I have an idea!!!!
Microsoft, you know what's a wireless card and what is a wired card.
You also know that the wire is ALWAYS preferrer for the same network path.
So why in god's name doesn't the wired card get a lower metric by default than wireless cards?
People that want it the other way around can change it, but I don't know ANYONE that doesn't think it's stupid that EVERY computer with a wireless card and a wired card defaults to the wireless as highest priority. I get asked this question probably 10 times a month and have to set the metric on every single computer!
This is the type of thought that goes into a Mac that is completely laking in Windows (i.e. Vista's 7 different ways to shut it down!)
MS needs to rehire it's QA team on top of the unit tests and get some usability happening again.
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The problem isn't the shell team it's the fundamental nature of changing DPI.
The text gets larger and the graphics get smaller. So as a programmer you're faced with one of several solutions, none of which work well:
1. Scale your graphics up so that they still fit in the interface with the new larger text. This is twice the scale because the image shrunk and the text got larger. looks like crazy.
2. Include larger images and use those. (increases the size of your application hugely, and Windows still doesn't handle this nicely...
3. Shrink the text down, which defeats the purpose of large DPI.
In any case, the size of forms have to be manually resized because it won't work right otherwise (there are major bugs with auto-scale)
Hence there is no easy solution. The sort of solution with WPF is to use vector graphics which side steps the issue, but doesn't really solve it.
So you will have a horrible experience using high dpi settings... so just go back to small fonts and life will be fine... -
Actually you don't need a certificate.
You can create your own channel using shared secret.
There are numerous articles about how to do this in WSE, and the same basic logic applies to WCF. (I don't have a sample for you).
Basically MS took out the shared secret system that was built into WSE 1.0 for security reasons (which are all valid unless you're careful) and didn't replace it with a different, better solution.
What you want to do is have a shared secret between the server and the client. Do not pass the password, only the user name. I would suggest that the user name be unique for each client and the password would be some sort of unique hashing algorythem based on that user name. The password should be LONG to ensure that it can't be hacked easily.
Then you encrypt the custom channel using whatever encryption system you wish, and you're set. (there is a one way implimentation of this on CodeProject somewhere)
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Your likely problem is the databinding context. You need to tell the context to get/accept all changes, then those will be put back in the data source.
This has been a nightmare since day 1 in VBx and later .NET (yes, .NET has the same databinding issues as VBx did almost 20 years later!)
It will really bake your noodle when you end up with .NET creating multiple data binding contexts on your single form because you go and put on tab controls etc. And what's worse, is that the validating/ed events don't fire on tabing in and out of container controls, so nothing ever gets persisted back to the data source.
Hence why all of the advice online will tell you not to use databinding.
Me? I created my own extender control that handles data binding and implimented IPropertyChanged in the extender so that I can tell when the bound control's property changed and persist it live instead of waiting for the validation events.... -
Put the controls in a panel in the tablelayoutpanel. Then it should show. The error provider draws on the parent, and the tablelayoutpanel has serious issues with that.
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Yet another example of the .NET GUI people not understanding UI. That's also why it took us 17 years to get a drop down combo that would incrementally look against the list, and limit to the list without having to type stuff really quickly or it would start from scratch again.
It's also why we still have a DateTimePicker control that still can't support null values right...
*sigh*
At least they fixed my bug for .NET 1.1 of the available dataset list to be sorted... -
... could be part of the complete f-up that is the windows time synchronization that just doesn't work at all anymore unless you use a military time server and has been broken since the early change over for DST in the US/Canada.
I can't believe that it's almost 6 months later and MS still hasn't fixed it! Tons of computers not with the right time because of this!
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Anyone have a link to a full installer image instead of a vpc?
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- The Zodiac has little or no bearing on Christianity or Catholicism, in fact the Church is quick to shoot down anything of the occult like this"
I can't let that one go because it's just so ironic.
Almost ALL of the holidays, observancies and cerimony, especially on the RC church is based on the pegan rituals at the time. They were adopted intentionally and integrated into Christianity.
Constantine was the first baptized empeor of Rome. He also called the second summit of Christianity at Alexandria and at that time re-wrote huge swaths of the bible, and completely deleted whole sections.
What he was doing was bringing Peganism and Christianity together as one so that the Pegans could get on board with this Christian thing. It worked well until the Prodistant Refermation which split the Pegans and the Catholics again and had been coming since Constantine and shortly there after when the Bishops in Rome decided that only they could speak to God thus undoing everything that had been promised to the British people (not British at the time) and the northern Franks in exchange for their worship of God and belief in Christianity and the renouncement of their Pegan beliefs.
Christmas is not on Jesus's birthday, specifically because they wanted to kill the Pegan Solstice holiday so they took the celebrations and forms of the pegan holiday and put it into Christmas and volia!
So I say again.... which is more rational? Science based on observable facts that have built the great world we live in today, or fiction created by a bunch of corrupt men looking to control the known world? (Just read about the Crusades if you want any more proof as to how corrupt the Church was during the Dark ages and how much revisionism that they engaged in.)
- The Zodiac has little or no bearing on Christianity or Catholicism, in fact the Church is quick to shoot down anything of the occult like this"
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padre wrote:After hearing about Rory's recent struggles, I was wondering something. How do atheists/agnostics find hope in life?
By MY actions and MY deeds and by the content of MY character. My outlook on life is not dependant on others. If others choose to attempt to enslave me or take away my freedom (Religion, socialism), that is just another part of reality to be overcome, nothing more.
I am my own purpose.
padre wrote:
What do you put your faith in?
Faith is a contradiction in terms and thus irrational. It is the believe in that which cannot be proven. That's called a circular reference. (which in a computer results in a stack overflow...)
The key is belief. Base everything on what you can prove. I put my belief in myself, because I know what I can do (and can't do). I put my belief in others that I choose to surround myself with, because I know what they are capable of, and I understand their value system, and thus know how they will handle situations. (which is why I don't surround myself with religious people because they'll do whatever they want and then justify it however they want, because believing in a mytical being makes it easy to justify just about anything.)
padre wrote:
What if those things change?
If you did your job when you started to build up your philosophical and episimologicdal belief structure, then things don't change. They get refined and made more precise. If you find that you were wrong in something, then you come up with a new solution/theory that fits all of the evidence and logically is correct and refine it. (See Rand's Introduction to Objectivist Epistimology for more details on the learning process and the foundation for all human belief)
It doesn't make me any less because I was wrong, it simply means that I have to change. Change is a good thing, not a bad thing. It is the precondition for all improvement. It isn't conincidence that religion attempts to stop change from occuring, and thus ensures that humans don't improve (which is why we had 1000 years of dark ages under their rule)
padre wrote:
Do people honestly believe that they evolved from bacteria millions of years ago? I would argue that it takes an even bigger leap of faith to believe in that.
You honestly believe that some all powerful being for which you have no proof of their existance (outside of that which is complete described by science and physics) snapped his fingers and BAM! there was the earth and humans?
Which is more illogical? To follow all of the scientifically proven evidence through history step by step as far as we can go, refining our theory as we gain more knowledge,
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Believing in something you cannot see, cannot prove, that's been told to you buy a corrupt organization (the church) that has been responsible for the VAST majority of all the bloodshed throughout history and one of their Popes (before the prodistant refermation) is on record as saying "this Jesus myth has worked well for us"?
The fundamental principle of the atheist and more specifically the objectivist is to adhere to reality. Use reality to shape your life, don't ignore it or attempt to make it go away with wishes and whims. It is this fundamental principle that has risen man from subsistance and starvation under the Roman Catholic Church during the Dark Ages (100% caused by Christianity) to houses and cars, and planes, and space ships and boats and medicine and essentially being able to create anything we desire.
If that doesn't give you hope, when you realize that the fundamental principle of reality is that almost anything is possible, if you learn, work hard and follow the laws of the universe, I don't know what will.
(and now I've really kicked of a **** storm.)
