Re: [OT] mSATA SDDs

2013-08-20 Thread osjasonroberts
Sweet, thank Ken, that would be awesome! ๐Ÿ˜Š Jason Roberts Journeyman Software Developer Twitter: @robertsjason Blog: http://DontCodeTired.com Pluralsight Courses: http://bit.ly/psjasonroberts From: Ken Schaefer Sent: โ€ŽTuesdayโ€Ž, โ€Ž20โ€Ž โ€ŽAugustโ€Ž โ€Ž2013 โ€Ž12โ€Ž:โ€Ž22โ€Ž โ€ŽPM To: ozDotNet I think the X22

Re: [OT] mSATA SDDs

2013-08-20 Thread Stephen Price
I got one of these little bad boys for my Gigabyte Brix recently. http://www.gigabyte.com.au/products/list.aspx?s=47&ck=104 No fans, small, fast. Its advertised as DIY as you have to buy the RAM and mSata separate. Makes for an AWESOME media center pc. Mine went from the size of a Desktop HIFI lo

RE: [OT] mSATA SDDs

2013-08-20 Thread Ian Thomas
You have the GB-XM14-1037 model, with Celeron CPU? I like the gigabit Ethernet and WiFi. Are you running Windows Media Centre for Windows 7? _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Pric

RE: [OT] mSATA SDDs

2013-08-20 Thread Ken Schaefer
Or just buy a Mac Mini and run Windows MCE / XMBC / Frontrow etc. on it From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Price Sent: Tuesday, 20 August 2013 7:12 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] mSATA SDDs I got one of these little bad boys for my

Re: [OT] mSATA SDDs

2013-08-20 Thread Stephen Price
Don't be silly. I got the i7. :D Running Windows 8. Yeah I bought the Media Center thingy but to be honest with my NAS and Netflix I never use it so could have done without that. On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 5:51 PM, Ian Thomas wrote: > You have the GB-XM14-1037 model, with Celeron CPU? I like the

RE: [OT] mSATA SDDs

2013-08-20 Thread Ken Schaefer
So what are you running on the Brix to provide the UI? Or are you just navigating Win8 using a keyboard or mouse? (I think the thrust of the question was "are you using MCE as the UI, or something else?") From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of S

Re: [OT] Developer keyboard

2013-08-20 Thread David Richards
Just an epilogue for those that are interested. I've got my new mouse and keyboard set up and have been using it for a couple of days. The closer mouse is much more comfortable and the keys on the new keyboard are very nice to type on. The separate wireless number pad is quite good too. I'm qui

Re: [OT] Developer keyboard

2013-08-20 Thread Stephen Price
Slick looking mouse. *want* On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 7:38 AM, David Richards < ausdot...@davidsuniverse.com> wrote: > Just an epilogue for those that are interested. I've got my new mouse and > keyboard set up and have been using it for a couple of days. The closer > mouse is much more comforta

msbuild

2013-08-20 Thread Stephen Price
Hey all, I have a batch file that deploys to the required environment and i'm setting it up to output the deploy script into a folder as part of the build on TFS. Part of the batch file maps a drive using pushd and then the current path of the drop. This changes with each build and contains the bu

Re: msbuild

2013-08-20 Thread Preet Sangha
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3848597/bat-current-folder-name set startdir=%cd% echo %startdir% is my current directory On 21 August 2013 13:37, Stephen Price wrote: > Hey all, > > I have a batch file that deploys to the required environment and i'm > setting it up to output the deploy

Re: [OT] Developer keyboard

2013-08-20 Thread osjasonroberts
That mouse looks like some crazy borg-transformers love-child ๐Ÿ˜‰ Like the idea of programmable buttons though, any good for big-handed oafs like me? Jason Roberts Journeyman Software Developer Twitter: @robertsjason Blog: http://DontCodeTired.com Pluralsight Courses: http://bit.ly/psjasonrobert

Re: msbuild

2013-08-20 Thread Stephen Price
That won't work because if you double click the bat file in a \\unc share then you get that error saying the UNC paths are not supported. It then defaults to the Windows directory, so %cd% would be c:\windows in my case. I ended up going with this: @set uncpath=%0:\Dev.deployWeb.bat=% @pushd %unc

Re: [OT] Developer keyboard

2013-08-20 Thread David Richards
Jason, The mouse is adjustable. The palm rest comes in two heights and can slide in and out to suite. The thumb part with the buttons can be adjusted forwards and backwards. The pinky rest can be removed. There are other models where the thumb part can also tilt outward but I read somewhere th

Re: [OT] Developer keyboard

2013-08-20 Thread Stephen Price
A heavier mouse would help with your Right BICEP. :) On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:37 AM, David Richards < ausdot...@davidsuniverse.com> wrote: > Jason, > > The mouse is adjustable. The palm rest comes in two heights and can slide > in and out to suite. The thumb part with the buttons can be ad

Re: [OT] Developer keyboard

2013-08-20 Thread mike smith
It's the 'transformers' look. It doubles as a backup drive. On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Stephen Price wrote: > Slick looking mouse. *want* > > > On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 7:38 AM, David Richards < > ausdot...@davidsuniverse.com> wrote: > >> Just an epilogue for those that are interested. I

Re: [OT] Developer keyboard

2013-08-20 Thread osjasonroberts
Cool, thanks David ๐Ÿ˜Š Jason Roberts Journeyman Software Developer Twitter: @robertsjason Blog: http://DontCodeTired.com Pluralsight Courses: http://bit.ly/psjasonroberts From: David Richards Sent: โ€ŽWednesdayโ€Ž, โ€Ž21โ€Ž โ€ŽAugustโ€Ž โ€Ž2013 โ€Ž11โ€Ž:โ€Ž37โ€Ž โ€ŽAM To: ozDotNet Jason, The mouse is adjustabl

Re: [OT] Developer keyboard

2013-08-20 Thread Stephen Price
Where did you buy the mouse from? Looking about on my normal online stores, can't find that particular model. cheers, Stephen On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:57 AM, mike smith wrote: > It's the 'transformers' look. It doubles as a backup drive. > > > On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Stephen Price

Re: msbuild

2013-08-20 Thread Peter Gfader
>> That won't work because if you double click the bat file in a \\unc share then you get that error saying the UNC paths are not supported. It then defaults to the Windows directory, so %cd% would be c:\windows in my case. Does Powershell have the same problem? Would it help to use powershell for

Re: [OT] Developer keyboard

2013-08-20 Thread David Richards
I got it from mighty ape on sale but I'm pretty sure I saw it for similar prices elsewhere. The link below is for a cyborg branded one which is the same thing. mad catz own the cyborg brand. http://www.mightyape.com.au/product/Cyborg-MMO7-Gaming-Mouse/19700928/ David "If we can hit that bullse

Re: [OT] Developer keyboard

2013-08-20 Thread Peter Gfader
Nice keyboard! How loud is it? I bought the "daskeyboard ultimate silent" and I am not so happy with it. I got the silent one, but it is still too loud. I use it at home where no one else sits in my home office, but doing remote pairing or calls is not a nice experience... Here how loud that "sil

Re: msbuild

2013-08-20 Thread Preet Sangha
Cool, that's good to know. On 21 August 2013 15:22, Stephen Price wrote: > That won't work because if you double click the bat file in a \\unc share > then you get that error saying the UNC paths are not supported. It then > defaults to the Windows directory, so %cd% would be c:\windows in my c

Re: [OT] Developer keyboard

2013-08-20 Thread David Richards
It's louder than the "Microsoft Digital Media Keyboard 1.0a" I was using before. It sounds very similar to that video. It's a bit hard to tell if its louder or not since it kind of depended on how loud I set the volume :) But if it has the same switches its probably the same. It's much quieter

Visual Studio 2012 diseased

2013-08-20 Thread Greg Keogh
Folks, sometime in the last two weeks my VS2012 has become diseased with the following symptoms: (1) It *sometimes* forgets which files were open when I reopen a solution (2) Intellisense suddenly stops. I just can't find a pattern to any of this so far. I deleted suo files, looked for access deni

Re: Visual Studio 2012 diseased

2013-08-20 Thread mike smith
NCB file corruption? (delete solutionname.NCB) Symptom of that is that the ncb file grows a lot. On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Greg Keogh wrote: > Folks, sometime in the last two weeks my VS2012 has become diseased with > the following symptoms: (1) It *sometimes* forgets which files were o

RE: Visual Studio 2012 diseased

2013-08-20 Thread Tony Wright
Did you open more than one instance of VS? Visual Studio suffers from the lost tuple problem - that is, Open VS, Open a Solution, Open a second VS, Open a second Solution, Close second VS, close first VS. Then reopen VS. I'm betting you won't see any reference to the second solution. That's bec

Re: msbuild

2013-08-20 Thread Stephen Price
Slight over optimisation of my script broke it. this is the working one. :) set uncpath=%0 set uncpath=%uncpath:\Dev.deployWeb.bat=% pushd %uncpath% On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Preet Sangha wrote: > Cool, that's good to know. > > > On 21 August 2013 15:22, Stephen Price wrote: > >> That

Re: [OT] Developer keyboard

2013-08-20 Thread Stephen Price
Careful looking/listening to things on YouTube. Last week a guy here at work was freaking out about the back light leakage on these fancy new IPS screens. I never noticed it, but when I took a photo of it with my phone camera the backlight was quite noticeable. I guess the camera takes in lots of l