Channel 9 - Discussions by ChrisChance

Coffeehouse - Vista Beta 2 Public Released

ChrisChance — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 18:51:50 GMT

Vista coulda broken the internet... read here

Tech Off - Please help me :( im so stuck

ChrisChance — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 21:09:57 GMT

well heres the issue when i did the code exactly the same i was forced to put mustinherits... because when pasting direct from devx i got errors that a bunch of stuff was "mustoverride" and to add mustinherit or to correct.... devx said supposedly when you inherit the classes that it was supposed to create all the needed overrides for me but it didnt.... what to do?

EDIT: I got it working by using the sample provider from msdn... very hard to find actually. someone really needs to inform devx that there tutorial isnt working at all.

Tech Off - Please help me :( im so stuck

ChrisChance — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:28:25 GMT

i am trying to use a mdb as my membership database, im following the devx tutorial but it doesnt work

heres what i have so far

web.config http://pastebin.ru/792
the class http://pastebin.ru/793
the error http://pastebin.ru/794

please please help asap i cant figure this out and been stuck for 2 days

Coffeehouse - Jim Allchin Rocks!

ChrisChance — Sat, 18 Jun 2005 06:25:16 GMT

Wow, seriously maybe there should be an alchin theme for longhorn He rockin ... but as a microsoft exec couldn't he have done wmv lossless

"I can't listen wma-format. Can you convert it to OGG Vorbis so everyone can listen them.. ?"-----

Since when is ogg vorbis the format "everyone can listen to" I mean really, i don't have an ogg vorbis codec installed, last i knew the only fully supported universal format is mp3

Coffeehouse - wmp mini window?

ChrisChance — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 03:55:57 GMT

hell ya its annoying... god forbid that be resizeable to fill the corner of my screen.. and wow maybe MS get NBC or CBS to do some live msntv streaming commercials in all even.

Tech Off - Ok whats up with this in vb.net april

ChrisChance — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 02:42:12 GMT

ok im sittin here trying to add a database/dataset to the source view... i get into the dataset.xsd i right click the table click configure (yes there is a primary key set) all the check marks are on and i click next select to generate everything (all 3 checkmarks) click next and it says generating all the stuff but it doesnt say generating delete or modify code and when i click the adapter the modify and insert are not created whats up with this?

Coffeehouse - wmp mini window?

ChrisChance — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 02:39:15 GMT

Has anyone wondered why the little window for the toolbar (minimized to taskbar) video window is not resizeable thats maybe the most annoying thing ever its just slightly too small i mean really on my 1280res i really wish it was like 2x the size but i cant resize... why doesnt microsoft have a suggestion wiki for stuff like this for wmp11 or a wmp10.1 or something this is nuts.

Coffeehouse - xbox360 sneak in?

ChrisChance — Wed, 18 May 2005 23:50:18 GMT

i didnt mean sneak in like that lol i meant as in a sneak peak at what the lab looks like and some of the people working on it and there 2 cents about there job etc.. that is kinda what c9 is about but no xbox stuff from c9 yet... i mean even maybe ask if they can demo the xna platform... we've never really seen an inside look at what the microsoft game dev platform looks like... and with all the e3 hubbub it would be kewl to see microsofts side of it (beyond the pretty staged ourcolony stuff lol

Coffeehouse - xbox360 sneak in?

ChrisChance — Wed, 18 May 2005 19:07:35 GMT

How come our guys at channel9 havent snuck into the xbox360 lab for some insider footage?

Considering its been posted that there might be the ability to upgrade the xbox at later dates with BR or HD drives from DVD and also that there are some things that might be getting added or changed before release in november... how bout some popped questions while in the interview

Coffeehouse - Gates Interview? When?

ChrisChance — Thu, 05 May 2005 06:51:08 GMT

Might also wanna throw in a question about microsofts stand on google. i mean first google desktop... and a million other little apps... gmail > hotmail... there desktop search app.... now webaccelerator for IE.... there were talks of a browser and from what i've heard there have some major R&D people moving to google.

Coffeehouse - Gates Interview? When?

ChrisChance — Wed, 04 May 2005 19:14:50 GMT

I notice lots of interviews and even at a conference bill mentioned hes like waiting for a interview from his "employee running around with a camera" but has yet to get one instead hes been doing these video's that rarely get watched.... How about a nice informal interview with him... that would be sick covering the xbox and longhorn and other stuff thats up in the air! That would rock.

Coffeehouse - Nominations open for Team 99 -- Longhorn Superuser and Superdeveloper blogger group

ChrisChance — Wed, 04 May 2005 03:43:17 GMT

I could only nominated the following people

Paul Thurrott
Steven Bink
Ryan Hoffman

Those guys have always been there saying what i believe to be great ideas there are some others but they are definiettly on game to give some of the best criticism and since there pretty widely known im sure they also get a good feel for what everyone else is thinking longhorn should be.

Coffeehouse - WinHec keynote video now posted

ChrisChance — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 06:28:15 GMT

HAHA give me a frigging break! The KDE and Gnome menu's are the crappiest knock offs and half working developments since the beginning of the start menu design... MS had it first gnome and kde copied and its still horrendous to work with. So dont get me started with that....

As for the LH start menu its still under major development! The fact is that the ability for such a simple run is just that easy u type 2 letters and press enter and its there... incase you dont feel like clicking through a menuwhich in some cases like me i would love this!... The run menu is actually probably goingto be removed but as we all know since this is a MS site and not a bunch of linux/osx fanboys that lh is still PRE Beta1 and 70% of the operating system isnt done so stop critiqueing. Whats the last GUI thing that gnome did that was original... i mean really... i have yet to see 1 thing be innovated on linux gui for desktop. No its always windows and osx... but windows gets all the criticism cause there the largest god its annoying.

Coffeehouse - MS Anti-Spyware Beta

ChrisChance — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 01:13:39 GMT

Ok love the idea of the ms sponsored spyware protection but if they charge a subscription than i think it's complete BS because its protecting you againt there own programs faults that let in spyware. In that case they should start making wholes that there spyware bot can block and then refuse to actually fix them if there gonna go subscription like giant used to be ....

On another note i feel while they are at it they need to buy spywareblaster's team and software and add a immunization style database that immunizes the computer and have it autoupdate via windows update Then we'll be talking about a truely secure OS. Immunization and updates via windowsupdate and a decent spyware app for free... and later down the road antivirus as well (that i can see as fee based subscription) And we'll have a much better locked down system

Coffeehouse - Fun Puzzle: Next sequence of numbers

ChrisChance — Fri, 05 Nov 2004 03:35:09 GMT

Isn't it none not one? because the line before that says kits, cats, sacks and wives how many are coming.... and none of them are coming.

Coffeehouse - Wonder When

ChrisChance — Thu, 21 Oct 2004 02:57:31 GMT

Now that the extenders are coming out i wonder when we will see real digital photo frames. I mean think about it a minamalized extender just the bare essentials piped to a lcd with wifi. Maybe a little web interface so u can change the playlist. And boom we have a digital picture frame streaming all of your families images, with the advent of nanoitx units i really see this as a possibility i mean since its just pictures a simple 500mhz nanoitx would work passivly cooled fit inside a 3/4" picture frame with the oled or lcd in the front of it and boom all done. I think it would sell dont you? God if they wanted to really keep with the extender feel allow it to stream video as well but u would have to have the ethernet cable plugged in that the nano itx comes with

Coffeehouse - Longhorn Progress reports

ChrisChance — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 04:57:34 GMT

LOL its just hilarious someone just said that the alienware is more expensive than a frigging dual 2.5ghz mac

WOW no its about the same price, and hate to say it it wont come with an ati 9200 pro card it'll come with the best and highest quality components.

And wont have slugishness just scrolling a frigging internet explorer window.

Ever read the review by anandtech (or was it tomshardware) about a pc persons objective view of using a mac it makes some interesting points on how much power it takes just to run a mac i mean come on a DESKTOP that needs DUAL 2.5ghz processors to run decently? And at decently i dont mean flawless with the best games running at 90fps with nvidia 6800 ultra

Coffeehouse - Cherry OS: OSX compatibility for x86

ChrisChance — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 04:52:47 GMT

Its another copyright battle waiting to happen LOL, although this isnt the first powerpc architecture. PearPC has been openly in development for several months.

Coffeehouse - Longhorn Progress reports

ChrisChance — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 04:40:19 GMT

Forgot to say how come linux can have great memory management and caching services, and mac osx can have avalon and winfs opps cough cough i meant that nifty super quick search engine and sick effects i know i know thats not what avalon and winfs are really but especially that search box they are adding to there next version of mac osx that searches for "bob" and shows all files emails contacts etc. Why is MS having so many problems with so many and such a wide range of programmers starts to make ya ask the question of what in gods name are the thousands of programmers doing, With the expertice and experience at microsoft i would think longhorn could be securely developed beyond anything else, and beyond anyones expectations or limitations in the 3 years MS has given it.

Coffeehouse - Longhorn Progress reports

ChrisChance — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 04:36:37 GMT

I realized something while dealing with linux, after everyone complains about windows vulnerabilities. Note: I said dealing with not using. LOL If you've ever looked at the kernel patch list or the grsec patch list or even just go onto a forum like the gentoo new release list, there must be over 100000 bugs in linux that are constantly getting patched and upgraded i must do atleast 40 updates every 3 days to keep everything nice and tidy, and many people might say "ye but the linux updates all the programs too" sorry to say thats a great thing but 99% of my upgrades are from libs that i dont know what they hell they have to do with."

Win2003 Microsoft is there for me and fixes the problems as soon as they can and the system upgrades quietly and eventually asks for a reboot (hopefully soon explorer reloads by itself instead of rebooting)

Back on the topic

It sure has been a long time since news of a leaked longhorn build was flashed around the net LOL microsoft went really tight lipped after the news that winfs wasnt going to make it to longhorn the "next gen operating system" kinda left a "well if thats not gonna be in it and avalon and other things are being backported to xp... what the hell makes longhorn so special

Coffeehouse - MSN Messenger 7.0 Beta - Real Deal?

ChrisChance — Sun, 03 Oct 2004 05:29:18 GMT

Im dumb it does make a sound but really shouldnt msn allow for different types of nudges like with different voices and in these packs shouldnt they have sound themes ? Also i wonder when we will see "appear offline" with "allow to see me when offline mode" hehe

HA and another thing the darn MSN Music tab, update that darn thing to play music IN The darn msn messenger i mean its all MSN stuff so why open IE to get the player open embed a wmplayer in the darn alert window and play the song.

Coffeehouse - MSN Messenger 7.0 Beta - Real Deal?

ChrisChance — Sun, 03 Oct 2004 05:02:56 GMT

Its not for external distribution its internal alpha that got leaked, as a note it looks good, however the chat windows need to be changed up a little they look too much of the same its nice to see change between large updates 6.0 to 7.0

Also the nudge is kewl but what about a sound i mean to really get attention like in yahoo "hey .. ya there"

Coffeehouse - MSN Messenger makes me :(

ChrisChance — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 04:30:10 GMT

LOL dont we all dont we all, i wish they would add the auto translater to msn that would be sick i'm sure bablefish wouldnt mind

Coffeehouse - Patent Office Rejects Microsoft's FAT Patent

ChrisChance — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 04:19:52 GMT

Please god say they patented ntfs atleast LOL

Coffeehouse - MSN Messenger makes me :(

ChrisChance — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 04:16:55 GMT

I fully understand that no one single chat interface will make everyone happy however with the innovativeness at microsoft i would have thought that the distinguishable ability to choose what you want wouldnt exactly be that far off i mean is it really that unrealistic for when a user is adding his account profile to MSN it asks "Fluffy or Professional"if you ask for fluffy cause your a college guy or girl that wants a nice looking fun interface then great if you are in an office and want a more MSNConcept style (like i posted above) then walla the interface is switched to a more plain interface non-skinned no winks except what is authorized.

But it makes things seem alot like IE's problem that so many have seen theres a number of small minut(sp) problems and things that people want to see added BEFORE LONGHORN that would make the utmost difference in peoples view of microsofts care for the product. I mean the general public is fine with waiting for a full new intuitive way of viewing the web but for the time being people just want whats already available from everyone else in there beloved MS product. You cant develop for the future and forget about the present.