Channel 9 - Discussions by Cronan http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 - Discussions by Cronan http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Cronan/Discussions Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Cronan/Discussions en Wed, 22 May 2013 03:40:38 GMT Wed, 22 May 2013 03:40:38 GMT Rev9 0 0 0 Coffeehouse - This Will Make You LOVE SPAM ! A quick Google will give you a better idea of what has been tried, what is proposed, and the pros and cons of all options.

http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1763
http://securityfocus.com/infocus/1766

All anti-spam solutions seem to fall into four categories: filters, reverse lookups, challenges, and cryptography. All have problems. From the links:

"..Spam filters, while being viable options for identifying spam, do not prevent spam and require constant maintenance. Reverse-lookup systems attempt to identify forged senders but restrict email's usability by preventing host-less and vanity domains, and restricting mobile users' abilities to send email from anywhere at anytime. ...Challenge-response systems are only viable as long as they maintain a low profile, and computational challenges are unlikely to deter spammers. Cryptographic solutions, while accurately identifying forged email, do not easily expand to a global scale"

It's nice that you're thinking of ways to stop spam, but a little research goes a long way ...

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/27091-This-Will-Make-You-LOVE-SPAM-/00a6062bfa56452d94cb9dea01330748#00a6062bfa56452d94cb9dea01330748 Tue, 09 Nov 2004 17:24:02 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/27091-This-Will-Make-You-LOVE-SPAM-/00a6062bfa56452d94cb9dea01330748#00a6062bfa56452d94cb9dea01330748 Cronan 115 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Cronan/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - XP SP2 über patch already needs fixing The Register is a tabloid?!

n.
A newspaper of small format giving the news in condensed form, usually with illustrated, often sensational material

adj.
1. In summary form; condensed.
2. Lurid or sensational

(From http://dictionary.reference.com)

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BOA and BML a hoax? The Boxter a hoax-meister?

Mary Jo
Dinner with Don

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/13476-BOABML-hoax/13476#13476 Tue, 20 Jul 2004 07:28:17 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/13476-BOABML-hoax/13476#13476 Cronan 9 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Cronan/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Japan's Channel 2 - A forum for venting Arrrr! Would you please let us know when a link requires registration? Smiley

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/6159-Japans-Channel-2-A-forum-for-venting/ec46de51d0654b588a0d9dea01198fce#ec46de51d0654b588a0d9dea01198fce Mon, 10 May 2004 15:46:22 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/6159-Japans-Channel-2-A-forum-for-venting/ec46de51d0654b588a0d9dea01198fce#ec46de51d0654b588a0d9dea01198fce Cronan 8 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Cronan/Discussions/RSS Tech Off - Print Preview... If you think about it ...

If Print Preview is a preview of how the selected driver will print the selected document ...
And if no driver is installed ...

What exactly are you going to preview?

Can't really see how this is a bug ...

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/5493-Print-Preview/0664f1f9dd714879b7e59dea010fb804#0664f1f9dd714879b7e59dea010fb804 Tue, 04 May 2004 15:03:41 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/5493-Print-Preview/0664f1f9dd714879b7e59dea010fb804#0664f1f9dd714879b7e59dea010fb804 Cronan 3 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Cronan/Discussions/RSS Tech Off - Inline routines For me, in a (good) modern language this sort of thing should always be left to the compiler or the jitter. Write good, clean code and rely on the quality of the compiler/jitter. Otherwise you may find that your optimisations themselves cause problems when a new version of the compiler (or jitter) is released.

In .Net, inlining takes place in the JIT.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/4793-Inline-routines/c605462d07864362a2dc9dea010f5432#c605462d07864362a2dc9dea010f5432 Tue, 27 Apr 2004 15:00:27 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/4793-Inline-routines/c605462d07864362a2dc9dea010f5432#c605462d07864362a2dc9dea010f5432 Cronan 6 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Cronan/Discussions/RSS Tech Off - Inline routines .Net inlines everything it can
Eric (Gunnerson) has blogged on this
As has Rico Mariani

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/4793-Inline-routines/53d0c4c149dc4768a37a9dea010f5408#53d0c4c149dc4768a37a9dea010f5408 Tue, 27 Apr 2004 14:54:30 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/4793-Inline-routines/53d0c4c149dc4768a37a9dea010f5408#53d0c4c149dc4768a37a9dea010f5408 Cronan 6 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Cronan/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - How to easily make Windows free: Idea?
jamie wrote:
i also change my machine hardware alot -
* quickbooks just went through a whole big customer backlash over activation..  food for thought

Jamie

Product Activation is a pain. I agree. Some security is always more onerous than no security; it's all about striking a balance. For me, product activation is just a modern form of dongle; if software companies want to protect their product from theft, I have no problem with that. Does product activation cause me some pain? Yes, sure, just like logging on does ...

You spoke about your privacy concerns. Now, the last time I looked, Microsoft probably has more attention on it than any other company in the world. How many people do you think regularly packet-sniff the data interchanges that happen during Microsoft product updates? Then interpret the data? Hundreds? More?

How likely do you think it is that not one of them has picked up the transfer of identifying data during these updates? I think it can't be very likely at all. I like product updates. When I sell my own software I like the idea of protecting it from theft and unauthorised usage. There's only one time I ever felt nervous about getting online updates and that's when I didn't own the license to the software in question.

Ivan

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/2788-How-to-easily-make-Windows-free-Idea/3aee508bfefe467ca82f9dea0114fdcb#3aee508bfefe467ca82f9dea0114fdcb Tue, 27 Apr 2004 14:35:54 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/2788-How-to-easily-make-Windows-free-Idea/3aee508bfefe467ca82f9dea0114fdcb#3aee508bfefe467ca82f9dea0114fdcb Cronan 72 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Cronan/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - XBox 2 A circuit diagram purporting to be of the XBox 2 showed up on a Chinese Website today ...

http://bbs.gzeasy.com/index.php?showtopic=149175

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/4781-XBox-2/4781#4781 Tue, 27 Apr 2004 13:11:30 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/4781-XBox-2/4781#4781 Cronan 2 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Cronan/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Framework Bugs I forgot the one that's causing the biggest issues for me now: The broken implementation of binding.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/4769-Framework-Bugs/b0e8792b23144a498a199dea0117ff39#b0e8792b23144a498a199dea0117ff39 Tue, 27 Apr 2004 08:48:53 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/4769-Framework-Bugs/b0e8792b23144a498a199dea0117ff39#b0e8792b23144a498a199dea0117ff39 Cronan 2 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Cronan/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Framework Bugs We've heard lots on this site about the cool new features in Whidbey, help, search, etc etc. I'd like to hear a little more about what kinds of framework bugs are due to be fixed in the next framework release. I'm thinking of things ranging from the small (Forms DataGrid turns off TopMost each time it refreshes) to the large (localisation issues with the DateTime).

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/4769-Framework-Bugs/4769#4769 Tue, 27 Apr 2004 08:37:25 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/4769-Framework-Bugs/4769#4769 Cronan 2 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Cronan/Discussions/RSS Tech Off - "My"
Steven wrote:

I'm actually on the My team ...


Steven

I assume that anyone will be able to add this namespace and program against it?

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/4367-quotMyquot/903c92ef9a4f46c9901a9dea010f3354#903c92ef9a4f46c9901a9dea010f3354 Tue, 27 Apr 2004 08:26:09 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/4367-quotMyquot/903c92ef9a4f46c9901a9dea010f3354#903c92ef9a4f46c9901a9dea010f3354 Cronan 22 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Cronan/Discussions/RSS Tech Off - "My"
cjbreisch wrote:
... It "dumbs down" VB again when I thought the whole point was to make all the .NET languages functionally equivalent.  ...

I'm interested to know how you think adding a namespace changes the VB language specification. While I agree that the languages need to produce equivalent IL, I disagree that VB should strive to be C#. What made VB6 so successful was the degree to which it abstracted the complexities of COM development away. I agree, some mistakes were made, but making VB.Net an easier place for the "part-time" or "beginner" programmer to work cannot be a bad thing.

Speaking as someone who has converted from VB6 to VB.Net to C# over the past 2 1/2 years, I don't agree with you.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/4367-quotMyquot/725a353f3b6344b8afbf9dea010f3329#725a353f3b6344b8afbf9dea010f3329 Tue, 27 Apr 2004 08:24:46 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/4367-quotMyquot/725a353f3b6344b8afbf9dea010f3329#725a353f3b6344b8afbf9dea010f3329 Cronan 22 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Cronan/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Should we step up the video quality? I think quality is fine. A few of the latest postings have been quite bad, but I've had no problems up until then. Someone made a note about transcripts ... perhaps we (the community) could do this?

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/4599-Should-we-step-up-the-video-quality/1da1bb7302c340a4bccf9dea0117cc99#1da1bb7302c340a4bccf9dea0117cc99 Mon, 26 Apr 2004 09:19:33 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/4599-Should-we-step-up-the-video-quality/1da1bb7302c340a4bccf9dea0117cc99#1da1bb7302c340a4bccf9dea0117cc99 Cronan 26 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Cronan/Discussions/RSS Tech Off - "My" This is a great idea. Using it might be a little like recording a macro (back in the days).

  1. How do I do such-and-such?
  2. Find it in My
  3. Read the docs and find out which is the wrapped framework class
  4. Use the framework class in the future
Anything that aids accessibility is a good thing, as long as it doesn't force everyone to do the same thing.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/4367-quotMyquot/753cb01e99bb407191739dea010f3247#753cb01e99bb407191739dea010f3247 Mon, 26 Apr 2004 06:26:08 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/4367-quotMyquot/753cb01e99bb407191739dea010f3247#753cb01e99bb407191739dea010f3247 Cronan 22 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Cronan/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - PINVOKE.NET - The Place to Win32 API Signatures Nice. I may add some later today - I've been suffering from PInvoke blues while implementing a DDE client in .Net, and this looks like a nice place to centralize knowledge on this.

Pity someone didn't wake up and do this sort of thing years ago ... like MS, for example.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/3719-PINVOKENET-The-Place-to-Win32-API-Signatures/65cf9ceb9f0f4f69b9da9dea0116a36e#65cf9ceb9f0f4f69b9da9dea0116a36e Fri, 23 Apr 2004 13:02:39 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/3719-PINVOKENET-The-Place-to-Win32-API-Signatures/65cf9ceb9f0f4f69b9da9dea0116a36e#65cf9ceb9f0f4f69b9da9dea0116a36e Cronan 5 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Cronan/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - What would you ask the Tablet PC team? Voice recognition will only be an alternative to data entry by hand when it supports sub-vocalisation. Think of what the background noise in a big open-plan office will be with 20 idiots trying to use Dragon Dictate or something!

Do we have anyone from the "wreck a nice beach" team here? Is sub-vocalization support planned? Considered?

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/4154-What-would-you-ask-the-Tablet-PC-team/5f3999fade664666a5639dea01174074#5f3999fade664666a5639dea01174074 Fri, 23 Apr 2004 08:47:25 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/4154-What-would-you-ask-the-Tablet-PC-team/5f3999fade664666a5639dea01174074#5f3999fade664666a5639dea01174074 Cronan 58 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Cronan/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - The First Computer You..
  • Sinclair ZX80
  • 1 Kb RAM
  • Tape drive (i.e. my tape recorder)
  • Television as monitor
  • Plastic "flat" keyboard

My father bought it for me when I was 12. I learnt BASIC and Z80A machine code.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/4070-The-First-Computer-You/aeedb8ebd77c449cb5b39dea01172da0#aeedb8ebd77c449cb5b39dea01172da0 Thu, 22 Apr 2004 10:03:55 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/4070-The-First-Computer-You/aeedb8ebd77c449cb5b39dea01172da0#aeedb8ebd77c449cb5b39dea01172da0 Cronan 34 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Cronan/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Thanks Slashdot ! Doesn't crash it - I'm replying using FireFox ...

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/1119-Thanks-Slashdot-/b836520ae6e94d71af1d9dea011190d4#b836520ae6e94d71af1d9dea011190d4 Wed, 21 Apr 2004 09:15:39 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/1119-Thanks-Slashdot-/b836520ae6e94d71af1d9dea011190d4#b836520ae6e94d71af1d9dea011190d4 Cronan 18 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Cronan/Discussions/RSS Tech Off - Microsoft Object Spaces Oooer. Just found this.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/3914-Microsoft-Object-Spaces/d5ae3814ac494fc2bb8e9dea010efb5e#d5ae3814ac494fc2bb8e9dea010efb5e Wed, 21 Apr 2004 08:23:11 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/3914-Microsoft-Object-Spaces/d5ae3814ac494fc2bb8e9dea010efb5e#d5ae3814ac494fc2bb8e9dea010efb5e Cronan 21 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Cronan/Discussions/RSS Tech Off - Microsoft Object Spaces Does anyone know what has happened to Object Spaces? The MSN group seems to be dead, found something here.
Man, I am sooooooo sick of writing my own object persistence to database ....

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/3914-Microsoft-Object-Spaces/3914#3914 Wed, 21 Apr 2004 08:20:25 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/3914-Microsoft-Object-Spaces/3914#3914 Cronan 21 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Cronan/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Roll call - tell us who you are! I'm Ivan Cronyn, a .Net developer working in London. I was born in South African, but was lured to the UK by the great weather five years ago. I work for an asset management firm (a "hedge" fund), developing applications, services and tools for the inhouse developers, the front-office traders and the back-office people.

I'm an olde-tyme VB developer, born again into the C# world and loving it.

Outside of the office I enjoy Tae Kwon Do (a Korean martial art, like Karate but with head-kicks), walking in the Chiltern Hills, painting WarHammer 40K miniatures with my two sons and doing yoga with my wife the yoga teacher.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/1445-Roll-call-tell-us-who-you-are/50119ce1290d447caf7b9dea0112063d#50119ce1290d447caf7b9dea0112063d Wed, 21 Apr 2004 08:07:58 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/1445-Roll-call-tell-us-who-you-are/50119ce1290d447caf7b9dea0112063d#50119ce1290d447caf7b9dea0112063d Cronan 424 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Cronan/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - whats wrong with msdn? Not one of the devs here (THFTCBN) uses MSDN search; we all use Google. Invariably the Google Groups point to an MSDN article; why not license the Google Device? Wink

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/43-whats-wrong-with-msdn/5c364ea7fa1c46a1bcb49dea010f23fa#5c364ea7fa1c46a1bcb49dea010f23fa Wed, 07 Apr 2004 12:09:34 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/43-whats-wrong-with-msdn/5c364ea7fa1c46a1bcb49dea010f23fa#5c364ea7fa1c46a1bcb49dea010f23fa Cronan 20 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Cronan/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Some XBOX Live MS vs Public? Cronan.GamerTag = "Cronan"

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/362-Some-XBOX-Live-MS-vs-Public/16183072393e4fd0b7589dea01101536#16183072393e4fd0b7589dea01101536 Wed, 07 Apr 2004 12:02:51 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/362-Some-XBOX-Live-MS-vs-Public/16183072393e4fd0b7589dea01101536#16183072393e4fd0b7589dea01101536 Cronan 20 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Cronan/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Do you login as admin? Too many workarounds required when using VS.Net as a non-Admin, esp. related to interop. I run as Admin all the time.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/380-Do-you-login-as-admin/0b0e0230185f4faebd4d9dea01101ce7#0b0e0230185f4faebd4d9dea01101ce7 Wed, 07 Apr 2004 10:38:14 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/380-Do-you-login-as-admin/0b0e0230185f4faebd4d9dea01101ce7#0b0e0230185f4faebd4d9dea01101ce7 Cronan 38 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Cronan/Discussions/RSS