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Silverlight Released, Linux Version Coming
Today Microsoft announced the release of Silverlight 1.0 for Windows and Mac OS X. This cross-browser, cross-platform browser plug-in is fully supported and competes directly with Adobe Flash. Included in this release was the promise from Microsoft to support the 100% compatible Linux version, called Moonlight.
oh, boo, you bastards. really. In related MS-bashing, yesterday, I had a client whose Outlook pst file hit 2GB.
Does anyone know what happens when your PST file hits 2GB? You can't delete, move, archive, send, or receive messages. You know what you have to do? You have to download a tool from MS (implying that they know this is a problem) that will shave off 25 or 50 megs of messages and discard it (!), then you run their scanpst application, which repairs the broken PST. Holy shit.
Searching for error message brought up several things that I tried before I got to this one. Then I found the application, backed everything up, ran the truncator, ran the fixer, and 2 hours later, voila! everything worked.
So, here's a thought. Why not, instead of setting an arbitrary point where things just stop working, we could set up ANOTHER warning arbitrary point that says something like "Your PST file has reached 1.5GB. At 2GB, Outlook will break." Why not, I say?
First it was 64k, was it? Now it's 2GB that should be enough for anybody. Great. Thank you. Thanks. Thanks. Super thanks.
Now, in context, when I say that I will bend over and pick up silverlight, would you please not mod me troll? Jesus.
Please stop stalking me, bro.
Not that I'm a programmer, but what does that say about C# and Java?