Re: Chrome deprecates NPAPI

2015-04-20 Thread Stephen Price
There's a mental image I could have done without. Thanks Greg ;) On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Greg Keogh wrote: > Why not just manually code the HTML and Javascript? >> > > I'm planning to do that just after I have a naked wrestling match with a > rabid polar bear in a pit full of cobras --

Re: MSDN Subscription renewal

2015-04-20 Thread Stephen Price
g van Nieuwkerk wrote: > The only thing I missed in Professional when moving from Ultimate is > CodeLens, but that is now moving to Professional as well. > > Craig > > > On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Stephen Price > wrote: > >> Judging by those links and what I&#

Re: MSDN Subscription renewal

2015-04-20 Thread Stephen Price
Judging by those links and what I've read previously looks like the worst place to be is Premium currently. Sure you get upgraded to Ultimate for free but looks like the renewal is higher (when compared to the old Premium prices). Sure you get Enterprise for cheaper than what Ultimate was but that

Re: Push to web clients

2015-04-07 Thread Stephen Price
http://macleodsawyer.com/2015/03/06/nine-truths-computer-programmers-know-that-most-people-dont/ You've pretty much described Fact #1. Everything is hacked together with duct tape and coat hangers. :) That's the beauty of it all. The power of Javascript is that you *can* hack it together. Does it

Re: Async'ing a library

2015-03-27 Thread Stephen Price
Yeah, generally speaking, if you think you understand something, you must have it wrong. Also, as soon as you comprehend something, someone will change it. Just assume you have no idea and be done with it. Run with it until someone complains about it. :) On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Greg Keo

Re: Visual Studio startup delay

2015-03-18 Thread Stephen Price
Wait, what? 2014? Did I miss a release somehow? Sent from my iPhone > On 19 Mar 2015, at 11:09 am, Greg Keogh wrote: > > Folks, sometime in the last couple of weeks I noticed that Visual Studio 2014 > was taking a long time to start, but only when I ran it as Administrator. > Launching it as m

Re: [OT] Dev environment setup

2015-03-12 Thread Stephen Price
Yeah, I used to be against VMs (never seemed to get the speed of running on the bare metal), but since working the last six months on a VM its much better. Note, I *did* put my own M.2 PCIe drive in the machine which is where my VM lives. 1000Mb/sec throughput on that thing screams compared to the

Re: WP - prepare for universal app development in Windows 10

2015-01-07 Thread Stephen Price
.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/12/04/introducing-net-core.aspx> >> effort, we’ve also ported a bunch of legacy areas to make porting from >> existing .NET code easier. If you think things are missing that should be >> included and you’ve not listed them below, feel free to send the

Re: Visual Studio C/C++ projects

2015-01-05 Thread Stephen Price
Nice! Object oriented comments. That should totally be a thing! :) On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 4:15 PM, Greg Harris wrote: > Some (many) years ago I was talking to this guy who was proudly telling me > he had upgraded his Pascal program to use the OO features of Delphi. > Great, tell me what features

Re: WP - prepare for universal app development in Windows 10

2014-12-23 Thread Stephen Price
Universal apps are lovely. there you go. On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Greg Keogh wrote: > It’s interesting to read the comments, and the Microsoft replies – about >> what is currently missing from “universal” and why Silverlight is more >> suitable, at present. >> > > Good grief! I didn't

Re: [OT] Unbelievable ad tracking

2014-12-23 Thread Stephen Price
s://www.codify.com/cards/davidconnors > Follow me on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/davidconnors > Connect with me on LinkedIn: http://au.linkedin.com/in/davidjohnconnors > > On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Stephen Price > wrote: > >> 5.) Delete all social media accounts.

Re: [OT] Unbelievable ad tracking

2014-12-23 Thread Stephen Price
2Fdavidjohnconnors&si=6200614728499200&pi=9e5263a5-4dbd-47e4-f88e-a91272819878> > > On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Stephen Price > wrote: > >> 5.) Delete all social media accounts. >> 6.) Stop using any device that's connected. I forget the name of it but &g

Re: [OT] Unbelievable ad tracking

2014-12-22 Thread Stephen Price
5.) Delete all social media accounts. 6.) Stop using any device that's connected. I forget the name of it but there is a security rating (class C? I forget) where no connectivity, no keyboard no monitor and no external drives are required. Or something along those lines. 7.) Become Amish. On Tue,

Re: [OT] Unbelievable ad tracking

2014-12-22 Thread Stephen Price
y can not help any of their staff to do their job! (does this feel like Friday?) On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 7:49 PM, Stephen Price wrote: > So how come when I ring up the ATO they don't know who I am? ;) > > On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Greg Keogh wrote: >> >> You can lodg

Re: [OT] Unbelievable ad tracking

2014-12-22 Thread Stephen Price
So how come when I ring up the ATO they don't know who I am? ;) On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Greg Keogh wrote: > > You can lodge a BAS with the ATO using it. (You can’t with IE 11)… >> > > That means that Google and the NSA now have full access to our tax > records ;-) >

Re: [OT] Reading list

2014-12-03 Thread Stephen Price
While on the subject of books, I highly recommend Safari Flow (actually its been renamed www.safaribooksonline.com). Their books subscription used to be several levels, one where you could read all of their books and a lower priced one which worked like a library where you could "check out" a certa

Re: TraceSource without config

2014-12-02 Thread Stephen Price
They need to make them JSON as well. (like they did/are doing with project files.) They are just INI files in disguise. :) On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Greg Keogh wrote: > Chaps, I saw that page, and the code makes sense, but it's an unrealistic > example as the same program makes the trace s

Re: Duplicate matching

2014-11-28 Thread Stephen Price
dotnet.com ] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Price *Sent:* Saturday, November 29, 2014 12:30 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: Duplicate matching Am curious, is the idea of the exercise to write your own code to solve the problem, or to solve the problem? I've used Treesize pro to find file duplicates in

Re: Duplicate matching

2014-11-28 Thread Stephen Price
Am curious, is the idea of the exercise to write your own code to solve the problem, or to solve the problem? I've used Treesize pro to find file duplicates in the past. Also have used Directory Opus to find duplicates. Great for finding identical files with different names. Probably won't help if

Re: [OT] Turning off outgoing mail possible?

2014-11-28 Thread Stephen Price
I always marvel at how people use email for business. As if it were guaranteed delivery. The technology has been around longer than the internet and I'd not be surprised if its not been changed in all that time. I'd like to hope it has but not looked into it. Might put that on my weekend reading li

Re: [OT] Ultrabook for noob

2014-11-26 Thread Stephen Price
t I guess going forward that will matter. How often >> do people change laptops? Is 3-4 years a stretch? >> >> Thanks >> Tom >> >> >> On 26 November 2014 at 17:02, Stephen Price >> wrote: >> >>> Welcome Tom! >>> (OMG where did

Re: [OT] Ultrabook for noob

2014-11-26 Thread Stephen Price
s about the Macbook but the keyboard didn't feel > right to me for Windows. > > > > I'll check out the XPS 15. > > > > Wow, 16Gb RAM? I didn't realise that was such an issue. 8Gb would be > plenty for me I think but I guess going forward that will matter.

Re: [OT] Ultrabook for noob

2014-11-26 Thread Stephen Price
;>>> >>>> I'll check out the XPS 15. >>>> >>>> Wow, 16Gb RAM? I didn't realise that was such an issue. 8Gb would be >>>> plenty for me I think but I guess going forward that will matter. How often >>>> do people chan

Re: [OT] Ultrabook for noob

2014-11-25 Thread Stephen Price
Welcome Tom! (OMG where did we get a new poster from?) Having more than a few laptops (both past and present) I feel slightly qualified to reply. I've found Dell pretty good, but always get the longest warranty you can get your hands on. It's happened a couple of times where a laptop has needed pa

Re: X509 certificate and trust

2014-11-25 Thread Stephen Price
And then I read your email a second time and notice you said Silverlight PHONE app. Perhaps you could use something similar... but as it's not hosted on a web server, but instead its on the phone that might not work. Perhaps a call to a server with a login where a key is given out for that session?

Re: X509 certificate and trust

2014-11-25 Thread Stephen Price
Hey Greg In the past I've handed the Silverlight xap file something random (lets call it a key to get in) in the init parameters. The client then gives that back to the WCF service as proof that the Xap file was launched by a known web server. You could renew it periodically or let it run for that

RE: VB.NET (was Re: VS2013 Windows Phone project)

2014-11-20 Thread Stephen Price
Its very good that someone has had the foresight to keep them all together. You know, just in case we need one. On Nov 20, 2014 6:02 PM, "Greg Low (低格雷格)" wrote: > I've been back at a place this week that has nearly 200 devs doing VB.NET. > > Regards, > > Greg > > Dr Greg Low > > 1300SQLSQL (1300

Re: VS2013 Windows Phone project

2014-11-19 Thread Stephen Price
Yeah, Xamarin is currently looking like the best option for a C# developer to develop for cross platform devices. I ran a demo at Perth .net user group where I showed a solution with 4 target OS's in one, and how/where you share your code between them. Window (store), Windows Phone, iOS and Android

Re: VS2013 Windows Phone project

2014-11-17 Thread Stephen Price
You probably need to go for a Universal app? On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 11:42 AM, ILT (O) wrote: > Are you developing on Windows 8.1 with VS2013? > > > -- > > Ian Thomas > Albert Park, Victoria > > > > *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: > ozdotnet-boun...@ozd

Re: [OT] Windows 10 Preview

2014-11-14 Thread Stephen Price
doesn't matter if you resize the command window you don't get more lines, > you have to change the buffer and width in the properties to make it work. > > > *Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes*. > > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Stephen Price > wrote

Re: [OT] Windows 10 Preview

2014-11-14 Thread Stephen Price
Yes, I had a play. My favourite new feature was so small but oh, so big. Resizable cmd window. Its always been resizable in height but never width. I've looked for it with every windows release since windows 95. Only took 20 years. :) On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Greg Keogh wrote: > Folks, I

Re: .NET Core is now open source

2014-11-14 Thread Stephen Price
free? or Free? :) On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Bec Carter wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 6:14 PM, Michael Ridland wrote: > >> >> Well you can't sell software anymore only devices and services, why not >> open source and sell azure. It's a great and essential business move for >> MS.

Re: .NET Core is now open source

2014-11-13 Thread Stephen Price
It's exciting. In comparison, to develop in the Apple world, you download XCode for free, sign up to the Developer program ($99) and that's it. Compare to Microsoft is somewhat more expensive. MSDN Ultimate is around the $10K mark. The Visual Studio Community stuff is great to see. I'm wondering wh

Re: vs2013 community edition performance

2014-11-13 Thread Stephen Price
n't run on a Mac. But there's a cool project called omnisharp, which will give you intellisense support in text editors (such as sublime, atom, brackets, vim, emacs and others) on other platforms like Linux and OS X. http://www.omnisharp.net On 14 November 2014 11:06, Stephen Price

Re: vs2013 community edition performance

2014-11-13 Thread Stephen Price
Yeah, some great stuff happening in the .Net space. I particularly liked the plans to support Mac and Linux, as well as Xamarin (free version) will work in Visual Studio. I wonder if that means Visual Studio will run on a Mac? On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 7:52 AM, Wallace Turner wrote: > I was very p

Re: Hacked together standing desk

2014-10-30 Thread Stephen Price
Personally, I think it's great that people are looking after themselves. I don't really find it practical to have a stand up station mainly due to a shortage of space (plus multi monitor setup). My way of looking after myself (I had a bad desk/chair set up some years ago and ended up with wrist pr

Re: MVC Membership

2014-10-27 Thread Stephen Price
the username and password against active directory. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb154889(v=vs.110).aspx I hope that helps. Regards *Adrian Halid* *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com ] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Price *Sent:* Monday, 27

MVC Membership

2014-10-26 Thread Stephen Price
Hey all, I'm a bit confused guys... Noticed they changed the membership stuff for MVC websites so did some reading and found the new stuff is called SimpleMembership. But then I find there's something else called Asp.Net Identity which works with Azure and AD. So now I've no idea which I should be

Re: Code Mechanical Keyboards

2014-10-23 Thread Stephen Price
I've been using Corsair Vengence K90 gaming keyboard for the longest time... three years?. Mechanical keys wouldn't change back but i'm sure there are equally awesome keyboards out there. Had a Razor gaming keyboard which died. I also got a Code keyboard (without numberpad) and the micro usb port b

Re: PDF and .doc generators for websites

2014-10-21 Thread Stephen Price
I had a look at this briefly, there seemed to be a couple of options of doing it in code. I think some paid, and some open source (nuget packages). I didn't end up going with it in the end, I decided for now to just let the user print to PDF using built in Windows if they wanted to. :) I'd like it

Re: [OT] Mini portable desktop

2014-10-16 Thread Stephen Price
+1 for the Brix (or similar). You put your own ram and mSata drive in them and they are the same size as the Vesa mounting on a monitor. Fits in one hand, no fans (usually) and runs great as a media pc (or portable desktop) +61 (0) 428 028 599 step...@lythixdesigns.com @lythixdesigns | @lyynx www

Re: [OT] Windows on Macbook

2014-10-14 Thread Stephen Price
Mac is expensive too. Dell XPS 15 is better bang for buck. I'd get one but I already have 4 laptops lol On 14 Oct 2014, at 6:17 am, Bec Carter wrote: Yep considering doing the same. Windows run ok on the MBP? Surface is way overpriced imo On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 10:09 PM, wrote: > Same here..

Re: [OT] Windows on Macbook

2014-10-14 Thread Stephen Price
That said unless you need mac for Mac work (ie iOS dev) I'd get surface pro 3. I have both and use surface all the time, Mac only when I need it. Depends what you are working on On 13 Oct 2014, at 7:09 pm, "anthonyatsmall...@mail.com" < anthonyatsmall...@mail.com> wrote: Same here..thinking of ge

Re: [OT] Windows on Macbook

2014-10-14 Thread Stephen Price
Yep. It's common. I tried the Vm via parallels but found performance issues when using Rdp. So changed to using bootcamp which works way better. (If I want Rdp with 4 screen support including 4K monitor I boot into windows not OS X) Sent from my iPhone > On 13 Oct 2014, at 5:19 pm, Tom Rutter wr

Re: [OT] Windows on Macbook

2014-10-14 Thread Stephen Price
und trying to do anything in Visio, Powerpoint etc. is an exercise in self-harm when using a touchpad – far better to have a mouse… YMMV I guess *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com ] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Price *Sent:* Wednesday, 15 October 2014 1

Re: [OT] Windows on Macbook

2014-10-14 Thread Stephen Price
ct 14, 2014 at 9:29 PM, Stephen Price wrote: Man, if Apple one day released a Mac laptop with a Windows keyboard they'd make a killing. But that'd be like admitting their OS is crap and they would never give up control over the software side of things. But seriously. Imagine a Win Book

Re: [OT] Windows on Macbook

2014-10-14 Thread Stephen Price
Man, if Apple one day released a Mac laptop with a Windows keyboard they'd make a killing. But that'd be like admitting their OS is crap and they would never give up control over the software side of things. But seriously. Imagine a Win Book Pro. I'd so buy one and put windows on it. Not having a D

Re: [OT] Windows on Macbook

2014-10-13 Thread Stephen Price
I have both Surface Pro 3 and Mac book 13. Use Surface mostly except when I need to do Mac/iOS stuff (which isn't much at the moment but will spend more time on it with some spare time) +61 (0) 428 028 599 step...@lythixdesigns.com @lythixdesigns | @lyynx www.lythixdesigns.com www.linkedin.com/in

Teched next week - Melbourne

2014-10-03 Thread Stephen Price
Hey all, I'm going to TechEd next week (Melbourne) so If anyone else is going and want to catch up, ping me an email or sms. Looking forward to hearing all the new goodies in Windows 10 and .Net vNext. cheers Stephen 0428028599

Re: [OT] Quiet

2014-09-19 Thread Stephen Price
Greg, Your posts resemble a book I'm reading at the moment. The Rhesus chart. Book 5 in a series called the Laundry Files. Highly recommend it and I think they will explain a lot of the unspoken hidden terrors of algorithms that are dancing just our of sight in your peripheral vision. You know the

Re: [OT] Quiet

2014-09-18 Thread Stephen Price
So that sounds like dll hell will become framework/runtime hell? Seriously though, the future of C# is strong from what I've seen. Xamarin supports C# for targeting IOS and Android. Unity supports C# as a scripting language for writing games. I am hopeful but my Silverlight burns are still hea

Re: [OT] Surface

2014-09-18 Thread Stephen Price
access that all from Dropbox et al J So, this is geared towards people who need to carry stuff around with them From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Price Sent: Friday, 19 September 2014 11:09 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re

Re: [OT] Angular and Durandal Converge

2014-09-18 Thread Stephen Price
It's Friday guys. I'm going to go out on a limb here and propose a change to the [OT] “rules” of our OzDotNet Elist. We have a couple of hundred people still here, but the traffic is low. Possibly due to outsourcing to StackOverflow? Anyway, my proposal is we all relax the [OT] rules. If its a

Re: [OT] Surface

2014-09-18 Thread Stephen Price
osure was relatively small. Now, my 2.5” enclosures look positively old-school. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Price Sent: Friday, 19 September 2014 10:52 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Surface Hey Ken, Your

Re: [OT] Surface

2014-09-18 Thread Stephen Price
an only drive the monitor at 30Hz, even though the > monitor’s capable of 60Hz > > > > Cheers > > Ken > > > > *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: > ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Price > *Sent:* Thursday, 18 September 2

Re: [OT] Surface

2014-09-17 Thread Stephen Price
I stopped justifying gadget purchases years ago. Gave it up. Making a Difference Perth, Western Australia +61 (0) 428 028 599 step...@lythixdesigns.com @lythixdesigns | @lyynx www.lythixdesigns.com www.linkedin.com/in/lyynx On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 8:53 AM, Mark Thompson wrote: > Probably shoul

Re: [OT] Surface

2014-09-17 Thread Stephen Price
Oh nice, thank's for sharing that tip about the Hyper-V. I noticed mine takes ages to wake up. Hadn't annoyed me enough to figure out a solution but will look into a dual-boot config. My first high res scaling issues were experienced with Samsung quad hd laptop, so I'm glad the SP3 isn't quad hd.

Re: [OT] Surface

2014-09-17 Thread Stephen Price
Yep I got the docking station too. Docking it is a bit weird. Slide it to the side (left to right) then push the left corner in to hold it in place. Works ok but I feel like I'm going to break something if I miss? If you want an awesome 4K monitor have a look at a ASUS PB287Q 28-inch 4K UHD 3840 x

Re: [OT] Surface

2014-09-17 Thread Stephen Price
I think we've all been here so long that we no longer have those noob problems we all used to have? I got me a Surface Pro 3 and love it. I'm using it as one of my coding machines. I RDP to it from my desktop (and use my 4 screens on it). Seems to handle that pretty well. When I'm in the office wi

Re: Exchange / Outlook Calendar APIs

2014-09-04 Thread Stephen Price
ed with the mail and admin > side of things. > > If you need Exchange 2003 compatibility (or with Exchange 2007 servers > that have EWS disabled for whatever reason), you'll need to dive into > the murky world of WebDAV, or MAPI in the worst case. > > On 4 September 2014 0

Exchange / Outlook Calendar APIs

2014-09-04 Thread Stephen Price
Hey all, May be starting a new project where will need to programatically create/update/delete calendar entries in Exchange. Yet to find out what version of Exchange is being used. A quick search lead me to EWS (Exchange Web Services) managed APIs. Is that where I need to be looking to interface

Re: New ASP.NET MVC project

2014-08-22 Thread Stephen Price
I think there is an option for blank solution, and then you tick the MVC box. It's changed a few times recently but it's getting better to start with what you want so you can add it rather than have to remove it. On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Greg Keogh wrote: > Folks, this afternoon I was

Re: Geographic lookups

2014-08-17 Thread Stephen Price
Cheers! will check it out. On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Tony McGee wrote: > geonames.org has both free and premium web services, as well as > downloadable sets of data if you wanted to roll your own. > > > > On 17/08/2014 19:59, Stephen Price wrote: > >> Hey all

Geographic lookups

2014-08-17 Thread Stephen Price
Hey all, Am looking for some kind of service for lookups. Country, that gives states and regions. Citys optional. Any good ones ppl can recommend? cheers Stephen

Re: Azure Blob/Table library

2014-08-14 Thread Stephen Price
14 at 3:53 PM, Stephen Price wrote: > Coding some of that myself today. Best bet is go to Nuget and search for > Windows Azure Storage. Add that and away you go. > Documentation to get you started: > http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/storage-dotnet-how-to-use-blo

Re: Azure Blob/Table library

2014-08-14 Thread Stephen Price
Coding some of that myself today. Best bet is go to Nuget and search for Windows Azure Storage. Add that and away you go. Documentation to get you started: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/storage-dotnet-how-to-use-blobs/ have fun. It's very cool. On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 3

Re: azure in Australia

2014-08-11 Thread Stephen Price
There are Azure servers in Australia, the game Titanfall uses them. I've heard rumours they will be available this month, but as people have pointed out they have been coming for some time. I use and love Azure. I've heard people using and love Amazon as well. I especially like the Visual Studio

Re: MVC controllers

2014-07-15 Thread Stephen Price
ginated from. > > > There is no way to differentiate between two action methods using the same > name and same HTTP verb - just by parameters AFAIK. They would have to be > called differently. > > > Cheers, > j. > > > On 14 July 2014 16:35, Stephen Price wrote:

Re: MVC controllers

2014-07-13 Thread Stephen Price
wrote: > With MVC controllers and two methods sharing the same name - they have to > differ by HTTP verb (get / post). If the action method is not decorated by > [HttpGet] or [HttpPost] it is considered both. Are these two being > decorated by different verb ? > > > > > On 1

MVC controllers

2014-07-13 Thread Stephen Price
Hey all, Just hit an error in my mvc controller after I added a new method to it. It was complaining that I wasn't providing a value for a second property. I was a bit confused for a second until I realised that it was calling my newly added method when my intent was that it should still be callin

Re: Xamarin Hack Day

2014-07-07 Thread Stephen Price
If anything happens in Melbourne, please remember to advertise it here. Strange turn of events, just after I read this thread this morning, my wife says to me "hey, do you want to go to Melbourne?" So if I can organise it to overlap a Melbourne Xamarin hack day that'd be awesome! :) cheers, Steph

Re: Xamarin Hack Day

2014-07-06 Thread Stephen Price
If said speakers can make it to Perth, I'd be interested. A lot of these sorts of events are held at BankWest they have lots of suitable rooms. Not sure who to speak with to organise that but I could find out. On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Michael Ridland wrote: > Hi > > Sorry to jump in lat

Re: Some good news

2014-07-01 Thread Stephen Price
This makes me think of the time I was at a Pizza hut as a child and the waitress took my half eaten pizza away. "HEY! I WAS EATING THAT!" How often do you find some great feature or software package you were using, and it's taken away. Sure, you might be the only person using it but YOU MATTER. If

Re: [OT] Purchasing an iPad

2014-06-30 Thread Stephen Price
.. their stuff looks and feels slick doesn't it. When I see > how some of the software looks and behaves it makes me feel like giving up > my job writing Windows software and going busking instead. > > *Greg K* > > > On 27 June 2014 12:58, Stephen Price wrote: > >> I

Re: Optus to sell Office365

2014-06-27 Thread Stephen Price
I agree, you should have the choice of going straight to Microsoft. That might mean the msdn subscription complimentary access might work. I tried recently and couldn't get Australia to show in the list so couldn't activate it. Oh and here's a story talking about Australia and the downsides of bei

Re: [OT] Purchasing an iPad

2014-06-26 Thread Stephen Price
I got an email from jbhifi yesterday, 11% off all Apple computers until Monday. Oh my bad just saw the fine print, excludes ipads. They do list ipad with retina separately $55 off. $392 instead of $447 Jbhifi are my favourite shop. :) On 27/06/2014 8:11 AM, "Greg Keogh" wrote: > Folks, my wife

Re: [OT] Samsung U28D590D 4K Monitor

2014-06-19 Thread Stephen Price
I'm happier with my Samsung U28D590DS each day. I didn't have a problem finding the Jog thumbstick on the back, I think I saw it while setting it up, but yeah, black on black is kind of easy to miss. I'm running 4 screens off one graphics card. Almost with no issue, I had to set one of the screens

Re: [OT] Samsung U28D590D 4K Monitor

2014-06-12 Thread Stephen Price
To be honest, Windows still has a way to go before they have the scaling issues sorted out. There's big push for more pixels per inch, which makes the images look fantastic, but naturally this increases the resolution which makes the default fonts smaller. The scaling can be done to everything or s

Re: [OT] Samsung U28D590D 4K Monitor

2014-06-11 Thread Stephen Price
it to think it was on a LAN connection and reconnected. It's now crisp like the other machine. A lot happier now. (if somewhat sheepish it took me so long to twig what was going on). :) On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Stephen Price wrote: > Or... buy two monitors! > > > On W

Re: [OT] MSDN subscription

2014-05-30 Thread Stephen Price
I tried to activate Office365 with my msdn subscription (theres a link there to do it). Australia wasn't in the list of countries to choose from. :( There was a sign in button which gives me this: Sorry, that didn't workThis doesn't look like a valid user ID. Make sure you typed the user ID assi

Re: [OT] MSDN subscription

2014-05-30 Thread Stephen Price
need a new ABN and domain each time though :) > > > On Friday, May 30, 2014, Stephen Price wrote: > >> Yeah, you just start a new startup company every three years and join >> BizSpark each time around. >> >> If you do that enough times, eventually you might even

Re: [OT] MSDN subscription

2014-05-30 Thread Stephen Price
Yeah, that's a great price. Not. It defaulted to the price in US dollars. Change the dropdown to Australian dollar and check the price difference. New: 6119 US Dollar equals 6566.85 Australian Dollar They want $9,755.00 AU Upgrade: 2569 US Dollar equals 2757.03 Australian Dollar Their price $4,0

Re: [OT] MSDN subscription

2014-05-30 Thread Stephen Price
Admonish is such a strong word. I even had to look it up. :) Remember the renewal price is around half of the initial price. I got my initial Premium at upgrade price as a special deal. What I find a bit annoying is there is no way to switch levels of msdn. You basically have to get the new one at

Re: [OT] MSDN subscription

2014-05-29 Thread Stephen Price
Yeah, you just start a new startup company every three years and join BizSpark each time around. If you do that enough times, eventually you might even learn enough to stop failing and $10k for a license will be trivial. On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 1:50 PM, David Burstin wrote: > >> Yoiks! Does th

Re: [OT] MSDN subscription

2014-05-29 Thread Stephen Price
Looks like it does. *Office Professional Plus 2013 with SP1 (x86 and x64) - DVD (English)* *Available to these Subscription Levels:* *MCT Developer Software & Services* *MCT Software & Services* *VS Premium with MSDN (MPN)* *VS Premium with MSDN (Retail)* *VS Premium with MSDN (VL)* *VS Pro with M

Re: [OT] Samsung U28D590D 4K Monitor

2014-05-27 Thread Stephen Price
Or... buy two monitors! On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Greg Keogh wrote: > It should easily pay for itself in its life span, as well as make you a >> happier developer, adding years to your life span and potential lifetime >> earnings. I say it's a bad business decision to NOT get it. >> > >

Re: [OT] Samsung U28D590D 4K Monitor

2014-05-27 Thread Stephen Price
Well that's an easy choice! The Hawaiian holiday has a much shorter life span and will cost you (loss of income) during its usage period. The monitor will make you more productive (more efficiency = better usage of resources and higher productivity increasing income) and should last for years to c

Re: [OT] Samsung U28D590D 4K Monitor

2014-05-27 Thread Stephen Price
Then you want this one. http://www.scorptec.com.au/product/Monitors/25%2B_inch/54853-PQ321QE :) On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 9:28 AM, Greg Keogh wrote: > this other monitor might be a way better buy. >> http://www.scorptec.com.au/product/Monitors/25%2B_inch/54493-34UM95-P It's >> about the same pr

Re: [OT] Samsung U28D590D 4K Monitor

2014-05-27 Thread Stephen Price
27;s an enormous productivity booster. Never underestimate the value of > your screen real estate, after all, you stare at it for more than half your > waking life don't you?! > > *Greg K* > > > On 28 May 2014 09:22, Stephen Price wrote: > >> Dell 30" >> >

Re: [OT] Samsung U28D590D 4K Monitor

2014-05-27 Thread Stephen Price
Dell 30" On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 12:14 AM, David Kean wrote: > Which 30” are you running? > > > > *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: > ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Price > *Sent:* Wednesday, May 21, 2014 11:07 PM > > *To

Re: [OT] Samsung U28D590D 4K Monitor

2014-05-21 Thread Stephen Price
Oh I just found a sharpness setting in with brightness and contrast which has helped. Much more usable now. I think the 30" is still crisper in comparison but at least its a lot closer now. On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Stephen Price wrote: > Dave, I blame you entirely. > > I g

Re: [OT] Samsung U28D590D 4K Monitor

2014-05-21 Thread Stephen Price
neighbourhood Guinea Pig) On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 7:42 PM, Dave Walker wrote: > Do you need some enabling? > > You should buy one Stephen. Then tell the rest of us how it is for > coding/etc. > > > On 21 May 2014 18:38, Stephen Price wrote: > >> Yeah I've bee

Re: [OT] Browser use

2014-05-21 Thread Stephen Price
ugging in >> which case I use Chrome. I then use Chrome for everyday use. I only use >> Firefox for cross browser testing. >> >> >> >> Craig >> >> >> >> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Stephen Price < >> step...@perthprojects.com

Re: [OT] Browser use

2014-05-21 Thread Stephen Price
hich case I use Chrome. I then use Chrome for everyday use. I only use > Firefox for cross browser testing. > > > > Craig > > > > On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Stephen Price > wrote: > > I disagree. I think? > > > > I find I use Chrome and IE.

Re: [OT] Browser use

2014-05-21 Thread Stephen Price
I disagree. I think? I find I use Chrome and IE. For development it depends what I'm doing. If I want to hit a breakpoint in VS then IE does that. If I want to use the debugger in the browser then I use Chrome. IE keeps changing their Developer tools and even though they are improving I still find

Re: [OT] Samsung U28D590D 4K Monitor

2014-05-21 Thread Stephen Price
abit > 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 > *Sent: *‎22/‎05/‎2014 0:37 > *To: *

Re: [OT] Samsung U28D590D 4K Monitor

2014-05-21 Thread Stephen Price
gt; > > On 21 May 2014 18:38, Stephen Price wrote: > >> Yeah I've been looking at that monitor for a week now. Austin Computers >> has them in stock. >> >> http://www.austin.net.au/shop-categories/monitor/samsung-u28d590d-28-3840-x-2160-widescreen-le.htm

Re: [OT] Samsung U28D590D 4K Monitor

2014-05-21 Thread Stephen Price
Yeah I've been looking at that monitor for a week now. Austin Computers has them in stock. http://www.austin.net.au/shop-categories/monitor/samsung-u28d590d-28-3840-x-2160-widescreen-le.html To be honest I'm not even sure why I don't have one now. Delaying the impulse buy as long as I can... :)

Re: [OT] Laptop to replace macbook

2014-05-18 Thread Stephen Price
fore the warranty runs out and pass it on for > someone else to worry about. > > > My two bobs worth - Stuart > > > > > > > > On 16 May 2014 17:01, mike smith wrote: > >> There's a story here. >> >> >> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at

Re: [OT] Laptop to replace macbook

2014-05-15 Thread Stephen Price
I'm most impressed with how frequent new models from all of the various manufacturers are pumped out. I find I upgrade to better spec machine way before the machine has reached its lifetime. Ok, I'm a gadget guy who loves having the latest stuff. Guilty. The improvements are not trivial either. Th

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