Hah! That's rich. I'd double check that one myself but chances are good I'm too lazy. Still, and I've never seen one, I think you'd be hard pressed to find an A2DP headset that doesn't also support HSP and a few other things.
The real question is whether or not the iPad or iOS 4 finally fucking supports AVRCP correctly. The fact that my old as shit blackberry can "Next Track" and "Previous Track" from my headphones but my iPhone can't is really, really sad.
(EG. Despite it supporting bluetooth data transfer, you *may* get blocked from copying over your own ringtone files from a computer -- or maybe you're disallowed from moving over your contact info as vcard files, or ??)
Dude! Just to let you know, you're not alone. I too owned a Motorola E815 as offered by Verizon, and so did everyone I worked with.
Not only was I an expert at teardown and rebuild of the device (and god damn did those things love to snap off their antennas!) SEEM editing was second nature to me. It got to the point where everyone I knew, even casually, who owned that phone either had it repaired and rebuilt, or hacked through a SEEM edit by me to enable all those stupidly disabled features. To top it off, bluetooth OBEX was, among a couple of other things, the reason I bought that phone and to find out I couldn't do it when I got home with it supremely pissed me off. In total, from the moment I got the phone in front of my computer to make that discovery to about 6 hours later, I sat there scouring the web with a data cable connected to it and didn't get up (save bathroom trips) until I had a phone with working OBEX. And my [slightly] more juvenile self enjoyed that to the fullest, cutting ringtones from the songs I liked and applying them to different people. After all, why buy a song for 99 cents, then re-buy the 30 second clip which you listened to for free before buying the damn song anyway for another 99 cents. I digress.
It is THAT experience that so jaded me against the practices of US cell providers. And it's also that experience that made me so happy for Apple's ability to take AT&T to the cleaners as a device maker and be the side that wears the pants in that relationship. It's a single entitiy and a single phone that allowed innovation to happen in the cellular space in the way that device makers had been clamoring for for half a decade at that point but had been screwed by THEIR products and features being pimped at the whim of what the wireless providers deemed was fit for their own pocketbooks. And THAT is some Grade A Bullshit(TM).
Not to say that someone isn't screwing the capabilities of the iPhone for personal gain, but at the very least the ones doing the screwing are the ones that were visionary enough to create the damned thing in the first place. The ones that shattered the barriers and made a phone that broke the paradigm and ushered in the one that we know and love today. Finally, I say with that, much like my SEEM edit on my E815 made me happy, jailbreaking an iPhone makes me happy enough. I'm willing to take the good with the bad, though I'll admit that while it's an okay solution for me, the market as a whole could use something better.
It's up to Google and Microsoft now. Shatter the paradigm again. Do to the mobile OS what Apple has done to the mobile device. Make us happy to part with our dollars.
With mine, the USB connection itself was fine. Wiring hadn't gone in spite of its age.
The issues I experienced were quite literally a firmware or chipset issue in the mouse itself. Kind of like CD/DVD burners. They just die after a time for seemingly no reason. Such is life!:D
No, the old Intellipoint mouse. That thing was gold-standard for optical mice.
That is probably the truest statement I've read *all* day. That mouse was the one that finally got me to switch from trackball back over to the normal style mouse. I used it for years until one day it would blink on and off while I was playing video games, constantly getting me killed. I replaced it with a Logitech and have been Logitech for years now.
After I was certain I'd never need the Intellimouse ever again, I cut the cord off of it, grabbed a baseball bat, and had my friend pitch it to me in my backyard. It was a home run, and we never did find every piece of the device.
I have been led to believe that "Zero-day" refers to the amount of time that exists between public knowledge of an exploit and when you see it being used in the wild.
If, for example, you heard about this exploit today, and the same exploit was WTFPWNing computers today, then it is, by definition, a "Zero-day exploit."
It's kind of like "hacker" though, and gets thrown around to mean all sorts of shit that it does not.
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My point was that "Back" and "Up" are almost always the same thing, and for the times they aren't, the breadcrumb is more functional. But not only does the breadcrumb allow navigation in the "Up" direction, it goes "Down" and "Sideways" too.
My apologies for making you think I was ignorant enough to be upset by your flamebait, Mr. West.
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I've seen and used Launchy. It sucks.
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There are two left pointing arrows next to the folder icon at the left of the bar. Click that and you'll see the full folder's hierarchy itemized line by line below, along with your desktop down at the bottom. Click the one you want.
Alternatively, you can set your explorer windows to be bigger:P
Generally, back and parent directory are the same place, but more often than not, the back feature is much more useful as you can also use it to jump to child directories too. When those cases don't completely coincide, that's what the breadcrumb is for. It's the utility it offers and the information it provides that makes the breadcrumb infinitely better than "Up." With the back button on the mouse, you almost never use an "Up" button anyway (or the back button on the UI when you know to press backspace) but for the few times you do, the breadcrumb is a much more precise tool with a superset of features. Visually too, it separates folder names more clearly than a backslash does at a glance I feel.
Of course, like I said, you need to learn to use it before you should complain about it:)
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Click the far right side of the bar, at the end of the crumb trail. It reverts to the full file path.
There's probably a keyboard shortcut to select the address bar like in a web browser, but it's not Ctrl+L it seems.
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~ isn't even valid in Windows for the user's home directory....
Very true. I correctly assumed, however (based on replies that is) that most of you would know what I meant. Saved keystrokes FTW.
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Heh, I'm more of a fan of how fast Chrome is compared to Firefox than I am enamored of it's UI. I think I had that addon at some point, but I recall it driving me nuts for some reason. I can't really remember why though.
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I wasn't strictly speaking to development. Development is only one aspect of using a computer in a sea of virtually limitless possibilities.
Given that there are two Windows OS's that are newer and have better features tailored to the way people use Windows, software development included, it stands to reason that, even as a developer, if you don't know or are too shortsighted to see these benefits more recent versions of Windows offers, you should still target NT6 as the primary platform for your application irrespective of its compatibility with previous Windows versions.
It is woefully ignorant for a software publisher to restrict their customers to a technically inferior, harder to use operating system because its developers are too ignorant or stubborn to learn what newer ones have to offer.
I understand that I'm ranting a little bit, and my argument doesn't apply to legacy applications, but it's incredibly pig-headed and stupid for a piece of software developed after 2006 to be completely incompatible with NT6+. It's irresponsible and lazy, and is tantamount to targeting a web app at IE6 only. I'm sure I don't need to express why that is a really stupid idea.
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Win7 just works. It's stable. It's faster and feature-rich and up-to-date. It has a lot of great short-cuts and productivity enhancers in the UI. End of story.
That's what so many IT pro's don't understand about Vista and 7. They install it and immediately turn a bunch of new features off and revert to the "Classic" Start menu.
Meanwhile, while they're hunting for an application buried deep inside some terrible folder hierarchy that stretches across the whole screen, I tap the Windows key, type the first three letters of an Application name, hit enter, and I'm there. Meanwhile, my colleagues whine about the lack of an "Up" button while I just click the back button on my mouse or the folder name in the breadcrumb bar.
I call the classic start menus and such "I fear change" mode. Fitting, I think:D
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I'm not too sure because I like to keep my downloads folder a little, um, cluttered, but I think you can change the behavior of file download links to prompt every time instead. I really like the way Chrome handles downloads with the little bar at the bottom instead of popping something up every time like IE/Firefox though. Also, it's the only browser I've used that lets you drag/drop downloaded files from within the browser UI out to a file browser like Explorer or Finder. Very convenient, I think. YMMV though, of course.
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What makes you think he develops applications for Windows?
Uhmm... fine question. Maybe he's a web developer. Who knows.
He talks of development on Windows, so naturally I assume he means Windows apps, and just wanted to say something about that in general. My point is relevant to the discussion regardless of what the GP specifically works on. It's just extra relevant if he's producing Windows apps.
Likewise in all the migrations I've done thus far.
Chances are good though that I'll use USMT 4 instead of Easy Transfer.
Neat feature: USMT 4 will migrate a profile using the Windows.Old directory on a machine. That way, you don't even have to begin the migration until after you've installed the new OS. Really neat feature.... When it works, that is;)
Oh no no, it's not about the hardware, it's about my profile and my installed apps and yada yada.
From 3.1 to 98 to ME to XP (four or five times) to Vista for myself, and then countless times for work or clients, it's a rather monotonous process either migrating a profile or rebuilding one from scratch.
I've run Win7 on my desktop before, but I reimaged back to Vista when a bunch of apps just wouldn't work right. I hadn't done a profile migration yet, as I was just trying to get things sorta up and running, but alas I never really got that far. It is time, though, to revisit that again.
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Vista is loaded on the 'corporate' PC but XP is on the development PC. XP works, it's stable. End of story.
Should I have to use or admin your products, all I care about is that you actually know how to develop for Vista or later and that your product follows its security model and conventions.
There are plenty of apps developed for Vista and 7 that do obnoxious shit like default putting downloaded files in ~\Documents\Downloads. For fuck's sake, there's ~\Downloads for that, and it works quite nicely. Yes, I'm looking at you,Chrome. Smart enough to avoid UAC by installing into AppData, but ignorant and audacious enough to break the much improved home folder in the same stroke.
If an app did that on Linux or OS X, people would pitch a fit... especially the developers.
I used WinME back in the day... mostly because I got it for free from an MS employee. In hindsight, perhaps I should have tried to get Windows 2000 instead.
Vista has served me well though through the years. However, I've run into an issue on my system that prevents the installation of Windows Updates, which there is a fix for.... that comes in a standalone Windows Update installer which likewise fails to install. I wanted to get mad at it but the irony was making me laugh too hard. Can't complain too much though... it was a similarly free copy:D
The time to upgrade to Win7 on my home workstation is nigh... and I dread doing it. It sucks to have to spend hours working on your own computer before you can use it.
This makes me want to change my sig... Goodbye, sweet cake. GlaDOS was a filthy liar.
It will only run under PXE boot, so it requires that you have control over DHCP wherever you are.
You might like to try gPXE. You can, either by chainloading SYSLINUX or PXELINUX or using COM32 modules, implement exactly what you describe using almost any medium you desire, whether that's floppy, PXE/DHCP/ProxyDHCP, local disk, USB, etc, configured as you desire, so that as long as it's on any network that can route to your boot server, it'll behave the same every time. You could even burn gPXE directly into the NIC of your target machines, and remove the need for a "virtual partition" altogether. Of course you can set everything up in the DHCP server, or, if you like, point the client at an HTTP server and sort it all out with PHP or something.
Most likely, you're looking to use an embedded script that wants DHCP from the local segment, then contacts a specific server every time, regardless of DHCP settings.
Also, gPXE already supports EFI in addition to BIOS based systems. In the meantime, I'm gonna go look at FOG:-)
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Yes. $500. Including a monitor.
Dude, chill out, and you're full of it.
The Mac Mini starts at $699 and doesn't even come with a Cinema Display. Obviously the GP knows what he was talking about!
you CAN pair an A2Dp headphone
Hah! That's rich. I'd double check that one myself but chances are good I'm too lazy. Still, and I've never seen one, I think you'd be hard pressed to find an A2DP headset that doesn't also support HSP and a few other things.
The real question is whether or not the iPad or iOS 4 finally fucking supports AVRCP correctly. The fact that my old as shit blackberry can "Next Track" and "Previous Track" from my headphones but my iPhone can't is really, really sad.
(EG. Despite it supporting bluetooth data transfer, you *may* get blocked from copying over your own ringtone files from a computer -- or maybe you're disallowed from moving over your contact info as vcard files, or ??)
Dude! Just to let you know, you're not alone. I too owned a Motorola E815 as offered by Verizon, and so did everyone I worked with.
Not only was I an expert at teardown and rebuild of the device (and god damn did those things love to snap off their antennas!) SEEM editing was second nature to me. It got to the point where everyone I knew, even casually, who owned that phone either had it repaired and rebuilt, or hacked through a SEEM edit by me to enable all those stupidly disabled features. To top it off, bluetooth OBEX was, among a couple of other things, the reason I bought that phone and to find out I couldn't do it when I got home with it supremely pissed me off. In total, from the moment I got the phone in front of my computer to make that discovery to about 6 hours later, I sat there scouring the web with a data cable connected to it and didn't get up (save bathroom trips) until I had a phone with working OBEX. And my [slightly] more juvenile self enjoyed that to the fullest, cutting ringtones from the songs I liked and applying them to different people. After all, why buy a song for 99 cents, then re-buy the 30 second clip which you listened to for free before buying the damn song anyway for another 99 cents. I digress.
It is THAT experience that so jaded me against the practices of US cell providers. And it's also that experience that made me so happy for Apple's ability to take AT&T to the cleaners as a device maker and be the side that wears the pants in that relationship. It's a single entitiy and a single phone that allowed innovation to happen in the cellular space in the way that device makers had been clamoring for for half a decade at that point but had been screwed by THEIR products and features being pimped at the whim of what the wireless providers deemed was fit for their own pocketbooks. And THAT is some Grade A Bullshit(TM).
Not to say that someone isn't screwing the capabilities of the iPhone for personal gain, but at the very least the ones doing the screwing are the ones that were visionary enough to create the damned thing in the first place. The ones that shattered the barriers and made a phone that broke the paradigm and ushered in the one that we know and love today. Finally, I say with that, much like my SEEM edit on my E815 made me happy, jailbreaking an iPhone makes me happy enough. I'm willing to take the good with the bad, though I'll admit that while it's an okay solution for me, the market as a whole could use something better.
It's up to Google and Microsoft now. Shatter the paradigm again. Do to the mobile OS what Apple has done to the mobile device. Make us happy to part with our dollars.
With mine, the USB connection itself was fine. Wiring hadn't gone in spite of its age.
:D
The issues I experienced were quite literally a firmware or chipset issue in the mouse itself. Kind of like CD/DVD burners. They just die after a time for seemingly no reason. Such is life!
No, the old Intellipoint mouse. That thing was gold-standard for optical mice.
That is probably the truest statement I've read *all* day. That mouse was the one that finally got me to switch from trackball back over to the normal style mouse. I used it for years until one day it would blink on and off while I was playing video games, constantly getting me killed. I replaced it with a Logitech and have been Logitech for years now.
After I was certain I'd never need the Intellimouse ever again, I cut the cord off of it, grabbed a baseball bat, and had my friend pitch it to me in my backyard. It was a home run, and we never did find every piece of the device.
I have been led to believe that "Zero-day" refers to the amount of time that exists between public knowledge of an exploit and when you see it being used in the wild.
If, for example, you heard about this exploit today, and the same exploit was WTFPWNing computers today, then it is, by definition, a "Zero-day exploit."
It's kind of like "hacker" though, and gets thrown around to mean all sorts of shit that it does not.
My point was that "Back" and "Up" are almost always the same thing, and for the times they aren't, the breadcrumb is more functional. But not only does the breadcrumb allow navigation in the "Up" direction, it goes "Down" and "Sideways" too.
My apologies for making you think I was ignorant enough to be upset by your flamebait, Mr. West.
I've seen and used Launchy. It sucks.
There are two left pointing arrows next to the folder icon at the left of the bar. Click that and you'll see the full folder's hierarchy itemized line by line below, along with your desktop down at the bottom. Click the one you want.
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Alternatively, you can set your explorer windows to be bigger
Generally, back and parent directory are the same place, but more often than not, the back feature is much more useful as you can also use it to jump to child directories too. When those cases don't completely coincide, that's what the breadcrumb is for. It's the utility it offers and the information it provides that makes the breadcrumb infinitely better than "Up." With the back button on the mouse, you almost never use an "Up" button anyway (or the back button on the UI when you know to press backspace) but for the few times you do, the breadcrumb is a much more precise tool with a superset of features. Visually too, it separates folder names more clearly than a backslash does at a glance I feel.
Of course, like I said, you need to learn to use it before you should complain about it
Click the far right side of the bar, at the end of the crumb trail. It reverts to the full file path.
There's probably a keyboard shortcut to select the address bar like in a web browser, but it's not Ctrl+L it seems.
~ isn't even valid in Windows for the user's home directory....
Very true. I correctly assumed, however (based on replies that is) that most of you would know what I meant. Saved keystrokes FTW.
Heh, I'm more of a fan of how fast Chrome is compared to Firefox than I am enamored of it's UI. I think I had that addon at some point, but I recall it driving me nuts for some reason. I can't really remember why though.
I wasn't strictly speaking to development. Development is only one aspect of using a computer in a sea of virtually limitless possibilities.
Given that there are two Windows OS's that are newer and have better features tailored to the way people use Windows, software development included, it stands to reason that, even as a developer, if you don't know or are too shortsighted to see these benefits more recent versions of Windows offers, you should still target NT6 as the primary platform for your application irrespective of its compatibility with previous Windows versions.
It is woefully ignorant for a software publisher to restrict their customers to a technically inferior, harder to use operating system because its developers are too ignorant or stubborn to learn what newer ones have to offer.
I understand that I'm ranting a little bit, and my argument doesn't apply to legacy applications, but it's incredibly pig-headed and stupid for a piece of software developed after 2006 to be completely incompatible with NT6+. It's irresponsible and lazy, and is tantamount to targeting a web app at IE6 only. I'm sure I don't need to express why that is a really stupid idea.
Win7 just works. It's stable. It's faster and feature-rich and up-to-date. It has a lot of great short-cuts and productivity enhancers in the UI. End of story.
That's what so many IT pro's don't understand about Vista and 7. They install it and immediately turn a bunch of new features off and revert to the "Classic" Start menu.
:D
Meanwhile, while they're hunting for an application buried deep inside some terrible folder hierarchy that stretches across the whole screen, I tap the Windows key, type the first three letters of an Application name, hit enter, and I'm there. Meanwhile, my colleagues whine about the lack of an "Up" button while I just click the back button on my mouse or the folder name in the breadcrumb bar.
I call the classic start menus and such "I fear change" mode. Fitting, I think
I'm not too sure because I like to keep my downloads folder a little, um, cluttered, but I think you can change the behavior of file download links to prompt every time instead. I really like the way Chrome handles downloads with the little bar at the bottom instead of popping something up every time like IE/Firefox though. Also, it's the only browser I've used that lets you drag/drop downloaded files from within the browser UI out to a file browser like Explorer or Finder. Very convenient, I think. YMMV though, of course.
What makes you think he develops applications for Windows?
Uhmm... fine question. Maybe he's a web developer. Who knows.
He talks of development on Windows, so naturally I assume he means Windows apps, and just wanted to say something about that in general. My point is relevant to the discussion regardless of what the GP specifically works on. It's just extra relevant if he's producing Windows apps.
Likewise in all the migrations I've done thus far.
;)
Chances are good though that I'll use USMT 4 instead of Easy Transfer.
Neat feature: USMT 4 will migrate a profile using the Windows.Old directory on a machine. That way, you don't even have to begin the migration until after you've installed the new OS. Really neat feature.... When it works, that is
Oh no no, it's not about the hardware, it's about my profile and my installed apps and yada yada.
From 3.1 to 98 to ME to XP (four or five times) to Vista for myself, and then countless times for work or clients, it's a rather monotonous process either migrating a profile or rebuilding one from scratch.
I've run Win7 on my desktop before, but I reimaged back to Vista when a bunch of apps just wouldn't work right. I hadn't done a profile migration yet, as I was just trying to get things sorta up and running, but alas I never really got that far. It is time, though, to revisit that again.
Vista is loaded on the 'corporate' PC but XP is on the development PC. XP works, it's stable. End of story.
Should I have to use or admin your products, all I care about is that you actually know how to develop for Vista or later and that your product follows its security model and conventions.
There are plenty of apps developed for Vista and 7 that do obnoxious shit like default putting downloaded files in ~\Documents\Downloads. For fuck's sake, there's ~\Downloads for that, and it works quite nicely. Yes, I'm looking at you, Chrome. Smart enough to avoid UAC by installing into AppData, but ignorant and audacious enough to break the much improved home folder in the same stroke.
If an app did that on Linux or OS X, people would pitch a fit... especially the developers.
I used WinME back in the day... mostly because I got it for free from an MS employee. In hindsight, perhaps I should have tried to get Windows 2000 instead.
:D
Vista has served me well though through the years. However, I've run into an issue on my system that prevents the installation of Windows Updates, which there is a fix for.... that comes in a standalone Windows Update installer which likewise fails to install. I wanted to get mad at it but the irony was making me laugh too hard. Can't complain too much though... it was a similarly free copy
The time to upgrade to Win7 on my home workstation is nigh... and I dread doing it. It sucks to have to spend hours working on your own computer before you can use it.
This makes me want to change my sig... Goodbye, sweet cake. GlaDOS was a filthy liar.
It will only run under PXE boot, so it requires that you have control over DHCP wherever you are.
You might like to try gPXE. You can, either by chainloading SYSLINUX or PXELINUX or using COM32 modules, implement exactly what you describe using almost any medium you desire, whether that's floppy, PXE/DHCP/ProxyDHCP, local disk, USB, etc, configured as you desire, so that as long as it's on any network that can route to your boot server, it'll behave the same every time. You could even burn gPXE directly into the NIC of your target machines, and remove the need for a "virtual partition" altogether. Of course you can set everything up in the DHCP server, or, if you like, point the client at an HTTP server and sort it all out with PHP or something.
:-)
Most likely, you're looking to use an embedded script that wants DHCP from the local segment, then contacts a specific server every time, regardless of DHCP settings.
Also, gPXE already supports EFI in addition to BIOS based systems. In the meantime, I'm gonna go look at FOG
What happens when one black hole eats another?
Nothing special. The theory is that the "snap" happens at the moment a singularity is formed. It doesn't depend on it at all after that point.
THERE you are!
Woosh.
Blast! You ruined my "woosh!"
:P
Read a book, you fucking moron.
Well... while he may be a moron, for all intensive purposes, you're an asshole.