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I am also only getting 22 kB/sec (in the office and at home so different networks in Australia)

Did the tracert and here are the results:

tracert ecn.channel9.msdn.com

Tracing route to mschannel9.vo.msecnd.net [70.37.159.141] over a maximum of 30 hops:

1     *        *        *     Request timed out.
2     8 ms     1 ms     1 ms  113.11.254.125.unassigned.comindico.com.au [125.254.11.113]  
3     1 ms    <1 ms     1 ms  129.38.168.202.static.comindico.com.au [202.168.38.129]  
4    13 ms    13 ms    13 ms  syd-nxg-men-crt2-ge-5-1-0.tpgi.com.au [202.7.173.229]  
5    14 ms    13 ms    13 ms  202.7.171.78  
6    13 ms    15 ms    23 ms  10gigabitethernet5-1.syd-xmx-edgcom-1b.ntwk.msn.net [70.37.149.62]
7    14 ms    13 ms    14 ms  cds10.syd9.msecn.net [70.37.159.141]

I run tech training session and use Channel9 all the time - would be nice to get this fixed (all other content source are > 1MB/sec)

"FullName LIKE '%{0}%' AND DateSubmitted >= '{1}' AND DateSubmitted <= '{2}' AND (('{3}' = '*' OR Approved = '{3}') OR (Approved IS NULL AND '{3}' IS NULL))"

The part '{3}' IS NULL is always false. 

Also you should be using parameterised querys:

"FullName LIKE @Param1 AND DateSubmitted >= @DateTimeParam1 AND DateSubmitted <= @DateTimeParam2 AND ((@Param2 = '*' OR Approved = @Param2) OR (Approved IS NULL AND @Param2 IS NULL))"

If Approved is null and @Param2 is null the right hand side of the OR would evalute properly.

Noun-Verb are better because the group the functions based on the type of function they are:

CustomerGet
CustomerDelete
CustomerStore
etc.

The dev tools will usually list in alpha order

Beer28 wrote:

Buzza wrote: HOw much do you think they are going to give you? I reckon you will be lucky to get $10 back. LOL OEM's get extremly good deals.

I'm hoping I get back what I paid for it, I think it would be around $30-40

Beer28 wrote:

I'm sick of waiting around for information, I'm just going to send it to microsoft in ontario tommorow with a copy of the receipt by registered mail and let them know that I did not agree to the EULA, I did not boot into windows XP and they need to get me a refund and respect my rights as a consumer not to be forced to pay for piracy in indonesia by forcing 99% of laptop hardware in this country to have windowsXP preinstalled.

The guy from Dell at linux world did tell me that and I'll testify to it under oath. They said that Windows was soooooooooooo great that every single last person would just die to get a pirated copy if they sold the hardware without an OS. They told me this AT linux world.

I think they're retarded. Not in the technical sense, but in the pop culture sense. VERY.

I think the dumber you are the better your chances at making it in a large corporate environment.

AndyC wrote:

Buzza wrote: Umm and the difference between and executable running via sudo and natively at a shell ?

Sudo forces you to re-authenticate for one. Perhaps more importantly, you only run tasks with elevated priviliges when you absolutely have to.

You can do the same under Windows with LUAs and RunAs, it's just not quite as transparent to Joe Public.

Beer28 wrote:

It is not administrative by default because nobody on linux runs their desktop as root.

AndyC wrote:

Buzza wrote: How can you enable root (if root is disabled) to install software, a RPM for instance?

a) You don't usually need to. Everything is done via sudo (or an equivalent GUI tool) - instead of root privileges, accounts are given permission to run sudo.

b) On the Mac, in NetInfo Manager, though nobody usualy does. I can't speak for Linux as I've not used a distro in years.

Erisan wrote:

AndyC wrote: (Mac OS X goes one step further and actually disables root by default)

Some Linux distros do the same.

AndyC wrote:

Buzza wrote: What a load of crap - everyone - unless in a locked down organisation would run as root, just as everyone runs as administrator in windows.

On the contrary, Linux distributions generally make it incredibly difficult to run as root (Mac OS X goes one step further and actually disables root by default)

This is one of the things that *nix based OS do better than Windows (mainly due to the history of their development)

Beer28 wrote:

AndyC wrote: W3bbo wrote: Odd... Firefox runs with the default account rights and I haven't had any problems with its security By "default" do you mean, Administrative? If not, then haven't you noticed that the auto-update is broken for LUAs?

Firefox on linux runs as the user that invoked the firefox process. All data is kept in the /home/user/.mozilla/firefox and the one shell script to launch it from lib is in /usr/bin

It is not administrative by default because nobody on linux runs their desktop as root.