Windows Defender told me it scanned 12,843,673 objects !!! Admittedly that included another drive with Win 2008 on it, but that's still a lot of files. I noticed that the objects includes the contents of help files including MSDN. Even still, I figure it would take me half year to look at each of...
If you’ve been following the latest news out of Microsoft you may have noticed the article with Marc Whitten where he mentions that certain under performing Xbox LIVE Arcade titles are going to be delisted from the Xbox LIVE Marketplace. Chris Paladino was quick to clarify some of the community...
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Anonymous
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05-24-2008
Filed under: Gaming, XBLA, Xbox LIVE Arcade, rant, Xbox LIVE Marketplace
If you have Foxit PDF reader , make sure you update to the latest build, V2.3 Build 2923 . This fixes a potential bug in the way script is passed that could lead to a buffer overflow exploit . If you don't have Foxit, get it now, and dump that old Adobe Acrobat Reader bloatware stuff. Foxit is light...
I was reading Kathleen's recent blog entry about Office and Windows and accessibility. Kathleen was referring to the cases where you don't have a mouse, only keyboard, and the fact that CTRL+I wasn't discoverable in that scenario. I have mixed feeling about the Office 2007 UI: I actually...
I turn off Aero and themes, and all is good except for the start menu shut down and log-off icons which are just incredibly ugly: Notice the search icon is showed in colour, but the shut down and log-off are some crappy black and white images. What the f is up with that ?
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bill
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05-17-2008
Filed under: Rant, Vista, Windows Server 2008
I wasn't going to install VS 2008 SP1 Beta on my main development machine until I read a MSDN blog that said the final SP1 will install over the top of it. So I figure there's more good in getting feedback into the system now, than waiting. Installing it on my VPC's would provide limited...
It's bad enough when the Windows Live team continually releases their SDKs omitting VB, but when XNA 3.0 CTP is released and STILL NO VB support, it's getting beyond a joke. XNA 3 is for Visual Studio 2008 and lets you do cool things like create games for Zunes, unless of course you want to do...
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bill
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05-09-2008
Filed under: VB, Rant, Orcas, VS2008, CSharp, .NET
While I was at the Microsoft 2008 Global MVP Summit in Seattle during April I was able to visit the Microsoft Company Store. I happened to pickup a shiny new 120GB Xbox 360 Hard Drive while I was there.
Microsoft were really clever when they packaged the 120GB hard drive accessory as they include a...
I got an email inviting me to take part in some great deals on some books from a certain company ( name withheld to protect the innocent). As the site was new, they were also encouraging some feedback. As it turned out a lot of the site didn't work for me on my development machine. Here's what...
I was just reading a work around for timestamps with LINQ or WCF, and I must be stupid, but I just don't get it. In fact, ever since dotnet came out mapping timestamp to a byte array or SqlBinary, I never got why they did that. Timestamp is 8 bytes, so why not just map it to Int64 or UInt64 and for...