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Concerned About Windows [Concerned About Windows]

magicalclick — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:14:53 GMT

I know Win7 is good, but, what's going on with the PC makers? It seems like their HW is not as sexy and I am seeing about 50% users using MacBook in UCLA. This is really concerning. I am not sure how the marketing department taking statistics, but, IMO, MacBook is gaining more ground then expected. How come HP, Dell, Sony, and etc makes something remotely sexy?

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WinMo or OfficeMo? [WinMo or OfficeMo?]

magicalclick — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:20:58 GMT

At this point, I would really want to ask Steve Balmer this question. Are you selling Windows Phone or Office Phone? I listened a radio ad about Windows Phone, and it is talking about Office stuff. My thought is this, so is WinMo targets this nich market called Office Mobile market? At this point, I feel like WinMo has an identity crisis.

Are you selling Office Mobile or are you selling Windows Mobile? And as of now, I feel it is Office Mobile, which I totally has no interested on it. Outlook? Everyone can do email. Word and Excel, seriously? I don't care. WinMo targets that small nich Office Market which I am not part of. It will continue to fail until it starts to target casual users other than Office Users.

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IE Pro crippled IE8 =( [IE Pro crippled IE8 =(]

magicalclick — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:25:30 GMT

I really like the IE pro's auto new tab and double click close tab thing. But, I just realized a lot of tab issues are related to IE Pro. For example, when I click a favorite and it would open it in a new tab. But, open it hang my IE8. I have to disable IE pro for now.

Any other better one out there that doesn't cripple my IE8? Thanks.

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Need some help on getting a GUI for Linux [Need some help on getting a GUI for Linux]

magicalclick — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:50:20 GMT

I have a school project working on Linux machine remotely through Putty (SSH) connection. The console world is so painful. I have to traverse folders in console mode, it is so painful. Is there a way to get a GUI like Explore? If I can edit (code) a file without using console mode is already much better. Coding on nodepad is already bad, and I have to do this in console mode, WTH. I really don't think I can deal with this kind of develope envirnment.

Is this the rest of the world doing researchs? My creativity and performance is vastly reduced by this kind of dev envirnment.

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Annoyed by XP people. [Annoyed by XP people.]

magicalclick — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:14:21 GMT

I really hate those XP people blah about how bad Vista is and never really give it a try. And now they are all jumped on to Win7 without giving it a try as well. They all just like, oh, someone said it. And hack, they even said Win7 is to replace Vista instead of XP, WTH. I guess it goes both way, the same ignorance trashed Vista and helped Win7.

Sad little Vista, who is basically the frontline despensible soilder. RIP, few people like me will honor your sacrifice.

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Object Oriented Database in Azure? [Object Oriented Database in Azure?]

magicalclick — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:45:20 GMT

I am thinking of trying Azure, but, I don't know if there is any OO Database offering by MS. Does MS database support OO db? And how does that work? Does it do Relational-OO hybrid? And how does the data stored? Do I still have deplicated foreign keys because of relational DB? I am just getting start to learn OO DB, so please don't expect me to know some basic stuff.

Thank you.

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Spammer adamhewson [Spammer adamhewson ]

magicalclick — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:44:55 GMT

He just posted tons of wierd links in every thread. Word.

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miniWE published on download.com

magicalclick — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:42:49 GMT

Yuppy, my miniWE has been approved on download.com now. You can now try my software in peace since they have tested my app with their anti-virus and anti-spyware software. miniWE is an app launcher specifically aimed for Win7 users. You can run it on XP and Vista, but, Win7 will get the best use out of it.

Version 3 http://cid-b765d9ea1833315b.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/Public%20Archive/miniWE

http://download.cnet.com/miniWE/3000-2344_4-10968843.html

Couldn't pin your folder in Win7 task bar? Use this app. It is basically a pinable app pointing to any folder as you desire. You can create more miniWE with different ID to prevent miniWE grouped by Win7 taskbar as well.

Update: v3.0.0.15 is a lot more responsive, not faster, just more responsive by moving icon loading to photo loading. And you can make it open the folder right away without using my GUI. Meaning it is basically like Folder in a Win98 quick launch bar.

Win7 RC login issues. [Win7 RC login issues.]

magicalclick — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 06:08:58 GMT

Hello guys, I am just trying to see if anyone know what's going on.

I am moved to school, so I have to lock my Windows 7 RC1 64Bits with administrator password. But, after I done that. When I restart my computer and type in my password and click login. If just say welcome and just freeze there with a loading circle animated around. For now, I just went to safe mode and clear the password, but my PC is no longer protected.

I have searched Bing and I don't see anything regarding to this. Anyone knows what I should do? Thank you.

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IE9 [IE9]

magicalclick — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 10:29:45 GMT

I just started playing Facebook game like FarmVille, and not I no longer like IE8, I want IE9 or eventually I will switch to Chrome. The thing is, when FarmVille loading the farm I can't switch tab in IE8. And Chorme can switch tab when the farm is loading. If may be like 10 seconds depends on how many things inside the farm. And the feeling of my entire IE8 is stucked loading that farm really disappoint me. The tab/process is already separated, so I would I even get forze up by a busy tab? No matter what happen to the tab, I should be able to do whatever in IE, like switch tab, close tab, press refresh button, or press tools menu or so on. Instead, when the tab froze, it froze IE as well. Of course when I termincate the tab, I didn't terminate the IE at all.

So it really bugs me. When I terminate tab, the IE is still alive. When the tab crashed, other tabs are still alive. WHY WHY WHY it froze IE GUI? It just doesn't make sense for me. It is already another thread, then, why in the world IE is still being affected and yet unaffected by the tab at the same time? I really don't get it. To even make that possible is like..... seriously, how can you make that happen? Sometimes I think some people are born to be good at being terrible.

Anyway, I really don't want to switch. But, IE is really getting outdated. One day, I have to let go. And finally start using other browsers. Waited for better IE since IE6 SP2 when everyone start switching to other browsers. At this point IE8 is only manageable, just like Vista. I am not sure how long I can hold on to this.

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miniWE (sorry to post this here, can't post in sandbox ) [miniWE (sorry to post this here, can't post in sandbox )]

magicalclick — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:23:53 GMT

Hello guys, I just made an .Net3.0 app for Win7. Getting annoyed when pin folder to Win7 will group together? Use miniWE. You can create many miniWE shortcuts to target different folder and pin it to Win7 taskbar. Then, you can open files and run apps in the folder quickly. I called it miniWE as in mini Windows Explore. Thus, you can navigate through folder as well.

Here is my home page.

http://jmcphotogallery.net/miniWEDetail.aspx

I am still waiting for download.com (uploaded today 5AM, no sleep LOL) to approve my app, but you can download it straight from my SkyDrive or attachment (oops, CH9 is having internal issues). I am sorry that I will not make my code public for now. It is a really simple app, so, it is too easy to get copied LOL.

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Do you believe NEO is still trapped inside Matrix0.5? [Do you believe NEO is still trapped inside Matrix0.5?]

magicalclick — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:25:04 GMT

In Maxtrix 2 and 3, NEO is able to control and see machines as codes (the logged out world). But, did he really escapes from Matrix at all? It could be Maxtrix0.5, a back end server managing user accounts DB. The fact that even the agent AI can be transfered to this world means, it is also digitalized envirnment. IMO, NEO is still trapped inside Matrix, but, they just think they are not because of the terrible condition they are in. But, the reality is switching from fake human world to fake hell, he is still in a fake world.

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Would DX11 allows Win7 to treat GPU as CPU? [Would DX11 allows Win7 to treat GPU as CPU?]

magicalclick — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:24:05 GMT

As of now, I am feeling the need to off load some work from CPU to GPU because those Flash games are terriblily CPU hungry. Since DX11 is required to support GPGPU, wouldn't it be nice to toggle such feature on and off to run normal programs? I am wondering if MS going to make such application or I have to find a 3rd party solution. If MS can do it, it would be the best.

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I am all for WPF. [I am all for WPF.]

magicalclick — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:27:04 GMT

I am all for WPF. (WTH, I was replying, must be IE6 issue)

Yeah, there are so many ways to learn to bind a collection, but it only takes few to do everything. All I have is a simple static observablecollection as resource to populate the listbox, and the, just feed my data to that static observablecollection on runtime to show show items in the list(s). That's the only way I know am good at, and it works like a charm.

I love WPF. I think it is rather easy. I am not expert on it, but I can make a rather nice looking app by it. I really love the sytle template and pure visual layout using XAML. Winform is easy for simple stuff, but once I need to have more control, the underlining code is so confusing compare to simple XMAL.

And what WPF is so amazing is the Skinless GUI. Oh damn, I have seen the sample/tutorial on codeproject.com. It is extremely crazy. Just a simple drop box, the GUI is applied with different skin, which not only change the color of the GUI, but complete different layout and user interaction. That's just pure gold. It really is "Skin Designer" origented. While the backend provides skinless GUI, the Skin Designer provide the skin. If you are not good at making skin, you can "contract" a 3rd party to do it. When I say "contract", you are not "buying template", you are contracting a complete interactive skin.

Technically it is in another world of its own.

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How to manipulate sound in WPF? [How to manipulate sound in WPF?]

magicalclick — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 01:19:07 GMT

I am using MediaElement to play video files. How do I tone up or tone down the sound, like Karaoke?

Thank you.

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Win7 WMP. [Win7 WMP.]

magicalclick — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:59:11 GMT

I just found out something interesting about Win7 WMP. It adds the music in the library when I click Play All from the folder. Not only that, it makes a mixer playlist when I just open WMP directly. It is pretty nice, because I can just listen to whatever they mixed like listening to radio.

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Why Homh? [Why Homh?]

magicalclick — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:14:37 GMT

Why would anyone want to use Homh? I don't get it. Would anyone so crazy about green that they would really want to track their savings? It sounds cool, but IMO, most people are too lazy to do it, like me.

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Youtube ads. They finally done it. [Youtube ads. They finally done it.]

magicalclick — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:04:31 GMT

Notice the little yellow indicator under the progress bar? Once the movie plays to there, an half transparent ad pops up and you have to click the x to close it. They don't auto hide after certain time. They finally done it. I was wondering when they start showing ads in embed videos.

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Summary of existing bugs. [Summary of existing bugs.]

magicalclick — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:48:09 GMT

1) YouTube on first page still playing (with sound) when I already switched to second page of the the same thread.

2) Reply button bug, jump back to first page from other pages and no reply box. Has to click the same reply button for like 2 or 3 times. Can't reply in other pages because they will end up as I just stated.

3) Pop-up window saying toolbar is missing.

4) Click ADD did not show my post until click refresh.

5) New bug, ADD button to reply has no javascript associated with it. Meaning clicking it does nothing.

I am using IE8 of course.

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In reply to LSE adandons failed Windows project [In reply to LSE adandons failed Windows project]

magicalclick — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:30:24 GMT

Sorry, when using replay button, the ADD button has no javascript function associated with it. I have to do this. Please move it for me if you can.

I failed to see how TradElect is involved. There is no direct proof that TradElect is at fault. And obviously they are running more than one computer system and the integration between them failed, and they said so themselves. I have seen that in my own company. The integration is so crappy, tons of problems occures, like missing orders in integration stage. Or we made too much changes to the system that it couldn't function normally anymore.

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Testing since I wasn't able to reply [Testing since I wasn't able to reply]

magicalclick — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:28:17 GMT

testing since I wasn't able to reply, the ADD button has no action. No text shows up in status bar when mouse hover.

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Tegra on Netbooks? [Tegra on Netbooks?]

magicalclick — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:43:06 GMT

How come I have yet to see netbooks using Tegra? Is tegra worth it at all?

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IE, Gadgets, and WPF Internet Browser. [IE, Gadgets, and WPF Internet Browser.]

magicalclick — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:05:30 GMT

Are they using the same rendering engine? When I install a new IE, the Gadgets looks different (like tiny fonts). And how about the WPF Internet Browser? Are they all running the same engine as IE is using? If I turn off IE, does Gadgets still works? Are Gadgets and WPF Internet Browser dependent to IE?

It is concerning since the Windows 7 EU (Ewww version) has no IE, thus, I don't know if Gadgets and WPF Internet Browser will work or not.

Thanks.

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WebKit? Should it be the future? [WebKit? Should it be the future?]

magicalclick — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:27:29 GMT

It seems like there are several WebKit based browsers out there, on PC and Cell Phone. WebKit is free and it is widely used, which means it is standard now.

Why develope everything for IE to compete WebKit? Why not just use WebKit as well? To be honest, not only using WebKit for IE saves money, time, and web developer adoption, but, there is a secondary effect, to kill WebKit. It doesn't sound logical, but I believe the day IE adopting WebKit is the begining of the end of WebKit. It is just a mentality community issue. Why develope IE in house when WebKit is the obvious easy path.

Actually I think IE should make it Open Source. It is not like it is making money anyway. And there are so many law suits by greedy EU.

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What the point of Office Live? [What the point of Office Live?]

magicalclick — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:05:44 GMT

It looks stupid. I can do better file sharing using SkyDrive. Or I can just use Live Mesh to sync and share my files. Office Sounds like a solution to Free Google Doc, but I can't edit online. From the look of it, Office Live is just a collaboration file repository system. Which is rather point less when Facebook makes better event invite and SkyDrive is just way easier and able to share any file.

I don't get the Office Live team. What's the purpose? It seems useless.

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