System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture.DateTimeFormat.ShortDatePattern returns "M/d/yyyy" No wonder I couldn't figure it out. There's no 18 months in the calendar.;)
And what about sharepoint? does that rely on any proprietary protocols?
Yes! Everytime I access our corporate Sharepoint site I have to use at least PPP, Ethernet, IP, TCP and HTTP protocols not to mention about IPSEC and IKE. God I hate that Microsoft!
Weird. You might be right but I thought that USB drivers live in user mode. So if we take somekind of keyboard for example. Make it connect through USB port, write driver that listens it and call kbhit() (or some other Win32 API call) to pass keyboard hits to the system. I don't see anything that would prevent this but since this isn't excatly on my core expertise area I might wrong here.
If someone calls me outside office hours it's fine by me. If I'm not doing anything like sitting in the toilet or having quality time with my wife I'll answer and charge one hour salary for that 5 minute phone call.
Yes because there's still no drivers for some stuff like printers (printer manufacturers wants you to buy a new one) or they are pretty shitty ones. I was in luck when I bought my Vista. My PC had all the right parts with pretty nicely working drivers and Vista runs like a charm, better than the XP setup which I had earlier. On the other hand my co-worker's Vista doesn't work so well on his setup. Maybe hardware vendors need to drag MS to court in order to fix their crab like AV vendors did?
Yep. I didn't RTFA because it looked boring. The point is that if even 3 year old can use computer and finds it entertaining what's so special in TFA other than it is published at BBC. Heck, when I was 9 I had already written my first game and drawing applications (with C64 or C128 BASIC, can't remember anymore).
And no, I didn't teach everything to him. He watched me and learned himself. I just helped with the hard stuff like telling which key to press in order to make the person move in a game.
My 3 year old son knows how to turn on PC + monitor, how to use mouse, double-click icons on desktop (Windows Vista Home Premium), knows which icon starts which program and so on. Heck, after a couple of minutes of practice he learned how to run Counter Strike Source, create a server and join the team he wants (usually CTs). He knows also how to start MS Paint and create some really cool post-modern art;)
He likes to surf the web a lot, especially pictures of dragons and such. Because he can't read or write I wrote a little program for him which has image buttons that opens IE (embedded inside the program) to Google image search with predefined query parameters. Program uses a little XML configuration file so I can easily add more parameters to it.
9 year who can use OLPC? Wow! That's really amazing!;)
How about, instead of tabbing from address bar, you just use the shortcut key Ctrl-E.
I use shortcut key Alt+d in order to get to the address bar. Then I just start typing the words I want to search for. When I'm done I just click enter and IE gets redirected to search result page. I've added Google search provider and use it as default. Simple as that.
You know what's even worse? Our power company has a huge kill switch which can take a lot of PCs down at once should they choose so. That is something I would call a very, very, very distributed DOS attack;)
What I've read is that they have a huge amount of wind generators there which are causing a lot of troubles to electric grid. And of course they are ruining the scenery. I once saw a TV document which said that on windy days those generators are producing so much electricity that they need to sell excess energy to Denmark on huge discount. And when there's no wind they turn up coal plants but because starting those monsters is so slow, there's frequent blackouts in the grid. I'm not really seeing a good future here if they go and turn off all nuclear plants.
The difference is that only a few tasks on a Mac asks you for a password while nearly everything in Windows is considered an admin task.
Bullshit. I don't know how Mac works but I sure do know how Vista works. Last time I saw UAC prompt was when I was installing Visual Studio and it was in august. I don't know what the hell people are doing if they get UAC prompts every other minute.
Microsoft didn't fix the underlying security issues. It just shifted the responsibility to the user to constantly approve what might be a security risk.
And operating system is able to somehow mysticall know which process needs admin privs and which doesn't? Or are you saying that Mac is also suffering from the same "security risk" since it asks user permissions just like Vista does?
Heh. In Finland we have saying "oot ihan nebraskassa" which is in English something like "you are deep in Nebraska" which means that you are in deep shit. And of course we have many sayings about Siberia also;)
I don't even have to do that. I just click that mail button on MSN Live Messenger and it opens directly to my inbox. I can also select recipient from Messenger, click send email and it opens to new email page. When I come to think of it I've never typed those addresses by hand in my life:)
It's politics more than it's real concern for the problem.
And there you are right, it is politics. There's a huge multi billion industry built upon this "environmentalism" bs that Margaret Thatcher started when she didn't like coal (because of coal mine worker's strike) and wanted all nuclear. Who in his/her right mind would give up on such a business? No matter how many studies are thrown at theirs faces showing that this is all bs they will hold on to their cash cows. And that is why I have to pay more taxes because I'm so evil that I go to work every day and need a car for that (there's no functional public transportation where I live).
And if husband says something and wife isn't there to hear it, is husband still wrong?
But this joke is wasted here because everyone know that when you have Slashdot ID, you don't have any relationships at all. So is observing Slashdot altering ourselves?!
I'm not sure if showing the extension will do any good. My 12 year old cousin doesn't even know what an exe file is but he can use email just fine. But what he does know is that when the email client says something like "you are about to open attachment that might contain harmful content" he goes to his dad and asks what to do. And of course his dad calls me what to do:)
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Offtopic: I've scarier work where entire site was one big BMP image with huge image map slammed on top of it.
System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture.DateTimeFormat.ShortDatePattern returns "M/d/yyyy" No wonder I couldn't figure it out. There's no 18 months in the calendar. ;)
Yes! Everytime I access our corporate Sharepoint site I have to use at least PPP, Ethernet, IP, TCP and HTTP protocols not to mention about IPSEC and IKE. God I hate that Microsoft!
It'll just probably break some windows and throw some chairs around.
It is far from artificial. It was the industry which demanded it and MS implemented it.
Obviously you shouldn't.
So USB driver is installed and runs with admin privileges? I'll have to read more about this. This seems interesting.
Weird. You might be right but I thought that USB drivers live in user mode. So if we take somekind of keyboard for example. Make it connect through USB port, write driver that listens it and call kbhit() (or some other Win32 API call) to pass keyboard hits to the system. I don't see anything that would prevent this but since this isn't excatly on my core expertise area I might wrong here.
Why an earth would you like to load stuff into kernel space? This not UNIX you know.
If someone calls me outside office hours it's fine by me. If I'm not doing anything like sitting in the toilet or having quality time with my wife I'll answer and charge one hour salary for that 5 minute phone call.
Yes because there's still no drivers for some stuff like printers (printer manufacturers wants you to buy a new one) or they are pretty shitty ones. I was in luck when I bought my Vista. My PC had all the right parts with pretty nicely working drivers and Vista runs like a charm, better than the XP setup which I had earlier. On the other hand my co-worker's Vista doesn't work so well on his setup. Maybe hardware vendors need to drag MS to court in order to fix their crab like AV vendors did?
Yep. I didn't RTFA because it looked boring. The point is that if even 3 year old can use computer and finds it entertaining what's so special in TFA other than it is published at BBC. Heck, when I was 9 I had already written my first game and drawing applications (with C64 or C128 BASIC, can't remember anymore).
And no, I didn't teach everything to him. He watched me and learned himself. I just helped with the hard stuff like telling which key to press in order to make the person move in a game.
My 3 year old son knows how to turn on PC + monitor, how to use mouse, double-click icons on desktop (Windows Vista Home Premium), knows which icon starts which program and so on. Heck, after a couple of minutes of practice he learned how to run Counter Strike Source, create a server and join the team he wants (usually CTs). He knows also how to start MS Paint and create some really cool post-modern art ;)
He likes to surf the web a lot, especially pictures of dragons and such. Because he can't read or write I wrote a little program for him which has image buttons that opens IE (embedded inside the program) to Google image search with predefined query parameters. Program uses a little XML configuration file so I can easily add more parameters to it.
9 year who can use OLPC? Wow! That's really amazing! ;)
I use shortcut key Alt+d in order to get to the address bar. Then I just start typing the words I want to search for. When I'm done I just click enter and IE gets redirected to search result page. I've added Google search provider and use it as default. Simple as that.
My version of Nero doesn't work on my PC with SuSE. It must be SuSE's fault!
You know what's even worse? Our power company has a huge kill switch which can take a lot of PCs down at once should they choose so. That is something I would call a very, very, very distributed DOS attack ;)
Yes. It is the only way to stop FF from crashing ;)
What I've read is that they have a huge amount of wind generators there which are causing a lot of troubles to electric grid. And of course they are ruining the scenery. I once saw a TV document which said that on windy days those generators are producing so much electricity that they need to sell excess energy to Denmark on huge discount. And when there's no wind they turn up coal plants but because starting those monsters is so slow, there's frequent blackouts in the grid. I'm not really seeing a good future here if they go and turn off all nuclear plants.
Bullshit. I don't know how Mac works but I sure do know how Vista works. Last time I saw UAC prompt was when I was installing Visual Studio and it was in august. I don't know what the hell people are doing if they get UAC prompts every other minute.
And operating system is able to somehow mysticall know which process needs admin privs and which doesn't? Or are you saying that Mac is also suffering from the same "security risk" since it asks user permissions just like Vista does?
Heh. In Finland we have saying "oot ihan nebraskassa" which is in English something like "you are deep in Nebraska" which means that you are in deep shit. And of course we have many sayings about Siberia also ;)
I don't even have to do that. I just click that mail button on MSN Live Messenger and it opens directly to my inbox. I can also select recipient from Messenger, click send email and it opens to new email page. When I come to think of it I've never typed those addresses by hand in my life :)
And there you are right, it is politics. There's a huge multi billion industry built upon this "environmentalism" bs that Margaret Thatcher started when she didn't like coal (because of coal mine worker's strike) and wanted all nuclear. Who in his/her right mind would give up on such a business? No matter how many studies are thrown at theirs faces showing that this is all bs they will hold on to their cash cows. And that is why I have to pay more taxes because I'm so evil that I go to work every day and need a car for that (there's no functional public transportation where I live).
I have even better solution. Tell our sun to stop heating our planet so much. That is the only short and long term solution to combat global warming.
And if husband says something and wife isn't there to hear it, is husband still wrong?
But this joke is wasted here because everyone know that when you have Slashdot ID, you don't have any relationships at all. So is observing Slashdot altering ourselves?!
And of course if you hack yourself into the kernel you can install all kinds of IP filter drivers and stuff, possibly under the firewall driver.
I'm not sure if showing the extension will do any good. My 12 year old cousin doesn't even know what an exe file is but he can use email just fine. But what he does know is that when the email client says something like "you are about to open attachment that might contain harmful content" he goes to his dad and asks what to do. And of course his dad calls me what to do :)