Entries for androidi

to microsoftpdc.com 'live' stream operator [to microsoftpdc.com 'live' stream operator]

androidi — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:46:22 GMT

1) It's not a live stream if user can go back in time to watch some interesting interview

2) Great idea to stop the non-live viewing from the buffer when the live broadcast ends. Or maybe not. I was just getting into the most interesting bit and it stops. (Actually I pressed Pause then went to get some food and when I resumed it failed with error and on refresh the stream was gone)

in reply to to microsoftpdc.com 'live' stream operator

back button -> web page expired

androidi — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:20:22 GMT

The browser back button used to work here and now it tends to bring the "web page expired" page.

How to make Windows 7 to expand the tree to the found folder? [How to make Windows 7 to expand the tree to the found folder?]

androidi — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:20:06 GMT

Now if I double click/open the folder resulting from a search it doesn't expand the tree to it even if "automatically expand to current folder" is checked. I could right click the folder and find the "open folder location" menu option at the bottom, click that and then double click the folder but that's rather kludgy workaround if what you're doing requires doing it all the time.

in reply to How to make Windows 7 to expand the tree to the found folder?

Any web developers here? [Any web developers here?]

androidi — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:38:50 GMT

Great! My "F12-skillz" (aka IE Developer Tools) could not the explain this, maybe yours can? I have configured Flash in "manage addons" so that the bar is displayed only if the site asks for it. (= I clicked "Remove all sites")

What I'm hoping to hear is what is the offending code and where was it loaded from and did you find it using IE's Developer Tools or was there something else required or some more efficient way to find it.

in reply to Any web developers here?

Flash required in Coffeehouse?

androidi — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:52:28 GMT

Has my just clean installed system already come infected or why I get IE saying "This website wants to run the following add-on 'Adobe Flash Player' ..." on all the pages including the Coffeehouse and this now?

Does SuperFetch work optimally in Windows 7? [Does SuperFetch work optimally in Windows 7?]

androidi — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:40:27 GMT

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=780368&st=0

http://www.driverheaven.net/windows-7-forum/180539-experiences-superfetch-windows-7-so-far.html

If these threads are anything to go by then answer is a very resounding "unlikely", unless it has been fixed between RC and RTM which I'll find out eventually but lets start by asking fellow niners:

Do heavy apps that are not CPU limited during startup that you have used in both Vista and Windows 7 RTM start as fast or faster in Windows 7 as they did in Windows Vista on a system with 6 GB or more memory and no SSD?

Of my particular concern are multi-gig Sample libraries and multi-gig games which atleast in Windows 7 RC started approx 5-10 x slower than in Vista pretty consistently, which pretty much says the SuperFetch in RC hardly worked optimally.

in reply to Does SuperFetch work optimally in Windows 7?

Editing the op sometimes causes the content of the message not appear in the editor [Editing the op sometimes causes the content of the message not appear in the editor]

androidi — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:37:30 GMT

Editing the op sometimes causes the content of the message not appear in the editor.

1. New thread in coffeehouse

2. Post it

3. Go back to edit it

4. sometimes the editor appears empty and the subject line gets trashed with html.

in reply to Editing the op sometimes causes the content of the message not appear in the editor

Editing the op causes the subject string to contain html [Editing the op causes the subject string to contain html]

androidi — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:34:25 GMT

It didn't have the   put there by me.

VS2010 Beta 2 WPF text&nbsp;rendering

in reply to Editing the op causes the subject string to contain html

VS2010 Beta 2 WPF tooltip text rendering issues [VS2010 Beta 2 WPF tooltip text rendering issues]

androidi — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:31:54 GMT

EDIT: read my reply below. It appears the HALF of problem was the use of wrong font (In 2008 I have Courier New not Consolas). Second half seems to be that the Segoe UI doesn't seem to look right? It looks like some other font, despite the Font options - Tooltip claiming otherwise. It seems as if the tooltip is fixed to a bad looking font and the setting to change it doesn't work.

Do I need to do something to get it working? I uninstalled beta 1 from Win7rc, put Beta 2 in and:

^^ 400% :

Click on the image to open it full size if it's not.

I have 1600x1200 on a CRT using Intel G33 chip with integrated graphics. I've tried to change Font Smoothing setting but it didn't do much if anything in 2010b2, only worsen text in IE if disabled.

UPDATE, CLICK TO OPEN FULL SIZE:

Pay attention to how the "Open" and M's look in the tooltip and in Intellisense vs 2008. They look GREAT in 2008. And crap in 2010 beta 2!

Closer look.

in reply to VS2010 Beta 2 WPF tooltip text rendering issues

VS2010 Beta 2 bootstrap install dl speed graph and comments [VS2010 Beta 2 bootstrap install dl speed graph and comments]

androidi — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:23:01 GMT

That's not a connection problem you see. It's the installer downloading everything first (not installing at same time), in small blocks into dozens of temporary files, where after one tmp file is done, it copies the tmp to a .cab in the same temp folder (very disk IO intensive - they haven't heard of using RAM for whatever they're really doing, wonder if it's doing something more than just copy), deletes the tmp, then goes on to download another of the hundred blocks.

I suspect there may be some kind of block downloading going on as the tmp/cab's are actually many MB in size but it would appear they are downloaded in smaller blocks synchronously.

Now it could be that this is the only possible way to download something as fast as possible, after all the faster you download, the fast the download finishes and thus the sooner the server resources are freed. It may also be that VS2010 was designed so that it could not be installing at the same time as it downloads (atleast the previously finished component if not in a more fine grained manner) and resume the download and install later if the connectivity drops or space runs out during the process.

In other words, it seems to me that MS should only offer the ISO or design the dl+install process with some common sense.

And to top this all of, the computer needs to be rebooted midst of the install. Some things never change. I do hope if MS ever comes up with a new ubiquitous operating system, people are forbidden to write installers and only the world top most performance gurus are allowed to design one optimal platform for install ,servicing and so on. And performance is defined as not doing things that you don't really need to do. Like copying anything around, in memory or disk, or writing to disk before everything that could be done in ram is done there. (no temp folders in disk for install processes)

in reply to VS2010 Beta 2 bootstrap install dl speed graph and comments

Possibly interesting game release [Possibly interesting game release]

androidi — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:59:24 GMT

http://www.destructoid.com/review-machinarium-152301.phtml

The graphics tone remind bit of "Beneath a steel sky" and the review suggest it's a modern take on retro adventure. And the price seems right, I might have to get this.

Of particular note are the visuals which atleast look like they've done a proper attempt instead of the shoddy work seen in most of every 3D game except maybe Fallout 3 where the LOD in few places approached to that what a properly done 3D adventure requires. Since that's so expensive it's just more economical to do 2D. This among other things leads me to believe that 3D adventure game is the most expensive single player game genre. So it's not that the genre nearly died temporarily due to lack of players but due to economic constraints. It's just cheaper to do shoddy 3D and hope the 3D is enough to keep the users interest vs doing a proper 2D game where every screen has to be done tastefully to keep the player interest up, atleast if it's a game of tedious and weird puzzles. (The review sounds like that might not be the case for this game which is why I have to check it out)

From Wikipedia:

Machinarium was developed over a period of three years, by seven Czech developers, who financed the project with their own savings. The marketing budget for the game was a scant $1,000. Machinarium won the Excellence in Visual Art award at the 12th Annual Independent Games Festival.

in reply to Possibly interesting game release

Something weird going in on avatar images when thread page is changed [Something weird going in on avatar images when thread page is changed]

androidi — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:49:00 GMT

I noticed something weird going in on avatar images when thread page is changed.

I returned to read one of my threads. Switched to page 2, then I saw my avatar next to a post and read through "my" reply. I was like "did I write this?!" then all of sudden, maybe 2 seconds, the avatar changed to someone elses!

What kind of cruel joke bs is that? :) I EVEN checked the avatar in question to see it was not some animated gif avatar that's animated to change from mine to someone else. That's how it certainly looked. I had had the page open for a while and scrolled it before starting to read that comment so there certainly was like 2+2 seconds after using the page changer.

I tried to repro it but on next page changes the avatars only flickered quickly as they changed, so with a high speed camera it might've been possible to register them displaying the wrong picture. This was on IE8.

in reply to Something weird going in on avatar images when thread page is changed

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 goes live [Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 goes live]

androidi — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:23:50 GMT

http://blogs.msdn.com/steve_fox/archive/2009/10/19/visual-studio-2010-beta-1-goes-live.aspx

Today, the release of Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 was announced... The download is pretty seamless; I installed on my Windows 2008 R2 64 bit laptop. As per the below, I installed the Visual Studio Team System 2010 Beta 1.

Did I get trolled? Most likely...

in reply to Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 goes live

How much is 1- -1? [How much is 1- -1?]

androidi — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 07:54:04 GMT

According to Windows 7 calculator 0 = 1- -1. *

Then I looked with F# and Mathematica that 2 = 1- -1

After looking through the help I found that according to Microsoft Calculator Team, 2 = 1-1F9

They didn't teach me that in school, do they teach this 1F9 thing to get "-1" in US schools? Does it make sense to you? With my physical calculator 2=1--1 just as they teached in school here. I can accept that a space there is required to make the distinction, I can't accept that -1=1F9.

(* calculator ignores the space bar and second press of - key, so it ends up seeing 1-1 despite user input being 1--1 or 1- -1))

in reply to How much is 1- -1?

Post not published [Post not published]

androidi — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:19:49 GMT

I wasn't aware of such feature, what's up?

This came on top of the op after making new thread in Coffeehouse:

Post Not Published

This post is not currently visible to the public. You are able to view it because you are the author.

in reply to Post not published

Firefox stability/security problems [Firefox stability/security problems]

androidi — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:17:41 GMT

Something I just got when running Firefox, probably old news as I don't run it every day.

in reply to Firefox stability/security problems

Funniest read [Funniest read]

androidi — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:05:55 GMT

http://www.amazon.com/Daily-Adventures-Mixerman/dp/0879309458

I can't really quote any particular part as the whole absurdity builds up. If you have either some interest in rock/pop music or any in how it's made then definitely read.

Or if you're just looking for some tips for making your own music, the author has some here. "Eyes Before Ears Except After See?" and "5 Points of Degradation" are some seem-like-obvious after the fact reads that I can recommend.

in reply to Funniest read

Cool hacks [Cool hacks]

androidi — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:41:36 GMT

A bit old video of ICU64 but there's a new version out recently for WinVICE, with GUI apparently done using .NET.

http://icu64.blogspot.com/

There are couple other videos showing borderless Boulderdash and same for Paradroid.

in reply to Cool hacks

Live sign out issue on site "new Channel8.msdn.com" [Live sign out issue on site "new Channel8.msdn.com"]

androidi — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:35:30 GMT

Signing out

You're signing out of the following sites:

X new Channel8.msdn.com

.. Had a problem where I could not edit first post in my thread, it works now after signing out and back in but I got that "unable to sign out" for that site during this.

in reply to Live sign out issue on site "new Channel8.msdn.com"

Does your CPU usage skyrocket when viewing this post (with zoom)? [Does your CPU usage skyrocket when viewing this post (with zoom)?]

androidi — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:35:43 GMT

it sure is some hard work for IE8 atleast.

The good old while (iFrame<Frames) { count to iFrame*million; render; iFrame++ } trick? How else one could achieve this??

ps. hard to even type here, the caret is invisible half the time and editor is laggy as hell.

EDIT: Added (with zoom) as that has makes it atleast doubly worse and easier to notice if you're on very fast cpu.

in reply to Does your CPU usage skyrocket when viewing this post (with zoom)?

Win7, how do you limit search to filenames containing '' and ( )? [Win7, how do you limit search to filenames containing '' and ( )?]

androidi — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:12:45 GMT

edit: replaced " with ''

Windows 7 explorer search question:

How do you limit search to filenames containing '' and ( )?

While trying to figure that out with little (no) success, I also found that name:" blah" seems to match "blah" if the filename begins with it.

in reply to Win7, how do you limit search to filenames containing '' and ( )?

What does Windows 7 do? [What does Windows 7 do?]

androidi — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 20:53:45 GMT

Before testing, please write down what you expected to be selected and then test and come back with results if something unexpected happened.

What does Windows 7 explorer (not IE) do if you double-click somewhere in the "click_here" part in a file called double-click_here.txt (set file extensions visible if not, create the file, select it and press f2 to rename before dbl-clk)?

Does the behaviour differ from other programs and if so can you think of a reason why?

in reply to What does Windows 7 do?

MS Connect improvements [MS Connect improvements]

androidi — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:35:18 GMT

https://connect.microsoft.com/Connect/content/content.aspx?ContentID=14090

Great. But totally pointless until they fix the #1 issue which is it taking 1-10 seconds on clicking something for anything to happen. Combine that with the (too few) results per page paging with no caching of the next page and it's not hard to see (insert rant here).

in reply to MS Connect improvements

Whatever* music you heard today, it's crap**. [Whatever* music you heard today, it's crap**.]

androidi — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:23:07 GMT

* mastered for CD's or downloads after around mid 90's ** very likely, in terms of sound quality. And this has nothing to do with mp3 as the problem is in...

http://www.austin360.com/music/content/music/stories/xl/2006/09/28cover.html (if you only read one of these pick this)

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/17777619/the_death_of_high_fidelity (if you still don't get it then this may help)

I had somewhere in my positronic network noticed the issues mentioned in these (couple year old but still very relevant) articles long ago but since haven't had radio in 10 years and I've mostly listened to old records and mp3's ripped from vinyl, which limits the issue a bit as described in the article1, I hadn't truly realized how big the problem had become until today when I decided to check just for fun some recent "remastered Beatles" and some new compilations of old hits. There in came the shock. I could not listen any of the songs from these 2009 CD's, even a minute without getting ear fatigue. At very low volume!

The reasons are explained in the articles so I won't bother repeating. Instead lets look at the solutions:

Solution 1. EU needs to set new consumer protection laws in place that allows getting money back from any download or record without questions if said piece of audio has even one clip and/or peaks are less than 5 dB from average RMS (however they calculated that in the article I haven't researched). The point is that if the record has less dynamic range than some 70's or 80's reference record then it can be returned for refund. This will lead to programs being developed that verify that the download/cd is within the acceptable non-fatiguing parameters.

Solution 2. EU "finds" that music as mastered today may have harmful effects when consumed and thus mandates that shops must use a program to verify all music sold to be fit into similar parameters as described in solution 1.

Both 1 & 2: Radio stations are mandated to use algorithm that analyzes and drops the level of highly compressed music before play to similar average as the music with more dynamic range has. Result is that highly compressed music will be quieter than music which has high dynamic range and thus no one will want to master that way any more.

Solution 3. American consumers should form a class-action suit against labels for causing ear fatigue which could also increase risk of tinnitus in the long term. I have mild tinnitus and that one minute listening of those 2009 masters had the immediate worsening effect on the tinnitus so there's reason based on this and the conclusions drawn in the article1 to believe that such risk is plausible.

update: Looks like this already got some attention a year ago. This video is demonstrates quite well.