Looking at the Chrome dev tools the var keyword, if statements, strings, function statements, comments and indexes are in different colours. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean. You're right that Firebug doesn't have highlighting, maybe I was looking at the FF dev tools, but you can install FireRainbow which adds it.
There is no walled garden on my Mac. If there was I wouldn't have one, just like I don't have an iPhone or iPad for that reason.
I have had so many issues with Linux in recent times that it's just pointless for me to use it. Windows is not much better. That's not being a Mac fanboy, that's being realistic, something which you and Alex seem to have a lot of problems with.
I work with a proprietary piece of Microsoft software, Dynamics CRM. The devs on that software have put in messages such as "An unexpected error has occurred" or "key not found in dictionary" instead of useful information such as what the error actually was, or which key wasn't found in the dictionary.
Debugging it would require me to dump a 4GB process to disk and then wade through it without source code. However if Microsoft were to supply that source code I could recompile it myself and step through it to figure out what the problem was. I could also fix any bugs and shit error messages I found without relying on them to do it.
The product has a Javascript component where all the source is available and it's great to just fix bugs and improve the way things work as you come across them rather than reporting it and hoping that MS give a shit at some point.
Luck. I value my freedom too but I also value my free time and that is best spent doing something other than fighting with Linux (or Windows for that matter).
Windows meets their needs because it runs their software end of. If Linux or another OS could run their software the Windows monopoly would collapse in a heap.
I wish Linux advocates weren't so firmly in denial about the serious shortcomings of Linux distros. Being tediously pedantic instead of trying to address any criticism doesn't win anyone over either.
You made the same mistake on all distributions because you didn't bother find out what did you do wrong in the first place.
How do you know he didn't bother. Finding an answer to a Linux issue is difficult because there are so many distros and so many errors. I've been there, I feel his pain. You might be happy to spend days fighting with your system but I've got other things to do.
In the unlikely scenario that you actually did anything at all and not just made things up.
Whatever. I've used Linux since 1998 and it's got much worse in the last 5 years. I don't know what's happened but random breakages between updates seems to be quite common these days.
Not having to fight with Windows all the time is worth every penny. I spent 3 hours yesterday at a friend's house trying to figure out why her laptop is so slow to start up and why it eats battery. It's a rogue Windows internal process that runs at startup and takes 20 minutes at full CPU to stop for a few minutes and then randomly start again. I tried various things to try and stop it but nothing made a difference.
My advice to her was when she needs to upgrade she should get a Mac. No hassles, no random 100% CPU processes, no forced reboots, no crapware, high quality hardware. Yes they're more expensive but they're better and when you come to sell them you get a far better price than for some Dell pile of crap.
I'm sure you'll say 'just' reinstall. Apart from that being a massive inconvenience, why on earth should she need to.?
Chrome dev tools and Firebug have syntax highlighting. The only useful thing in IE9 dev tools is the Javascript formatter. Everything else is a ripoff from a version of Firebug in 2010.
The justification is that I don't have to fight my OS to get on with what I want to do. That is worth every penny. No remorse and no justification. This machine is the most expensive electrical item I have ever bought and it's the only one that I've never had a moment's regret since starting to use it.
Joe Average cannot deal with setting up and running a Windows desktop. That's why I am always helping Joe Average and why there are dozens of books and magazines and thousands of websites giving advice to people who struggle to use Windows. Windows is familiar, not easy to use. Having said that Linux is such a mess right now that there's no way I would ever advise anyone to use it. In fact anyone with a decent amount of disposable income gets told to buy a Mac.
The dev tools in IE9? Are you mad? They are terrible, and not only terrible but unfixable as well. I'm hoping IE10 fixes some of the obvious stupids, like having to refresh a web page before you can debug some Javascript, or perhaps not having to hit the refresh button all the time because the dev tools have lost track of the DOM. Try just working with IE dev tools and nothing else like I have to and you'll soon be longing for Firebug.
The fault is with the failing application and the logging infrastructure. This is Microsoft's fault since the product is Microsoft Dynamics CRM. But that is just one example..NET is also littered with appallingly bad error messages such as "the given key is not found in the dictionary" instead of "the given key is not in the dictionary" which makes debugging something with 50 keys that you can't remote debug a pain in the arse.
What would repairing or reinstalling do? Would it fix the shit error message? Would it cause CRM to produce a log file with useful information in it? The flaw is in some custom code somewhere but I can't figure out where because the morons who wrote CRM couldn't be bothered to put a proper error message in. I've decompiled it using ILSpy and compared it with a working version of the plugin and they look identical. So you tell me what the answer is clever clogs. Here's a hint, it's not reinstall, reboot the server or switch to Linux. The crash dump is a possibility but talk about fucking overkill. It will also be made doubly difficult by the fact that the error is happening somewhere in CRM which I don't have the source for.
All this aggravation, and believe me I'm not the only one who's been confronted with this useless fucking error message, could have been prevented by someone giving a shit about the information they provide to their customers.
No it isn't. There is nothing to replace ASP.NET in the pipeline and Microsoft are hardly going to rewrite Visual Studio, Sharepoint and Dynamics CRM in Javascript/HTML5.
Spot on. The private sector is not some magical world where everything is wonderfully efficient. There's office politics, overspending, empire building and mind-numbing bureaucracy everywhere. That's why Libertaria, land of the free market will be no better or even worse than what we have now because large businesses don't become magically efficient just because they have other large businesses for competition.
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Looking at the Chrome dev tools the var keyword, if statements, strings, function statements, comments and indexes are in different colours. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean. You're right that Firebug doesn't have highlighting, maybe I was looking at the FF dev tools, but you can install FireRainbow which adds it.
I have had a different experience so you are obviously a big fat liar.
There is no walled garden on my Mac. If there was I wouldn't have one, just like I don't have an iPhone or iPad for that reason.
I have had so many issues with Linux in recent times that it's just pointless for me to use it. Windows is not much better. That's not being a Mac fanboy, that's being realistic, something which you and Alex seem to have a lot of problems with.
No I'm not lying, you are just a deluded fool.
I work with a proprietary piece of Microsoft software, Dynamics CRM. The devs on that software have put in messages such as "An unexpected error has occurred" or "key not found in dictionary" instead of useful information such as what the error actually was, or which key wasn't found in the dictionary.
Debugging it would require me to dump a 4GB process to disk and then wade through it without source code. However if Microsoft were to supply that source code I could recompile it myself and step through it to figure out what the problem was. I could also fix any bugs and shit error messages I found without relying on them to do it.
The product has a Javascript component where all the source is available and it's great to just fix bugs and improve the way things work as you come across them rather than reporting it and hoping that MS give a shit at some point.
I'm with you on Linux but Windows has caused me so much hassle and irritation as well that I wouldn't describe using a Windows computer as enjoyable.
Luck. I value my freedom too but I also value my free time and that is best spent doing something other than fighting with Linux (or Windows for that matter).
Windows meets their needs because it runs their software end of. If Linux or another OS could run their software the Windows monopoly would collapse in a heap.
I wish Linux advocates weren't so firmly in denial about the serious shortcomings of Linux distros. Being tediously pedantic instead of trying to address any criticism doesn't win anyone over either.
How do you know he didn't bother. Finding an answer to a Linux issue is difficult because there are so many distros and so many errors. I've been there, I feel his pain. You might be happy to spend days fighting with your system but I've got other things to do.
Spoken like a true unthinking zealot
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Whatever. I've used Linux since 1998 and it's got much worse in the last 5 years. I don't know what's happened but random breakages between updates seems to be quite common these days.
Not having to fight with Windows all the time is worth every penny. I spent 3 hours yesterday at a friend's house trying to figure out why her laptop is so slow to start up and why it eats battery. It's a rogue Windows internal process that runs at startup and takes 20 minutes at full CPU to stop for a few minutes and then randomly start again. I tried various things to try and stop it but nothing made a difference.
My advice to her was when she needs to upgrade she should get a Mac. No hassles, no random 100% CPU processes, no forced reboots, no crapware, high quality hardware. Yes they're more expensive but they're better and when you come to sell them you get a far better price than for some Dell pile of crap.
I'm sure you'll say 'just' reinstall. Apart from that being a massive inconvenience, why on earth should she need to.?
And your meteorological qualifications are?
That's because science is under attack from powerful religious people and this is a bad thing.
Chrome dev tools and Firebug have syntax highlighting. The only useful thing in IE9 dev tools is the Javascript formatter. Everything else is a ripoff from a version of Firebug in 2010.
The justification is that I don't have to fight my OS to get on with what I want to do. That is worth every penny. No remorse and no justification. This machine is the most expensive electrical item I have ever bought and it's the only one that I've never had a moment's regret since starting to use it.
Joe Average cannot deal with setting up and running a Windows desktop. That's why I am always helping Joe Average and why there are dozens of books and magazines and thousands of websites giving advice to people who struggle to use Windows. Windows is familiar, not easy to use. Having said that Linux is such a mess right now that there's no way I would ever advise anyone to use it. In fact anyone with a decent amount of disposable income gets told to buy a Mac.
The dev tools in IE9? Are you mad? They are terrible, and not only terrible but unfixable as well. I'm hoping IE10 fixes some of the obvious stupids, like having to refresh a web page before you can debug some Javascript, or perhaps not having to hit the refresh button all the time because the dev tools have lost track of the DOM. Try just working with IE dev tools and nothing else like I have to and you'll soon be longing for Firebug.
Ripping the DVD is also illegal according to the studios. A Norwegian teenager was arrested for cracking the protection and putting it online.
According to the article they'll be paying Verisign.
There was cloud computing before that. It was called a mainframe. Stupid buzzwords.
The fault is with the failing application and the logging infrastructure. This is Microsoft's fault since the product is Microsoft Dynamics CRM. But that is just one example. .NET is also littered with appallingly bad error messages such as "the given key is not found in the dictionary" instead of "the given key is not in the dictionary" which makes debugging something with 50 keys that you can't remote debug a pain in the arse.
What would repairing or reinstalling do? Would it fix the shit error message? Would it cause CRM to produce a log file with useful information in it? The flaw is in some custom code somewhere but I can't figure out where because the morons who wrote CRM couldn't be bothered to put a proper error message in. I've decompiled it using ILSpy and compared it with a working version of the plugin and they look identical. So you tell me what the answer is clever clogs. Here's a hint, it's not reinstall, reboot the server or switch to Linux. The crash dump is a possibility but talk about fucking overkill. It will also be made doubly difficult by the fact that the error is happening somewhere in CRM which I don't have the source for.
All this aggravation, and believe me I'm not the only one who's been confronted with this useless fucking error message, could have been prevented by someone giving a shit about the information they provide to their customers.
No it isn't. There is nothing to replace ASP.NET in the pipeline and Microsoft are hardly going to rewrite Visual Studio, Sharepoint and Dynamics CRM in Javascript/HTML5.
And if you don't want to pay Microsoft?
Spot on. The private sector is not some magical world where everything is wonderfully efficient. There's office politics, overspending, empire building and mind-numbing bureaucracy everywhere. That's why Libertaria, land of the free market will be no better or even worse than what we have now because large businesses don't become magically efficient just because they have other large businesses for competition.