I'm not sure if you guys saw this but yesterday there was an attack against
some certificates from Microsoft.
You need to read this:
http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2012/06/flame-certificates-collisions-oh-my.html
The Security Advisory:
Open people on win 8, then search for a non-existing name , eg ## or ** or
something so as the search results come up empty. Now using only keyboard and
mouse get back to displaying the entire list without having to enter in a valid
search first (that is navigate back to the people list). Post
Hi All (especially Greg Low tho),
I've been debugging an issue whereby conn.Open( ) was/is taking 5
seconds to connect to a machine on the LAN (same VM host actually)
I've 'fixed' this by changing the connection string. Was:
My guess is something weird with routing. How many networks are you on?
Just one, or more than one? (ie wifi and lan)
Perhaps one goes via wifi the other goes different route. I'm also assuming
that using the name resolves to the same IP. What happens if you
ping/tracert to the IP and/or name.
I would get a packet trace to see what’s happening on the network.
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On
Behalf Of Wallace Turner
Sent: Thursday, 7 June 2012 3:43 PM
To: ozDotNet
Subject: sql connection taking ages when using IP Address vs Computer Name
thanks some good thoughts already, am continuing with investigations
will come back, and yes Stephen the domain resolves to the same IP
Address that is always a good one to check !
On 7/06/2012 3:56 PM, Jano Petras wrote:
Hi,
I've seens some weirdness
Good thinking. Technically if you're on IPv4 and IPv6 you are on multiple
networks :)
Ping/nslookup should identify that, I think?
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Jano Petras jano.pet...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I've seens some weirdness of this kind before, and it was related to IPv4
vs IPv6
Good reason to upgrade to windows 8. Your machine can go faster. I
think they have increased the Windows Rating maximum. My CPU rates at
8.6, and someone pointed out to me today that the max used to be like
7.9.
:)
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Bill McCarthy
bill.mccarthy.li...@live.com.au
Good point - I actually saw that on the weekend when I was searching something.
They must have received that feedback already, so would imagine it'll get
addressed
Nick Randolph | Built to Roam Pty Ltd | Microsoft MVP – Windows Phone
Development | +61 412 413 425 | @btroam
The information
;) Win + Z will show the app bar from the search results even though right
click of the mouse won't. So it probably is a bug.
I also noticed in the maps app you can't right click to select directions
from here/to here because right click is the app bar :S The maps in the browser
is a better
I said wp7 would fail in the first three years of its birth. I said
Silverlight was ear marked for depreciation along side WPF and now I say
Win8 will fail in consumer uptake.
WP7 has been cancelled?
As a follow-up -since it is nearly Friday now - I thought this was a very
analytical and almost cruel response to our hard-working friends in the
(mainly) off-shore call centres. After all, they're only trying to earn a
quid (or rupee), and some of them may be better educated than us and earning
We are testing various installation modules that alter the schema of our SQL
Server database. They can change the number of columns (add, delete) and
change the size of others. They can also add and drop tables.
Of course we try this out on a dev instance of the database. The actual
database is
sorry Greg, you indicated that you thought it's more confusing now,
I completely disagree as the metro guidelines are very strong)
A web search for Windows 8 design guidelines produces some possibly useful
information, and some of it is frightening. Where are the technical
guidelines for
I'm not sure if you guys saw this but yesterday there was an attack against
some certificates from Microsoft.
Thanks Corneliu, following links from your links leads to some really
interesting reading -- Greg
http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2012/06/flame-certificates-collision
Greg
sudden paradigm change???. Metro design language has been around for at least
2 years as part of the Windows Phone development story. They've talked about it
at virtually every major Microsft dev event since, including the new interface
for Xbox. Whilst there are nuances to the Windows 8
I agree, i have found that Microsoft is changing the development
paradigms so often that i have been looking at learning android/ios because
i no longer see any gap differences between learning non MS development.
I have had a wp7 phone for a year and still find the android better suited
Hmmm, so you mean the fact that Wp7 and win8 dev is all XAML + C# (or VB.NET)
doesn't reduce the learning time? And the fact that we have state of the art
application design tools doesn't make it quicker to build apps? I'm confused,
what more do you want Microsoft to do.
In terms of a geek
In today's age :
http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/mobiles/windows-phone-to-surpass-ios-b
y-2016-analyst-20120608-1zzpl.html
I recontracted when the Lumia 800 came out and it addressed the embarrassing
parts of my previous WP (HTC Mozart). The screen is fantastic outside, and
the
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Nick Randolph n...@builttoroam.com wrote:
“sudden paradigm change”???. Metro design language has been around for at
least 2 years as part of the Windows Phone development story. They’ve
talked about it at virtually every major Microsft dev event since,
|Full screen apps are a sudden paradigm change. I mean ... I am running MSN
|Messenger at 2560 x 1440 and I can fit about 15 messages on the screen. And
I
|have to keep switching back and forth between work and GigantorMessenger to
|see what has most recently been said. WTH.
I think full screen
Scott - design tool it may not be, but Blend is light years ahead of other
platforms.
w.r.t. wp7 v's win8 - yes, most likely. We'll have to wait and see on that
front. Whatever the story they'll be looking to minimize the pain for
developers in both short and long term.
Nick Randolph | Built
They've talked about it at virtually every major Microsft dev event since,
including the new interface for Xbox.
I haven't attended any phone presentations, only ones that are vital
interest to what I'm writing now or in the foreseeable future, and it's a
struggle just to keep up to date with
Full screen apps are a sudden paradigm change. I mean ... I am running MSN
Messenger at 2560 x 1440
Likewise ... my screen is the same size and filled with gigantic candy
coloured slabs one at a time, mostly empty space. This full screen technique
has got to go and change somehow, it's dog
The start button should be on the desktop taskbar. There is absolutely no
benefit in removing it. They've definitely got that part wrong.
The start screen itself is a nice concept, and I think it can make a good
start menu replacement, but it needs a lot more features to give back the
features it
Yeah I disagree on that one. Adobe Edge for example still spanks Blends
butt on the whole HTML5 front even though it's still in Lab mode. As I've
probably stated in the past, the adoption of Blend has been so low that its
been questioned numerous times whether or not it should be allowed to
What's HTML and why do I care... only kidding. But on a serious note I was
referring primarily to other mobile platforms where iOS is wowful and Android
is like drawing with crayons.
Nick Randolph | Built to Roam Pty Ltd | Microsoft MVP - Windows Phone
Development | +61 412 413 425 | @btroam
Nokia's efforts to finally tighten the messaging around Wp7 hasn't been
something to ignore, having said that the uptake so far isn't something you
would want to brag to heavily about - Samsungs native OS has more uptake
than Wp7 ...yeah...sad ..
I'm sceptical that the consumer win8 tablet story
Bow before your HTML overlords and submit to thee! :)
Adobe's PhoneGap is one to potentially smooth alot of those bumps out for
both.. Blend *could* easily turn into a rival tool that would help not
impede the MSFT development story ...they would however need to spend a
release cycle on UX and
the only plausible explanation I can think of to removing the start button
is - After 20+ years of habitual usage we think its time you stop taking
an emotive dependency on the bottom left.
Kind of like a UX intervention by Microsoft and filled with Tough Love
responses. .. They need a I'm
Greetings all,
I've been staying out of this conversation because I hadn't actually
used windows 8. I decided to install it and see what all the fuss was
about. So my impression after a couple of minutes poking around
follows:
I decided the UI design was terrible within seconds. It's clearly
One in five housewives found that apps wasn't as good as search. Nine
out of ten developers on this sampled agreed that I made up those stats.
:)
---
Regards,
Scott Barnes
http://www.riagenic.com
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 10:46 AM, David Richards
ausdot...@davidsuniverse.com wrote:
Greetings
|the only plausible explanation I can think of to removing the start button
is -
|After 20+ years of habitual usage we think its time you stop taking an
emotive
|dependency on the bottom left.
Huh ? I use to always dock to the top (and then hide it sometimes too).
These days my taskbar is docked
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Bill McCarthy
bill.mccarthy.li...@live.com.au wrote:
|the only plausible explanation I can think of to removing the start button
is -
|After 20+ years of habitual usage we think its time you stop taking an
emotive
|dependency on the bottom left.
Huh ? I
I agree, I always have my task bar at the top or side. With multiple
monitors, it goes on one of the secondary monitors.
David
If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes
will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!
-Zapp Brannigan, Futurama
On 8 June 2012 10:50, Bill McCarthy
The search charm is kind of good once you get use to its quirks. It's
lacking wildcards though, and most importantly it's missing a search all, or
search apps, settings, and documents.
The biggest issue I have with it (apart from lack of discoverability and
quirky keyboard behaviour etc etc) is
Dang, I meant left ;)
|-Original Message-
|From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-
|boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Bill McCarthy
|Sent: Friday, 8 June 2012 10:51 AM
|To: 'ozDotNet'
|Subject: RE: Win8 Release Preview
|
||the only plausible explanation I can think of to
Sorry, have been offline but I'm with Stephen others that it sounds like a
routing issue. Try a tracert to the server.
Regards,
Greg
Dr Greg Low
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Not related to your issue but it's recommended you use ConnectionStrings
instead of AppSettings to hold your connstring if using .NET 2 and above
(from memory 2.0 introduced it)
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Wallace Turner wallacetur...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi All (especially Greg Low tho),
geeez you are a stickler! it was just a spike, thanks for the heads
up tho :)
On 8/06/2012 1:41 PM, Bec Carter wrote:
Not related to your issue but it's recommended you use
ConnectionStrings instead of AppSettings to hold your connstring
if using .NET 2
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