Channel 9 - Discussions by buggy123

Coffeehouse - I hate Vista's Windows Explorer! [help required]

buggy123 — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 21:31:55 GMT

I don't like the way Vista windows explorer performs.
Seems slower and muddled compared with the quicker XP version.
A case of one step forward yet two steps back.
An alternative that will merge with Vista and bring it back in line with the layout and performance of XP's explorer is needed.
Accelman File Manager works with Vista and also Xplorer2......

Coffeehouse - Vista language packs have disappeared

buggy123 — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 03:21:29 GMT

Thanks for the links, but I'm wondering about something. If I recall correctly, there was an issue with SP1 and the language packs (I don't remember MUI or LIP) on Vista Ultimate. Does that also apply to Vista Enterprise? I would like to add the Japanese MUI, but is uncertain if that issue pertains to my instance.

Tech Off - Vista audio question: No input volume controls in Vista?

buggy123 — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:44:06 GMT

just another idea, get a peice of harware that allows you to plug your line in cable into the mic jack

Tech Off - Vista audio question: No input volume controls in Vista?

buggy123 — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:40:57 GMT

under control panel > sound, if you select the recording tab, you can select wave out mix as the default recording device and can record what you hear. this feature might only be limited to certain sound cards. my sound card is a conexant high definition audio (not sure on specific model) , that came with my computer (and my computer came with vista)

Coffeehouse - Yeah!

buggy123 — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 05:39:52 GMT

yeah!

Coffeehouse - Consolas font....do we like it?

buggy123 — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 01:07:56 GMT

For programming, I don't like Consolas nearly as much as the "DejaVu Sans Mono" truetype font. Lots of programmers I know swear by DejaVu. It has a nice distinction between zero and capital o, among other things. It's also more compact (and IMO easier to read) than Consolas. It's a free download.
http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DejaVu_fonts

It works great on my PC at work and my Mac at home. I also use DejaVue Sans Mono as the font in my console command prompt window on my Mac.

Coffeehouse - IE7 & SVG

buggy123 — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 03:40:29 GMT

ZippyV wrote:

SVG is not used in phones, tv's, gaming consoles or browsers.

Most mobile phones have SVG out of the box, most others can install it.
Go check the list of phones on http://svg.org

The Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS can run Opera (a browser that does SVG, also on mobiles and the desktop).
As recently mentioned on http://svg.org

Get an idea of all the places SVG is used on http://svg.startpagina.nl

Coffeehouse - IE7 & SVG

buggy123 — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 03:31:35 GMT

CannotResolveSymbol wrote:

FXEF wrote:

CannotResolveSymbol wrote:The Adobe SVG plugin is better than the SVG support in firefox... and now I can't use it.

It doesn't matter that the Adobe plug-in is better. The average joe IE user is not going to install a plug-in to view web graphics, they need to be rendered by the browser. Until IE supports SVG, it would be senseless to use them in webpages.

FXEF

Ummm... then what's flash?

A CLOSED format that needs a plug-in (that is not available for all platforms) that most people have installed.

Coffeehouse - IE7 features

buggy123 — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 18:11:02 GMT

sakisp wrote:

BTW what is the key for refresh all tabs?

Yeah, I can't find it anywhere, including the help documentation inside of IE7 RTM.

What sort of monkey f***ers decided to add "Refresh All" to the righ-click context menu on the tabs, and Quick tabs, and yet, don't offer it as a keyboard shortcut?!!

Terribly inefficient...if you're programming against several web pages for example. It almost makes one think the IE7 developers are mouse junkies.

Coffeehouse - IE7 and MELL

buggy123 — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:12:38 GMT

Hello,

This will not help in your case, but I had a similar problem and googled to this place.

I have had this problem with IE6, I got the error message;

"Unable to initialize the viewer. If you have installed the viewer to your computer, please re-run the Setup program. If you are accessing the viewer from a server, please contact your System Administrator"

I found this link;
http://spaces.msn.com/cwebbbi/blog/cns!7B84B0F2C239489A!263.entry?_c11_blogpart_blogpart=blogview&_c=blogpart

Explains if SQL2005 is installed you will get this error.

I do not have SQL2005 server installed, but I do have enterprise manager 2005. That is probably enough to stuff it up. It is caused by a conflict with msmxml6.dll.

Solution: unregister that dll. Note this will probably break SQL so you might want to just use a different PC to access MELL.

Edit: this might work http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917583

Coffeehouse - What if Microsoft designed the iPod box?

buggy123 — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 01:03:08 GMT

Word is that this was made by somebody inside Microsoft, and that they're in hot water now that this has come out.

If true, that's foolish. Denying the reality is a move from weakness. As is using power to suppress the discussion. Seems like a poor idea to punish people for being talented and expressing dissenting opinions; the obvious lesson for employees and prospects to draw is that Microsoft would rather have a mediocre monoculture.

Of course, if that's what the execs want, it's easy enough to get.

Coffeehouse - no topic

buggy123 — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 10:30:39 GMT

nothing

Coffeehouse - Can't use Visual Studio Anayzer

buggy123 — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 10:22:03 GMT

Maybe you can HELP! me...

I want to you VSA to analyze a distributed system.
If I try to create a new projekt, I can't select a VSA projekt anywhere.
I found a lot of pages in the VS documentation like "What is Visual Studio Analyzer" but I still can't create a VSA projekt!

How can I install VSA?
Do I have to purchase VSA by its own or comes it with Visual Studio??

I am using VS 2003 but also using the complete VS 2005 Pro installation, I can't use VSA.

Am I to stupid??

Thanks for any answer!

Coffeehouse - Windows Media Center 2005 Review

buggy123 — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:11:55 GMT

rjdohnert wrote:

DoomBringer wrote:This review is crap.

It was not crap, it was worse than crap. It was dog ate then thrown up crap, it was pea soup crap with chunks of peanuts and crackers. It was not a good review. First, he used a cheap board and cheap boards dont work, especially those with integrated devices even if you replace said devices you are guaranteed problems. Who in their right mind would use ATI crap except for Linux guys because "ATI is a true believer" ATI ,in one word, blows. NVidia only for real graphics power. I havent messed with an Audigy card before so I wont comment on that but so far the only thing I can tell is poor manufactureing and a poor choice in hardware.

The review isn't crap... because it is NOT a review. It's a humorus look at one guys trials and tribulations installing/using MCE 2005 and being underwhelmed by the whole experience.

Of course the install could have went better (the author did make mistake/imperfect choices), but then again that wouldn't make much of an article would it have? You don't read many "Man succesfully installs Microsoft Office 2003" articles.

It's bad enough that the web is full of faux-glossover-reviews... but again this isn't a review, it's a journal/experience piece.

I frequently see the trouble people have with MCE 2005 installs, and although the article was kinda extreme in it's characterization of the pratfalls of MCE 2005, it's not THAT far off the mark.

And just because they chose ATI over Nvidia (although i'm preferential to nvidia for HTPC stuff) doesn't make the author an idiot or mean MCE 2005 should run like crap -- plus there was a time when the ATI HDTV wonder cards woudl ONLY work with ATI cards (which was a dumb bug on ATI's part, but i digress)

*shrug* YMMV,

but don't crap on the article because it was a crappy review... because it wasn't a review at all! Consider it infotainment

rampy via bugmenot

Coffeehouse - 3D Channel 9 Dude (video) in XAML - Made in ZAM 3D

buggy123 — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 23:04:44 GMT

wow? this is the lamest thing I've ever seen.

Tech Off - Jumping out of a heavily-nested loop not by using goto statement?

buggy123 — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 13:29:49 GMT

bitzero wrote:

DON'T NEST LOOPS. IT'S WRONG.

Sorry to dredge up such an old thread, but I'd just thought I ought to comment on your hatred towards the use of nested loops. I understand that in some sections of the industry there is no real need to have nested loops in any program. However, in the embedded world it is quite useful and necessary.

For example, I'm creating a flash driver for a chip that has the following conditions to write a large chunk of data to flash:
1) After writing a word to flash, you have to wait for flash to be ready before you write the next word. Since this is only a few dozen clock cycles, waiting in a loop is proper procedure. If you wait for longer than expected, then something is wrong and you need to report an error.
2) After writing to a 64 byte block, you have to exit write mode for a short period of time.

In a PC environment, the pseudo-code to accomplish this may look like this:

bool WriteFlash()
{
   bool returnVal;
   while(still have data to write)
   {
      returnVal = WriteBlock();
      if(returnVal == FALSE)
      {
         break;
      }
   }
}

bool WriteBlock()
{
   bool returnVal;
   SetupWriteMode();
   while(still have data in block to write)
   {
      WriteWord();
      returnVal = IsFlashReady();
      if(returnVal == FALSE)
      {
         break;
      }
   }
   ExitWriteMode();
   return returnVal;
}

bool IsFlashReady()
{
   int i = 0;
   bool returnVal;
   while(flash is not ready && i < EXPECTED_WAIT)
   {
      i++;
   }
   if(i >= EXPECTED_WAIT)
   {
      returnVal = FALSE;
   }
   else
   {
      returnVal = TRUE;
   }
   return returnVal;
}

As you can see each function is rather simple and there are no nested loops. However, I'm using a 1 MHz microcontroller with 2KB of RAM (yes, chips like this are still used today), of which I only have about 400 bytes for stack space. In this envrionment, nesting functions that do next to nothing is a bad thing because of the added stack space and processing time for entering and exiting a function. For my application, this is actually a better way to write the function:

bool WriteFlash()
{
   int i=0;
   while(still have data to write)
   {
      Setup write mode // no function call
      while(still have data in block to write)
      {
         Write word // no function call
         while(flash is not ready && i < EXPECTED_WAIT)
         {
            i++;
         }
         if(i >= EXPECTED_WAIT)
         {
            return FALSE;
         }
      }
      Exit write mode // no function call
   }
   return TRUE;
}

You're probably cringing because you see I'm returning from a loop that is nested three levels deep. However, I saved about 5% of my precious stack space by using nested loops instead of nested functions. A few instances like this makes the difference between an embedded project working or not. In my opinion, to say something as broad as "nesting loops is wrong" is a little too definitive.

Tech Off - Jumping out of a heavily-nested loop not by using goto statement?

buggy123 — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 13:41:07 GMT

Red5 wrote:

When using VB.NET, there is always the handy Exit For or Exit Do

I guess it's worth noting that the example I mentioned was assuming C was used for the programming language. For most of the microcontrollers and microprocessors that I've used, C or assembly are the only options out there.

Coffeehouse - Steve jobs...among us?

buggy123 — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 04:08:26 GMT

Wow, so I must be the 9 guy!!! NO SERIOUSLY He steve jobs!

Coffeehouse - Steve jobs...among us?

buggy123 — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 03:50:21 GMT

Stevie, why did you block me anyways, I didn't want to expose you, I am sorry

Coffeehouse - Steve jobs...among us?

buggy123 — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 03:21:57 GMT

All I wanted was a t shirt, and he had to make up a stupid story. Steve jobs, you are not cool. Steve ballmer of Microsoft might be though. He steve jobs!

Coffeehouse - Steve jobs...among us?

buggy123 — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 03:17:15 GMT

Manip, that is the think, if he is, he would make it look like he is not steve jobs! He is going to post a picture of himself, so no one would guess!!

Coffeehouse - Steve jobs...among us?

buggy123 — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 03:09:14 GMT

No no no no!! He steve jobs!

Coffeehouse - Steve jobs...among us?

buggy123 — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 02:49:04 GMT

A minor mistake. He steve jobs (orbit86) Ironically enough, he uses steve jobs picture!

Coffeehouse - Steve jobs...among us?

buggy123 — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 02:15:12 GMT

Orbit86 is steve jobs, in an IM conversation with him 'iLOVEfood050' using AIM, he indeed confirmed it. Wait, he claims that he didn't confirm it, now he said that scoble said he was. He steve jobs.

Coffeehouse - IE7 Public Beta

buggy123 — Tue, 28 Jun 2005 01:18:35 GMT

perhaps later