The Coffeehouse

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.

New ride

JonathonW — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:34:31 GMT

After my trusty '94 Toyota pickup died last week, I decided I needed something guaranteed to be more reliable for the rest of the time I'll be spending in graduate school... As of yesterday, I am now the proud owner of a 2010 Toyota Yaris; a little 3-door hatchback that's been sold in Europe, Japan and Canada for a while now (called the Vitz in Europe and Japan and the Echo hatchback in Canada).

This one's pretty close to fully loaded, with power windows and door locks, stereo capable of playing MP3s and WMA files with an auxiliary input for my iPod, and cruise control. It does have a manual transmission, but that's the only way to go, especially with a small car like this. Pretty big change from my old pickup... runs smooth and quiet, and my pickup didn't have power anything (not even power steering, which makes parking lots tons of fun). Kinda makes me feel like a Brit, zipping around town in my little tiny car (except we don't drive on the wrong side of the road over here :P).

Obligatory pics: color is called "Carmine red metallic" and seems to change color in different lights. Colors I've seen in it so far: burgundy, burnt orange, maroon, brown... pictures don't quite do it justice, but it gets pretty close:

Mobile Marketplace for Freeware?

Slothie — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:57:45 GMT

Hi I wrote a freeware application for windows mobile and would like publish it on the new marketplace as freeware but I'm really struggling to get registered. The registration goes around in a loop and I can't seem to find anything like a forum or support contact for this? If someone could point me in the right direction I would be very greatful for the help.

EDIT: Just found

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/smartdevicedevelopment/

Ohio State Windows 7 Install Fest!

intelman — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:24:41 GMT

I volunteered to help at the Windows 7 install fest at OSU. The Microsoft Student Partner there organized it.Mark Harris was there along with many IT professionals from the Columbus OH area.

We had at least 253 installs of Windows 7. A few people even brought their desktops in. In additon some mac users came. Afterwards we played some ODST in the library ;)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/obiwantoby/sets/72157622750810430/show/with/4082246676/

DeVaris Brown of Microsoft brought a TouchSmart PC to play with. Our digital union wanted to keep it to show 7 off, but that was not possible In General, students seemed to love Windows 7. A lot of PC gamers and scientists alike.

App Store for Windows?

Guido Stein — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:51:50 GMT

I have seen a lot of talk about an app store for windows mobile, but I do not know if there is such a thing for windows OS.

I am trying to figure out how to easily deploy an application for sale. I really want to make registration/ licensing easy.

Does anyone have a suggestion for such a website or place.

Thanks...

Outer Joins in Linq

Joshua Ross — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:16:14 GMT

Does anyone know why outer joins in linq are so crazy?

Example:

Dim z = From c In db.Customers
Group Join o In db.Orders
On c.CustID Equals o.CustID
Into j
From jo In j.DefaultIfEmpty()
Select New With {c, jo}

There has to be a good story behind this.

Microsoft's copyright infringement

W3bbo — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:43:01 GMT

Hey, note how I'm not accusing Microsoft of "stealing" GPL code (because then I wouldn't be morally consistent when talking about torrenting moviez and empeethreez, lol).

It's been widely reported that Microsoft apparently has been using GPL-licensed code in a proprietary EULA piece of software without a license from the original author. The discovery was made by Rafael earlier.

My bet's on Microsoft going "omg! we had nooo idea!" (whether they're sincere or not, I've no idea) and coughing up a few grand to the original author as a means of coercing him into dropping any idea of legal action and providing them with a license. I do not believe Microsoft would ever consider licensing their infringing tool as GPL (imagine what Steve Ballmer would say).

Discuss.

False press releases by public companies

May28th2018 — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:03:12 GMT

I got recently got burned by 2 false press releases by Zale Corp. and a penny stock.

I am now partaking in action for both cases.

http://www.live-pr.com/en/zale-corporation-hit-by-shareholder-investigation-r1048347446.htm

"If you purchased Zale Corporation (NYSE:ZLC) shares between November 16, 2006 and October 29, 2009 and

or are a current long term ZLC shareholder, you should contact the Shareholders Foundation, Inc at email:

Firstly, if you also invested in Zale, you can join by emailing the contact on that list.

2ndly, what can we collectively do to stop executives from leaking deals that never materialize, funding that never materializes, vaporware and other misleading schemes to acrue value?

Remember the Oracle/Sun deal that never came through?

The IBM/Sun deal that never came through?

The Microsoft/Yahoo deal that never came through?

Ballmer wouldn't shut up saying it was going to happen no matter what.

The share price often rises shortly after the announcement of these talks, then falls shortly after. Who is else is sick of this?

Who else thinks that a deal should be reached BEFORE a public announcement in the interest of the shareholders?

I know there isn't a steadfast law on this, but there should be.

This Week on Channel 9 - Live in 37 minutes.

Larry Larsen — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:21:16 GMT

We'll be going live in ~37 minutes, see us at http://live.ch9.ms.

Sharon or Number 6?

Ian Walker — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:09:20 GMT

Number 6,

Sharon Valerii

OpenOffice Mouse

CreamFilling512 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:18:26 GMT

http://openofficemouse.com/blog/

Looks like they could use the ribbon UI.

Expect the Unexpected!!

Ian Walker — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:56:06 GMT

I'm entering http://fromtheMalverns.com into the 'expect the unexpected' competition.

Please take a look and vote (I am the Channel 9 guy - at least until someone tells me I can't be)

http://www.mydotnetstory.com/vote.aspx

Thanking you.

Old Picture Postcards

Ian Walker — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:18:08 GMT

Having won a ticket to the PDC this year ("lucky b'stard") I am planning on taking a few photos of the surrounding area for http://FromTheMalverns.com (apparently you can just see the top of the Staples Centre from the Worcestershire Beacon).

To this end, does anyone (or anyones Granny?) have any old picture postcards of Los Angeles that they could let me scan*? I know, its a long shot, but you just never know ...

* Or anywhere around the Malvern Hills come to that?

Why is ASP more expensive than PHP?

Gio — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:36:42 GMT

So, my company received a couple of estimates to remake our website (we really need to, the actual one has been done so poorly that we have serious SEO problems). The goal is to present the company, redo the catalog/e-store and plan to add a little social to it in the near future, all of it in two languages. Nothing extremely complex, but to do things well, it requires a little bit of work.

What surprised me is that all of the estimates we gathered from different contractors are much much cheaper when using PHP than ASP by a factor of 2 or more. Honestly from the little ASP and PHP I know, I don't understand what could justify such a sharp cost difference.

Is it because ASP is more complex or because it is associated with fancier development? Or maybe PHP has more widely available modules?

Windows Live Messenger compulsory upgrade...

Michael John Kearney — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:25:58 GMT

...is there anyway to avoid this compulsory upgrade on a Vista machine, why cant you just leave me be?

Im pissed!

ManipUni: Sorry.

Does Windows 7 have the famous 2TB limit?

Dorian Muthig — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:49:22 GMT

Unlike Windows Vista, Windows 7 uses two partitions in the standard configuration. A 100MB boot partition and usually the rest of the drive as the system partition.

Windows Vista has the KB946557 issue. Does this issue arise from INT13 support? I don't have an EFI BIOS for GPT boot support on my X58 chipset based mainboard.

What I'd like to know is, if Windows 7 can boot and run if the system partition is larger than 2TB. Call me crazy, but I'm running out of space and would need to expand it. :)

That Sophos Win 7 stuff... What a load of rubbish.

LeoDavidson — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:34:23 GMT

(This is an edit of an email I just wrote to someone. Thought I'd share it here as well, if just to say, "please don't lump all of us in with this stupidness.")

http://www.sophos.com/blogs/chetw/g/2009/11/03/windows-7-vulnerable

^ What a load of rubbish. I cringed when I read it.

Sophos should've just said, "Hey, BTW, just a reminder, but you still need anti-virus with Windows 7. You shouldn't be surprised by this. Please consider our product." Instead they're acting as if someone promised Windows 7 would make malware impossible. (WTF did they get that idea from?)

It's also frustrating to read reports from people saying Sophos showed malware "bypassing UAC" when it's just avoiding the requirement for admin access, something quite different.

The whole UAC debate is frustrating. Whichever position you find yourself in it seems you end up arguing with people in every direction. There aren't sides to the debate; it's a mad free-for-all that spawns little useful discussion. So much time & energy is spent arguing about stupid stuff -- like the notion that UAC is supposed to stop code from running at all rather than, at best, limit what running code can do -- that there's no room left to discuss the more subtle and interesting points. By the time they're raised everyone's too tired and annoyed to do them justice. It's a shame.

It's a strange debate indeed where those who, on the face of it, are pushing in the same direction frustrate me far more than anyone pushing the other way.

Music, religion, politics... I think UAC needs to be added to that list! :-)

Chrome is Version 4 ... Where are you IE ?

xgamer — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:06:05 GMT

Yesterday Google released Beta version 4 of their Chrome browser with claims of increasing speed of browsing ... 400% from the initial version 1 ( which itself claimed few times faster than IE ) .. So within a year and few months they have 4 versions of their browser.

Critics can say that having so many versions within so short time is not good .. i can agree to that .. they also can say that within each version the features are not much different ... but all have to agree that within a short period of time, they have introduced a lot of features, speedy browsing .. (apart from the fact that they are working on multiple platform and IE is only on windows )

I distinctly remember the same type of dynamism that IE brought with it when it started against Netscape .. by introducing 1-4 version of IE within a short period of 2+ years with a lot of feature additions [anybody remember Favorite icon, IE page transitions ... :) ] ... this was in the era when Internet was still evolving and majority of information still passed thru magazines, word of mouth etc... where as now news spreads more quickly with blogs,twitter,online news etc...

One can say that IE was able to capture market because of Windows OS .. but now google in its arsenal similar things like Google.Com, Youtube, Gmail etc ...

So unless MS wants to see another one of its products go down ... it has to up the ante (for goodness sake it still does not have a proper download manager, Spell check, Still uses a decade old rendering engine) ... and become the same dynamic team for which it earlier came to be known ... What do you think ?

"Search Inside" ...

me — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:39:17 GMT

youve got .... 10 shortcuts on your desktop...

lets say you want to search inside - 3 or 4 of those...

why cant you hit cntrl / select / 3 icons - then - right mouse - Search inside (select)

and you get a search box flyout... "business card" - search = returns results.

?

i tried creating libraries (lol - what a useless feature - or totally unexplained how to use it one...)

maybe even under "Properties" of 3 selected items = new tab - Search within... or something

?

MSN revitalized

Bent Rasmussen — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:03:19 GMT

It looks like MSN has received some "Bing"-love and now looks very useable and clean - and integrates smoothly with fb.
I may yet live to see MSN become my start page :-)

http://www.msn.com/preview.aspx

I'm a future PC

Ray7 — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:58:01 GMT

Mike Doyle risks the venom of the Mac community by daring to switch to Google and Windows…and then telling folk about it.

He also had some pretty even comebacks for those who can't quite bring themselves to believe it.

Mike Doyle said:
The inertia of the Mac community, as perfectly exemplified by several of the comments here, tends to try to keep you in line. It’s like living with Mayor Daley here in Chicago–you’re not allowed to ask questions, express dissent, or choose a different leader to follow. Not unless you want people to have a visceral, emotional reaction to what is, in fact, a personal decision.

Tying all his data to Google though; is he not swapping one monster for another?

Draft of secret copyright treaty should give you chills

Go Microsoft !!!!!!! — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:26:33 GMT

As the latest round of talks on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement go on in secret (for unspecified national security reasons), some information on the U.S.-written draft of the Internet chapter has begun to leak out, and, as feared, the heavy hand of the entertainment industry is readily apparent and the implications for Internet service providers, consumers and innovation in general are grim. Being rendered near speechless, I’ll let others summarize:

...........http://blogs.siliconvalley.com/gmsv/2009/11/draft-of-secret-copyright-treaty-should-give-you-chills.html

100 More Days...

Harlequin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:22:37 GMT

...then us in Vancouver will welcome the world :)

http://www.vancouver2010.com/

Just hope I can get to work in the morning without a hassle...

Free Wallace & Gromit adventure game episod

LeoDavidson — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:39:13 GMT

Free Wallace & Gromit adventure game episode (this week only):

http://www.telltalegames.com/wallaceandgromit20th

This is by the same people who gave away a free Monkey Island episode a little while back, which I think some people here enjoyed. I figured this might be fun as well and, hey, it's free.

Haven't played it myself but these Wallace & Gromit adventure episode games been on my (veeeeery, very long) gaming to-do list for a while. I really liked Telltale's recent Sam & Max games and I like the Wallace & Gromit TV shows so I'll probably enjoy this when I get around to it.

(I still haven't played the original Monkey Island yet, let alone the Telltale installments, heh. So many games, so little time.)

Weird Windows 7 score

PaoloM — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:31:11 GMT

Why is graphics so low, compared to the gaming graphics score? What could be the cause?