without it just bombing out.I have to say it's just awesome, after 5 minutes it's impressed enough to convince me that I'll definitely be buying one of the versions that include it for that machine, even without the PVR functionality (since it really doesn't work with Sky in the UK)

Now I just have to figure out how to turn my movie collection into an on demand media jukebox to join my CD collection. :D

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Orcas September CTP available... [Orcas September CTP available...]

AndyC — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:48:48 GMT

... as a Virtual PC disk image. With future updates to be shipped as differencing disks.

Pretty cunning way of deploying it if you ask me. :)

Details here.

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IE7: searching feeds [IE7: searching feeds]

AndyC — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 20:17:04 GMT

Is it possible to search downloaded feeds in IE7? I saw something in one of mine yesterday and now I can't remember which one it was and I can't see an easy way of finding it.

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Re: An end to the monopoly [Re: An end to the monopoly]

AndyC — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 13:20:14 GMT

shooby wrote:

Tell you what, remotely log in to a windows machine, and open a GUI session.

I do. Daily.

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Office 2007 - menu tabs [Office 2007 - menu tabs]

AndyC — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 20:17:25 GMT

Given some of the complaints about the Ribbon here, you might like to check out Jensen Harris' latest post on Office 2007's cool new feature: menu tabs.

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C9 Navigation gone awry [C9 Navigation gone awry]

AndyC — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 08:33:02 GMT

Is it just my IE6 borked or has C9's nav bar gone a bit funky?

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Storage Server 2003 R2, an iSCSI target? [Storage Server 2003 R2, an iSCSI target?]

AndyC — Mon, 08 May 2006 21:25:08 GMT

Does anyone know if the R2 version of Storage Server can act as an iSCSI target? Can't find a definitive yes/no anywhere on Microsoft.com and everywhere else seems to have conflicting comments.

Of course, having asked, someone will no doubt now point to an obvious link I missed. :P

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Re: Ultra mobile PC [NOT] [Re: Ultra mobile PC [NOT]]

AndyC — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 16:04:02 GMT

shooby wrote:
I dont WANT a mobile PC,

Okaaay, so maybe you shouldn't buy one. There, that was easy wasn't it?

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Microsoft accuse EU of foul play [Microsoft accuse EU of foul play]

AndyC — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 21:47:18 GMT

Not seen this mentioned here yet, but it seems the EU might not have been playing entirely fair in their antitrust case.

Will be interesting to see how this develops...

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Re: .Is Linux and Open Source software Really Cheaper than Conventional Software [.Is Linux and Open Source software Really Cheaper than Conventional Software]

AndyC — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 07:14:14 GMT

shooby wrote:
You complain, yeah but who would run without a firewall -- Redhat ships without the firewall on.

Er, no it doesn't.

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The reason to buy Vista [The reason to buy Vista]

AndyC — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 23:02:12 GMT

Vista Shell Team wrote:

Bryan Lipscy (Expert):
Q: [319] Second Attempt: A computer in a domain - will it now be allowed to have multiple users logged into it? ie: fast user switching?
A: Yes

Source

Stuff new audio and networking stacks or fancy GUIs. That one feature will make my life 100% better
:D

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