RE: clicking on KB links in windows update [OT]

2018-03-11 Thread Ian Thomas
Right-click Regards, Ian Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Wallace Turner Sent: Monday, 12 March 2018 12:46 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: clicking on KB links in windows update [OT] is there some trick to cli

RE: Class diagrams and tools for communicating with clients

2018-02-05 Thread Ian Thomas
Perhaps consider Ink to Code ? It’s the converse of your approach, but may help with client understanding. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/with-ink-to-code-microsoft-is-turning-back-of-napkin-sketches-into-software/ It’s a Microsoft Garage project, from Microsoft Store, not available her

RE: Logo for Ozdotnet

2017-04-10 Thread Ian Thomas
#2 - I like the demarcation of the states. Also, it looks OK in monochrome. Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Price Sent: Monday, 10 April 2017 3:59 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Logo for

RE: [OT] Deleting Facebook account

2017-02-21 Thread Ian Thomas
FB have a how-to – Going to your FB and trying to delete stuff just reactivates it – I know, I tried that https://www.facebook.com/help/224562897555674/ Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg

RE: PowerShell help

2016-09-25 Thread Ian Thomas
Thanks Preet and Trevor, both work. Keep forgetting $, also “ and ‘ require a bit of getting used to. Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia

PowerShell help

2016-09-25 Thread Ian Thomas
Just trying to set the initial folder as the my documents in a profile - this fails set-location [Environment]::GetFolderPath("MyDocuments") but in PS prompt, [Environment]::GetFolderPath("MyDocuments") returns the folder string correctly. Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia

RE: [OT] WinHlp32.exe and .CHM help file format

2016-04-21 Thread Ian Thomas
. Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Low (??) Sent: Friday, 22 April 2016 7:59 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: [OT] WinHlp32.exe and .CHM help file format The current trend is towards

[OT] WinHlp32.exe and .CHM help file format

2016-04-21 Thread Ian Thomas
install on Windows 10 64-bit (which is quite clever), but I'm intrigued to know if Microsoft has any replacement for its various generations of help file formats. For a decade or more (15+ years perhaps) it spawned an entire industry of third-party help authoring applications., including a cou

RE: Web API HelpPage

2016-03-09 Thread Ian Thomas
piler. It's developed in C#. • Simple • Light-weight • Blazingly fast • 10-20 times faster than VsDocMan • 20-25 times faster than Sandcastle • Supports .NET Framework 2.0 and above • Can generate HTML and CHM documentation • Uses Mono.Cecil Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia

RE: Azure Table query "not null"

2016-03-06 Thread Ian Thomas
Smith) was rather fiercely condemnatory of Microsoft for not making ATS a type of SQL database. That’s what the internet tosses up. I would have thought the “lack of progress” he decries is because ATS is designed for a purpose, and not beyond. Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia

RE: [OT] Windows.old folder

2016-03-06 Thread Ian Thomas
installation had a prior booting Windows on the current boot drive? Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Sunday, 6 March 2016 7:10 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: [OT] Windows.old

RE: Azure Table query "not null"

2016-03-05 Thread Ian Thomas
age) have some sort of “clumsy” testing, along the lines that GK has used. There are several lnks (elsewhere on SO – see the side-panel links to other questions on null testing) some of which lead to Microsoft guides, which may be helpful. Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia ---

RE: [ot] upgrading to windows 10

2016-03-03 Thread Ian Thomas
es) https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-10-specifications (This is as much as “note to self” as for you – I’m sure I will have to refer to it sometime) Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behal

RE: [ot] upgrading to windows 10

2016-03-03 Thread Ian Thomas
and files http://www.zinstall.com/how-to/how-to-upgrade-to-windows-10-without-losing-your-programs-and-files Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Peter Griffith Sent: Friday, 4 March

RE: [ot] upgrading to windows 10

2016-03-02 Thread Ian Thomas
USB made from an ISO file. Really simple. Actually, I quite like this little device though it’s heavy with its dock/keyboard, and I find its touch screen and touchpad quite OK with or without keyboard attached. $220 from an RMIT student, as-new condition and with Office 2013 H&S. Ian Th

RE: [ot] upgrading to windows 10

2016-03-02 Thread Ian Thomas
the Office team's really stuffing up some Outlook patches, which caused me - and I would estimate many tens of thousands of others - to have to totally re-install Outlook, and (if synchronizing with a Hotmail or Outlook.com account) to have to download several Gb of emails etc etc. They have m

RE: Silverlight runtime

2016-03-01 Thread Ian Thomas
took the most drastic control panel remedy for defaults and they’re sticking again (touch wood). The most usual complaint I hear about Silverlight and windows 10 is getting debugging to work in VS. That’s not a problem for you. Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia From

RE: [OT] ACS - relevant?

2016-02-28 Thread Ian Thomas
per player seems cheap. Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of DotNet Dude Sent: Monday, 29 February 2016 4:06 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] ACS - relevant? Haven''t even

[OT] Windows 10 file associations

2016-02-28 Thread Ian Thomas
by a February update. I'm searching for a method to make sure I don't get the polite notification popup from W10 that it has done it again. Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia

RE: [OT] Windows 10 calculator

2016-02-28 Thread Ian Thomas
<http://www.intowindows.com/calculator-windows-10/> in discussion / alternatives to the windows 10 calculator) – I haven’t tried that though. Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh

[OT] Windows 10 calculator

2016-02-28 Thread Ian Thomas
ts to social media - "like", "trending", "social" - ugh. ) Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia

RE: Microsoft acquires Xamarin

2016-02-25 Thread Ian Thomas
found some of the comments interesting. Not just the fact that MS had acquired Xamarin. Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Friday, 26 February 2016 8:49 AM To

Microsoft acquires Xamarin

2016-02-25 Thread Ian Thomas
seems more than sensible to me to make it available at a modest subscription cost - perhaps not with Community Edition. Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia

[OT] Philips (Benq) 4K monitor

2016-02-14 Thread Ian Thomas
0&id2=143&bid =7&sid=239024> &id2=143&bid=7&sid=239024 It has remarkably good connectivity. branded as Philips, made by BenQ - Philips has good warranty services here I'm told Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia

RE: [OT] New PC - Intel LGA 1151 Z170 socket boards

2016-02-07 Thread Ian Thomas
Ok, convinced myself that socket LGA 1151 Z170 chipset, ddr4 is probably what I want. Has anyone dealt with Supertech Computers (Brisbane, but online)? They build and deliver Australia-wide and have been around for a long time. Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia From

RE: [OT] New PC - Intel LGA 2011-3 socket boards

2016-02-02 Thread Ian Thomas
tralia anyway. Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Nathan Schultz Sent: Wednesday, 3 February 2016 2:29 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] New PC - Intel LGA 2011-3 socket boards I&#

[OT] New PC - Intel LGA 2011-3 socket boards

2016-02-02 Thread Ian Thomas
DDR3 until the cost of DDR4 comes down by a factor of 3 or so .. Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia

RE: [OT] New PC no video

2016-01-22 Thread Ian Thomas
Weird. What CPU did you get? Is the RAM DDR3 or DDR4? Some boards can run both types. Asus mainboards boast of “audio aficionado” quality chips for sound/multimedia. My current years-old Asus board has HDMI and display port but I don’t make use of its better features. Ian Thomas Albert

RE: [OT] New PC no video

2016-01-22 Thread Ian Thomas
s for fault diagnosis (green/red lights on the board). Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia

RE: TraceSource and config

2016-01-07 Thread Ian Thomas
It has been in .NET since v2.0 and the docs for ,Net 4.5, 4.6 do give some configuration code that might be useful. Since it has been around a while, and updated, I assume someone finds it useful. (I haven’t used it, instead using a crude write to text debug files) Ian Thomas Albert

RE: Native DLL and Azure deploy

2015-11-15 Thread Ian Thomas
Easier as a 64-bit native DLL than as a 32-bit (as I recall from some time ago). This may have changed. _ Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2015 2:39

RE: [OT] Windows Update wreaks havoc with Outlook

2015-11-13 Thread Ian Thomas
me so I destroyed all other Gmail accts under my control. Back to KB3097877, reddit traffic from sysadmins is running hot - well 330, warmish. Ian Thomas Sent from my Lumia 640 XL Windows Phone From: Tom Rutter<mailto:therut...@gmail.com> Sent: ‎13/‎11/‎2

[OT] Windows Update wreaks havoc with Outlook

2015-11-13 Thread Ian Thomas
to cause the continual crashing of all versions of Outlook. Workaround: disable download of images with emails. Fix: Uninstall the Windows Update (named), reboot and check for available Windows Updates (the faulty one has been replaced). Thanks, Microsoft devs 😒 Ian Thomas Sent from my Lumia

RE: [OT] Ultrabook for noob

2014-11-26 Thread Ian Thomas
o machines appeal over Surface Pro 3 - though more $ for Lenovos. I seem to have a 4 year turnover, so these attract me now. Surface Pro 3 almost does... Ian Thomas Sent from my Nokia Lumia 920 - Windows Phone 8.1 From: Dave Walker<mailto:rangitat...@gmail.com&g

HERE Maps

2014-07-04 Thread Ian Thomas
ooked at the REST 'Places' API, but this hasn't helped me much yet. Can someone suggest appropriate docs or links? Ian Thomas Sent from my Nokia Lumia 920 - Windows Phone 8

RE: [OT] Windows phone recommendation

2014-07-03 Thread Ian Thomas
I have a Nokia Lumia 920 - I would prefer one with an SD card, and the better camera that the 930 has. The 1520 appeals. Ian Thomas Sent from my Nokia Lumia 920 - Windows Phone 8 From: Craig van Nieuwkerk<mailto:crai...@gmail.com> Sent: ‎4/‎07/‎2014 13

RE: [OT] MSDN subscription

2014-05-30 Thread Ian Thomas
If that's the way O365 works here, I won't bother looking at any of those options. Ian Thomas Sent from my Nokia Lumia 920 - Windows Phone 8 From: Stephen Price<mailto:step...@perthprojects.com> Sent: ‎30/‎05/‎2014 19:47 To: ozDotNet<mailto:oz

RE: [OT] Samsung U28D590D 4K Monitor

2014-05-21 Thread Ian Thomas
The dock for Surface 3 will drive your 4K screen, and there's a gigabit Ethernet dongle. I'm impressed with reports on the pen / OneNote use (but battery?) Ian Thomas Sent from my Nokia Lumia 920 - Windows Phone 8 From: Stephen Price&l

RE: [OT] Laptop to replace macbook

2014-05-15 Thread Ian Thomas
Which model do you have, Les? I see price range up to $2900 (512Gb SSD). Ian Thomas Sent from my Nokia Lumia 920 - Windows Phone 8 From: Les Hughes<mailto:l...@datarev.com.au> Sent: ‎15/‎05/‎2014 15:46 To: ozDotNet<mailto:ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com> Subj

RE: [OT] TortoiseHG "not under root" error

2014-03-05 Thread Ian Thomas
Perhaps you have a file open in a viewer? This was a reported error in 2008 (Sourceforge), no reported fix I could find. Ian Thomas Sent from my Windows Phone From: Greg Keogh<mailto:g...@mira.net> Sent: ‎6/‎03/‎2014 14:11 To: ozDotNet<mailto

RE: NBN Petition

2013-12-19 Thread Ian Thomas
For more information, better in my opinion than you will get in a newspaper, check Paul Budde's short report at http://www.buddeblog.com.au/frompaulsdesk/analysis-of-nbn-2-0/ Ian Thomas Sent from my Windows Phone From: Tony Wright<mailto:tonyw...@gmail.c

VCB appears twice

2013-10-25 Thread Ian Thomas
. _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia

RE: WiX and VS2013 integration

2013-10-24 Thread Ian Thomas
(lower net worth individuals). It’s an apocalyptic vision of the USA as superpower, and predictive of the (Chinese) Yuan becoming the standard currency. _____ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Beh

RE: WiX and VS2013 integration

2013-10-24 Thread Ian Thomas
rials, I have always found it difficult to get my head around how to even plan for a WiX installer project. But that was before WiX 3.x - so I should try again some day. I haven't downloaded v3.7 or v3.8 yet. _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozd

RE: WiX and VS2013 integration

2013-10-24 Thread Ian Thomas
luded, I assume). Possibly best to do the web install, and see if it allows you to just install the VS plug-in? Maybe its own installer will be a measure of its usefulness. _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia

RE: WiX and VS2013 integration

2013-10-23 Thread Ian Thomas
i) may have some thoughts on this. CS-Script targets .NET versions up to 4.5 and I think I’m correct in saying that Oleg Shilo lives somewhere in eastern Australia. _____ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.c

RE: WiX and VS2013 integration

2013-10-23 Thread Ian Thomas
1021.0 completes Visual Studio 2013 support 22 October 2013 WiX _____ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 7:10 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: WiX and

RE: Visual Studio 2013 and setup projects

2013-10-22 Thread Ian Thomas
oard-microsoft-slide-deck-2013-10> ] Microsoft makes quite a bit of money each quarter. _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Price Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 11:42 AM T

RE: Visual Studio 2013 and setup projects

2013-10-22 Thread Ian Thomas
There are certainly a lot of rude comments about Flexera and Microsoft's disregard for developers requiring install software. _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh

RE: Problem with FileSystem.DeleteFile method in root directory

2013-10-21 Thread Ian Thomas
hing I write myself, or Explorer etc). _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Mark Hurd Sent: Monday, October 21, 2013 8:33 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Problem with FileSystem.DeleteFile

RE: Problem with FileSystem.DeleteFile method in root directory

2013-10-19 Thread Ian Thomas
get displaced) http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv ? Also inaccessible. _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of mike smith Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2013 2:32 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re

RE: Problem with FileSystem.DeleteFile method in root directory

2013-10-17 Thread Ian Thomas
ittle dilemma to elevate the UAC rights just for the case where files reside in such a location? Is that the only solution? _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Ian Thomas Sent: F

RE: Problem with FileSystem.DeleteFile method in root directory

2013-10-17 Thread Ian Thomas
the need for FileSystemProxy class when there is a FileSystem class (both in Microsoft.VisualBasic) - but I will chase that up another day. _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer

RE: Problem with FileSystem.DeleteFile method in root directory

2013-10-17 Thread Ian Thomas
undo information, if possible. shf.pFrom = @"c:\myfile.txt" + '\0' + '\0'; //File / Folder to delete SHFileOperation(ref shf); Doesn't work for me (deletes file after permssion granted; file not seen in Recycle bin) - so, no furher progressed. _

RE: Problem with FileSystem.DeleteFile method in root directory

2013-10-17 Thread Ian Thomas
eally helpful to me - it doesn't allow me to progress (well, it does mean that I don't go off on a tangent). But I am still unable to remedy my problem. Do you have an answer, and explanation? _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [

RE: Problem with FileSystem.DeleteFile method in root directory

2013-10-17 Thread Ian Thomas
Greg I will read your link, but just now I saw at the base of the FileSystem.Delete info, a link to the FileIOPermission Class. First, I need to unravel the digfferences between .NET 4.5 and all the earlier releases; I can see major changes. _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western

Problem with FileSystem.DeleteFile method in root directory

2013-10-17 Thread Ian Thomas
cle bin (assuming the user gives permission, as required)? _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia

RE: OAIC releases privacy guide for mobile app developers

2013-09-30 Thread Ian Thomas
People say one thing, but do another. I was suspicious of the great caution and sensibility of these sample respondents! Nevertheless, the actual guide (on privacy notices for mobile applications - "apps") is worth the read, I think. _____ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Austr

OAIC releases privacy guide for mobile app developers

2013-09-30 Thread Ian Thomas
future. Even now, the OACI's survey found that 6 in 10 Australians chose not to use certain smartphone apps because of concerns about the way their personal information would be used. _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia

RE: Mark II

2013-09-24 Thread Ian Thomas
Nathan Chere: On a related note, I’ve been focusing on getting up to date again with web UI and funnily enough IE seems to support standards better than Chrome without requiring vendor-specific prefixes. Plus the developer tools are surprisingly good. Wot I sed _ Ian Thomas

RE: Mark II

2013-09-23 Thread Ian Thomas
other browsers available on all platforms. That’s a side issue, of course. Microsoft marketing is a mystery to me, so I won’t comment. _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of

RE: Mark II

2013-09-23 Thread Ian Thomas
. Also, iirc one was to be 5-point touch, the other 10-point; one has USB 2.0 the other USB 3.0 – I guess I need to search for some more complete information. Isn’t there a mini DisplayPort or HDMI? _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun

RE: [OT]Virtual File

2013-09-22 Thread Ian Thomas
es Us About Routing (more) read it online <http://www.simple-talk.com/newsletter/v.aspx?n=950> _____ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of anthonyatsmall...@mail.com Sent: Monday, S

RE: Expression Web

2013-09-16 Thread Ian Thomas
Ok, I have now installed VS2012 Update 3 and the various extensions, NuGet packages. (I still prefer VS2010, obviously) _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Kean Sent: Monday

RE: Expression Web

2013-09-15 Thread Ian Thomas
hat supports Silverlight and WPF editing, as well as SketchFlow is available. I know the Preview has been available for 9 or 10 months. Is it about to be released at MSDN? _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia

IMAP in outlook.com

2013-09-12 Thread Ian Thomas
I've only just discovered that IMAP has been introduced to outlook.com. Useful. [link <http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft-outlook/archive/2013/09/12/outlook-com- now-with-imap.aspx> ] There are upgrades to some third-party applications, now incorporating IMAP. _____ Ian Thom

RE: [OT] Coalition to filter internet, smartphones

2013-09-05 Thread Ian Thomas
indicated that the Coalition supported an "opt out" system of internet filtering for both mobile and fixed line services. That is not our policy and never has been. Yeh.. _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-bo

[OT] Coalition to filter internet, smartphones

2013-09-05 Thread Ian Thomas
urs ago) http://www.itnews.com.au/News/355885,coalition-to-filter-internet-smartphone s.aspx _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia <>

RE: [OT] Surface Pro 2

2013-09-05 Thread Ian Thomas
Yes, it does seem a Surface-killer - more options (storage, RAM), enough ports. We await pricing. I was impressed by recently-announced Lenovo T440 and T240 series ultrabooks. 2 batteries, up to 17 hours - a sensible counter to tablets. _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia

[OT] Surface Pro 2

2013-09-05 Thread Ian Thomas
<http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/4/4694838/surface-pro-2-adjustable-kickstand -haswell-better-battery-life> _____ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia

RE: [OT] NBN revisited

2013-09-04 Thread Ian Thomas
those businesses) it made sense, and they’re doing very nicely. Not exactly chicken / egg – a little bit of lateral thinking added. _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of mike smith

RE: NBN runs past my home - will Abbott charge me $4000 to connect it?

2013-09-03 Thread Ian Thomas
me a connection fee, even if I delayed my NBN connection request to an RSP until 01/2014. _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia

RE: [OT] Nokia sells smartphone business to Microsoft

2013-09-03 Thread Ian Thomas
gly-low-price/> from Forbes magazine). With that arrangement in the wind, don’t you think it would have been a great opportunity to give a Nokia Lumia 920 for all Australian TechEd participants? (cheap, at $350 from Kogan and others) _____ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Aus

RE: [OT] Nokia sells smartphone business to Microsoft

2013-09-02 Thread Ian Thomas
http://press.nokia.com/2013/09/03/nokia-to-sell-devices-services-business-to-microsoft-in-eur-5-44-billion-all-cash-transaction/ _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of mike smith Sent

[OT] Nokia sells smartphone business to Microsoft

2013-09-02 Thread Ian Thomas
Announced yesterday. It will be all over the Australian ICT press in a couple of days L _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia

RE: Developer keyboard revisted

2013-08-29 Thread Ian Thomas
in my experiences so far). _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Nathan Chere Sent: Friday, August 30, 2013 8:41 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Developer keyboard revisted Following on from the pos

RE: Visual Studio forgets opened files

2013-08-24 Thread Ian Thomas
n the cmd.exe type "devenv /resetsettings" it will restart visual studio and my files were saved again afterwards Wednesday, April 18, 2012 9:31 AM Electrocution _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozd

RE: Programmatically set default program for file type

2013-08-21 Thread Ian Thomas
pe-association/> ) - which I will test out. I probably need to run up a VM to test it else I will risk stuffing up this particular desktop's file associations. And I want to be able to reverse them, of course. _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotne

Programmatically set default program for file type

2013-08-21 Thread Ian Thomas
ows 7 desktop as a Standard User, with the control panel applets (Default Progams - first 2 options) But my changes don't "stick" as Standard User (OK as Admin); it reverts to WMP as the default for .MP4 files. _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia <>

RE: Visual Studio 2012 diseased

2013-08-21 Thread Ian Thomas
implicated. _____ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2013 3:15 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Visual Studio 2012 diseased Tony, I often have VS2012s open, but

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

RE: [OT] mSATA SDDs

2013-08-19 Thread Ian Thomas
Those sizes should be Gb of course – not Mb L _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of osjasonrobe...@gmail.com Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 12:12 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT

[OT] mSATA SDDs

2013-08-19 Thread Ian Thomas
height we've ever seen, and so far we know it fits perfectly in Sony Z7 series notebooks, Samsung NP9 (Series 9) notebooks, HP 9000 series notebooks, Lenovo W530, Toshiba Z800/Z900 series notebooks, Fujitsu Stylistic Q700 series notebooks, and many others. _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia <>

RE: php help

2013-08-13 Thread Ian Thomas
I know nothing about PHP, but thought it was a dog's breakfast. I'm surprised that Phalanger (possum - so, a possum's breakfast?) was/is supported by Microsoft. ________ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia -Original Message- From

RE: Livefan F2 - Windows 8 Tablet?

2013-07-29 Thread Ian Thomas
I was interested in this, because of the 3G - having a popup from the Russian Federation puts me off, though! (the new Nexus 7 is probably just as attractive?) Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf

RE: Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2013-07-28 Thread Ian Thomas
Perhaps it’s LinkedIn that is the spammer? I get a bit of LinkedIn email – not as bad as Facebook, though. Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Connors Sent: Monday, 29 July 2013 9

RE: Deflate Zip library care

2013-07-19 Thread Ian Thomas
e to SL5 (they break). Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Kean Sent: Friday, 19 July 2013 9:15 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: Deflate Zip library care Not sure I understand referen

RE: Deflate Zip library care

2013-07-18 Thread Ian Thomas
Time for an out-of-band release? .NET 4.5.1 was one such - you missed that? Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Kean Sent: Friday, 19 July 2013 3:33 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE

RE: Surface RT Prices Slashed $349

2013-07-18 Thread Ian Thomas
<http://www.winsupersite.com/blog/supersite-blog-39/windows8/winrt-replacing -win32-140605> and this <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/br230302(v=vs.110).asp x#convert> . Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [ma

RE: Deflate Zip library care

2013-07-17 Thread Ian Thomas
Why not use .NET 4.5? (not 4.0) Or does this introduce a lot of recompiles, in other parts of the application suite you're working on? Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh

RE: [OT] RSS feed formatting

2013-07-16 Thread Ian Thomas
ection to bring up Feed Settings dialog box, 5. Un-check the Turn On Feed Reading View option. 6. Click OK all the way to close all opened dialog boxes. 7. Restart Internet Explorer All of which is at a tangent to my original purpose. Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia

RE: [OT] RSS feed formatting

2013-07-16 Thread Ian Thomas
Sourceforge or wherever). Saving the ‘View Source’ representation from IE10 gives me the original RSS document with the online link to the XSLT it needs. Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David

RE: [OT] RSS feed formatting

2013-07-16 Thread Ian Thomas
have other browsers on this laptop so didn't try opera/firefox/chrome. Thanks for the elucidation - I can progress from here (MicrosoftAtWork was just put forward as an example). Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia -Original Message- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailt

RE: [OT] RSS feed formatting

2013-07-16 Thread Ian Thomas
s not specified or if the file is missing, IE will just use a default one which is the XML view you saw.” – but not true. So, I’m still in ignorance. Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of

RE: [OT] RSS feed formatting

2013-07-15 Thread Ian Thomas
I did assume there was an XSLT file behind, but I don’t think it is referenced – or is it – in the XML itself? Is it always, or is there a default name for the transformation file? Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun

[OT] RSS feed formatting

2013-07-15 Thread Ian Thomas
er (eg, IE10) the display is the standard XML syntax-highlighted view for any XML file. What is happening? Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia

RE: [OT] My "computer history" page

2013-07-14 Thread Ian Thomas
ne day" I will fire it up again - though a few years ago I found an emulator that runs in Windows, or was it DOS?, and I could run PacMan on that). Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Paul Evra

RE: Version increment - VCB-like addin?

2013-07-02 Thread Ian Thomas
Piers I've always been turned off using TeamCity because of reported problems of TeamCity with SVN and VisualSVN (I use a licensed copy of VisualSVN with TortoiseSVN on desktop). Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet

Version increment - VCB-like addin?

2013-07-02 Thread Ian Thomas
I have been using Versioning Controlled Build (VCB v3.x) from a CodeProject article for some time, with VS2010 and earlier. Do others have preferences for other simple build version increment / control addins? Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia

RE: Tablets - WinRT and Android

2013-06-25 Thread Ian Thomas
, but my guess would be that the manufacturers already pay quite a small amount. And the secure boot ROM could not cost them more than a few dollars. _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf

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