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I'm guessing by the lack responses that either:

1. this isn't possible, or
   
2. it might be possible, but nobody really cares, or
3. Doom III is corrupting the minds of too many people
   

Well, the mail never comes on Sunday.  It depends on how good your mailman is as far as the other days go - but yes it is supposed to get delivered from Monday through Saturday.

Eh, I'm a web developer not a business-man.  I just thought that the fact it was better for humans in general would be good enough , but my college education is coming back to me now.

1. They'd probably sell a few more copies of Express and Windows as a result. 
   
2. I think that it would probably be cheaper than "maintaining" IE.
3. Since Mozilla is a non-profit organization, it could probably all be written off.
   

All I had to do was see that it was in quirks mode to see that it sucked. 

MS has so many brilliant people working for them, they put out so many awesome products for developers, and then they redo their home page in quirks mode.  Embarassing.

IMO I don't care who "copies" who as long as the solution leads to a better user experience. 

What I'd really like to see is MS help out with Mozilla/Firefox, or at least sponsor development of the source for the Windows platform.  That'd be awesome.  They could just keep IE where it is for all the apps that use it currently, and things like windowsupdate, and just help out making mozilla's browsers more stable and secure on the windows platform.  Web developers would rejoice.  That'd be HUGE.

I think I'm probably trying to accomplish too many things at once, but here goes...

I'm running Windows Server 2003 x64 beta at home (along with XP Pro x64 beta, XP Pro win32, and a few others, but I like 2k3 x64 the best).  What I'd like to do is create a separate user account(s) that has Esperanto as the default OS-wide language.  I don't really care if everything is still in English, I'd just like the settings to be for "eo" instead of "en-US".  I'm trying to learn the language and I figured that a good way to learn would be to translate some apps.  I'll be starting with some Firefox extensions since they will most likely be the easiest. 

It'd be nice if I could have different DPIs for the accounts as well (120 and 96), but I don't think that's possible. 

(Once I finish a few extensions I'm going to try to compile a few things for x64 as well, but that is a whole other discussion on its own.)

[EDIT] I should also mention that I know that certain distros of linux support Esperanto, and that there already is 64-bit Firefox for Linux but I really want to stick with Windows on this one.

Well, maybe I'll just post my code.  I'm wondering if I should guess the approximate length of a stringbuilder when I create it, or just let it grow dynamically:

System.Text.StringBuilder letterNavText = new System.Text.StringBuilder(1106);
letterNavText.Append("<span>");
for (int i = (int)'A'; i <= (int)'Z'; i++)
{
 string letter = ((char)i).ToString();
 if (letter == SelectedLetter)
 {
  letterNavText.Append("<strong>");
  letterNavText.Append(letter);
  letterNavText.Append("</strong>");
 }
 else
 {
  letterNavText.Append("<a href=\"");
  letterNavText.Append(letter);
  letterNavText.Append(".htm\" title=\"");
  letterNavText.Append(letter);
  letterNavText.Append("\">");
  letterNavText.Append(letter);
  letterNavText.Append("</a>");
 }
 letterNavText.Append("&nbsp;&nbsp;");
}
letterNavText.Append("</span>");
LetterNav.InnerHtml = letterNavText.ToString();

jonathanh wrote:

There was a semi-spirited discussion of this very topic on some Microsoft blogs a while back

I found the blog posts again using "site:blogs.msdn.com string stringbuilder" as a Google query.  

How many concatenations would it take for StringBuilder to be more useful than a plain old string?

I saw this article in purgatory on codeproject, this msdn blogs post, and this one too.

Any experts want to give it a stab for those of us who don't have time to benchmark every function that concats a string?

Thanks!

travis wrote:

Anyone else having problems using the installer(s)?  I've tried both vcssetup.exe and vwdsetup.exe - both crashed on the screen where it tried to d/l the stuff (never gets past 0K of the .Net 2.0 beta).  Should I post more crash details?

msdn wrote:

Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS)
Issue: Download will fail on a computer that does not have BITS (Background Intelligent Service) installed. To to verify that BITS is installed on your computer, open Control Panel, click Administrative Tools, and then click Services.

Workaround: Install and enable the BITS service. You can download and install BITS from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8c6ef6c8-2abf-43c7-ab51-e0c53303086d&DisplayLang=en"> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8c6ef6c8-2abf-43c7-ab51- e0c53303086d&DisplayLang=en.

I had the BITS service disabled.  Really though, this shouldn't crash the installer.  It should test to make sure BITS is running before it tries to use it.