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On a GUI App I was working on in a previous employer I asked the .NET C# guys how to disable/hide a UI element. I was met with incredulous stares and a 'you don't want to do that' response. As far as I could tell there was NO WAY to enable/disable/hide a UI element without writing my own from scratch.

Unless you were using some weird non-standard GUI layer, I'd fire those devs.

The standard WinForms controls all have .Visible and .Enabled properties. And always have, since .NET 1.0.

They're named .IsEnabled and .Visibility in the newer WPF graphics layer.

I COULD NOT FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO IT!

And they would have shown up in the Visual Studio property editor, so I'd have to fire you as well.

Mostly a stupid article written by a guy who is mostly clueless. I love statements such as:

Try using DirectX 10 or later from C# for example.

Was this supposed to be something hard to accomplish or has the guy never heard of XNA Game Studio?

I love it. Check out the By line on the article, and then the page on Meet the Team

Ian Elliot

Specialist subjects: JavaScript, web programming, .NET programming

As a freelance consultant Ian is used to meeting challenges in a range of arenas and using all the tools and skills a programmer has in their armoury. He has written numerous articles for VSJ mainly on web development.

So, he's NOT a DirectX expert? Javascript is listed first? I call bullshit that he ever even tried to interop on DirectX.

Mostly a stupid article written by a guy who is mostly clueless. I love statements such as:

Try using DirectX 10 or later from C# for example.

Was this supposed to be something hard to accomplish or has the guy never heard of XNA Game Studio?

I'm betting this works with kinect soon.

It has an Ethernet and a Wifi module. Microsoft recently released a Kinect sdk that works with .NET, so you could write the portion of the code that uses Kinect on a PC in the same language that you use on the device and just send the data over TCP.

String can be any size and only restricted by available memory.

It's not like you can't get that with counted strings. If you're in the "infinite" limit case, then you're already doing something very different than just treating a block of memory as a string, and so you can either use a terminated string in that (very unusual) case or allow for a variable-sized count field.

What's the size? What byte order? What bit size? How will this affect communications between platforms?

The size of the counter I'll grant you -- IMO this may be the biggest reason that I'm glad for historical reasons that C didn't go with count fields. (I'm worried that we'd still be using 2-byte fields or something nowadays.) But I think you're overstating the problems with it... you already have to worry about all of those problems.

It's entirely (theoretically anyway) possible - given the kind of code I've seen in browsers and server code -that the web couldn't have existed without some of these assumptions. The "streaming" so core to unix depends on this... how else does one know when one hits the end of a file or a buffer?

I don't buy that one iota.

So first, "how do you know when you git the end of a file"? That's not signaled by null in the first place, so the same way you do now. End of a buffer? Because you reached the count.

Second, it's not like if there was a situation where you'd frequently not know the size of the data a priori you wouldn't be able to change the protocol and include a terrminator in that instance. (You could use this to still provide something like find's -print0 and xarg's -0 if you didn't want lengths to show up on standard out.)

Third, think about what your assertion basically boils down to: that you can't do web programming in languages that give you counted strings. And of course that's crazy.

Personally I think there's something you don't see much in this debate: there are actually three pieces of information that matter: the string data, the length of the string, and the size of the buffer. It's always necessary to track the first, but any time you want to extend the length of the string you have to track the third. (And that's a fair bit.) In my ideal world, C's "standard" string representation (supported by the language-provided APIs) would have been like that. (Windows has it right.)

I wont say this will kill anything, but it sounds fun. I'm betting this works with kinect soon.

Good call.

Kinect Services for RDS provides sample services that use the Kinect for Windows SDK to allow access to the Depth and RGB data from a Kinect sensor. In addition to a service for a real Kinect, there is also a service for a simulated Kinect that works with the RDS simulator. A sample application is included that shows how to use a Kinect on a simulated robot to wander around and avoid obstacles.

Kinect Services for RDS 2008 R3

I think he was referring to that feature in VS where, while debugging and paused, you can right-click a line of code and say "Set next statement" - and then when you step or run that's where it'll continue. It doesn't quite let you do it with any line, especially in release builds, and the results can sometimes be hilarious, since you can skip initialization or break loop invariants very easily. Still, it can be handy.

Got one even better: The school/district's Microsoft EA/SA download site. Now they get to set up accounts for pretty much everyone in the district.

...and Heaven help them if the school has any Oracle licensing...

depends how stupid the user is and how he uses it

Like, being stupid enough to use Visio? Have a Bluetooth device? Work with Excel? Have .NET installed? Use Silverlight to watch Netflix? Ever allow their desktops to display text for any reason? Run an app that uses DNS?

Yeah. You'd have to be a complete moron to want to do any of those extreme, unusual, inherently risky things.

no?

No.

depends how stupid the user is and how he uses it

Like, being stupid enough to use Visio? Have a Bluetooth device? Work with Excel? Have .NET installed? Use Silverlight to watch Netflix? Ever allow their desktops to display text for any reason? Run an app that uses DNS?

Yeah. You'd have to be a complete moron to want to do any of those extreme, unusual, inherently risky things.

no?

No.

depends how stupid the user is and how he uses it

Like, being stupid enough to use Visio? Have a Bluetooth device? Work with Excel? Have .NET installed? Use Silverlight to watch Netflix? Ever allow their desktops to display text for any reason? Run an app that uses DNS?

Yeah. You'd have to be a complete moron to want to do any of those extreme, unusual, inherently risky things.

no?

No.

depends how stupid the user is and how he uses it

Like, being stupid enough to use Visio? Have a Bluetooth device? Work with Excel? Have .NET installed? Use Silverlight to watch Netflix? Ever allow their desktops to display text for any reason? Run an app that uses DNS?

Yeah. You'd have to be a complete moron to want to do any of those extreme, unusual, inherently risky things.

no?

No.

depends how stupid the user is and how he uses it

Like, being stupid enough to use Visio? Have a Bluetooth device? Work with Excel? Have .NET installed? Use Silverlight to watch Netflix? Ever allow their desktops to display text for any reason? Run an app that uses DNS?

Yeah. You'd have to be a complete moron to want to do any of those extreme, unusual, inherently risky things.

no?

No.

depends how stupid the user is and how he uses it

Like, being stupid enough to use Visio? Have a Bluetooth device? Work with Excel? Have .NET installed? Use Silverlight to watch Netflix? Ever allow their desktops to display text for any reason? Run an app that uses DNS?

Yeah. You'd have to be a complete moron to want to do any of those extreme, unusual, inherently risky things.

no?

No.

depends how stupid the user is and how he uses it

Like, being stupid enough to use Visio? Have a Bluetooth device? Work with Excel? Have .NET installed? Use Silverlight to watch Netflix? Ever allow their desktops to display text for any reason? Run an app that uses DNS?

Yeah. You'd have to be a complete moron to want to do any of those extreme, unusual, inherently risky things.

no?

No.

No it wasn't. The computer I'm on now is XP, it doesn't have native zip support- I needed to install good old WinZip.

Yes it was; no you didn't.

Recently I was involved with a medium sized desktop roll out for an insurance company in Australia, they decided to stick with Windows XP & Office 2003 because this combination does everything required, is stable, secure and the users & admins are comfortable with it. They expect to be with this combination for at least 3 years.

Obviously cost savings were a factor, an OS upgrade 7 would lead to an update of office, which would require a new set of standard templates/documents, costly staff training and not to mention the server side of things. Office 2010 conveniently doesn't support Exchange 2003. When considering 5,000+ workstations these things matter.

Microsoft is failing to demonstrate the real benefits of an upgrade to Windows 7? Looking at http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/features, the main appealing item is 64-bit support, but it's possible to run XP 64-bit. Two features that interest me are the Windows Deployment Tools and the new Windows Search services.

Not any more! After selecting an Operating system and language you will have the option of downloading "Windows XP Mode Update: Enables Windows XP Mode for PCs without Hardware Assisted Virtualization Technology"

First of all I have to say that I think its commendable for a company to support a product for so long. Its also one of the reasons why there will always be a place for Windows servers (I wouldn't want them for Internet usage, but IMO they make very good office servers); you can be sure up front when you may have to replace said server with another OS.

There is however one issue here... Sure; Windows 7 is bound to get a larger market share; but did the researchers also keep in mind that with Windows 7 professional and up you can easily run a native Windows XP environment within Windows 7 ? I'm referring to the Windows XP mode which you can download here.

Its build on Microsoft Virtual PC (which is freely available) yet when you're running Win7 Professional or higher you can also download a Windows XP ISO (this is basically what it is) which is then used to quickly setup a full Windows XP environment. It gets even better: you can "propagate" applications from inside the virtual PC so that you can easily start these from the regular Win7 start menu as if they were regular Win7 applications (but because its running in a full virtual XP environment the application itself will also use the native XP look and feel).

To be honest I'm quite impressed and happy with this. I even use it to "put aside" applications which I want to try or use without having it "polluting" my main Win7 environment. And when I'm done with it I simply revert my virtual PC back to the original snapshot and all is clean again (of course I will need to re-install certain updates).

So... When they did this research I wonder if they kept this into mind as well? Just because someone is running Windows 7 doesn't necessarily mean he or she gave up on XP entirely.

btw... What I also really like is that MS' Virtual PC has no issues with installing BSD or Linux either. Sometimes MS can get things right IMO, not often but it does happen every now and then.

First of all I have to say that I think its commendable for a company to support a product for so long. Its also one of the reasons why there will always be a place for Windows servers (I wouldn't want them for Internet usage, but IMO they make very good office servers); you can be sure up front when you may have to replace said server with another OS.

There is however one issue here... Sure; Windows 7 is bound to get a larger market share; but did the researchers also keep in mind that with Windows 7 professional and up you can easily run a native Windows XP environment within Windows 7 ? I'm referring to the Windows XP mode which you can download here.

Its build on Microsoft Virtual PC (which is freely available) yet when you're running Win7 Professional or higher you can also download a Windows XP ISO (this is basically what it is) which is then used to quickly setup a full Windows XP environment. It gets even better: you can "propagate" applications from inside the virtual PC so that you can easily start these from the regular Win7 start menu as if they were regular Win7 applications (but because its running in a full virtual XP environment the application itself will also use the native XP look and feel).

To be honest I'm quite impressed and happy with this. I even use it to "put aside" applications which I want to try or use without having it "polluting" my main Win7 environment. And when I'm done with it I simply revert my virtual PC back to the original snapshot and all is clean again (of course I will need to re-install certain updates).

So... When they did this research I wonder if they kept this into mind as well? Just because someone is running Windows 7 doesn't necessarily mean he or she gave up on XP entirely.

btw... What I also really like is that MS' Virtual PC has no issues with installing BSD or Linux either. Sometimes MS can get things right IMO, not often but it does happen every now and then.

Not quite: try pressing the green "make the window as big as it needs to be to display all the content" button.

Oh, that's awesome. Not only does it not actually "zoom" the application, what it actually does is what the "collapse" button (the little bar on the right of certain windows) is supposed to do.

Although the Zoom button has always effectively meant "do something random" so I've gotten in the habit of never touching it.

I always find it hilarious when Apple shits all over their own guidelines, especially when there's a ton of research and design behind them. Microsoft can get away with crap like making the Office windows not behave like any other window in their OS, because they've never sold themselves as being "the user interface experts," but Apple?

Come on, your HIG is enormous and generally explains why it suggests what it suggests. Why do you then ignore your own guidelines?

Incidentally, it's worth reading the Microsoft HIG for using custom window frames for examples of Microsoft applications that ignore their own guidelines. It's nice to know that Microsoft's interface people are aware that the Gadgets window is broken, even if they can't convince anyone on the Windows team to fix it.

And there is a simple way to mitigate that, it is called defense in depth. So far I haven't had a single Win 7 PC I did defense in depth on get infected. Here is what I do..I install Avast Free (which gives sandboxing and scans pages BEFORE load) along with Malware bytes and finally I add support for Structured Exception Handling Overwrite Protection and so far not a single bug.

I also do NOT install Java as I've found the vast majority have no use for Java, I use Sumatra PDF instead of Adobe (Sumatra is a simple PDF reader without support for a lot of the "features" that Adobe gets pwned for) and finally if they get a page saying "You need the latest flash" I have a bookmark already made for them on the bookmarks toolbar of Comodo Dragon (Chromium based that uses its own secure DNS that is separate from the OSes DNS, which helps block exploit pages) to take them to Ninite which is like a repo for Windows third party software and always has the latest and greatest. i tell them if after updating from Ninite the site still says it wants to install Flash it is malware and avoid it.

These additions take maybe another 20 minutes on a new build but is WELL worth it IMHO. I have some customers that on XP would get more viruses than a Bangkok Whore no matter what I did, but now with Windows 7 they are clean as a whistle, just to make sure I have scanned with several boot CDs with the latest defs and nothing, clean machines.

I just hope MSFT doesn't cock this up with Windows 8. Windows 7 is solid, easy to use, and easy to lock down. i'm just glad Win 7 is supported until 2020 so that I can avoid Win 8 if it turns out to be another Vista!

http://www.microsoft.com/download is probably fairly safe. And the opportunity exists to download it from a different machine if you forgot and started the install before downloading.

And in case readers don't understand, what we're talking about is keeping the PC physically disconnected from the Internet until the service packs are installed.

Well to be fair, if you install windows XP from a recovery image or from an original CD you have from the original version, your computer could probably be pwned before you even have the time to download the service packs.

Microsoft will gladly ship you SP3 on CD. Order Windows XP Service Pack 3 on a CD The offer is available globally, and has been from the beginning.

You could, of course, simply download the service pack and install XP off-line.

%APPDATA%\myapp? And now you have to check on startup to see if anything was saved there and let the user know about it

This is exactly the behavior that I expect, and exactly the behavior that applications such as Firefox, Cool Edit Pro, and the like implement. In fact, I seem to remember reading that Microsoft recommends that an application register itself to run once at next login if there happen to be unsaved changes that the user hasn't chosen to save or discard. From Microsoft's guidelines for applications to interact with Restart Manager:

When a GUI application receives a WM_ENDSESSION message, the application should prepare itself to shut down within the specified timeout period. At a minimum, applications should prepare by saving any user data and state information that is needed after a restart. It is recommended that applications periodically save the user data and state.

Yay, more logic that has to be implemented in every program.

So is how to load and save files.

The only "problem" with that version is that it's for system builders.

In fact, it might even be copyright infringement to buy and install that version on your own computer. Microsoft says OEM software is for computers you plan to sell at arm's length, not for computers you plan to use.

If your company turned on Terminal Server, chances are they got you. Did you get a MS OFFICE license for each employee? Oh, they work at home? Did you get your WAH or HUP licenses?

http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/7/7/17745e4a-5d31-4de4-a416-07c646336d94/desktop_application_with_windows_server_terminal_services.docx

Company employees remotely access a corporate network from home, using desktops that they own. While dialed in, the employees use Terminal Services to access Microsoft Office on a corporate-owned server. A Microsoft Office license for the version of Microsoft Office running on the server is required for the home desktop in this scenario. The company can enable this scenario by purchasing Work At Home (WAH) Licenses for the employees’ home desktops. Customers with active Software Assurance can also acquire Home Use Program (HUP) licenses for their employees’ home desktops. Please contact a Microsoft licensing specialist or Microsoft Volume Licensing Partner for more information about “Work at Home” and ”Home Use Program” options available for Microsoft Office.

I really like Terminal Server, I really do. But a company would almost have to have a lawyer on staff that did nothing but try to find out if they were staying legal with their terminal server. Is an on-staff lawyer figured into the TCO for Windows???

See subject-line above... but, I like how you're combining AdBlock lists AND HOSTS... I may look into that myself possibly!

(I recently also started hauling in reputable DNS block lists (DNSBL's) recently (past 4-5 months now too, to supplement the HOSTS sources I noted in the post you replied to)).

Here's a "tip" for you, since you're doing what you are:

* There's also IE's TPL's you may wish to look into also -> http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Browser/TrackingProtectionLists/

So, while you're @ it, doing as YOU do, which isn't half bad other than sounding like it needs more "moving parts" & MAY "eat CPU cycles"? Look into IE's "Tracking Protection Lists" as another valid source for blocking data!

(This is another avenue I have intended to pursue, & might as well share it with you also).

APK

P.S.=> I got around "problematic sites" with HOSTS files by using FILTERS of those from sources I noted - this is built into a Python system which does this for me, "automagically" without my raising a finger (either by timers or by scheduler methods now)...

The "automagic" system I use does the following:

---

1.) HOSTS & DNSBL consolidation from online sources
2.) Alphabetical sorting
3.) Deduplication/Normalization
4.) Filtering vs. "Troublesome Sites"
5.) From a TEMP/Scratch file, for final commission back to the original HOSTS file itself, every 15 minutes... via overwrite, to assure CLEAN copy!

---

My nephew & I co-wrote to replace my older Delphi system in fact, which I used circa 2002-2010...

(It was great for its day, but, not as "multi-platform portable", & not as good on larger HOSTS dedups because I wrote it in pure "brute force" dedup methods, by hand, & in the days of 20k lines sized HOSTS files it was fine... until maybe 2008-2009 when the malware makers out there really "stepped up their game" that is, & hosts files got "HUGE")!

I.E.-> SpyBot Search & Destroy, & other HOSTS sources I listed in my init. post?

They OFTEN list sites that one may NOT wish to include because they cause trouble with ZDNet/CNET/AOL/Amazon/HotMail & others... do check their HOSTS files, they list them in # comments, that is, IF you have a filtering system as I do to remove "troublesome sites" (which I am certain you are familiar with from your statements))...

... apk

Wasn't this invented before

http://www.microsoft.com/openspecifications/en/us/programs/osp/default.aspx

(it doesn't cover all published specs, hence "separately")

"published API" (an interface that requires direct use of software providing the interface within common framework such as libraries, plugins, compilers' handling of interface definitions, etc.)

It doesn't. You can take a published API, and provide your own clean-room implementation of the same - see .NET/Mono.

Nothing short of published, open protocol is going to suffice.

http://www.microsoft.com/openspecifications/en/us/technical-specifications/default.aspx

Umm you can use the command line utility in the Windows 2003 Resource Kit tools to burn a ISO image in windows. CDBURN.EXE

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=17657

Free to download, use "cdburn.exe" to burn your iso images, plus other cool nifty tools.

open source consoles like Fuzebox [ladyada.net] will get a major market share

Now this is why I come to slashdot, the comedy!

You can code your games on them

This is worth mentioning.

Actually reading the MS research paper, it is in the residential house.

Its just that residential houses tend to be clumped together in residential areas.

It wouldn't make sense to put the DF into one location and then transfer the heat to another building. It would require ripping up streets and setting up steam tunnels, etc.

From the paper:

Because DFs serve as a primary heat source in homes, we first perform a simulation study to understand the heating demands for a single family house across the climatic zones in the U.S.. Based on the results, we discuss the expected savings if DFs were used in each zone. We use ballpark gures and back-of-the-envelope calculations; the exact numbers depend on the specic households and data centers under consideration.

Reading the article over, I do not see how the homeowner is getting anything out of it. Unless the theory is that because the DF goes into the home, then the company that owns the DF is paying for the power consumption, and the homeowner gets "free heating" or rents the DF as part of the heating cost.

In a perfectly sealed home, with very minimal heat loss, this could work. The only way to get to those are new construction.

However, older homes are not sealed well, and have numerous holes to begin with. Also poor construction practices have created numerous entry points of heat loss.

This is excellent advice.

In many parts of Africa you will meet with resistance from both the authorities and local population unless you are introduced by and working in conjunction with an NGO. African governments and NGOs have a variety of plans to address local issues, and many African communities maintain social structures that can complicate offers of aid/assistance unless approached in the appropriate manner. Wandering in naively can be seen as meddlesome rather than helpful.

NGOs tend to be short on all resources, so most have no skills or money for infrastructure support. As the parent says, old virus-ridden PCs are common. Windows & Word are used because the staff know them, they know people who can support MS products in a pinch (Linux skills are substantially less common), and because the norm in business and government is to send and expect Word documents (this may be changing slowly).

For such NGOs, it's worth noting that Microsoft has a program for supporting certain non-profit organisations (including free software, hardware donations, and training) - see http://www.microsoft.com/about/corporatecitizenship/en-us/community-tools/non-profits/ .

If you're going to contribute your time & effort, try to contribute in a way that plays to your most valuable skills - that maximises your contribution. Building a house may make you feel good, but it's just depriving some unfortunate member of the local community of a job.

If by OME you mean OEM, this page explains that OEM licenses are for computers that you plan to sell to an unrelated party, not computers that you plan to use.

Yea, but thanks to the Wintel revolution, we have Windows XP on P4's instead.
If you've got Linux or Unix, sure. But the OP doesn't. He has mostly aged Windows boxes, which hopefully run XP or 2K.

Those boxes are are more than capable of running ClickOnce applications.

I was one of those lucky high school tech nerds that attended Teen Tech Fest 2000 sponsored by AcePlanet and Microsoft. It was its first and last year, since AcePlanet went belly up like many other startups of the time. AcePlanet was going to do annual computer-themed summer camps for kids, but I guess there wasn't enough money in it.

Already being already an F/OSS person, it was a very fun camp. Despite being Microsoft sponsored (and getting a free copy of VS6 and tour of the MS campus), many of the kids there were very open source users and programmers. Many to this day I still talk to and are in tech related industries, including a few working at Google and Intel.

no, according to the EULA you are allowed to:

You may install, use, access, display and run one copy of the Product on a single computer, such as a workstation, terminal or other device (“Workstation Computer”).

I don't see any rationale why a virtualized environment isn't accepted as a computer - but you need for every instance a own XP license.

If I remember correctly the EULA of Windows Vista (excluding Ultimate) forbade virtualization.

They have to take the same acronym as a 20+ year old file format for storing numbers?

It's almost like they didn't bother putting the term 'CDF file' into a search engine to see if anyone else was using that acronym already for a file extension. (of course, w3 even used it twice)

i like open source an no problem with it but Desktops has been available for a long time from SysInternals which is now part of MS.. if your in the windows world i'd recommend you take a look at it - lean and straight forward

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/cc817881

Simply don't return any valid URLs in the results if Google detects a poison proxy.

Even better, have all the URLs be http://www.microsoft.com/security/default.aspx or even better http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux or to be slightly evil^H^H^H^H self-serving http://www.google.com/chromebook/ .

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality', which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to paedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and co

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality', which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to paedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and co

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality', which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to paedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and co

From this page:

"Microsoft trademarks should never be used in the possessive or plural form. They should be used as a proper adjective followed by an appropriate descriptor."

Does that mean it is doubly illegal to say "I installed both my copies of Windows"?

From this page:

"Microsoft trademarks should never be used in the possessive or plural form. They should be used as a proper adjective followed by an appropriate descriptor."

Well anyone who has watched Pwn to own or read the article posted on OSNews on OSX knows that security in the Apple camp as largely been a gift of security through obscurity which the incredible numbers put up by the iPhone and iPad killed pretty damned dead. Oh and before someone chimes in (as they always do) that they go after the Mac over the WinBox because the Mac is nicer? Protip: The first one to drop ANY machine gets $10,000 so risking that amount on trying to get a Macbook one could easily buy with the check would be dumb and those guys ain't dummies.

I'd say the real problem for Apple is they have both the white and black hats trying to crack them, the whites to jailbreak their iShiny while the blacks want to pwn the iShiny. Maybe they should take the whites out of the equation by offering a "void warranty and jailbreak now" button?

That would leave just the black hats which admittedly will be a MUCH harder problem, just look at how many years it took for MSFT to get Windows from the crazy 19 infections per 1000 boxes with WinXP to the 4 per 1000 with 7. They had to harden the OS with improvements to DEP, ASLR, process isolation, hell if that isn't enough for you you can do what I did with my customers and add Structured Exception Handling Overwrite Protection which works beautifully without any programs hanging.

But what Apple has ended up with is gonna be more than a bit of a puzzler, as the devices iOS runs on aren't really powerful enough to deal with the overhead of the above security features, yet people still expect to be able to install and run programs on the things like a laptop. Short of ripping out support for most functions and instead having everything go through Apple's servers in a thin client kind of way I just don't see how they are gonna stop the malware guys. The malware guys have seen the numbers of sales, have seen there is blood in the water, and now the sharks are coming wanting a bite. It doesn't help I've had conversation with Apple users that still believe the "Apple is immune to malware" meme, at least the Windows and Linux users see and accept the web is a dangerous place.

Perhaps the thin client model is the way to go for Apple. They certainly have the server capacity now and it would fit right in with their walled garden approach, the only question is would streaming everything client server style clog the networks worse than they are. Doesn't Opera already do this with their mobile browser BTW? Maybe taking a page from their book wouldn't be such a bad idea.

Is this a trick question? Surely you're aware that in order to run Microsoft Hyper-V, you must have Windows 2008 Server as the primary OS under the Hyper-V, and run a Windows desktop to be able to configure the hypervisor.

Or, be willing to visit a website and download Hyper-V Server for free. No Windows necessary. It uses Windows Server 2008 Core to host the hypervisor, but they give it to you for free. Same as ESX, really.

So anyone using the module are already fully Windows; no change needed.
Contrast this with other commercial hypervisors like Xen and VMware, and you'll find that those are far less Windows-centric and lets users embrace both Linux and Windows, and switch either way if they so want.

I think you'll find that's not correct at all. And VMware sucks by the way. vSphere Administrator seems to be Windows only (we use vSphere here) and just outright sucks. We can't even find out what server our VMs are running on (VMware figures you don't need to know, thanks to live migration).

If you run a 32 bit process multiple times under a 64 bit os, it will use ("not leak") More memory. Users often don't have a choice in this, but developers have!

One of the things MS states is " Working set. WOW64 increases the size of the application's working set.". It s impossible to set a number on this, but i bet if you have an odd applications that uses a lot of small resources this increase might be very noticeable. Users night decribe this as a memory leak, but since it is by design, this will not be confirmed. Especailly since nobody will provide tools to determine this overhead, since the logical solution is to go 64 bit instead.

For developers the solution is simple: offer a 64 bit version. Users only have a choice if a 64 bit verions is available, and they will choose 64 bit if the OS is 64 bit.

THis is yet an onther reason to abandon java and flash, it is part of the browsing expierence, but the browser developers barely have an influence on these components.