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Inappropriate content on Channel 9 [Inappropriate content on Channel 9]

evildictaitor — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:19:18 GMT

Dr. Cameron's postings range from the innane flame-baiting (and has had threads locked because of it) to the frankly bizzare, his/her profile caption is inappropriate for Channel 9, and thus the user account should be removed.

Given that on other posts the account seems to show some basic understanding of computing, my guess is that it's someone with a long standing grudge against Channel 9 who's come back to haunt us.

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Bring back the SPAM button [Bring back the SPAM button]

evildictaitor — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:35:58 GMT

Alright, the SPAM button was abused by some people before, but can't we have a system where clicking the SPAM button sends the C9 team a warning and a link, because the amount of spam on this forum is huge, and it's not being properly sorted out by the C9 team.

The sheer volume of spam means there NEEDS to be a centralized way of reporting it.

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blog spam [blog spam]

evildictaitor — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:48:15 GMT

Here:

http://channel9.msdn.com/forums/TechOff/255685-BitmapMakeTransparent/?CommentID=455383#ReplyTo=455383

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For heaven's sake, can you PLEASE test C9 in browsers other than IE before going live [For heaven's sake, can you PLEASE test C9 in browsers other than IE before going live]

evildictaitor — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 04:01:07 GMT

The C9 frontpage is going completely AWOL on Google Chrome AND Firefox 3.0.

Seriously, go back to using tables for layout if you can't use CSS properly. It's more important that is works in all browsers than that it does fancy stuff. You still haven't fixed the editor bug in Chrome that means you can't use formatting either for that matter, or the bug that means that when you login sometimes everytime you click Reply it goes through passport login only to redirect you to the front page of that thread, ad infinitum.

Really, Microsoft of all companies ought to be able to get such simple things right, particularly in a site dedicated to developers.

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Yahoo approaches Microsoft - begs to be bought [Yahoo approaches Microsoft - begs to be bought]

evildictaitor — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:53:09 GMT

Despite the furore around Microsoft trying to buy out Yahoo at the beginning of the year, and the dodgy tactics used by Jerry Yang to avoid the takeover bid, Google today has pulled out of its advertising deal with Yahoo and Mr Yang has said "To this day the best thing for Microsoft to do is buy Yahoo"

More (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7712298.stm)

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Oh have a bit more spam, why don't you? [Oh have a bit more spam, why don't you?]

evildictaitor — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:30:44 GMT

Because someone, somewhere, loves you so much that they can't help but give you spam. The spam is at the bottom of the link.

http://channel9.msdn.com/forums/TechOff/250193-Run-an-application-elevated-without-using-quotRun-as-Administratorquot/

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Suggestion to avoid necro-bumping [Suggestion to avoid necro-bumping]

evildictaitor — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:18:44 GMT

Would it be possible for a BIG warning sign to be displayed when you try to reply to any thread for which the last reply was over a year ago, and another warning sign if you're trying to reply to root or a comment that is over a year old? It's not an immediate problem, but I've noticed that every now and then someone new will try and post a helpful comment to someone who went away in 2005/6/7 and then there's a sudden influx of help from various niners who fail to see that the post's "owner" is no longer here...

Sound like a good idea to you?

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Raymond [Raymond]

evildictaitor — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:18:47 GMT

http://channel9.msdn.com/forums/Coffeehouse/433571-Obamas-Outrageous-October-Socialist-Sweet-Surprise-How-Sweet-It-Is/

Typically full of useful and well thought out ideas, raymond has now decided that Obama's campaign to attract young women to the democrats is working only because (and I quote) "Women like chocolate" and posts videos about a "Chocolate man".

At what point does C9 decide that enough rascism is enough?

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spam [spam]

evildictaitor — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:35:57 GMT

Heads up: More spam in the tech-off forum.

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The Poll [The Poll]

evildictaitor — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:43:42 GMT

Why does the poll not have a "I'd rather that C9 worked on my PC rather than on my phone" option?

Seriously, fix C9 for browsers such as Chrome and Safari before you start making it work on phones, because more people access C9 through Chrome and Safari than access it through phones.

Priorities, people!

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Playing videos hampered by overuse of javascript [Playing videos hampered by overuse of javascript]

evildictaitor — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:08:18 GMT

Hi,

I have a big TV at home which is much better for watching videos on (e.g. C9 videos) but I've got a problem playing them through my PS3 due to a rather small but fantastically irritating issue with the video threads:

On every video thread (except for the "headline" thread), so for example this one, there's a little box that contains the different links for downloading (WMV, MP3 etc). This swaps with the Del.icio.us, Digg etc. links when the mouse hovers over links that are immediately above them. When you first go to the page, javascript turns on the first "tab" which yields the links for download.

The problem is thus: If you were to use a non-firefox/IE based browser (say one on the PS3 for instance), these links never appear. never. not ever. This means that when using the PS3 browser, I can't download the WMVs of the shows, which means watching the shows on my TV means faffing about with my laptop and memory sticks, and due to there being no subtitles on the shows, I can't watch them at work either.

The offending code is here:

<div id="ctl00_MainPlaceHolder_Starter_Info_DownloadsList" class="downloads" style="display:none;"><ul><li><a href="http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/ch9/7/3/8/8/1/4/ThisWeekC9Aug1_ch9.mp4" title="iPod Format Video (MPEG 4)" class="linkImage iPod"></a><a href="http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/ch9/7/3/8/8/1/4/ThisWeekC9Aug1_ch9.mp4" class="link" title="iPod Format Video (MPEG 4)">iPod (MP4)</a></li><li><a href="http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/ch9/7/3/8/8/1/4/ThisWeekC9Aug1_ch9.mp3" title="MP3 Audio" class="linkImage mp3"></a><a href="http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/ch9/7/3/8/8/1/4/ThisWeekC9Aug1_ch9.mp3" class="link" title="MP3 Audio">MP3</a></li><li><a href="http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/ch9/7/3/8/8/1/4/ThisWeekC9Aug1_ch9.mp4" title="PSP Format Video (MPEG 4)" class="linkImage psp"></a><a href="http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/ch9/7/3/8/8/1/4/ThisWeekC9Aug1_ch9.mp4" class="link" title="PSP Format Video (MPEG 4)">PSP (MP4)</a></li><li><a href="http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/ch9/7/3/8/8/1/4/ThisWeekC9Aug1_ch9.wma" title="Windows Media Audio" class="linkImage wma"></a><a href="http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/ch9/7/3/8/8/1/4/ThisWeekC9Aug1_ch9.wma" class="link" title="Windows Media Audio">WMA</a></li><li><a href="http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/ch9/7/3/8/8/1/4/ThisWeekC9Aug1_ch9.wmv" title="Windows Media Video" class="linkImage wmv"></a><a href="http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/ch9/7/3/8/8/1/4/ThisWeekC9Aug1_ch9.wmv" class="link" title="Windows Media Video">WMV</a></li><li><a href="http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/ch9/7/3/8/8/1/4/ThisWeekC9Aug1_2MB_ch9.wmv" title="Windows Media Video (High Quality)" class="linkImage wmvh"></a><a href="http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/ch9/7/3/8/8/1/4/ThisWeekC9Aug1_2MB_ch9.wmv" class="link" title="Windows Media Video (High Quality)">WMV (High)</a></li><li><a href="http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/ch9/7/3/8/8/1/4/ThisWeekC9Aug1_Zune_ch9.wmv" title="Zune" class="linkImage zune"></a><a href="http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/ch9/7/3/8/8/1/4/ThisWeekC9Aug1_Zune_ch9.wmv" class="link" title="Zune">Zune</a></li></ul></div>

</div>

Note that removing the style="display:none" is sufficient on the second element to solve the problem. It'll also save you 22 bytes of HTTP transfer, although I might dwarf that with my video downloading, but you can tell your boss it's an optimisation :P

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Fix for FF3/Channel9 crash bug [Fix for FF3/Channel9 crash bug]

evildictaitor — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:33:57 GMT

1. Go to Add/Remove Programs
2. Select Microsoft Silverlight
3. Click Uninstall (requires admin permission)
4. Restart any browsers you have running (even non-FF3 ones)
5. Open Firefox3 to the channel9 home page. It should now say there is no Silverlight, click to install
6. Click to install
7. Restart browser
8. Open Channel9 in FF3 and enjoy the lack of crashing.

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China overtakes US in carbon emissions [China overtakes US in carbon emissions]

evildictaitor — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:15:39 GMT

Just saw this on BBC News.

Although it has now overtaken the US in total emissions China refuses to put a cap on emissions because it's emission per person is about one third as much carbon as the US per person. Thoughts?

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Silverlight rehab on Channel 10 [Silverlight rehab on Channel 10]

evildictaitor — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:14:31 GMT

From the wonder that is Channel 10.

http://on10.net/blogs/tina/Silverlight-Rehab/

Thought I'd share it, given its brilliance.

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Where do you post serious faults in IE? [Where do you post serious faults in IE?]

evildictaitor — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:03:59 GMT

Because they seriously need to get a public feedback bug-center up and running soon. IE8 has loads of bugs which I'm sure would be easier to solve if they didn't have to trawl through zillions of pages to find them.

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What the hell? [What the hell?]

evildictaitor — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:28:58 GMT

Why does C9's main page have two locked threads, four threads called "spam" and one of a!'s link-spam threads?

And more importantly, why isn't anyone doing something about it?

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New Video: Joe Duffy, Huseyin Yildiz, Daan Leijen, Stephen Toub: Inside the Task Parallel Library [New Video: Joe Duffy, Huseyin Yildiz, Daan Leijen, Stephen Toub: Inside the Task Parallel Library]

evildictaitor — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:05:36 GMT

Just for you guys who never leave the coffeehouse.

And if you're really lazy, here's a
If you only lock them, then they still work as advertising though Google and Windows Live searchbots.

If you delete or blank them, they do not piggyback their product to a high pagerank through abuse of the forums here.

Can we have some "official" response from the admins here?

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Too much spam in the coffeehouse [Too much spam in the coffeehouse]

evildictaitor — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 07:32:48 GMT

Can we get some administrator action here?

On the front page of the coffeehouse, there are four threads (that's 28% of the non-stickies) which are pure spam.

here, here

If we include this and

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How not to do Silverlight [How not to do Silverlight]

evildictaitor — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 15:48:55 GMT

I just followed one of the links to the MIX University to have a look at the Silverlight Firestarter, and came across this:

http://www.visitmix.com/University/silverlight/firestarter/

Take a particularly good look at the rollover on the right - I don't know what the hell it's doing, but they're obviously not doing it right. The rollover animation is sparodic and jumpy, and it wasn't even that great an idea to start off with.

You'll also notice on the left panel that the overlay highlighting doesn't follow the Z-index of the pictures correctly or smoothly.

A particularly bad example of Silverlight usage, and certainly not something that should be the frontpage advert for new Silverlight users.

Edit: It seems to work better in IE7 (but is still jumpy and ugly) - it's truly appalling in Firefox.

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Drawing in title bar [Drawing in title bar]

evildictaitor — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 10:45:57 GMT

How can you draw inside the Title bar of a windows form (thinking Vista here) and still keep the min/max/close buttons from C# / C++

For overview, I'm thinking of drawing a custom app-icon style thing, simmilar to the Office2007 office-button-thing.

Any "proofs of concept" would be appreciated :P

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Quick == in VS [Quick == in VS]

evildictaitor — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:49:22 GMT

Is there a way of asking Visual Studio to create an equivilence operator for structs and/or classes such that == is defined as all of it's elements being equivilent.

Have an example:

class ComplexNumber {
private int re,im;
}

and ask VS to derive the equivilence relation:

public static bool operator== (ComplexNumber a, ComplexNumber b){
return a.re == b.re && a.im == b.im;
}

but for much larger numbers of fields (say 20+)?

Before anyone suggests it, I don't want to use reflection, and although I can type them in manually, it means that if fields are added to the class later then unless someone shrewdly adds said field into the == function, it might break the equivilence.

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Channel9 and spam [Channel9 and spam]

evildictaitor — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:48:17 GMT

Channel9 is increasingly getting spam adverts in the Techoff forum. Can someone please go on a deleting spree through them?

Channel9 is a big website and spam links are deliberately put here to boost Google ratings, and while the C9 admins do nothing to combat it, there will be no peace in the Techoff forum.

If the C9 admins feel that this would be too much, they could at the very least kill all of the links to their site in the Techoff to minimise the google/windowslive boosting that their spamming gets.

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