Slashdot Mirror


User: smallguy78

smallguy78's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
256
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 256

  1. Re:As far as I understand... on Miguel de Icaza Debates Avalon with an Avalon Designer · · Score: 1

    They have had a pretty good ride

    Second richest company in the world is a pretty good ride !

  2. Re:object model on Miguel de Icaza Debates Avalon with an Avalon Designer · · Score: 1

    Some newlines to <br>'s please?!!

    System.Object
    System.MarshalByRefObject
    System.ComponentModel.Component
    System.Windows.Forms.Control
    System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase
    System.Windows.Forms.Button
  3. object model on Miguel de Icaza Debates Avalon with an Avalon Designer · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The object hierachy does look horendous for buttons compared to .net 1.1/2.0 which has System.Object System.MarshalByRefObject System.ComponentModel.Component System.Windows.Forms.Control System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase System.Windows.Forms.Button I hope .net doesn't go the way of the java framework - complex and unintuitive - as this is what attracted me to .net from java in the first place, the excellent hierachy of the classes, the extra functionality and also the extra bit c# has. Having said that, Chris Powell does point out that it's not even beta yet...

  4. Re:steam = SUCKS on Half-Life 2 Preloading from Steam · · Score: 1

    Send a JPG of your half life box + key and Vivendi gets back to you (or did with me) within a day.

    They sent an email back moaning about how Valve are protective of CZ keys and the JPG method would need to go through valve(which I found quite funny). My CZ key got swallowed by Valve on the night cs source was pre-loading - leaving me with a steam account and no key. The whole CZ/Ati for cs source is greed at its worst.

  5. Re:More Valve Bullshit. on Half-Life 2 Preloading from Steam · · Score: 1

    Sierra went broke, and the publishing rights went to Vivendi.

  6. Re:Hexen on Half-Life 2 Preloading from Steam · · Score: 1

    The preload, as said above, isn't shipping with the game engine. So until that game engine is released, it's not going to be useable - unless someone creates their own one.

  7. Re:eh, this could be bad for Valve on Half-Life 2 Preloading from Steam · · Score: 1

    Companies normally hire 3rd party security companies like RSA to do secure systems for installtions. Having said that, look at the Doom3 keys that were available with the torrents (fake ones)

  8. Re:Mozilla is just as vulnerable. on Get Rid of Internet Explorer - Browse Happy! · · Score: 1

    oops i meant hole

  9. Re:Mozilla is just as vulnerable. on Get Rid of Internet Explorer - Browse Happy! · · Score: 1

    How about this for a firefox whole http://www.nd.edu/~jsmith30/xul/test/spoof.html Puts those "You have spyware" popup boxes in IE to shame.

  10. Re:wallhacks! on A Look at the CounterStrike Source Beta · · Score: 1

    I also forgot that terrorists can buy bombs, even better: bind j "buy c4;slot4;drop" 5 simulataneous bomb explosions, ahh the joy of betas.

  11. wallhacks! on A Look at the CounterStrike Source Beta · · Score: 1

    hit shift + f1 for a little treat..valve should keep in a default wallhack, that way you can just assume everyone is cheating in the game, like most people do already.

  12. Re:Microsoft using windows servers eh? on Hotmail Means to Double Gmail Storage · · Score: 1

    Of course you're aware that raid disks don't need degragmenting

  13. Google / Yahoo on Hotmail Means to Double Gmail Storage · · Score: 1

    According to a times article, http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8209- 1224582_2,00.html (stats in the newspaper edition) Yahoo has over 256m email users, google under 1m. It doesn't mention MSN, but the search engine figures speak for themselves: 43% Google, 31% Yahoo, so I imagine the rest is msn, altavista...

    I wonder how many users Hotmail has - 100m atleast. Multiply that by 2gb, and that's a huge upgrade.

  14. Re:Of course. on How Secure is Windows Firewall? · · Score: 0
    *Windows Firewall does not block outgoing traffic as some users have reported when they are presented with the following prompt

    And then the dialog box below it says:

    Windows firewall has blocked this program from accepting connections from the internet So, kind of obvious really. And no demonstration application to backup the claim it blocks sockets from sending.
  15. TerminateProcess on How Secure is Windows Firewall? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The article's website is timing out, but can't you 'turn off' Norton, Zonealarm by simply doing a WM_CLOSE or TerminateProcess anyway?



    If the program has managed to make its way onto the host machine, then that is when the firewall isn't doing it's job.

  16. Re:Patents? on Mono's Cocoa# Underway, GTK# Takes on Windows.Forms · · Score: 0

    Seeing as MS see linux as a threat right now, you would've thought they would've acted by now, to shore up any patents they have. Particularly now Novell are part of the Mono scene.

  17. Re:Aim a little lower.... on Attracting Women Into Computer Science · · Score: 0

    ...or attracting attractive women

  18. direct x on Notes From Siggraph 2004 · · Score: 1

    am i right in thinking direct x already has pixel shader programming already? I can someone also shed some light on why Doom 3 requires direct x 9? I was under the impression it done using opengl

  19. Re:pattern on Microsoft Developing Linux Policy, Plan of Attack · · Score: 1

    3) their excutives cries

  20. Re:Does it ever stop? on NVIDIA Gives Details On New GeForce 6 · · Score: 1

    great idea for a movie oh, wait a second...

  21. Re:A quote: on MSIE 7 May Beat Longhorn Out The Gate · · Score: 1

    Can someone explain to me exactly what needs tweaking specifically for IE instead of Mozilla 0.x? Are we talking about ie 6 or earlier versions? I seem to remember having to do reems of extra code to accomodate Netscape. Ok Mozilla is no longer that heap of spaghetti code, but still, it works both ways. Including Opera.

  22. Re:hrm... on Technology Review Profiles Miguel de Icaza · · Score: 1, Insightful

    plus .net has been designed so that it is easily reverse engineerable (i.e. the reflection namespace). The source for all the classes is available to view via Lutz Roeder's reflector.

    Unless they start obscuring their class libraries or completely redesign ilasm (which they won't as they've built longhorn on it), then MS seems more than willing to allow people to use + abuse .NET

  23. Re:hrm... on Technology Review Profiles Miguel de Icaza · · Score: 0

    you would've tought microsoft would be keen to stop mono now, instead of later, as they're losing market share to linux right at this moment. They have learnt their anti-trust lessons in my view, which was the whole idea behind .net - and those of you who have used it know how well thought out the whole framework is (and if your lucky enough to have been on java projects previously, know how much more complete it is compared to java, partricularly the CLI multi-language feature). The quick and easy vb rubbish is out of the door, and the whole ethos behind it is far gone now too (windows 95/98 reliability). I'd hazard a guess at saying there is an equal amount of .net developers now as there are java, and there is a particularly strong sharing community out there too, look at gotdotnet.com, codeproject.com and others.

  24. Re:I wonder... on City of Munich Freezes Its Linux Migration · · Score: 0

    rated as 5, funny. Oh dear...any anti-ms statement gets a 5 these days

  25. Now to make it useful on IBM Donates Java Database App. to Apache Foundation · · Score: 0