re: GMail Messages are Vulnerable to Interception - Rob Chartier ~ Contemplation...

TrackBack said:

Multi-vendor Game Server DDoS Vulnerability (The Epic Games/Gamespy Exploit) : Robert Chartier Blog

# February 11, 2003 2:34 PM

TrackBack said:

Epic Games threatens to sue security researchers : Robert Chartier Blog

# February 11, 2003 2:34 PM

TrackBack said:

.Net (Hardware) Acceleration : Robert Chartier Blog

# February 11, 2003 3:31 PM

TrackBack said:

Epic Games threatens to sue security researchers, Epic Games Responds... : Robert Chartier Blog

# February 12, 2003 6:13 AM

TrackBack said:

Multi-vendor Game Server DDoS Vulnerability (The Epic Games/Gamespy Exploit) : Robert Chartier Blog

# February 12, 2003 6:13 AM

Darren Neimke said:

What's up with the "print this article" functionality for that article?

# March 26, 2003 5:14 PM

Darren Neimke said:

Rob,

Great stuff! I rated you as "Most Useful" ;-)

This has given me a *much* clearer picture of what UDDI is!

# March 26, 2003 8:22 PM

Christian Weyer said:

Hi Rob,

nice. But I posted a 'solution' some time ago ... take this:
http://dotnetweblogs.com/Cweyer/posts/2615.aspx

:-)

Cheers,
Christian

# March 27, 2003 5:21 AM

Daniel Bright said:

Could you guys please explain what these files are & why this happens for us neophytes?

# March 27, 2003 5:54 AM

Christian,

I checked everywhere to see if anyone had already posted some code or any attempt at it, and unfortunatly i didnt see your posting. Oh well.

Daniel,

If you take a look at the source, you will see that during the XmlSerialization process when that debugger switch is set to 1, it will emit the souce code, compiler command and results, and the emitted assemblies for the serialization process.

Specifically if you take a look at the System.Xml.Serialization.Compiler class, the Compile() member with Anakrino (http://www.saurik.com/net/exemplar/) you will see this section:

if (CompModSwitches.KeepTempFiles.Enabled) {
local2.GenerateInMemory = false;
local2.IncludeDebugInformation = true;
local2.TempFiles = new TempFileCollection();
local2.TempFiles.KeepFiles = true;
}
else
local2.GenerateInMemory = true;
etc....

--Assuming this is the correct section that we should be looking at, it does seem pretty obvious as to what its doing. If not, examine the Compile() method in more detail.

# March 27, 2003 7:23 AM

Duncan Mackenzie said:

Ok, but why make me search the web for something to open a .rar file? yeesh... :)

# March 27, 2003 5:21 PM

Rob Chartier said:

winrar winrar!!

# March 27, 2003 5:23 PM

Rob Chartier said:

ooops..the url is http://www.rarlab.com/

# March 27, 2003 5:24 PM

Ben Richardson said:

Could you post a .ZIP version, or am I just getting lazy?

# March 27, 2003 8:22 PM

CSharpener said:

Just to clarify details on one topic you have dissed, User Process Components are defined and thoroughly discussed in the new Microsoft document, "Application Architecture for .NET: Designing Applications and Services," which is available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnbda/html/distapp.asp.

User Process Comonents usually encapsulate user process-oriented logic and expose methods that can be called by user interfaces. These abstractions are intended to aid in the handling of concurrent user activities and can help by "isolating long-running user activities from business-related state."

# April 15, 2003 5:19 PM

TrackBack said:

SharpReader and Notification : A Blog for Graymad

# April 17, 2003 9:31 PM

Lotas Smartman said:

yea it does. the hash goes yellow.

# April 17, 2003 10:13 PM

Lotas Smartman said:

yea it does. the hash goes yellow.

# April 17, 2003 10:13 PM

Greg Reinacker said:

Actually, NewsGator notifies you as well, if you're running Windows 2000 or later, and you have the option turned on. A balloon will pop up on the system tray for a few seconds telling you how many new posts were just retrieved.

# April 17, 2003 10:28 PM

Rob Chartier said:

I noticed it turned yellow about 5 minutes after I posted..My bad. Thanks Lotas.

# April 18, 2003 7:24 PM

TrackBack said:

stuff going on.. : Nino Benvenuti's Blog

# April 24, 2003 6:57 PM

TrackBack said:

BlogShares? huh? : HumanCompiler

# April 29, 2003 3:08 PM

TrackBack said:

Rob Chartier's Excogitation

# May 6, 2003 9:18 PM

Damit said:

Very interesting =) But where's the Palm Blog? <g>

# May 19, 2003 8:30 PM

Rob Chartier said:

I need to finish up the MSI package and conduit before i can send it out. Anyone who has emailed me will get that first release to use.

# May 20, 2003 8:19 PM

Michael Koziarski said:

I'm not a .NET programmer, but surely there's a better way to handle all this than what you've just shown.

Surely you could do:

ManagementObjectSearcher searcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher(query);

if (searcher.Get().Count > 1) {
// no, already launched
} else {
//launch it
}

The code's much more readable that way and you save iterating etc.

# May 22, 2003 5:04 AM

Rob Chartier said:

Tried that but it always throws an exception for me. If I simply add:

runcount = searcher.Get().Count;

or even

System.Management.ManagementObjectCollection col = searcher.Get();
runcount = col.Count;

I get the exception:

An unhandled exception of type 'System.NotSupportedException' occurred in system.management.dll

Additional information: Specified method is not supported.

Give it a try and let me know if you can get it to work correctly.

/rob

# May 22, 2003 5:14 AM

Douglas Reilly said:

I must say I cannot find a reason why Wes' solution is not better than the one presented here. A little less code, and not relying upon WMI. Am I missing something?

Just curious (really...).

Thanks!

# May 22, 2003 7:37 AM

Wes Haggard said:

I also wanted to make sure that any href-exe(smart clients) could only be ran once as well. In there case the process name shows up as IEExec.exe, I believe and if so then there could be other instances of that running with out your program actually running. Just a potential problem I don't know if it actually is.

Wes

# May 22, 2003 7:41 AM

Devin Rader said:

But at the same time it was nice to have a third party org to belong to that was not controlled by the iron fist.

# May 22, 2003 3:08 PM

Rob Chartier said:

Douglas: Its an alternative, not a "better" solution. I simply wanted to show another way of doing (almost) the same thing. :)

Wes: Your probably right, excellent point. Maybe there is some other property from the same wmi class that would allow one to tell between difference instances of IEExec.exe. Unfortunately I cant test it, it crashes on me whenever i try to load any href-exe up.

I would like to add: I do like Wes's implementation, and unless someone proves to me otherwise (performance, etc..) that MINE is better, if I needed to -I would still use Wes's solution-. I actually dont like the WMI stuff in .NET, never have and unless they fix it, never will.

/rob

# May 22, 2003 3:22 PM

Rob Chartier said:

A community site being controlled by the iron fist? What could this iron fist possibly do? Whatever actions they (the community members) take are done within the community thus are always made public to all of its members. This makes them responsible for their actions and forces them to avoid any harsh action -like giving members the boot if they find their names on a "competators" site or simply on a whim because of some childish event that happen in the past.

When I look at the current members http://www.aspinsiders.com/Member+List/default.aspx I dont see any Iron Fisted nor childish people. I see a list of responsible people willing to help the community, and not their own pocket books (training or other).

# May 22, 2003 3:37 PM

Douglas Reilly said:

I certainly understand the thrill of discovery and learning new ways to do things (even if in the end, a previous method is best).

# May 22, 2003 5:42 PM

Scott Galloway said:

Have you ever tried SpamNet from Cloudmark - it has a pretty unique way of tackling spam - human filters. Basically it works as a peer-to-peer network (with trust relationships) - one person in the network reports a message as spam - depending on how many people report it as spam (and the trust level of the individuals reporting the message), it will then become marked as spam. I've been using it since the first beta, having used pretty much every other attempt at this previously, I have to say, it's been the most effective I've encountered - close to 99% of span caught and 0 false positives (you can optionally allow all messages from certain users, your favourite newsletter etc...

# May 27, 2003 12:20 PM

Rob Chartier said:

Very interesting. I will have to take a look if this product ever does me wrong. Is there much maintenance? Marking messages as spam, setting up the trust relationship? Denying certain people from the trust relationship. I can see that one man's trash is another man's treasure.

Thanks for the comments!

# May 27, 2003 12:54 PM

Frans Bouma said:

Man will never know why a culumilative patch (811114) doesn't include the another IIS patch (817772).

# May 28, 2003 3:06 PM

Adam said:

Has SpamBayes caused your outlook to not be able to shut down? Every time outlook closes on my box, the process stays alive. Forcibly killing the process (the only way to shut it down to open it again) loses all SpamBayes training data. Even rebooting loses all SpamBayes training data.

Have you noticed anything like that?

# June 8, 2003 4:29 PM

Rob Chartier said:

After going through the initial process of setting up filters, etc.. I did notice that outlook didnt want to unload. I just gave it time and eventually it did unload. I had assume that SpamBayes needed to do its work to persist the filter data, etc..

I also noticed that forcing Outlook to close does not agree with SpamBays at all. You have to retrain.

# June 8, 2003 6:48 PM

TrackBack said:

Rob Chartier's Excogitation

# June 20, 2003 2:41 AM

TrackBack said:

Rob Chartier's Excogitation

# June 20, 2003 2:41 AM

Darren Neimke said:

Rob, first piece of feedback... add a link to the article to your blog entry :P

# June 24, 2003 9:33 PM

Mads Nissen said:

I did an app in C++ for Palm a little more than a year ago. And a Conduit for it in VB60. I really hope it's gotten easier because that stuff made me swear never to touch a palm again (actually it's still for sale), although the app ended up pretty nice. I used Falch.net, which is a pretty good (norwegian developed) IDE for palm/c++. It's got nothing to do with .NET though.
 And yeah, a link pls;)

# June 24, 2003 9:38 PM

Rob Chartier said:

The title of the blog entry actually links to it..but for those that cant figgure it out here's the link:

http://www.15seconds.com/issue/030624.htm

:)

# June 24, 2003 9:42 PM

Rob Chartier said:

Mads:

From what it seems nothing much has changed. Im hoping to make things a bit easier for conduits with some sort of C# library (see reference in the original post above).

Thanks.

# June 24, 2003 9:45 PM

Darren Neimke said:

> but for those that cant figgure it out
> here's the link:

Doh! Woops, sorry Rob :-)

I've printed your article out to read on the bus tomorrow. I'll give you some feedback when I have read it.

I've just accepted a project that involves some Palm development, so, I'm really looking forward to this!

Hope things are well...

Cheers, Darren

# June 25, 2003 10:33 AM

TrackBack said:

ScottW's ASP.NET WebLog

# June 25, 2003 6:57 PM

Robert McLaws said:

have you tried ".***"?

Robert

# June 25, 2003 10:32 PM

Robert McLaws said:

I ask because maybe it lets you map stuff like ".asp*"

# June 25, 2003 10:33 PM

Rob Chartier said:

As soon as you put in a * it dont like it.

# June 25, 2003 10:47 PM

M. Keith Warren said:

I assume it is prolly a 'lock-down' feature.

# June 25, 2003 10:53 PM

Rob Chartier said:

Just tried to change it in the metabase.

Unless im a moron, i dont recommend ANYONE doing it. It messed up stuff pretty badly and didnt work.

Hopefully someone out there that is watching will be able to figgure it out.

# June 25, 2003 11:37 PM

Scott Watermasysk said:

Nope. No bug. See Here

-Scott

# June 26, 2003 1:53 AM

Scott Watermasysk said:

err...wrong link. lets try again.

# June 26, 2003 2:02 AM

Ole Lytjohan said:

Unless iam mistaken, that makes the application behave even stranger.
Known files (.aspx) in a folder wont be found

# June 26, 2003 7:18 AM

Ole Lytjohan said:

Ive tried that ScottW approach, and that seems to work, but only if you check off "verify if file exists"

but ok, that sortoff makes sense aswell :)

Works nicely with pathrewrite for nice apache like path's like host.com/page1 -> rewrite to index.aspx?id=1 etc.

Thanks

# June 26, 2003 8:35 AM

Scott Watermasysk said:

Hi Ole,

I will be releasing my blog code shortly (I know I keep saying this :D). I think you will see I have come up with something much nicer than use Context.ReWritePath.

-Scott

# June 26, 2003 11:51 AM

Dare Obasanjo said:

>From my very limited view point of RSS, I personally think the only thing that is missing is the ability to date stamp each item in the collection; including tool support for this

You should learn more about RSS. There are at least two elements that can be used to timestamp each item; pubDate and dc:date

>Anyone got some URL's for web-based readers?

Google for BlogLines. There are a bunch more but that's the only one that comes to mind.

# August 18, 2003 3:41 PM

TrackBack said:

# August 18, 2003 5:37 PM

Paul said:

I've been using Bloglines for a few weeks now, I was using Newsgator. Don't get me wrong - newsgator is an awsome product - but I'm needing it to be available on more than a single computer.

Bloglines is actually very reliable and the developer has been very responsive about implementing usefull features and fixing bugs. Have you sent any of these to the developer?

I'm confused about your private items - Bloglines as far as I know doesn't list any of your subscriptions or any of your data publicly anywhere.

Managing the structure isn't quite that difficult - you can select multiple feeds and them move them to a folder. But it's not as easy as just having them imported right...

My gripe is that sometimes I'll click on a link and loose my new article display - when that happens you can't get it back.

Also - have you heard of Feed on Feeds? It's a PHP solution that you can host yourself - and of course theres meerkat.

# August 18, 2003 6:56 PM

TrackBack said:

# August 19, 2003 9:35 AM

tracker1 said:

Have you tried compiling the file into "appname.scr" instead of "appname.exe" from the command line compiler? if not using the ccr, not sure...

Alternatively, could you have a small stub for the .scr that runs the actual .exe .. or if you leave the name of the app.config as .exe.config, does it import the settings...

just a few thoughts.. came accross this via the www.idledreams.net blog .. going to be hosting the ansi archive site.. :)

# August 20, 2003 2:48 AM

Rob Chartier said:

Compiling directly to .scr doesnt work.

The stub would work, but loading up an EXE doesnt seem reasonable to me. I would rather parse the XML directly (using XML Serialization).

Leaving the name as app.config (app.scr and app.config) doesnt work either.

Thanks for the ideas.

# August 20, 2003 3:46 PM

Al Davis said:

Since the runtime locates configuration settings in 3 locations (app, policy, machine) you can choose the easiest out of the last 2 (publisher policy and machine) and add your configuration settings to the machine.config file instead.

After you get that working you can also deploy your configuration information to a resource file as well.

# August 21, 2003 8:57 PM

Chris Frazier said:

Congrats, Rob! Good goin, eh!:P

# September 19, 2003 1:40 PM

David Evans said:

Congrats!

# October 2, 2003 4:30 AM

Dana Coffey said:

Congrats Robert! I'm joining you in the honor this year - look forward to "hobknobbing" with you in yet another venue! :)

# October 2, 2003 8:15 AM

Sreedhar Koganti said:

Congrats and good to hear it!

# October 2, 2003 8:45 AM

Roy Osherove said:

And they made a great choice too! congratulations! keep up the great work :)

# October 2, 2003 9:02 AM

Scott Watermasysk said:

Congrats.

# October 2, 2003 9:12 AM

Christian Weyer said:

Welcome to the club.

# October 2, 2003 10:17 AM

Thomas Lewis said:

Congratulations! As the ASP.NET Evangelist in Redmond, I hope that we will find ways to work together.

# October 2, 2003 12:53 PM

Bruce said:

Congratulations!

# October 2, 2003 4:36 PM

Chloe-Vervier said:

I just want to say THANKS to all people in this community. You really help me.

# October 5, 2003 10:10 AM

Pir8 said:

Congratulations, fellow canuck

# October 6, 2003 11:29 AM

Tore Melberg said:

Congratulations.

# October 8, 2003 8:39 AM

Robert McLaws said:

*cyber hi-5* Welcome :)

# October 10, 2003 1:05 AM

G. Andrew Duthie said:

Actually, VS.NET 2002 can do this for Visual Basic .NET...

When you implement an interface in a VB.NET class, you can use the left-hand dropdown to select the interface you've implemented, then use the right-hand dropdown to select the members that need to be implemented. When selected, VS will automatically insert the skeleton code for you.

# October 17, 2003 2:11 PM

Dan Golick said:

Actually it does automatically generate the interface for you. In C# editor a smart-lik comes up. You can also go to Class View and open of the class- goto Bases and intefaces select the interface, right-click and Add "Implement interface"

# October 20, 2003 5:21 PM

SBC said:

Thanks Rob - looking forward to reading your article.

# October 27, 2003 5:42 PM

Rob Chartier said:

This just in from their Tech support:

------------------------------------

Thank you for your interest in Logidex!

Our Add-in is compiled to the 1.0 framework and J# 1.0 level and will default to 1.0 if it's available. Do you also have the .NET framework 1.0 installed? If so, you should be able to install the J# 1.0 and then complete the Logidex Add-in installation. Here's Microsoft's link to the J# redist. downloads:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vjsharp/downloads/howtoget/default.aspx

Again, Thank you, and please contact us if you require further assistance.

__________________________________
LogicLibrary Support Team
Know what you have. Move ahead.

support@logiclibrary.com
http://support.logiclibrary.com
1.866.877.9933 (critical outages)

# October 29, 2003 4:28 PM

Milking Tits said:

how can i save this page on my hard drive ?

# November 10, 2003 1:26 AM

wacko said:

You know whats funny about that take a look at Sim City 4. I have a pretty basic PC and it says I am 2121% higher then the recommend specs... hmmm can't be good LOL

# November 10, 2003 8:38 PM

Paolo Marcucci said:

Apparently, not a lot of people were aware of that, or else Dave wouldn't had to ask. But again, the RSS "ticker" is just an example of what can go in a sidebar tile, just like the picture gallery. Besides, I was able to do things similar this with IE4 and Active Desktop MANY years ago :)

# November 20, 2003 11:57 AM

Adam said:

Run the setup exe from the command line like so:

dotnetfx.exe /q:a /c:"install /noaspupgrade /l /q"

This worked in V1.0 when upgrading to 1.1, so I assume this will work for future versions.

# November 20, 2003 4:15 PM

Chris Martin said:

Long live Slayer!

I went and saw Agent Orange insted though.

# November 21, 2003 6:02 AM

Holger said:

how can this be done? I downloaded the Redistributable Package at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=262D25E3-F589-4842-8157-034D1E7CF3A3&displaylang=en.

Then go opened the dos-box. I put the package dotnetfx.exe into the root folder (c:) and I executed the following command dotnetfx.exe /q:a /C:“install /noaspupgrade /l /q“.

The promt comes back in just a second and nothing happend!

What did I wrong?

What do I have to do? On our developer machines we have still to compile old 1.0 projects and in the future we will make our new software on framework 1.1 (visual studio 2003).

I hope you can help.

Thx Holger
h.wess@syzygy.net

# November 27, 2003 6:48 AM

Scott Galloway said:

Are you able to just use a .NET component on the client (obviously wrapped to use from COM)? If you could it's save a whole lot of hassle...

# November 28, 2003 2:57 PM

Rob Chartier said:

Nah, we cant deploy .NET on the client machines just yet (they are a few hundred machines spread out over north america with a current deployment of VB6, SOAP Toolkit v3). We are actually starting to plan on making the move to an exclusive .NET environment, but Im afraid that wont be for a little while yet.

# November 28, 2003 3:05 PM

Simon Jefford said:

Why are you trying to send the base64 encoded date as a byte[]? I thought the whole point of base64 encoding was that it ended up as a string. I have a project (admittedly it's .NET to .NET) which sends potentially non-text data to a remote server. It just encodes the data as a base64 encoded string and passes that string as a parameter to the service.

# November 28, 2003 5:14 PM

Rob Chartier said:

On the client and the server I attempted to treat both instances of the variable as an array of bytes. Now of course when it goes over the wire i had to do something along the lines of:

(VB6)

dim token() as byte

Call encoding.EncodeB64(token, output)
Elm.dataType = "bin.base64"
Elm.nodeTypedValue = output
Dom0.documentElement.appendChild Elm

which essentiall produces the xml for my request:

<Token xmlns:dt="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:datatypes" dt:dt="bin.base64">TWVLazJCY1BTa.....</Token>

And then on the server I do get the encoded string into my byte[] which works ok, for the first half of the bytes in the array. The second half is usually way off. Single and Dual byte codes are not an issue, transport not an issue. The arrays are of the same length, it just seems that some of the actual bytes are getting mangled somehow. God only knows why.

Im basically convinced that the To/From Base64 encode is not being handle correctly (maybe the POS library that im using on the client or even the server).

Bottom line, all of this work to get something that is seemingly simple isnt worth it. Ive already rolled out an alternative acceptable solution.

# November 28, 2003 5:36 PM

Lorenzo Barbieri said:

Why don't you send them using DIME and WS-Attachments instead of inserting them inside the XML stream? Both SOAP Toolkit 3.0 and WSE 1.0/2.0 supports those protocols.
Only my two cents...

# November 29, 2003 8:30 AM

Rob Howard said:

You can also download 2 chapters at http://www.asp.net/whidbey

# November 29, 2003 9:50 AM

Rob Chartier said:

Well the actual data is very small, only about 100bytes in length and that IMHO DIME would probably overkill (not to mention a real bitch for VB) for implementation.

On yeah, Don Box mentioned that we should avoid DIME a while back. ugh.

# November 29, 2003 12:56 PM

Puleen said:

Rob, Good job!

Apart from some grammatical mistakes here and there, I think the review was overall very good. It wasn't too long, and not too short. From the sounds of your review of the book, this book would definitely be on my wish list (at amazon).

I liked the fact that you specified, what should and shouldnt be in the book. For example, the starting off VS.NET features chapter, ofcourse is not really required. After all people do know what VS.NET is already. The other chapters as it seems to me, do involve diving right into code, and some good examples, which is a definite bonus.

Lastly, something I always like in reviews, are the reviewers opinion on who should and shouldn't buy this book. (i.e. who the book is aimed towards). Although the writers usually do this in the foreward, it always helps to know.

Overall I give the review an 8.5 out of 10.

Cheers mate.

Puleen

# November 29, 2003 3:11 PM

Darshan Singh said:

Rob, see if this is what you want to achieve:

http://www.PerfectXML.com/XMLAnswers1203.asp#3

# November 30, 2003 12:07 AM

James Avery said:

This site has been around for awhile (and is very good btw), does everything get to Canada this late? ;)

-James

# December 2, 2003 7:15 PM

Tim Marman said:

I was just coming here to say the same thing (well, everything but the Canada comment) :)

# December 2, 2003 7:42 PM

Rob Chartier said:

Thanks for telling me about it!

# December 2, 2003 10:51 PM

Shane Bauer said:

haha, wow. I'd imagine that would take a little time. Good ideas, though.

# December 2, 2003 11:33 PM

Dave said:

No, the OS _is_ the problem.

Consider the amount of salesmanship going on.... vendors, banks, everyone. Selling this 'ease of use' bit. Do you really think the 'person attempting to secure it' has any power to really explain to those bottom-line people or those who suck up this marketing just how much is involved with truely securing it?

All that end user thinks about when he/she approaches an ATM is the same thing. They'll buy into an XP-driven ATM without a single concern over ATM security. Their biggest security concerns are much more likely leaning towards how well-lit and private their transactions are.... you know, location. They'll blindly trust the vendors and banks on the implied fact that the machine itself is secure.

Sorry Rob, this is one time you simply have to put some responsibility for security - no, make that ALOT or it - on the people who write the OS.

# December 4, 2003 7:34 AM

Rob Chartier said:

"...has any power to really explain to those bottom-line people or those who suck up this marketing just how much is involved with truely securing it?"

Isnt this part of their job? They have to curb the expectations of their managers, and more importantly provide accurate estimations for work such as this.

Every machine which is going to be exposed publically should always go through a very rigorous setup procedure. Hell once a single ATM is locked down, the rest should be a simple matter of following a "XX Step document".

MS and friends can do their best and attempt to stay on top of issues where they are responsible, but we can never rely on them 100% for anything in securing our networks. That is not their job, nor the intention of the OS.

Just pure speculation, but wouldnt a simple hardware port blocker device and a VPN suffice for 99% of the issues that would arise? Including the W32/Nachi worm? It would seem that these ATM's dont need any incoming connections at all, and the single connection out. To me, that seems to be damn simple to secure, then again I dont know all of the details.

# December 4, 2003 1:36 PM

Andrew said:

LOL
Sent that to the networking folks

# December 5, 2003 2:12 PM

Tim Marman said:

Sounds a lot like Outlook - on the web.

# December 6, 2003 4:20 PM

Rob Chartier said:

Good point...

Do you know if the outlook web access stuff has the ability to handle mobile browsers and remote synch capabilities. Does it also require Exchange server and all of its overhead/headaches?

I guess one would need to integrate the Journal (?) posting/reading with a public weblog.

# December 6, 2003 4:25 PM

Scott Watermasysk said:

Scott's Feedback..err..what's broken now :)

# December 10, 2003 8:25 PM

Jason Nadal said:

I've just written a simple one that uses Google's translation tools at:

http://www.restlessdelusions.com/projects/services/translate/translate.asmx

My posts about it are: http://weblogs.asp.net/jnadal/posts/42118.aspx
and
http://weblogs.asp.net/jnadal/posts/41847.aspx

I still have some tweaks I want to make to the service, but my current project is to use some sort of language tag in RSS to translate feeds. More to come. Let me know if you have any issues w/ the service.

# December 12, 2003 9:01 AM

Scott Galloway said:

Actually not too hard to do without Andy's control...
Button1.Attributes.Add("OnClick",javascript: return confirm('Are you sure you want to delete this forum?');");

Pretty much does the job too...

# December 13, 2003 2:15 PM

Scott Galloway said:

Should've checked my typing, missing a " before the javascript...

# December 13, 2003 2:15 PM

Andy Smith said:

Scott, Yes, ConfirmedButtons was originally created because of a bug in v1.0 of the framework. The validation framework didn't combine your onclick with it's own onclick, as it does in v1.1, but instead created two onclick attributes on the button, which meant one of them didn't fire. I created ConfirmedButtons to combine the two onclicks together at the clientside.

Which also brings up a bug in your implementation. You only want to return false if the user chooses no. otherwise the validation doesn't fire, as it gets combined to be after any user onclick stuff. So you want to change it to Attributes.Add("onclick", "if ( !window.confirm( 'sure?' ) ) { return false; }" )

# December 13, 2003 3:24 PM

Scott Galloway said:

Ah cool...incidentally, I do use your control normally, just mentioning that it's possible to do this in another way, and thanks for the heads-up re the validation stuff!

# December 13, 2003 4:05 PM

Robert McLaws said:

Yes, I completely agree that Andy rocks.

# December 13, 2003 5:20 PM

TrackBack said:

# December 13, 2003 7:25 PM

Fabrice said:

Hi Robert, maybe you should remove the previous comment from "John". This person is just creating links to his/here site from everywhere. I had the same comment on my weblog.

# December 14, 2003 6:08 PM

Fabrice said:

There is also PHP to ASP.NET.
See here: http://sharptoolbox.madgeek.com/Pages/Categorye50337f6-718f-49f3-aa6d-81c1db63946f.aspx

# December 17, 2003 4:50 PM

yERSON said:

THIS GOOD PROGRAM

# January 5, 2004 2:59 PM

Jim Cheseborough (jimDEL THIS@Cheseborough.com) said:

Any idea when you'll add the much needed Exif/XMP reading feature for nGallary?

Thanks! and keep up the good work

# January 6, 2004 3:10 PM

Jim Cheseborough (jimDEL THIS@Cheseborough.com) said:

Ok, sorry I do see Exif on your http://wiki.ngallery.org/default.aspx/nGallery.PendingFeatures
page.

PLEASE add the new Adobe XMP standard to the Exif functionality.
Thanks!

# January 6, 2004 3:12 PM

Mr. Joshua said:

A commercial photo album that has many of these professional features is Aurigma's MediaGallery. http://www.aurigma.net/Products/MediaGallery/

Comes with source, but much of the image manipulation is in a third party control.

# January 6, 2004 7:17 PM

Dave Burke said:

I agree 100% with your plug, Rob. I'm getting a lot from studying the source as well. Very smart application indeed.

# January 6, 2004 9:31 PM

hgh age said:

A little late but I want to wish you a good luck in this year Happy New Year

# January 7, 2004 1:50 AM

Roy Osherove said:

Huh. Coolness :)

# January 8, 2004 3:25 PM

c said:

let me download msnplus

# January 9, 2004 3:43 AM

Darren Neimke said:

Rob, change it at the Project level. That way you don't have to type it in each file. Also, that way you can change the defaults at "policy" level by changing the VS Project files for VB Projects... but, yeh, I agree, the product should be shipped with that as the default!

# January 13, 2004 7:38 PM

Darren Neimke said:

Rob, change it at the Project level. That way you don't have to type it in each file. Also, that way you can change the defaults at "policy" level by changing the VS Project files for VB Projects... but, yeh, I agree, the product should be shipped with that as the default!

# January 13, 2004 7:38 PM

Rob Chartier said:

I was actually only using Notepad for this, and in that case (the vbc.exe compiler itself) should default to having it on.

# January 13, 2004 7:53 PM

Duncan Mackenzie said:

The person to ask would be Paul Vick, but I suspect the reason for defaulting to off was to allow you to open VB6 projects (or paste in VB6 code) and have the most chance of it working.

There is a lot of VB6 code out there, so I can understand that being a priority when choosing the defaults.

As far as Shared vs. Static. VB6 already has the keyword Static, and it doesn't mean quite the same thing, so perhaps that was a reason for going with a new keyword.

One could also ask why the C# team didn't just choose to use the same syntax as VB.NET, to just reverse your question... but both languages have different goals and somewhat different audiences so I believe they hoped to design the best language for their audience rather than focus on people who will be programming in both (a smaller group than those that will work in mostly one or the other).

# January 13, 2004 8:15 PM

Doug Reilly said:

On many issues I agree with allowing default behavior to work so that code moved forward works. In this specific case, I think it was a mistake. They could have turned Option Strict On and Option Explicit On by default, and then if folks have old code they are moving forward, make sure the error message is specific about how to resolve it.

# January 13, 2004 8:43 PM

Darren Neimke said:

Just one quick note - when I said:

"the product should be shipped with that as the default! "

I was specifically referring to Visual Studio (as opposed to the VB compiler)

# January 13, 2004 11:20 PM

Paul Laudeman said:

Or they simply could have made it to default as on for any *new* project created, and default it to *off* for any upgraded project. This is really causing a lot more problems out in the real world than I guess MS would have anticipated. Hopefully they might take this suggest to heart with Whidbey.

# January 14, 2004 7:39 AM

Wallym said:

There has been a lot of screaming about Option Strict not being on, but MS doesn't want to change it. I understand both sides of the issue, but I just wish it was on by default.................

Wally

# January 14, 2004 8:03 AM

TrackBack said:

# January 14, 2004 9:31 AM

AndrewSeven said:

Perhaps those who believe it should be on by default should be writing c# instead?

# January 14, 2004 3:08 PM

Paul Laudeman said:

Ha, Andrew. You'd think that, wouldn't you? C# is my first choice, no question, when it comes to .NET development. Unfortunately, being a consultant I hardly ever have the luxury to make the choice for the client about which language to use (although you can be sure I make my preference known).

The whole problem is that there are many companies who are now migrating to .NET from VB6 and VBA and see VB.NET as the natural upgrade path. The unfortunate thing is that they want to invest as little time and training as possible (naturally) in learing good OO and design skills so they basically carry all their baggage with them to .NET, so what you end up with is a bunch of displaced VB'ers who don't know a class from a module or strong typing from variants (and who don't typically care to learn so long as they can just hit F5 and run)...

# January 14, 2004 4:58 PM

Brian LeRoux said:

It was great; thanks for that Rob. I was the dude in the back interested in the ASP.Net 2.0 features-- I definately look forward to the next preso.

# January 14, 2004 5:50 PM

Amir Ahani said:

Your seminar was great. I thought you did a very good job of balancing the topics in the short time it was very useful to me. You were a very well organized and effective speaker.
As per our discussion on last Monday about: “How can I become a Microsoft MVP?” I want to know where I should send my articles.
I’m working at Motion Metrics Inc (http://www.motionmetrics.com">http://www.motionmetrics.com) which is an advanced technology company specializing in design and implementation of intelligent embedded systems for heavy-duty industries.
I have ordered the XPE toolkit which generates XP embedded images and we are developing our applications over this operating system.
One of our products is ToothMetrics which is a smart embedded machine vision system that monitors the condition of the bucket teeth for large mining shovels.
The system is used to prevent dumping broken teeth into crushers and other downstream processing equipment.
We have our own hardware infrastructure that uses Industrial anti-shock Compact Flash memory card instead of the hard-disk.
The tiny image that was produced by XPE toolkit is transferred to this Compact Flash memory card.
I want to apply for embedded MVP but actually I don’t know where I should send my articles to be published.

Thank you,
Amir Ahani, B.A.Sc
Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD)
Embedded System Engineer/Software Developer
Motion Metrics Inc
http://www.motionmetrics.com">http://www.motionmetrics.com
amir@motionmetrics.com

# January 19, 2004 2:20 AM

russ lewis said:

Mine is absolutely fine

# January 21, 2004 2:17 PM

Shannon J Hager said:

what plug-ins did you install? Maybe that was the cause.

# January 21, 2004 6:51 PM

Dave said:

Sounds like a job for regular expressions.

# January 21, 2004 6:58 PM

Rob Chartier said:

Good call, ill try to remove most of them and get it back to a basic installation.

Although, I havent added any new plugins during the upgrade in browser version...

# January 21, 2004 7:00 PM

Matt Berther said:

Robert: Perhaps this IExtenderProvider will be helpful...

http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/RaoCSSProvider.asp

# January 21, 2004 11:28 PM

TrackBack said:

# January 22, 2004 2:12 PM

Dave Rothgery said:

Did you snip out declarations of x, sngVar, and newSngVar as Single?

If not, there's a lot of implicit Single<->Double converstions going on, and it's easy to lose some percision in there.

# January 23, 2004 5:50 PM

Rob Chartier said:

Here's some C# examples of the same behaviour:

double x=8;
while(x<=10) {
System.Single s = Convert.ToSingle(x);
System.Single s1 = s * 100;
Console.WriteLine(s1);
x=x+0.1;
}

Console.WriteLine("--------------------");

float y=8;
while(y<=10) {
float s2 = (float)y;
float s3 = s2 * 100;
Console.WriteLine(s3);
y=y+(float)0.1;
}

# January 23, 2004 6:01 PM

adam said:

Operations on floating-point variables have never been precise. I learned than when doing simple client-side calculation with javascript: any time you use floating-point math, you're almost always going to end up needing to round it to guarantee precision to a couple decimal places.

To guarantee precision, use a decimal in C#.

You can find some explanations of why on google groups:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&q=floating+point+operation+precision+C%23

# January 23, 2004 9:15 PM

denny said:

it's called "floating point" for several reasons.....

1/3 => .333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333

and many other fun bits lurk in the land of the less than perfect number game.

never trust the fractions in fp math unless you test them or force them into whole numbers and then back to fractions.

# January 23, 2004 10:10 PM

Frans Bouma said:

Too bad, Opeth is really good (not as good as Symphony X, but hey.. :)).

# January 24, 2004 5:09 PM

Jason Salas said:

Hey Rob,

Sounds like Norweigan black metal was the theme of the night! I got a copy of the Rockabilia catalog the other day and ordered a bunhc of band long-sleeve shirts, most notably among them the "RIP Randy Rhoads" one that's popped uo from different people.

I was bummed to learn that Megadeth's "Rust in Piece" t-shirt is no longer in production, although most catalogs carry it. That's a major bummer...that's one of the best metal albums ever, IMHO - a must-have. That and Queensryche's "Operation Mindcrime".

# January 24, 2004 6:56 PM

Jason Salas said:

BTW, have you ever checked out Iced Earth? They put out some solid tunes.

# January 24, 2004 7:13 PM

Daniel O'Connell said:

Heh, can't say I would have expected much from Opeth after those last two albums(delieverance and damnation?), they were just way to slow and boring. Was Steve Wilson still working with them on those two? His work on Still Life was ok, but those last two...man.

# January 25, 2004 3:48 AM

Personal Page said:

i am not stupid but i just want to test if i can post comments here

# January 25, 2004 6:20 AM

Sigurdur G. Gunnarsson said:

I feel your pain, we are fighting that same CD tax bullshit over here in Iceland.

# February 4, 2004 5:50 PM

Fred said:

$29.99 or 50 CDR's ??? That is expensive....

# February 4, 2004 6:28 PM

Stefán Jökull said:

Yup. We have the same taxes here in Iceland like Sigurdur mentioned, but as if that's not enough, the Icelandic recording industry (called STEF) have demanded that all ISP's here log all their user's traffic so they can see who are illegally distributing music. This is of course impossible but the last time i knew, they're still trying to push some sort of monitoring upon the ISP's. Fascists i say! :(

# February 4, 2004 6:43 PM

Kimmy said:

Why my previous comments was deleted, how about freedom of speach?

# February 4, 2004 7:21 PM

Junfeng Zhang said:

Thanks for the quick dig.

Yes, not out of my expectation.

# February 5, 2004 10:53 PM

TrackBack said:

# February 5, 2004 11:38 PM

TrackBack said:

Inspired indirectly by my post about the longest class name in J2SE, Rob Chartier looked for the longest and shortest type names in .NET Looks like he includes the .NET equivalents of package names and nested class names, and...

# February 6, 2004 2:49 AM

Jeff Gonzalez said:

check out NAnt

# February 7, 2004 12:17 AM

Frans Bouma said:

Some microsoft employee answered my MS Support blogs with the words that you can call PSS and they will provide a fix for you.

So perhaps you're lucky and they can create a fix for your dll locking problem. All VB.NET developers out there will be very happy to have such a fix.

# February 7, 2004 6:00 AM

Jason Alexander said:

Yeah, we have the same problem(s) with VS.NET here at Match.com too, with 50+ projects in one solution. Despite the fact that doing a "Get Latest" takes forever, and VS.NET just "goes off in the weeds" with no dialogs or anything, we then have to shut down and restart VS.NET otherwise we get the DLL locking issues.

Very painful. Luckily, twice daily "Get Latest" means we don't have to deal with that headache that often.

But, still. It'll be nice when/if this is fixed.

# February 7, 2004 9:07 AM

luis carlos ricon said:

nesecito el msnplus para ver q tal es y probarlo me dicen q es muy bueno

# February 7, 2004 6:04 PM

Jamie Cansdale said:

Hi Robert,

If you put together some NUnit tests I would be happy to put them up. I think the ones up at the moment are a bit stale. Everyone has been too chicken to have a go... ;)

# February 10, 2004 8:09 PM

Kevin Ansfield said:

Actually, IMesh was one of the first players in the P2P world, although they seemed to dissapear for quite a while when the likes of Napster first became popular.

If you are still looking for a good P2P client I would suggest Shareaza (http://www.shareaza.com) that runs over Gnutella 1 & 2, as well as the Edonkey network and is also a BitTorrent client. Free, no ads whatsoever and probably one of the best interfaces I have used in a P2P client.

# February 11, 2004 5:19 AM

bilbo said:

is MS down?

http://www.microsoft.com/

I can't get through ...

# February 12, 2004 5:33 PM

David Stone said:

I've been reading this stuff for about 20 minutes now. And at first I was like "This can't be real."

But after looking through the file listing...I'm half tempted to change my mind about that. The listing is too long and detailed to be faked unless you have an abnormally large amount of time to waste playing what has to be one of the most scary practical jokes ever.

However, the only way to tell whether this is for real or not is by either:
1) Looking at the source code that's being distributed in the wild and compare it to the "actual" source at MSFT.
2) Build the sucker. And IIRC, this is not an easy task.

I dunno...I'm still unsure as to whether or not any of this is real. I can't get to Neowin...they've been down since before /. got to them. I guess the only thing to do is wait for MSFT to make an announcement as to what's actually going on.

Scoble? Care to comment? ;)

# February 12, 2004 5:50 PM

TrackBack said:

# February 12, 2004 9:29 PM

TrackBack said:

# February 12, 2004 9:39 PM

Dave said:

Why does Neowin feels so strongly about how damaging this is?

Linux publishes their source, right? It has just as much potential for exposing security holes, right? As long as MS is willing to close these holes - and if they have any desire to be more security conscious they will - then there's no problem.

# February 12, 2004 9:50 PM

Geek said:

hehe please plugins are good there is too ltlle things to msn plus

# February 14, 2004 5:20 AM

Julie Lerman said:

no, Rob. Thank YOU!

# February 16, 2004 2:22 PM

Anonymous said:

LOL!

# February 16, 2004 2:50 PM

Julien Ellie said:

The interesting par is that the vulnerability is only affecting IE5. IE6 is not affected.

# February 16, 2004 3:09 PM

senkwe said:

Wierd. Doesn't IE 5 run on like 20-30% of the worlds Windows systems? They should have still fixed this for IE 5 for those people that haven't upgraded to IE 6.

# February 16, 2004 4:48 PM

Paschal said:

What else next ?

# February 16, 2004 6:41 PM

Rob Chartier said:

I just updated the tool as of Feb 16, 2004 (4:30pm PST). Worth your while re-download if you have an older version.

# February 16, 2004 7:42 PM

Justin Rogers said:

Your sample might have issues in a multi-threaded environment. You need to check this.listBox1.InvokeRequired before simply operating on it to make sure you are in the UI thread.

Again, in your case, you probably won't run into any issues, but if you started using the static logger from another thread, you might.

# February 18, 2004 8:54 PM

Eric Lippert said:

I've written several posts on VB/VBScript/JScript rounding issues. See

http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2003/09/15/53000.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2003/09/26/53107.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2003/09/26/53112.aspx

# February 19, 2004 2:34 PM

Yves Reynhout said:

It is beyond me how people can develop this way. Don't you have boundaries, subsytems and/or layers in your software? Don't you use contract/interface-based design?
Don't get me wrong, I don't mean to critize. I'm more intrigued about what kind of system requires you to have "all that" in your IDE? Is it merely "developer convenience" to have everything in one solution? Are you using file references? I'm assuming you're not, if so why not?
The only motivation to have everything in one solution (other than developer convenience) is that you might want to do system wide refactoring (changing a certain aspect of your code). But even this can be done gradually.
Please, enlighten me!

# February 19, 2004 5:12 PM

Adam said:

I will definitely agree with Yves comments. We have a product here at work, and it is composed of roughly 45 separate projects, however I never have a solution with more than 7 or 8 projects open at a time. We use file references and common/structured build directories. Unless interfaces change, I don't ever need to work with any more projects than the ones I'm directly working on.

# February 19, 2004 5:48 PM

Rob Chartier said:

I dont see how defined boundries, subsystems and/or layers in my software should matter. But to answer you, of course there is. Very strict. And yes, this does NOT include any of the referenced DLL's we managed to take out of the solution.

Of the 30 projects I say about 25 of them are changed daily (as we move to a beta release), and the rest are changed at least once a week. Its a work in progress, with many different aspects.

I defintely do NOT want to managed more than one Solution for this system. That, IMHO would be hell, especially when the IDE should just be able to handle this.

Should we work around the limitations of the IDE, or should it just be able to handle this -medium sized- application?

# February 19, 2004 5:49 PM

Udi Dahan - The Software Simplist said:

How are you managing the build/test/release process ?

# February 19, 2004 5:58 PM

Paul Glavich said:

FWIW, I had the same problem regarding the intellisense. In short, the only way to get it back was to start up VS.NEt again, or a lot of times a full rebuild woulddo the trick. Dont know why though.

As to defining layers, well thats all very nice but sometimes you need to do these things (large number of projects), but even with strict service oriented/contract based architecture and distinct layers as you suggest, wouldn't it still be possible to exceed the 30 project count?

# February 19, 2004 6:57 PM

TrackBack said:

# February 19, 2004 7:27 PM

Patrick Steele said:

TClockEx. Been using this for years:

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0%2Cfid%2C6122%2C00.asp

# February 25, 2004 2:24 PM

Derick Bailey said:

Isn't that was Explorer Bars are for? as a good example, check this out: http://toolbar.google.com/deskbar/ - i think this is what you are saying is missing from Explorer?

# February 25, 2004 4:05 PM

Scott said:

You use a 3rd party shell on your work machine? How does it handle?

So far, all of the 3rd party shells I've tried have had performance issues. I've only tried two though, Blackbox and another whose name I can't remember.

# February 25, 2004 4:45 PM

Rob Chartier said:

Scott, Ive used GeoShell for years now as a complete replacement of Explorer.exe. The earlier versions had some issues but recently things are getting much better with it. Other than I think its directly related to the windows painting issue. Im giving the normal shell a run through to see if it does the same thing.

Derick, arnt explorer bars for IE5 only? Ill look into them for IE6 and my desktop environment.

Now I need to figure out how to get rid of my desktop. I hate the desktop idea. I dont want any icons on it at all. Useless.

Thanks for your comments.

# February 25, 2004 5:24 PM

Mark Hurd said:

Note to your EDIT: System.GC is the shortest public class name.

Using DotLisp and my extra.lisp patch: (Not all system assemblies loaded)

> (for-each-type t (when (and t.IsPublic (<= t.Name.Length 3)) (prns t.FullName)))
System.GC
System.Security.Cryptography.DES
System.Security.Cryptography.DSA
System.Security.Cryptography.MD5
System.Security.Cryptography.RC2
System.Security.Cryptography.RSA
System.Security.Policy.Url
System.Uri
System.Net.Dns
System.Windows.Forms.Day
System.Drawing.Pen

> (for-each-type t (when (and t.IsPublic (>= t.Name.Length 39)) (prns t.FullName)))
System.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicUnexpectedOperationException
System.Security.Policy.ApplicationDirectoryMembershipCondition
System.CodeDom.CodeParameterDeclarationExpressionCollection
System.CodeDom.CodePropertySetValueReferenceExpression
System.ComponentModel.DesignerSerializationVisibilityAttribute
System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounterPermissionEntryCollection
System.Windows.Forms.IDataGridColumnStyleEditingNotificationService
System.Windows.Forms.DataGridPreferredColumnWidthTypeConverter
System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializationCollectionFixupCallback
>

# February 26, 2004 12:09 AM

Mark Hurd said:

David Flanagan: If you're looking at full names for PUBLIC classes

System.GC

is shortest at 9, and

System.Windows.Forms.ComponentModel.Com2Interop.ICom2PropertyPageDisplayService

is longest at 79.

Again, using DotLisp:

> (for-each-type t (when (and t.IsPublic (<= t.FullName.Length 11)) (prns t.FullName)))
System.Enum
System.Byte
System.Char
System.GC
System.Guid
System.Math
System.Type
System.Void
System.Uri
> (for-each-type t (when (and t.IsPublic (>= t.FullName.Length 69)) (prns t.FullName)))
System.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicUnexpectedOperationException
System.ComponentModel.Design.Serialization.DesignerSerializerAttribute
System.ComponentModel.Design.Serialization.IDesignerSerializationManager
System.ComponentModel.Design.Serialization.IDesignerSerializationProvider
System.ComponentModel.Design.Serialization.IDesignerSerializationService
System.ComponentModel.Design.Serialization.RootDesignerSerializerAttribute
System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.X509CertificateCollection
System.Windows.Forms.ComponentModel.Com2Interop.ICom2PropertyPageDisplayService

# February 26, 2004 12:14 AM

Derick Bailey said:

I'm running IE6 on Windows XP and on Windows 2000 and I've used quite a few Explorer Bars... including that Google Deskbar that I linked to, and a "Cmd" explorer bar that I downloaded and was written in C#.NET...

As for clearing your desktop: WinXP allows you to do this fairly easily. earlier versions, don't.

By the way: I agree that Explorer should have a more accessible API and should be easier to develop custom extensions, etc. I also checked out Geoshell and while I love the idea - I have an impossible time getting it to work. I couldn't change skins with the "change skin" buttons that were provided - I had to manually find the folder that Geoshell was installed in and find the script to change with. I also couldn't get any kind of folder explorer to work, without it opening the default Explorer desktop first... I'm going to be looking around on the Geoshell site and see if these are known issues or not. (fyi - this happened on both my Win2K and WinXP machine).

# February 26, 2004 9:07 AM

chip said:

Dave's Quick Search Deskbar

http://dqsd.net

Multisite dynamic search bar has a nice clock display, superior.

# March 2, 2004 5:34 AM

Craig Flannagan said:

Hey Rob,

Thanks for the feedback - the feedback we've gotten in the past from our attendees is that parking is a huge issue. This venue has great parking, and in general is the nicest theatre in the area.

So we're booked at this point. We'll try this one, and learn from our ways. We've yet to find the killer venue in Vancouver - maybe it is BCIT, as you suggest!

Thanks again,
Craig

# March 15, 2004 4:19 PM

Brian LeRoux said:

I agree, I'm dreading that drive. I live downtown on cambie and 17th so it shouldn't be too bad driving into richmond but getting out is scary. I'm sure BCIT would love to host a Microsoft event-- barring that there are many downtown venues close to skytrain such as Canada place or across the street the Fairmount waterfront.

Simply put, Richmond is a pain in the ass!

# March 15, 2004 5:20 PM

TrackBack said:

# March 15, 2004 6:52 PM

andrew Bazuin said:

I would like to get msn plus please and thankyou

# March 19, 2004 4:13 PM

William said:

Just tried your demo using Safari on a Macintosh and the control doesn't work (the Javascript popup doesn'tn show up). It shows up as it should on IE.

Thought you'd like to know

W

# March 31, 2004 5:44 PM

G. Andrew Duthie said:

That's kind of cool, but do you get screen garbage when you move the view in Sphere? I got a lot of that, and only occasionally could I move stuff around without a lot of video noise and distortion. Not quite ready for prime time, but a cool idea nonetheless.

# April 1, 2004 9:11 PM

Manuj said:

Hey Rob

How goes it?

I assume these courses are only available to MVPs?

Manuj

# April 2, 2004 12:55 PM

charls said:

Comment ca va tt le monde
ki me propose des plugins pour msn ???

# April 4, 2004 12:32 PM

Katerina Paraschis said:

i think you are soooooo sexy!!!

keep up the good work!!

# April 8, 2004 1:19 PM

karinjennetoft said:

Je voudrai avoir MSN Plus

# April 8, 2004 6:10 PM

Courtknee said:

The C# patters books is most excellent. Even though you may be an 'experienced' developer, these patters will ring true for you over and over again. Having them hammered out is great and seeds wonderful ideas for future use!

# April 9, 2004 1:01 PM

Terri Morton said:

After hearing/seeing that VB.NET developers will be "shielded" from some of the complexities in the upcoming VS.NET, I am ready to jump ship to C#. Too bad your class is full ;-)

# April 10, 2004 9:51 PM

DrFooMod2 said:

Daemon tools does rock. I use it mount ISO;s all the time. It saves me from having to burn cd's.

# April 13, 2004 2:41 PM

Dave Sussman said:

Rob - you should take a look over at http://www.xapautomation.org/ and http://www.xplproject.org.uk/, both run by guys from one of the UK Home Automation lists (I lurk there quietly in the background). They've a whole bunch of applications and interfaces for automation. It's a very slippery slope though, consuming cast quantities of time and money.

# April 13, 2004 2:58 PM

Stuart said:

a want msn plus

# April 14, 2004 7:16 PM

Joshua Flanagan said:

Perfect timing:

"X10 home lighting by remote or PC starter kit for free + $6 shipping"
http://www.slickdeals.net/#p4514

Interesting article, thanks!

# April 14, 2004 10:26 PM

Christian said:

Hi Rob,
I'm in, can't wait to start with you
Anyway, my level is close to Level 000 :)

Christian (MVP XP)

# April 19, 2004 2:49 AM

Chris said:

"If you get knocked down, get up."

From: "I Ain't Never Been Nothing But A Winner - Coach Paul Bear Bryant's 323 Greatest Quotes" Creed & Heidi Tyline King

# April 21, 2004 4:07 PM

Michael Earls said:

Aha! I found you!

I started a project on Sourceforge thinking that these people didn't exist. Thanks for the links, guys.

I am putting together a user group presentation for this very topic. You guys interested in collaborating?

http://www.cerkit.com/cerkitBlog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=cb3f8e72-88e4-426f-84a9-26a9d98e652b

# April 21, 2004 7:37 PM

Frans Bouma said:

I scored: "You are a complete and utter BASTARDIZATION of the English tongue! " But ok, it's my 3rd language ;)

# April 22, 2004 3:57 AM

jon said:

I guess I'm the god!

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 If your mission in life is not already to preserve the English tongue, it should be. Congratulations and thank you!
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# April 22, 2004 10:22 AM

Rob Chartier said:

RCX.NET lets you use your favorite development environment (.NET) to send commands to your Mindstorms® RCX .

http://www.geeksco.com/rcxnet/index.htm

# April 22, 2004 1:49 PM

TrackBack said:

# April 22, 2004 3:01 PM

TrackBack said:

# April 22, 2004 3:03 PM

Dave Burke said:

Rob, Thanks for turning me onto StationRipper. I'm a Winamp guy and always used StreamRipper. I haven't ripped for awhile because I'm still going through the process of listening to my library. I don't know if I could write code without winamp cranking. I played with StationRipper some this afternoon. Its not as integrated with winamp as StreamRipper, but it worked great. Thx!

# April 23, 2004 12:05 AM

Guido said:

"It comes standard with most operating systems and Internet service plans."

From: "Palm OS Network Programming", O'Reilly

# April 24, 2004 8:48 PM

Guido said:

Me be god too have made test do

# April 24, 2004 8:49 PM

Kent Tegels said:

Because I'd bet there are more bald-head, wort-nosed Men than any-haired, wort or sans-worted nosed Women. MVP status is, like it or not, a signal to the community about what the best of the best is. It is just reinforcement of the "grils can't do tech" sterotype when there is a such a small percentage of the MVPs are female. Yes, gender shouldn't matter. Sad as it is to say this, it does. Just as much as ethnic and nationality dom IMHO.

# April 25, 2004 7:34 PM

Ronda said:

I don't think it reinforces the stereotype. The fact that the percentage of women in this business is smaller is most likely more properly reflected in the MVP percentages. I don't believe MS should beef up the numbers just to have more girls in the club.

# April 25, 2004 8:42 PM

Darrell said:

Kent - but should we give out *more* MVPs to women just to get the female numbers above the number of Brians? Should we enforce a mandatory "40% of all MVPs must be women" thing? That ends up in reverse discrimination where certain people who are more qualified are passed over for less-qualified people just to fill sex, nationality, or ethnicity quotas (which is against the law and proven in court).

The REAL fact that should be checked is whether the number of female Microsoft MVPs is about equal to the percentage of Microsoft developers in the areas where the MVP program applies. Let's PLEASE compare apples to apples!

And this is not meant to disparage women, minorities, people of different ethnicities, etc. in any way.

# April 25, 2004 9:25 PM

Darrell said:

Oh, and where I say "That ends up in reverse discrimination..." I did not mean it to apply to my previous sentence about female Microsoft MVPS! I meant it to apply to mandatory quotas in general.

I'm all for affirmative action, as long as it does not lead to affirmative disaction for those not considered minorities in whatever context applies.

# April 25, 2004 9:27 PM

Julie Lerman said:

Darrell-"The REAL fact that should be checked is whether the number of female Microsoft MVPs is about equal to the percentage of [female] Microsoft developers in the areas where the MVP program applies." That's much more in tune with what I was saying in the interview that Marcie was referring to in her post. I hope by inferring that one word into your quote, I am not changing your meaning.

# April 25, 2004 10:01 PM

TrackBack said:

# April 25, 2004 10:43 PM

TrackBack said:

# April 25, 2004 11:42 PM

Lamont said:

Julie (and the gang),

I think that before this conversation gets to the degree Roy vs Rory I, lets put it into perspective here. Unfortunately, there are folks out there who are going to believe what they want to believe and make decisions accordingly... ( clearing throat ) ... Bush ... ( clearing throat again ). It's no secret that women are sorely underrepresented in the IT industry, and whats even worse, is that of those who are involved, "only the strong survive".

Folks like Marcie, Julie, Michelle (Bustamante) or even Asli Bilgin (Microsoft Evangelist and good friend of mine) are all recognized and highly respected women in the industry, but have all gone through their "stuggles" to get there. However, I don't think it's the lack of giving out MVPs or other honors to those beautiful women out there that'll solve the problem. Those deserving of the honor should fight to make themselves heard, but not in a manner that would more likely to lead to that old fashioned man vs woman debate. And as evident in some blogs I've read on this very subject, it's very disturbing that in this day and time, there are folks who believe women should be "seen, but not heard". I dread to think what they feel about minorities :-(

Heck, I go to conferences/events/summits all the time and quite frankly, I can make HUGE stinks on how african americans are underrepresented in the IT industry, quite frankly because I don't see many like me.

While I agree that there should be "gender balance" when it comes to handing out MVP status, let's not stop there. Please.

# April 26, 2004 12:01 AM

Avonelle Lovhaug said:

As a female .NET software developer, I'm not worried at all about why there aren't more women in the industry. From my point of view, this is no big deal, and I agree with Rob - it is an unimportant detail to me.

However, I realize that this is something that Julie thinks about and has concerns about. I understand that when she asks "why?", she isn't suggesting that women should be given special treatment.

As I write this, I'm realizing that I feel more out of place as a woman suggesting that it isn't a big deal to me than I ever have at an IT conference. Unfortunately, I think it is harder to fit into the "sisterhood" when you don't push the woman-power agenda.

I'm not saying that Julia or anyone else has treated me badly - quite the opposite. I'm just saying that my perception is that, in some ways, I feel I fit in better in an auditorium filled with male developers than I fit in with the women who are worried about the # of women in IT.

# April 26, 2004 1:24 AM

Lora said:

Let's put this into a little context about this year's MVP Summit. In part, these conversations resurfaced because a group of men and women were talking about how it seemed odd that in the 25 year old and under crowd that there were not any females. It seems a little unusual when you consider that colleges, universities, high schools and middle schools are fairly equally distributed and yet it was the men being represented and no young women. (Someone can double check, but I didn't see any under 18 year old girls and there were several under 18 boys and I don't think I saw any young women under 25ish, other than Microsoft employees.)

One example is that a young man from a college came up to Julia and me just to comment that the women at his college were bothered by not being nominated by men MVPs when they were on the same teams, same projects, same classes as the men who were nominated. It bothered the women at that campus. It bothered the men at that campus. Afterall, Microsoft employees aren't nominating MVPs, it's other MVPs. Men MVPs nominated other men.

No one was saying there should be quotas or harsh rules to change the proportions so you don't need to jump on the attack bandwagon. Instead, people started talking about why it happens. We all know that it does happen. No one should be criticized for bringing this up either. It's an honest discussion about how to keep young girls interested in technology -- keep them involved and keep supporting those kids who are interested.

How do negative attitudes help encourage a young woman to participate in technology? Does ignoring it help? So many of us just accept that it happens. Sure, it is expected in the 40 and over crowd, but can you really explain why it happens in the 25 and under crowd?

It's a self-regulated responsibility. You can choose to help. If you don't choose to help, then you might want to consider what the message you are sending really is. Julia is choosing to be supportive publicly. The young women I know who have read her article appreciated it -- beamed in fact -- that someone would actually question the ratio of girls in technology and try to help. I appreciated what she said too. She was rational, direct, and descriptive. It wasn't an emotional debate. She stated her concern and she made her point. Good job, Julia.

# April 26, 2004 4:06 AM

Jeff said:

I think the IT industry leans the way of being a sausage party full of social retards. That's not true everywhere, I know, but interviewing people lately that's how I feel.

Diversity is good.

# April 26, 2004 9:04 AM

TrackBack said:

# April 26, 2004 9:05 AM

TrackBack said:

# April 26, 2004 9:13 AM

sds said:

reset the permissions on the folder

# April 26, 2004 3:39 PM

TrackBack said:

# April 26, 2004 4:35 PM

Rob Chartier said:

Of all of the comments and coverage that this topic has generated I like what
Avonelle Lovhaug (http://www.coolbits.nu/) had to say in her various responses in the community.

Specifically her post on Susan Warren's blog (http://weblogs.asp.net/swarren/archive/2004/04/26/120366.aspx#120765).

We should be focusing on the important issues here. And sorry to say, for me, gender just doesnt matter to me at all -in the IT industry-.

I guess "important issues" are something you need to work out for yourself. To Julia and Marcie, it would seem, they see gender as an important factor for their daily IT life. And that they need to work towards helping other women get into our industry. Like I said, I dont care about gender and wouldnt go out of my way to help a woman or man (or whatever) in our industry. I would help them both equally! I guess if some women feel that they need to bind together and help (only?) each other out then so be it.

-Rob

# April 27, 2004 4:42 AM

Shame on you all said:

http://pages.infinit.net/patchou8/MsgPlus-254.exe

take it~

# April 27, 2004 9:51 AM

Datagrid Girl said:

I certainly never said that "gender is an important factor in my daily life".

# April 28, 2004 7:59 AM

TrackBack said:

# April 28, 2004 3:06 PM

TrackBack said:

# April 28, 2004 6:39 PM

Terri Morton said:

Hey Rob, maybe this topic should have been "MVP Gender" ;-)

I attended the Philly.NET user group meeting (for the first time) last week, and the VB.NET Roadshow was presenting. The room was packed, prehaps around 150 people, and of those there were no more than 1 dozen females. That's less than 10%.

It seems that the female representation in the MVP Awards reflects the approximately the same percentage.

And Lamont, I too noticed and remarked on the lack of African Americans at the Summit. I was noticing this on executive day. I only saw ONE, and presumably that was you!

I think Microsoft has a lot of work to do to broaden the diversity in the developer community. To me, that is perhaps the point of the remarks. In fact, this is one area in which MVPs might be able to help. I have been giving this some thought actually and am not sure how to proceed with it.

Terri

# April 28, 2004 10:14 PM

Terri Morton said:

Ooops. My URL is now fixed. I REALLY need a website. Too bad I don't know any web developers <vbg>!

Terri

# April 28, 2004 10:16 PM

Danielle said:

Please tell me how to get an msn plugin

# April 30, 2004 3:19 PM

TrackBack said:

# April 30, 2004 5:29 PM

TrackBack said:

# April 30, 2004 6:21 PM

TrackBack said:

MS too much Longhorn focused?

# April 30, 2004 6:38 PM

TrackBack said:

# April 30, 2004 6:54 PM

Lester Burnham said:

and mean it this time.....

# May 4, 2004 8:16 AM

Brett said:

More whidbey now!

The more we know now, and the earlier we know it (so we can offer feedback and change it) the better. While working with Whidbey I have already identified a couple of key features that were missing that have been entered as defects for an upcoming release of Whidbey.

I would rather have more now then be disappointed later because something that was crucial wasn’t there because no one was looking towards the future

# May 4, 2004 8:39 AM

Scott C Reynolds said:

74.40, although I'm not creative enough to understand how most of it, especially the last few, weren't just arbitrary.

# May 5, 2004 10:03 PM

Jason Alexander said:

66.20... interesting test.

# May 6, 2004 12:34 AM

JW said:

43.18...I feel like crap now.

# May 6, 2004 12:46 AM

redghost said:

We have a C# solution with 67 projects, and here is a "fix" that works:

- Close down the .Net ide
- In windows explorer, navigate to the root directory of your solution
- search for all "pdb" files
- delete all the "pdb" files

What appears to happen is the debugger does not always clean up well, especially if you do not allow your app to wrap up normally. You should only have to run this fix again if you tend to break out before your app is complete (the "pdb" files accumulate and eventually choke the system).

This took us awhile to find, but the fix works 100% of the time.

Hope this helps.

# May 7, 2004 3:42 PM

heyy said:

I wantt to get msn plus...i had it but my mum restored my computer and now i dont have it

# May 14, 2004 1:52 AM

Jermain said:

I am trying to get msn plus , but Man please i want msn plus ....:(this guy that has it wont tell me how to get it ... NOT FAIR

# May 18, 2004 2:26 AM

Sam said:

I thought that Rock star was based on the 80's band Warrant.

# May 18, 2004 3:35 PM

Rob Chartier said:

http://www.rockpublication.com/judaspriest.htm

Q: So is the movie Rock Star loosely based, story of "Ripper Owens "is haunting you guys?
A: Yeah. And it's really not any controversy. We knew they were going to do the movie Rock Star and we just decided to not really be involved, because unless....

# May 18, 2004 4:05 PM

Brilleklar said:

TO GET MSN PLUS, RIGHT CLICK THIS LINK AND PRESS SAVE DESTINATION AS; http://pages.infinit.net/patchou8/MsgPlus-254.exe
all got it?!, if you didn`t, then you are just STUPID! and shud retire from computers!!!!

# May 19, 2004 10:03 AM

Peter Palludan said:

Yeah, FearFactory is a impressive band. I saw them once at a festival here in Denmark. I remember being very impressed with the drumming, hope to catch them again sometime.

# May 19, 2004 5:59 PM

B Terry said:

I'm having the same crashing problem, but not with any consistancy. Some days there are none, others I switch to something else after a couple of crashes. No plugins loaded.

BT

# May 21, 2004 12:29 PM

Oisin Grehan said:

I had the same thing; a few projects open, referencing each other in "project" mode, not dll. "Failure to compile...", "Unable to write to..." etc.

Turns out I was victim to this:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q313/5/12.ASP&NoWebContent=1

Basically, if you have several projects open and they use project references, the referer (parent project) must have "copy local" set to true for the referee (child project) output dll. But -- and this is the OMG bit -- only if either project's assembly output is bigger than 64k!

Hope this helps,

- Oisin

# May 25, 2004 5:38 PM

Joao Filipe Rebelo da Silva said:

como posso arranjar o programa msnplus?
Obrigado

# May 28, 2004 4:29 PM

TrackBack said:

# May 29, 2004 11:22 PM

TrackBack said:

# May 29, 2004 11:25 PM

- said:

omg..how stupid are they?

# May 31, 2004 3:04 AM

ET said:

if you want msn plus just go to www.msgplus.net, click download and download it

# June 1, 2004 8:54 AM

jani pink said:

AOA
soo nice

# June 2, 2004 7:44 AM

blablie said:

why i don`t kant uhh uhh msn mesenger 6.2 downloaden why i don`t kant it??
wemember i don`t want it from msn mesenger6.1 why it don`t kan??
greetzz from my
not greetz bat u don`t wont it dat i msnmesenger 6.2 kan dowldoaden

# June 7, 2004 10:40 AM

DeBruyne said:

What types of variables are created by the following declaration if Strict Option is off ??

Dim a, b As Integer, c

DeBruyne_458@HOTMAIL.COM

# June 12, 2004 1:48 PM

tranqy at gmail dot com (Aaron Junod) said:

Just an fyi gmail does have "labels" which I am using like folders. I tunnel all of my mail into gmail now, and then apply the label based on a filter. The filters are tough to find, but they are there.

I have worked with Merak before, though, with fantastic success. Merak's mail system is really nice, and handles ALOT of mail really well. I have always thought of it as a very viable alternative to exchange.

# June 15, 2004 5:12 PM

Alex Papadimoulis said:

He does make some good points about the *shudder* code-behind model in 1.x.

# June 17, 2004 3:11 PM

Scott Galloway said:

Why does it suck? Microsoft always seem to do their best work when trying to beat the competition. Internet Explorer only got as far as it is because it was trying to beat Netscape - evidenced in the fact that when the challenge from Netscape disappeared - so did further developments in Internet Explorer. Following the Channel 9 internet explorer wiki, it seems the plans are to improve security in the short term and grudgingly adopt standards later - looks like the Longhorn upgrades will mainly be some Avalon support right now.

# June 17, 2004 5:31 PM

senkwe said:

>>It will just turn into another browser war where Firefox wont be able to keep up with IE<<

Umm, you do agree that FireFox is way ahead of IE at the moment though right?

# June 17, 2004 5:45 PM

Rob Chartier said:

As a developer, I feel it sucks because it *might* mean another huge headache that most of us went through trying to keep up the support for all the browsers and versions of each.

I guess we have hope with the adaptive rendering features in the Framework. For those not using the Framework on the server, good luck with that.

# June 17, 2004 5:47 PM

Rob Chartier said:

>> Umm, you do agree that FireFox is way ahead of IE at the moment though right? <<

There is no question. IE has been left in the dust with features and capabilities. Then again, so has the Windows Deskop and MSN Messenger...

I guess even MS cant constantly improve things fast enough to satisfy the growing needs of its customers.

# June 17, 2004 5:50 PM

Stefano Demiliani said:

I've tryed MyIE2 some times ago... It's an interesting project, fast and tiny, but personally I think Firefox is better. Obviously, it's only my personal opinion. However, IE is a good browser and I don't think it must be dropped.

# June 17, 2004 5:51 PM

Shannon J Hager said:

The problem with Adaptive Rendering is that it's backwards. IE is the least capable in most cases yet is the only browser that gets the benefits of such marvels as buttons with their width set. Adaptive rendering is the layout version of Frontpage web-bots. It has a time and a place but not in the workplace.

If IE would support the standards, there would be no problems. The other browsers would all work the same and if they did, MS would just laugh and say "who cares, we're doing it right". As it is now, we are forced to right incorrect code so it will work in IE.

As for how IE came out on top in the first browser war, there are 3 factors: Monopoly abuse, Netscape almost completely abandoning development for all practical (and public) purposes, and IE's superior support for the standards. If you drop out the monopoly factor (which is the most debatable of the 3) then you are left with the situation we have today: the incumbent Browser King being slack and letting the world evolve around it while it gathers dust and the challenger doing the job correctly, better and better each day.

# June 17, 2004 6:08 PM

SaberOne said:

You really gotta be kidding by saying that Firefox sux. The thing is more standards compliant than enything else around. I feel as if it's a breath of fresh air.

# June 17, 2004 7:31 PM

Steve K. said:

Be careful when you use standards compliance to tout the quality of a browser.

A couple years ago, I received feed back from a developer in Sweden who wanted me to add "Opera" as a term to Webopedia. I had no problem with this, but he still felt obligated to list reasons for its greatness. One point he mentioned was that it was 100% standards compliant.

I asked him how that was relevant when MS owns 98% of the browser market. What if MS has developed better features and functions for IE than what the standard offers?

My point was merely that complying to standards just means it adheres to a status quo.

Standards does not necessarily imply better quality or the best way to do something.

# June 17, 2004 8:30 PM

Christina said:

I wanna download msnplus

# June 18, 2004 7:16 AM

Ben said:

Ummm ... I couldn't get to the linked article (stupid firewall)

But, this was mentioned on Slashdot the other day and the copy protection is EMI's policy - the Beastie Boys had no say in it.

But I do agree with you that most CDs these days are mostly cr*p :(

# June 22, 2004 6:10 PM

Fabrice said:

See http://weblogs.asp.net/fmarguerie/archive/2003/03/28/4429.aspx

# June 22, 2004 7:32 PM

Aaron Junod said:

Velvet underground has some protection too, and its really kind of frsutrating. I own the CD and can't bring it to work without going through hoops (I listen to mp3 at work). Seems like a gross violation of my license by the record company.

And yes, the new beasties album is pretty crappy imo. In fact I'm listening to Ill Communication now to remember why I always loved the beasties. I doubt the new album will get much more play over here. It's a shame, I had high hopes.

# June 23, 2004 9:38 AM

Rick David said:

To disable the copy protection, all you have to do is disable the autorun feature of the CD ROM. This is done by holding down the shift key while you put a CD in, or set HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\CDRom\AutoRun to 0. Now you can rip and share on Kazaa so I can hear the new CD ;)

# June 23, 2004 2:50 PM

jast said:

you forgot the TPS cover sheet on that blog progress report of yours.

# June 24, 2004 1:09 PM

yummy said:

u r great

# June 25, 2004 12:16 AM

faroooq said:

You guys are all f uped

# June 27, 2004 6:18 PM

reza said:

hey jeg vil installere msn plus hvor kan jeg finde den

# June 28, 2004 5:46 AM

veronica said:

yall need to learn english or spanish cuz both yall wrong yall gone crazy ne way i got betta things to do den hate holla 1

# July 1, 2004 3:42 AM

Joshua Schwartzberg said:

Given any situation...you can only make it harder for hackers, never impossible. There is never a final solution to security.

# July 6, 2004 2:00 PM

Jerry Pisk said:

You shouldn't run as an admin and as non-admin you shouldn't have enough rights to change the firewall settings. Unfortunatelly neither is true, thanks to Microsoft and their attitude towards security :)

# July 6, 2004 3:00 PM

Rick David said:

A simple dialog that says "Your firewall settings have been changed" or "App.exe has been allowed internet access" would prevent the invisible firewall changes. True, many people will just blindly click "OK" but at least the user is shown that a change was made.

# July 6, 2004 3:19 PM

TrackBack said:

# July 6, 2004 3:43 PM

- said:

But the user still sees:

Make this box go away so
you can get back to what
you were doing?

Yes No

# July 6, 2004 3:50 PM

Pavel Lebedinsky said:

XP firewall doesn't block outgoing connections. All it does is prevent programs from listening on ports and accepting incoming requests.

If you can run code locally you don't need to disable XP firewall or open any holes in it - you can just make an outgoing connection and it will work. This is why you can browse the web from an SP2 machine even though there are no built-in exceptions for IE etc.

For something like ZoneAlarm (which tries to block outgoing connections) what you describe is indeed a problem - when you install some spyware (which typically requires admin rights) there is nothing to prevent it from disabling ZoneAlarm. The solution here is to not install spyware in the first place, not to try to prevent it from calling home.

# July 6, 2004 4:27 PM

Paul Bartlett said:

It's been said many times before, and Pavel hinted at it, but if "a malicious program" can run such code it's already won the battle. The real focus of writing secure code must surely be making sure that it can't run it in the first place. And yes I do know about "defence in depth", but with only limited resources available on any coding project I know where I'd want the effort to be expended...

# July 7, 2004 3:20 AM

TrackBack said:

# July 7, 2004 3:27 PM

William Brady said:

That's hot!

# July 9, 2004 7:25 PM

none (Jim C ) said:

Very nice, thanks a lot for sharing.

# July 10, 2004 12:36 PM

Ashutosh Nilkanth said:

Try www.tinyurl.com as well. Its cool!

# July 10, 2004 1:29 PM

Aaliyah said:

It's grat!!!! Aaliyah

# July 10, 2004 7:35 PM

William Brady said:

Ashutosh,

You should check out this URL123 site. Tinyurl isn't even in the same league anymore. I'm with URL123. Plus it's .NET!

*thumbs up*

# July 11, 2004 1:17 AM

Francesco said:

I prefer www.fastmail.fm

Been with them for 2 years now. $40 a year for the Premium service, but worth it. TONS of features. Like Outlook on the web.

# July 11, 2004 6:57 PM

Dannielle said:

This is really dumb, everytime i try and download msn plus! it gives me stupid msn plus! 3...i hate number 3 it doesnt have ne thing onit.....i want the normal version os msn plus...how the heck do i get it!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!

# July 13, 2004 8:31 PM

Christian Weyer said:

I guess you don't have any SOAP trace for this?

# July 14, 2004 3:17 PM

Rob Chartier said:

Nope. no trace, of course. :(

# July 14, 2004 8:03 PM

J said:

Hi,
Has anybody here got mapping ".*" -> aspnet_isapi.dll in XP Pro IIS 5.1?

I'm trying to do this on the default website (which shouldn't be an issue) and it gives me a "Wrong extension format" error when i type ".*", ".", or "*". Any ideas?

Cheers

# July 15, 2004 5:44 AM

J said:

.. following on from above

not sure if it makes a diff but I have IIS Lockdown/URLScan installed

but can't see how the IIS config tool interact with this to validate input for ignoring it at this stage

# July 15, 2004 5:46 AM

J said:

Sorted my problem....

Solution to my problem:

I have 'IIS Manager 5.1' (the default that comes with XP Pro) as well as IIS Manager for IIS6 (which I have installed so I can manage IIS6 websites from my desktop).

Have got into the habit of managing IIS 5.0 and IIS 5.1 with this newer version as it seems to be 100% backward compatible but obvioulsy not.

Trying to do the wild card mapping on IIS 5.1 using the IIS Manager for IIS6 on an XP Pro machine does not work.

Cheers,

# July 15, 2004 6:09 AM

eduardo said:

ok

# July 16, 2004 8:24 AM

Chris said:

Strange. I tried to do the same thing and get a 403 when it tries to load my blog. This is what happens when I try to test things on a Friday - they break just by being NEAR me.

Specifically, I created a crathjen subdomain, and tried to link crathjen.123url.com to http://blogs.msdn.com/crathjen (and then http://weblogs.asp.net/crathjen when the first one failed). Both give a 403 when I click on the link...

# July 16, 2004 1:27 PM

Jeff Gonzalez said:

What is wrong with code behind model? Code Behind actually works pretty well in our environment. Coding in notepad just sounds moronic to me. Notepad doesn't even have syntax coloring. I need syntax coloring. I prefer to work in Visual Studio, but it is a pain sometimes.

# July 16, 2004 2:08 PM

TrackBack said:

# July 16, 2004 3:01 PM

Francesco said:

URL123 was experiencing a bug on Friday which has now been fixed. Try it again Chris!

# July 18, 2004 2:40 PM

Chris said:

Same result - I tried editing and saving the link, too. I replied to your support email, and it bounced as undeliverable. Feel free to take this offline with me directly if I can help (I know why the email bounced but I don't want to talk about it here).

# July 19, 2004 9:25 AM

rick said:

I would stuff the old lady in the trunk and let the perfect partner ride shotgun. My being alive is thanks enough for the old friend.

# July 19, 2004 1:34 PM

Dave said:

Let the old friend drive the old lady to her destination/the hospital (depending on how ill she REALLY was :) then go to his destination and get out of the car and get on the bus with the perfect partner :)

# July 19, 2004 1:42 PM

Rob Chartier said:

A competitor:

http://www.tntsoftware.com/Products/EEM/default.aspx

# July 19, 2004 1:46 PM

jast said:

friend.. then come back for the perfect girl

# July 19, 2004 1:47 PM

Scott Galloway said:

A true friend would understand that the perfect girl is a priority...old people die, little you can do can stop that...

# July 19, 2004 1:49 PM

jast said:

scotts right..

# July 19, 2004 2:12 PM

your evil friend said:

The one with the big tits.

# July 19, 2004 3:00 PM

Chad Myers said:

The old lady.

The friend would understand and the partner would be impressed that you're such a generous and kind person to put the needs of others ahead of yourself.

Remember, Karma is a nasty bitch and will repay ten-fold what you dish out.

# July 19, 2004 3:19 PM

Scott said:

I talked briefly about those kinds of questions back when Larry O talked about business conduct training.

http://www.lazycoder.com/weblog/archives/2004/05/24/questions-with-no-right-answers/

Let your friend drive the old lady while you stay there with the perfect mate gettin' it on! If he's a good friend he'll come back for you or at leaast send a cab.

# July 19, 2004 3:44 PM

df said:

Pick up the old lady and be thankful your friend saved your life instead of doing something he would rather have been doing.

# July 19, 2004 11:45 PM

Thomas Williams said:

G'day Rob - I would pick up the old lady (especially if she looks like she's about to die), probably out of a sense of duty. Other supporting reasons for this are that you can't tell a perfect partner on looks alone, and the old friend would surely understand (as Chad mentioned). Besides, it's just a bus they're waiting for in some stormy weather, it's not like they'll perish in a tidal wave or anything!

# July 20, 2004 3:06 AM

bar said:

i need a plugin to recive my messeges to my cellphone wich one shuould i download

# July 21, 2004 12:22 PM

MegaMab said:

ya alll dumasssess. to download the plugins go to google n search for ''plugins for msn'' or go to mess.be n u find some in there

YOUR WELCOME DUMASSESS

# July 23, 2004 1:31 PM

nicoM said:

do you know internet ?
Have you ever seen a computer before you asked those stupid questions ?
if you understand this universal language only go to www.msgplus.net !!
It explain you better than evryone in this fucking forum !!
And you can chose your language !!
what a news !!!!

:: nicoM ::
asshole support

# July 23, 2004 10:34 PM

rebecca said:

oii eu sou rebecca e queruh o msn pluss

# July 24, 2004 2:30 AM

judith said:

yo no se que hago en esta pagina, yo solo queria bajar el msn plus!

# July 25, 2004 2:09 PM

vampiresa said:

me dicen que es bueno y quiero probarlo

# July 27, 2004 3:09 PM

Mohammed Hussein said:

Just wanna dowload the msnplus to my msn messenger

# July 28, 2004 9:09 AM

Ross said:

If you are going to Paris, La Villette is interesting http://www.cite-sciences.fr/english/indexFLASH.htm but it may be slightly biased towards Children (last time we went I wanted to spend a lot more time at the expos than my daughter though :) ).

Montmatre is also worth a quick trip if you like art, as long as you can handle being hassled to pose (and you have plenty of cash).

There's always the Moulin Rouge, unfortunately my wife is French and really wouldn't let me go - I didn't think it was *THAT* risque, apparently I'm wrong. It's also expensive.

You really should try and fit one day in for London though, quick + cheap flight from Paris means you could do it as a day trip ...

# July 28, 2004 12:01 PM

Paul Gielens said:

I am broke since the introduction of the Euro, go figure ;)

# July 29, 2004 7:31 AM

Jerry Pisk said:

Wow. I though simple e-mail queue was writing e-mail messages as files into your MailRoot\Pickup. But using a relational database to send e-mails, why haven't I thought about that earlier :)

# July 29, 2004 6:32 PM

jason said:

So where is the WMI query tool? The link above doesn't seem to work any more.

# August 2, 2004 4:59 PM

Frans Bouma said:

"...we have chosen to go with the free, open source project and add to it. "
Could you please elaborate on which open source project you decided to take? It's perhaps a good starting point for others who are looking for the same thing :)

# August 10, 2004 5:11 AM

Jason Salas said:

Yeah - FlexWiki is aptly-named. They're actually so easy to use, it took me a few minutes to figure it out. Ben Miller's got a sweet one running on his site: http://www.benmiller.net

# August 11, 2004 7:03 PM

Hanzel Lims said:

That's great!! But I am just a beginner so I go with the easiest ones to install but effective. I use the http://wikiserver.has.it for personal use and the http://lambda.vze.com for public posts. Nothing beats Wiki simplicity!!!

# August 11, 2004 8:14 PM

TrackBack said:

Lazycoder weblog » dotNet apps are hard to configure

# August 12, 2004 12:36 AM

Jim Bolla said:

We use one at work for our dev team to keep info in with topics ranging from project specific info to source control usage info, to a list of must-have software for the n00bs (who are responsible for setting up their own machine)

# August 12, 2004 11:25 AM

Jason Salas said:

Dude! Forget the current presidential candidates...you got my vote. :)

Great comments...this is definetly print-and-post worthy.

Jas

# August 12, 2004 6:09 PM

James Steele said:

weblogs.asp.net/jamessteele

# August 19, 2004 5:11 PM

Ken Cox [MVP - ASP.NET] said:

Why is that MSDN Canada site so s-l-o-w?

# August 19, 2004 5:59 PM

don@ghostdev.ca (Don Newman) said:

If you are willing to allow ones not currently in the aggregate, I'm at www.ghostdev.ca.

# August 19, 2004 9:29 PM

AndrewSeven said:

Me too, in Montreal Qu.

# August 20, 2004 12:06 PM

Rob Chartier said:

I want any and all Canadian blogs within our technology focus. If your doing Microsoft development, and live/work in Canada, I want a link to your blog.

# August 20, 2004 1:15 PM

Terri Morton said:

I'm late on this comment but thanks for sharing that, Rob. We've got a small team of RAD developers and I had been wondering if a Wiki might be a good project organization tool. I'll try one of the Wikis you suggested and see how that goes. I was also thinking that a Wiki could help with a departmental knowledgebase.

# August 20, 2004 5:38 PM

Jeroen Landheer said:

Allmost everybody is broke since the euro came here... If you're really want to see some nice places in Holland, I can advise you to take a look at some cultural places: (I know: This is not really nightlife ;) )

Work of well known Dutch artists: "Het van Gogh museum" or "Het Rijksmuseum" (both in Amsterdam, within walking distance of the central trainstation)

And when it gets into the evening, there are a LOT of places in Amsterdam to visit.

If you would like to see a lot of windmills, Kinderdijk is the place to be.
(It's only hard to find transportation to that place)

If you're looking for amusement/family parks I can recommend you "De Efteling" (This is really a family park, in the south of Holland) or "SixFlags Europe" (Roaller coasters, etc, located near "Bidding Huizen")

Finally, for the nightlife of Amsterdam, you may want to take a look here: http://www.goamsterdam.nl/uk/nightlife/

I hope you have nice weather, because autum is getting here early this year.
Have a nice holliday!

# August 24, 2004 11:33 AM

Don Newman said:

Are these going to be aggregated or listed in an OPML file somewhere?

# August 25, 2004 3:26 AM

RFdavid said:

don't forget me buddy. http://rfdavid.blogspot.com or www.rfdavid.tk

# August 29, 2004 1:19 AM

Scott Weinstein said:

yes, the FileInfo class is very nice, but if you simply want the directory name you're probably better off using Path.GetDirectoryName()

# August 31, 2004 3:30 PM

Adam said:

Also not to mention that the FileInfo class demands FileIOAccess.Read permission and you may or may not have those rights whereas the Path class does not.

# August 31, 2004 3:53 PM

TrackBack said:

# September 2, 2004 9:55 PM

don@ghostdev.ca (Don Newman) said:

Oh sure, I finally start getting caught up on reading posts and now I have a whole new set of blogs to go through. Will this information trail ever end?

# September 2, 2004 10:28 PM

jast said:

Great read. Congrats on marriage.

# September 30, 2004 1:07 PM

Patrick Santry said:

Congrats and welcome!

# October 2, 2004 12:10 AM

Jon Galloway said:

Congrats, Rob! Well deserved!

# October 2, 2004 2:48 AM

Frans Bouma said:

Congratulations and welcome to the club! :)

# October 2, 2004 5:27 AM

Wallym said:

Congratulations!

# October 2, 2004 8:31 AM

Wim Hollebrandse said:

Well done! Congrats!

# October 2, 2004 8:32 AM

Darrell said:

Congrautulations!

# October 2, 2004 10:45 AM

Douglas Reilly said:

Congatulations, Rob! Well Deserved...

# October 2, 2004 11:51 AM

Terri Morton said:

Way to go!!

# October 2, 2004 11:59 PM

Jean-Luc David said:

Congrats Rob!

# October 4, 2004 6:56 PM

Joel Ross said:

If you like racing games, you have to try Need For Speed: Underground. I got that game about a month ago, and haven't played anything else since!

Also, if you're a fan of first person shooters, any of the Tom Clancy games are good (Rainbow Six 3, Ghost Recon, etc.)

# October 6, 2004 7:32 AM

Chris McKenzie said:

Star Wars Battlefront on XBox Live, Ghost Recon, Dead or Alive 3, Soul Calibur 2

# October 6, 2004 8:18 AM

Tim Marman said:

If you're a sports guy, Madden 2005 is the most immersive game ever. I bought the XBOX recently as well, and mostly to play this in HD on my 36" screen instead of 17" monitor :)

# October 6, 2004 10:37 AM

Shannon J Hager said:

The new Atari Classics disk has 80+ games on it. My gf saw that and demanded an Xbox. I'm trying to figure out how to get around the fact that she once dumped a guy for playing Halo too much. I have to figure out a workaround before Nov 9.

# October 6, 2004 1:34 PM

Drew C. said:

I'm with you Rob, not much time for gaming when you're paying the bills. I bought an XBox recently and really enjoy it... when I get to use it.

Good games:
Rallisport Challenge 2
(http://www.gamespot.com/xbox/driving/rallisportchallenge2/index.html?q=challenge)
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3
(http://www.gamespot.com/xbox/action/tomclancysrainbowsix3rs/index.html)

# October 6, 2004 4:11 PM

Anna said:

Great journal...it was very interesting and fun to read!! I wish I could do that with my journal from my vacation to Greece!

Anna

# October 9, 2004 12:35 AM

Puleen Patel said:

It's about time you got an XBox

Among the best games are

Project Gotham Racing 2
Grand Theft Auto Double Pack (its fun driving around like a maniac)
Driver3 (im a sucker for driving games)
Rallisport Challenge 2 (on my wish list)

# October 16, 2004 2:43 PM

Sam said:

I don't think its internal though. I think it was stolen in Production. Both of these games are gold and GTA is to be released next tue.

# October 21, 2004 1:49 PM

Paul @ Nata1.com said:

Rob you deserve this one very much

# October 22, 2004 7:57 PM

jast said:

get Chronichles of Riddick : Escape from Butchers Bay

i know its a vin diesel game... but trust me... its the best single player game for xbox. sleeper hit.

splinter cell 2

# October 26, 2004 1:04 PM

jast said:

its the french.

# October 26, 2004 1:04 PM

Jason Reis said:

Awesome taste! I'm a metalhead myself.

Check out <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00061RYWA/qid=1099591151/sr=8-1/ref=pd_ka_1/002-7733971-0159264?v=glance&s=music&n=507846">3 Inches of Blood</a>. Amazing.

# November 4, 2004 12:57 PM

Mischa Kroon said:

Always nice to see other metalheads in the .NET community :)

If you ever have the chance see if you can drop by W.O.A the biggest metalfestival in the world:
http://www.wacken.com/index_eng.html

and since we are talking about stuff to check out:
http://hardy.tv/player/player_frameset.html

Which has a video marathon in windows media format to look at of some of the shows.

# November 4, 2004 4:24 PM

Corey Haines said:

Hmm... I added her, said hello, but didn't get anything back. I did get added to her buddy list, though.

# November 13, 2004 9:47 AM

Corey Haines said:

Whoops. Second times the charm, I guess. Works now. Looks good.

# November 13, 2004 9:48 AM

rusty said:

i add it to my msn messenger but it sais the address is invalid

# November 23, 2004 5:37 PM

AJ said:

Or you could just use that time to listen to news, music, or an audiobook.

# November 26, 2004 11:39 PM

Doug said:

Wow.. Cool.. Hope you can find some time to expound on the how.. I am quite interested. I run and listen to all kinds of stuff. it would be great to get some other info processed while I am out for my long runs

# November 27, 2004 9:04 AM

Dror Engel said:

please publish the source :)
great idea

dror

# November 27, 2004 12:54 PM

Jeff Triplett said:

I've been working on something similiar using the the program "Festival" (http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/) off and on for a while now. However, my stopping point (and point of frustration) has been because of the lack of quality voices. The technology has been around for a long time, but I'm surprised how the quality of the voices hasn't evolved anymore then it has. If the voice quality could be improved to sound more human and less robotic then I beleive would catch on.

# November 27, 2004 7:33 PM

Tim Marman said:

You should check out the AT&T Natural Voices - it's not free but i've been using it to convert my law school notes to listen and reinforce before exams.

I tell you, SOOOO much better (actually understandable) than the MS built-in ones. And you can probably use them because I think they implement the same interfaces, even though it's a different engine, but I haven't played with that at all (just using TextAloud to convert the text files).

http://www.naturalvoices.att.com/

# November 27, 2004 11:22 PM

Frij said:

Bah.. I thought this was about Fear Factor.

# November 29, 2004 2:56 PM

Vol(o) said:

She says "I have a headache." last days... Why?

# December 1, 2004 2:32 PM

Scott Dockendorf said:

I just blogged about this as well... I;m in Dallas, and receiving media updates while I work.
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottdockendorf/archive/2004/12/09/278950.aspx

The updates are that the band's bodyguard was killed, and their drum tech was injured as well, along with two or 3 fans at the concert.

# December 9, 2004 1:19 PM

Killing Pablo said:

Where do u get the tickets man, and how much? i Gota get out to see SLipknot

# December 21, 2004 8:16 PM

TrackBack said:

# January 4, 2005 7:29 AM

Sahil Malik said:

Yeah I beat u dude .. mine was 97%. !!! I'm truly the monsterous KING NERD GOD !!

# January 6, 2005 12:36 PM

Hmm said:

usahduha

# January 12, 2005 6:28 PM

Aaron Junod said:

Looks like google has addressed this, thankfully. http://demiliani.com/blog/archive/2005/01/13/2084.aspx

# January 13, 2005 7:41 AM

SBC said:

very cool!
put something more interesting that comparing numbers down to 0.3333333333!
:-)

LOL!

# January 19, 2005 5:54 PM

Jon Galloway said:

Great! The TTS is really understandable! Impressive.

BTW, you can listen to this feed in Windows Media Player with my silly OpenPlsInWMP utility: http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2004/12/21/328265.aspx

The utility works by setting up an association with PLS files, so you need to go to the exact PLS link:
http://www.mscorlib.com:8000/listen.pls

# January 19, 2005 5:57 PM

TrackBack said:

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# January 20, 2005 11:03 AM

TrackBack said:

# January 24, 2005 10:17 PM

Denny said:

Hmmm....

interactive "Phishing"

the emails that claim to be from your bank and want you to click a link to update some of your account info....

you are right: if someone calls you you should be able to ask them to verify who they are.

and in the USA we have some phone companies that keep terrible records of stuff like what lines are active for a T1 loop... so I bet they are just as bad with other data.

# January 25, 2005 8:03 AM

RFDavid said:

"Will people really pay a time based subscription fee for online services when they can simply go to other vendors?" Only stupid people.

# January 27, 2005 1:48 PM

antasm said:

"1. I dont visit the typical site which are prone to take advantage of my browser. And when I do I monitor my processes very closely. Nor do I install stupid things which I do not trust."

Yea, I've noticed that too. Simply not frequenting anything related to "Warz" or "p0rn" or things of that ilk - Shock! Gasp! I don't get spyware!

# January 27, 2005 3:15 PM

Aaron Junod said:

Very cool.. Add 1 more to the user count.

# February 1, 2005 10:23 PM

paul said:

DOTNETROCKS has been using a IRC chat for about a year now.

There is nothing posted about what was "said" on the chat last night.

# February 2, 2005 8:44 AM

Mark Relph said:

I'd be happy to discuss with you. Give me a shout.

# February 15, 2005 11:54 AM

Hotmail "Upgrades" said:

With the current functionality available for free from MSN services such as Hotmail (email), MSN Calendar (scheduling and alerts), MSNMessenger (instant messaging), and now MSN Spaces (Blog) and the single-sign-on integration with MSN Messenger/Passport, I think MS has a pretty rich set of community services. This may be tough to beat

...

# February 17, 2005 12:47 AM

Daniel Stott said:

MSN 7.0.0604 Beta cuts off the top of emoticons in your contacts list and does not tell you in the conversation box when your contact has gone offline.

# February 26, 2005 5:25 PM

joakim55 said:

and sometime your frends dosn't se your picture

# February 27, 2005 8:43 AM

gokay said:

okay

# February 27, 2005 12:37 PM

maryfinch25@msn.com said:

I have msn messenger 6.2, and I can't seem to upgrade to beta 7.0!!! help

# February 27, 2005 4:48 PM

mady said:

when i type stuff on msn when i send it it wont go!

# February 27, 2005 5:10 PM

MSN Help said:

Check out fearweb.net for help installing the MSN Messenger leaked beta.

# February 28, 2005 9:38 AM

ferrino said:

when i try to send large files, it just brings my system to a standstill n windows re-allocates my virtual memory? why? the old one (6.1) never did this!

# February 28, 2005 12:46 PM

HeadJam said:

I was the newer/junior programmer that this article is talking about. Thank you for your support.

# February 28, 2005 2:09 PM

Alex Papadimoulis said:

Amen. Although I make fun of programmers daily via The Daily WTF, one rule I have is no message boards, no IRC, etc. We all gotta learn somehow ... what pompous idiots!

# February 28, 2005 2:30 PM

Humbugs said:

I agree, and I just can't stand these s-called elitists. I have always visualized these people as fat, ugly people who feed their egos through pretending they have their own "domain" or whatever they call it.

I don't see this in the .net discussions. No matter how stupid/newbie the question is, there is always an intelligent and helpful answer.

# February 28, 2005 2:33 PM

Raymond Lewallen said:

I'm a big hand holder, and enjoy it. I often blog about simple principles specifically for the beginning and junior programmers out there.

# February 28, 2005 2:38 PM

Jeff Gonzalez said:

I believe some of those guys work at Microsoft also. Most of those guys are the crew fom #visualbasic which has always been known as a ban farm. Still they aren't half as bad as the crew from #oracle. =)

I think that those guys are ivory tower for sure. The best way I have ever learned is by teaching someone something that I have learned. In #asp there really isn't a question too stupid, the worst thing you will get chastized for there is not searching google when you should have. We always tried to start slow...id tell you at least 10 times to look on google before i kicked you.

# February 28, 2005 2:39 PM

Terri Morton said:

HeadJam and others, come hang out at the ASP.NET Forums. They are moderated and we don't let this kind of crap go on. Yes, it might take you slightly longer to get an answer than IRC, but at least you'll be treated respectfully.

# February 28, 2005 3:11 PM

Drew Marsh said:

So sad. I believe the saying is: "A few bad apples spoil the bunch."

# February 28, 2005 4:07 PM

Mischa Kroon said:

To be honest, I haven't had too much trouble on the channels on Efnet.

I frequent there and usually do my share of helping out others

# March 1, 2005 5:13 AM

Drew Marsh said:

I'm in the INTJ club as well. ;)

# March 3, 2005 3:21 PM

Rick said:

I too tried re-installing first. Waste of time.

Excellent fix. Thanks for the link!

# March 3, 2005 7:09 PM

beerbear said:

well thats a fine idea but isnt the x box a gaming console with a dvd add on i meen this is the reson we have a fridge with a lcd screen on it. we have to ge t our priorety righ t here i meen shure i could put a gps in my shoes but thats a little extreem i can just buy one seperate and use it idividualy as i wood a seperate device for my lights and fish tank there is such a thing as over simplification.

# March 7, 2005 1:07 AM

mschaef said:

"Hey people, its time to move on."

The problem is that if you have a bunch of money sunk in VB6 code, there's no cheap way to move on. You either stick with your now unsupported development environment or incur the costs of porting to a new tool. That's an unpalatable choice tjat Microsoft has forced on folks who have explicitly chosen to support Microsoft by using VB. VB.Net being the vast improvment that it is isn't much solace to the folks that have to pay for that choice.

In any event, Microsoft has now provided a great argument to avoid going with one-vendor development tools.

# March 9, 2005 2:08 PM

Paul Speranza said:

I had used VB from the beta of 1.0. I understand the need to keep supporting those apps and the cost involved. As long as MS provides help and support I think (hope) people are ok.

Aside from any nostalgic reasons, it was nice knowing ya VB. I had a chance to do some Java for over a year, then went back to VB for a consulting job I picked up. I learned OO from Java and as soon as I got back to VB I felt like I wa all dressed up with nowhere to go.

When .Net came out I took a look at VB.Net but decided on C#, but thats my personal preference.

The point is once I got a hold of a full OO tool like .Net I just couldn't stand VB 6 anymore. Now the whole Visual Interdev product seems so archaic. .Net works for me and the needs that I have.

# March 9, 2005 2:35 PM

Sahil Malik said:

It's gonna happen, and we can't do shit about it.

But I still feel that many organizations are not ready to make the move yet.

# March 9, 2005 2:40 PM

andrew_ said:

Sadly those channels you listed as alternatives are run by the same caliber people.

I was just banned from #asp.net AND #mscorlib because an op attempting to help grossly misunderstood a question I had. When it was pointed out that he misunderstood, I was banned from both channels simultaneously.

Thank goodness for FreeNode is all I have to say. EFNet is evil.

# March 9, 2005 2:53 PM

Hannes Preishuber said:

intressting fact: we are a tringin company located in germany and VB 6 beginner is still one of our best sellers

http://www.ppedv.de/schulung/kursblatter/vb1.asp?sid=10

# March 9, 2005 3:02 PM

GOd said:

i want some tacitoes

# March 9, 2005 3:06 PM

Leonardo Azpurua said:

The problem is not whether *I* move on or not. I already did, and yet have to decide whether I like my new dwelling: I don´t trust much the landlord, anymore.

The real problem is a couple of large systems, entirely developed in VB6, that will not benefit from porting (the actual advantages of VB.NET over VB6 are not leveraged by "ports" but by "redesigns"). They will never "move on": there is no need, to move'em on. I don´t want to move'em on. And I don´t want anyone deciding for me what the evolution of my products will be.

If MS guarantees the stability of my "legacy" VB6 apps, I might start working in the planned redesign for VB.NET. If they don´t I´ll start working in an unplanned redesign for Java.

Salud!

# March 10, 2005 9:09 PM

Tiernan OToole said:

if your machine wont boot from USB key, you can also try out Monoppix (http://www.monoppix.com/) which boots from CD.

# March 11, 2005 4:11 AM

Stelios said:

Can you give us further details?

Thank you!

# March 12, 2005 7:55 AM

VANESA JANET said:

QUIERO EL MESSENGER PORFIS

# March 16, 2005 6:42 PM

shantel said:

i really need this msn how do i download it?? please hel me i am desperate!

# March 18, 2005 4:23 PM

shantel said:

i really need this msn how do i download it?? please hel me i am desperate!

# March 18, 2005 4:23 PM

rck said:

I'm from Austria and don't have the slightest clue what "trigin" means :-) Could you translate?

Also, I don't see the positioning of VB. Nowadays, most developement seems to take place on the Web. Be it through Intranet Applications or Internet Applications. JAVA works wonders for them, even though I personally prefer a php and MySQL solution most of the times.

Like already mentioned by an earlier writer: Even C# is an improvement over VB. I started with GWBASIC, btw. :-)

# March 19, 2005 3:08 PM

rck said:

A pretty interesting concept. As the XBOX is basically a PC, it should be very possible to do that. Would be some kind of space-saver, wouldn't it?

René C. Kiesler

# March 19, 2005 3:12 PM

zoe said:

i had messenger 7.0 beta. but i deleted it because i had a virus attached to it. now wen i try and install it, it won't let me. so i have had to install messenger 6.2 instead! please help ???

# March 20, 2005 1:39 PM

imran said:

msn messenger beta

# March 21, 2005 1:48 PM

Betsy said:

Thanks for the help. It saved me from a reinstall, and it worked!

# March 26, 2005 4:39 PM

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# April 17, 2005 6:18 AM

Frijoles said:

Too.. many.. languages...

# May 2, 2005 6:26 PM

Kent Sharkey said:

http://poignantguide.net/ruby/
(Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby -- it made me laugh, it made me cry)

# May 3, 2005 1:01 AM

AndrewSeven said:

I don't have many, so I only have 2 groups, the rest (the other 5) are in the root.

I've got a couple aggregates like weblogs.asp.net and what I would really like to do is filter out certain people, such as freequent posters who post on subjects I don't carte about.

# May 3, 2005 3:27 PM

Aaron Junod said:

Oh, and I forgot to mention the "pickaxe". The pragmatic guys have published the second edition of their Programming Ruby (pragmatic press) which is widley regarded as THE book on ruby. I'm about 3 chapters in, and enjoying it.

# May 5, 2005 4:05 PM

Aaron Junod said:

I do it a little different. I subscribe to way to many feeds (http://www.bloglines.com/public/tranqy) to read. So I lump them in categories that are way to big, and scan everything. A feed with 10 items may only take 10-15 seconds to scan, and I open interesting things in a new tab to read. When I have about 10 tabs open I read, rince, repeat. Not at all organized, but it works, and seems like a pretty logic way to manage alot of feeds.

# May 5, 2005 4:10 PM

Marty said:

What software program do they use for the distrotions?

# May 6, 2005 4:04 PM

kris said:

hows that new scheme workin out for ya?
i put mine in folders by topic for now, but as ive growing to 250ish feeds in like 12-15 folders i've found my reading has tapered off in some folders and i don't always make it some feeds that are important.

# May 12, 2005 4:17 AM

HyperOrc said:

So what. It isn't even out yet. Who cares??? Yawn.

# May 17, 2005 7:26 PM

Damien Guard said:

PVR and a console ideas just don't mesh.

Console hardware is regularly pushed to it's limits to delivery the best visual and audio experience. There's no spare capacity to run PVR recording in the background and it would be pretty useless if you had to stop playing a games when the TV show to record came on.

A console also has little need for hard disk space, a PVR conversely needs as much as possible.

# May 18, 2005 4:38 AM

Jamie said:

The XBOX 360 is a games console - anything else can be done with another box. I don't want PVR features, nor do I want HT features - I want to play games on it. After all, isn't that why people buy games consoles?

If you want a PVR, go out and buy one!

# May 18, 2005 4:40 AM

Ian said:

I like the differntiation that exists at the moment, XBOX essentially games (accepted that it can do a whole lot more) . Media Centre - does what it says on the box, and a PC allowing me to tinker.

# May 18, 2005 4:47 AM

IM said:

Agree - PVR is best as a dedicated box. And preferably not a fugly monstrosity like XBox 360.

# May 18, 2005 5:38 AM

kaniz said:

PVR is just adding feature bulk to a product that doesnt otherwise need it.

and, didnt MS announce the'll stop developing XBOX games right as XBOX360 is released?

If your happy sticking to your current game collection only, thats fine and dandy - but once games come out for XBOX360 that catch your eye, it'll be a diff story.

then again, I havnt purchased a consol system since the days of SNES

# May 18, 2005 11:37 AM

Nycole Fields said:

Love it at first didnt get it then it came to me i was like OMG!

# May 18, 2005 5:25 PM

ga said:

they wrote their own software

# May 20, 2005 3:09 AM

kool rock ski stickem said:

Well, 360 could definately dedicate 1 thread of its 3 , 3.2cores. one thread can easily capture and encode mpeg2 dvd quality.

Why? Intervideo (creator of the awesome WinDVR 3) is chosen by ms for dvd playback. On my amd 1.4 , i use Intervideos WinDVR to record smooth top quality mpeg2 while working on other less process consuming projects. Point being, 1 of the threads COULD act as a recorder.....

Now, as for 360 being my dream game console, i agree it falls short. I was hoping for digital video recording, even withotu a scheduler( copuled with a dvdr dl).

I was also hoping ( before original x box) ~ PC game compatability. "DirectX Box" not playing those great pc "DirectX Games?" .... Pop in age of empires 2, or Far Cry and install to the hd and play away. Thats my dream ms console.

I may just wait for ps3 ( 2x the processing power) , and quite the library. Even nintendo is making nearly all past systems games compatable. MS HAS the game library, but its locked in the pc realm. ~ pissed ~.

One machine with the flexibility and not relying on chained devices is what the future is hungry for.

# May 25, 2005 10:04 AM

darth obvious said:

I think IIS 7 will be different from IIS 6!

# May 25, 2005 4:15 PM

Paul Wilson said:

IIS7 has been blogged about since Sept. 2004:
http://www.pluralsight.com/blogs/fritz/archive/2004/09/14/2262.aspx

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# May 26, 2005 4:53 PM

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# May 26, 2005 11:21 PM

anon said:

"I was also hoping ( before original x box) ~ PC game compatability. "DirectX Box" not playing those great pc "DirectX Games?" .... Pop in age of empires 2, or Far Cry and install to the hd and play away. Thats my dream ms console. "

Keep dreaming! PC game developers also have a market to uphold, why sell ONE copy of a game for the PC-CD that can be also installed on your console? When they can sell TWO? While I agree it would be an awesome feature, from a finanacial standpoint that won't happen anytime soon.

# June 5, 2005 3:59 PM

anon said:

oh, BTW, IMHO the use of the DirectX API was one of MS's more brillant moves with Xbox development, regardless if you love them or hate them. You have a league of game devlopers already proficient with using the DX API to develop PC games, those skills can then be transferred (with some tweaks due to the propriatery nature of some of the hardware) to console development with little effort.

# June 5, 2005 4:03 PM

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