Channel 9 - Discussions by hordak3000

Coffeehouse - Does Silverlight 5 still run on OS X?

hordak3000 — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:58:22 GMT

Will the new 3d capabilites also be available in Silverlight for the mac? Are there infos about that yet?

Coffeehouse - Google's Reply to IE9's Fishtank Demo

hordak3000 — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 02:26:58 GMT

"WebGL is a cross-platform, royalty-free web standard for a low-level 3D graphics API based on OpenGL ES 2.0, exposed through the HTML5 Canvas element as Document Object Model interfaces. Developers familiar with OpenGL ES 2.0 will recognize WebGL as a Shader-based API using GLSL, with constructs that are semantically similar to those of the underlying OpenGL ES 2.0 API. It stays very close to the OpenGL ES 2.0 specification, with some concessions made for what developers expect out of memory-managed languages such as JavaScript.

WebGL brings plugin-free 3D to the web, implemented right into the browser. Major browser vendors Apple (Safari), Google (Chrome), Mozilla (Firefox), and Opera (Opera) are members of the WebGL Working Group."

So it seems it is only a different rule that does apply when it is microsoft. And that rule is to be behind in browser development AGAIN despite all the effort of trying to catch up to the competition with IE9.

Coffeehouse - Windows Phone Development goes VB.Net!

hordak3000 — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 12:19:58 GMT

When will Visual Basic finally get canned forever. Keeping Windows Phone Development C# only might have been a good chance to force some developers to move on and finally leave the 90ies behind.

Coffeehouse - Justifying Windows Phone 7 development?

hordak3000 — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 21:02:33 GMT

In my opinion a great reason for investing time in wp7 development is first and foremost the fun developing with your favorite language and the best development tools on the market. Silverlight and Xna coupled with Visual Studio 2010 blows all other mobile development platforms away and it does so single handedly. Out of great fun developing will come great applications for the windows phone 7.

Everything else is just a guess. When gartner estimates the wp7 will become the 6th most used mobile platform then this is nothing more than a guess. They have no idea how windows phone 7 will be adapted because nobody does at this point of time.

You can keep in mind however that investing time into developing apps for windows phone 7 means investing time in .net, c# and silverlight and/or xna. And this is an investment very much worthwile because it means you can target your application for windows and for the xbox as well. And this is a very big market already.

Coffeehouse - how many fingers does your multitouch pc support at the same time?

hordak3000 — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 06:25:02 GMT

Last week I got the Acer 1825ptz, a small convertible similar to the device the pdc attendants were given last year. I was interested in checking out the new multitouch capabilities in wpf4.

I was a bit surprised when I recognized that the device, which is advertised as multitouch capable, actually supports only two fingers. Ok, that's more than one, so they can call it multi, I suppose. Still I was expecting something more.

Does anyone own some of those hp touchsmarts or similar devices? What are your experiences? What is the maximum number of fingers supported on the multitouch pcs or screens usually these days?

Coffeehouse - "I'm a PC" debuts

hordak3000 — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:38:34 GMT

Jason I said:

Jason I said:

*snip*

The interesting thing about this commercial: Mac vs. PC commercials just feed into this campaign.

As my wife mentioned, it's a shame it took them three years to do this.

What was the cause of the inertia? And has Microsoft overcome it?

but how will the adventures of bill and jerry continue? i was quite eager to see what happens after they started connecting with normal people. now it seems we will never see what was the big picture behind the bill and jerry spots. i will have to chew on this for quite a while i think.

Coffeehouse - VS 2008 Standard Source Control

hordak3000 — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:15:45 GMT

Subversion

You can use it as a windows shell extension: http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/

And there also is a free Visual Studio Plugin: http://ankhsvn.open.collab.net/

Coffeehouse - Google Chrome, Google’s Open Source Browser Project

hordak3000 — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:12:52 GMT

Maybe it will go beyond the html browser? It may be displaying some sort of rich multimedia applications, powered by OpenGL, for example and more extensions down this road.
By the way, chrome... chrome..., reminds me of the project chrome by Microsoft, DirectX for the Webbrowser which has been shot dead after Beta 2 in the late 90s.
So will googles Webbrowser be just another webbrowser? Or are they planning more?

Coffeehouse - Any thoughts on the Asus R1F Tablet?

hordak3000 — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 11:17:04 GMT

Looks very interesting. I was thinking about getting this machine too. But maybe it's worth waiting for the Santa Rosa Update.

Coffeehouse - windows server 2003 64bit standard running iis in 64bit

hordak3000 — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:38:13 GMT

to be able to use windows sharepoint services 3.0 on my windows server 2003 64bit edition i disabled the 32bit emulation mode of iis. by that i was able to install the 64bit version of sharepoint services 3.0.
my problem now is that all the web applications (and even the new sharepoint administration site) do not run any more.
when trying to access any page via browser it gives me the error "service not available" and the http error log says: "503 xxxx AppOffline xxxxxx"

any idea how to solve that problem and get iis running without 32bit emulation on a 64bit operating system?

Coffeehouse - vista and media instances

hordak3000 — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 21:41:00 GMT

is it somehow possible to start multiple instances of windows media player?

and with the new software mixing in vista, is it finally possible to adjust sound volume independantly for each running application?

Coffeehouse - Vista late in Europe?

hordak3000 — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 22:38:50 GMT

W3bbo wrote:

hordak3000 wrote: I don't want no windows stripped off mediaplayer and everything else and I don't think that something like this would be useful to any customer.

You claim you don't think, perhaps you don't know. I can think of at least a few corporate environments that could do without WMP if it meant they saved on licensing costs.

I don't care paying money for good software. I don't see why everyone thinks everything has to be very cheap just because it's software.

And especially corparate environments pay so much money for "the good support" to companies like redhat, sun or ibm that saving a few bucks for a windows without media player would not make much of a difference.
I would rather say the media player so far was a free addon.

But I wouldn't go to a car vendor as well and get them put the steering wheel and seats out to get the car cheaper. Or maybe requesting an open source car free of charge.

W3bbo wrote:

hordak3000 wrote: I can't see why it Microsoft's fault that their competitors completely suck in any possible way.

Logical fallacy, this is no bearing on the court judgement or the results.

And you're saying Quicktime/iTunes/iPod "sucks in [every] possible way" compared to WMA/WMP/Zune?

I'm just saying let the customers decide which software they wanna use. It sucks if you have to start downloading all that crap because you don't have anything out of the box with your operating system. I don't think that's in the interest of the customer.

I, personally don't like Quicktime (it can't even do movies fullscreen unless you buy the pro version) and itunes as well gives me the creeps.
I don't like the ipod as well because I hate being bound to to itunes for using it.
But that goes for Zune as well, I guess.

Although the ipod is a good example that the customer can decide very well what he likes without being patronised by the eu.

W3bbo wrote:

hordak3000 wrote: I can install some (I need to watch my language) software like the realplayer even with windows media player installed.

Believe it or not, but there are more media-players in the world besides Real and WMP, what about:

Quicktime
BSPlayer
MediaPlayer Classic
WMP6.4
DivX Player
VLC
Winamp
iTunes Videos
...and those are just ones I can count off the top of my head.

Of course there are. But does Microsoft keep me from installing those if I think Windows Media Player is not enough for me? I think not. So what good are the eu decisions here?

W3bbo wrote:

hordak3000 wrote: With all the new features in vista the eu polticians will go crazy. I can already image they go "too many features, what about the competitors, why is this not such a prehistoric software like our linux system, microsoft has to sell a command line only version or we will sue them for big money, etc.

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New consumer "product" features in Vista? Whatever.

But I recognise having a media player in an OS distro is essential nowadays, and that the EU were being a bit boneheaded on this descision, they're not going to fine Microsoft for Aero since it puts SphereXP out of business.

And you're wrong about Linux, check out the latest Ubuntu and Fedora releases, they've got more features (and a 3D windowing system to boot) than Vista, not to mention bundled programs. Tell me how PBrush compares to GIMP. They're far from "prehistoric".

I use Ubuntu myself from time to time and redhat linux at work besides Windows. Gnome and KDE are nice but they are far behind Vista. Not only do they show a lack in concept, their performance is also far from satisfying.

As for the software that comes with Ubuntu, it is right, they have a lot useful of useful tools bundled there. And PBrush. Well, maybe that's something Microsoft has forgotten. But at least no one will sue them for having an image editing software bundled with their operating system.

W3bbo wrote:

And FYI, Microsoft is releasing a command-line version of Windows. Check it out (search for "Core")

Ok, I know. But that's a server product. I was thinking more of the windows for the masses.

W3bbo wrote:

hordak3000 wrote: "Will that help me as a customer? No and absolutely not.

True, it doesn't help the consumer, but it's the principle.

It's the principle, but I think the european politicians should draw their attention to more urgent matters than trying to prove a point no one benefits from.

W3bbo wrote:

hordak3000 wrote: And as I also work as a software developer I can say the following: Microsoft does more for the developers to build good software applications than any other company in the world.

I'm sure the Apple guys would disagree with you on that one.

Apple really does a good job there. But having to port their software for the intel platform, if the apple developers would really say that apple is doing more than microsoft then they should have a look at what microsoft has to offer.

W3bbo wrote:

hordak3000 wrote: So what will new eu restrictions help me as a software developer except from delaying vista and not being able to keep up to date? Nothing. Those people who are making the eu decisions against Microsoft don't even help themselves. Their work ist completey useless and proves nothing but their own brain damage.

You're following an unproved hypthesis about the EU delaying the release of Vista, having been refuted by the EU Courts already. Microsoft was just taking an easy jab at them.

That may be true. But it's the least microsoft should do against those boneheaded fools.

Coffeehouse - Vista late in Europe?

hordak3000 — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 21:32:19 GMT

The european parliament, by trying to play an important role and celebrating their authority, make completely stupid judgements which in the end will help no one, especially not the european citizens. As I live in the eu it would completely piss me off if vista would be delayed because of their silly restrictions. I don't want no windows stripped off mediaplayer and everything else and I don't think that something like this would be useful to any customer. I can't see why it Microsoft's fault that their competitors completely suck in any possible way. I can install some (I need to watch my language) software like the realplayer even with windows media player installed. With all the new features in vista the eu polticians will go crazy. I can already image they go "too many features, what about the competitors, why is this not such a prehistoric software like our linux system, microsoft has to sell a command line only version or we will sue them for big money, etc."Will that help me as a customer? No and absolutely not.And as I also work as a software developer I can say the following: Microsoft does more for the developers to build good software applications than any other company in the world. So what will new eu restrictions help me as a software developer except from delaying vista and not being able to keep up to date? Nothing. Those people who are making the eu decisions against Microsoft don't even help themselves. Their work ist completey useless and proves nothing but their own brain damage.

Coffeehouse - Some HTML/PHP/JS Help

hordak3000 — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 19:31:17 GMT

you have to use target=framename AND action=scriptname (of bottom script) that should solve the problem