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 Wednesday, May 05, 2004
Bye Bye Nastyboy - Removing Dynamic Help from VS.NET
If, like me, you find that the Dynamic Help 'feature' in VS.NET is a right royal pain in the ass then this article from Fabrice tell you how to turn it off.
Anyway, today I found a nice way to disable dynamic help completely, for doing so go to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Visual Studio\7.0\Dynamic Help
And modify the value of the Never Show DH on F1 to YES.
The mere existence of that registry key says to me some kind person @ MS thinks Dynamic Help blows goats too.....
Disclaimer:
This involves $^%$^ing with your registry.... if you %^&% it up don't come crying to me.
.NET|Wednesday, May 05, 2004 10:19:11 PM UTC||
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Tuesday, May 04, 2004
Weapons of Maths Instruction
via the email bollocks loop.....
At New York Kennedy airport, an individual later discovered to be a school teacher was arrested trying to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a set square and a calculator. US Attorney General John Ashcroft believes the man is a member of the notorious Al-gebra movement. He is being charged with possessing weapons of maths instruction. "Al-gebra is a very fearsome cult," Ashcroft said. "They desire average solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on a tangent in search of ab absolute value. They consist of shadowy figures, with names like 'x' and 'y', and, although they are frequently referred to as 'unknowns', we know they belong to a common denominator and are part of the axis of mediaeval with co-ordinates in every country. As the great Greek philandered Isoceles used to say, there are three sides to every triangle." Asked to comment on the arrest, President George W. Bush said, "If God had wanted us to have better weapons of maths instruction, He would have given us more fingers and toes.".
Rambles|Tuesday, May 04, 2004 9:45:09 PM UTC||
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Monday, May 03, 2004
David Farrar on the current huis, hikois and other hilarity...
David Farrar has a good wee post laying the blame for the current b/s around the abolition of the Privy Council....
I've said in a number of posts that the reason that we're up the creek now is because the Govt. grossly over reacted to what was, in the end, a mere jurisdictional hearing...
PoliTechLaw|Monday, May 03, 2004 10:20:51 PM UTC||
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Saturday, May 01, 2004
Postlogue: The MS Security Summit
I spent most of this week travelling the country with Paul Andrew and a few others presenting at the MS Security Summit series.
I mentioned a few things in my presso.. one was a book title worth grabbing.
As Nick notes, we had fantastic turn outs.
Nick notes a few experiences along the way as well... I guess I should add mine.
- The AirNZ check in system does indeed ROCK THIS WORLD. I have bagged AirNZ quite a bit in the past, but the Kiosk check system really is fantastic. The best ID to use is your Airpoints or Koru Club card. That way, if you are happy with a random seat assignment, yu can have your boarding pass in under 5 button presses. I'm a stickler for choosing my own seat though. Based something around the following heuristic (for 737s).
- Outside seat one row behind exit row only if no one is in the middle seat. The outside seat has no seat in front of it, but you really need the seat next door to be empty so you can put ya lappie on the tray table.
- Second preference are the aisle seats in row 1. Can stick your big legs into the corridor... and get off the damned plane first.
- Middle seat of an otherwise empty row of seats in the back 5 rows. By taking the middle seat you can often luck in and not have anyone seated next to you. This tip is even more important on Air NZs ever half empty trans pacific services.... always take the second seat in from the aisle towards the back. This gives you the best chance of keeping a group of others out of your row and thus allowing you to sleep, reclined, the whole way back.
- I could get CafeNet @ the Intercontinental..... but they were nice and upgraded me to their top floor rooms which have free net anyway. The intercontinental gets two thumbs up from me for net access.
.NET | Rambles|Saturday, May 01, 2004 12:33:17 AM UTC||
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Friday, April 30, 2004
XBox Gossip...... MSIL in Silicon...
Xbox 2 News
If you're interested in reading about the latest gossip on Xbox 2, then you'll want to visit xbreporter.com. One of the latest rumors on xbreporter discusses support for the .NET Framework:
- MSIL all the way
The CPU for the Xbox 2 is rumoured to be designed to be a processor that can decode and execute instructions in Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL) while at the same time being able to run x86 code, to remain compatible with Xbox
from [http://blogs.msdn.com/danielfe/archive/2004/04/29/123041.aspx]
.NET | Human Aggregation|Friday, April 30, 2004 11:53:57 PM UTC||
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Friday, April 23, 2004 Thursday, April 22, 2004
Someone sell NZ Telecom a new billing system.... PLEASE!
Just made the steps to get my Jetstart ADSL changed to JetStream Surf....
Easy enough you'd think... all I'm doing is changing plans.....
NOPE!.... I have to wait until the 'anniversary date' of getting my ADSL connection before Telecom will do the change over. Which means, in turn, I have to go back to my ISP and ask them to keep my Jetstream account active for another 1/2 a month... which in turn costs me money....
Would someone please sort out the shitfight that must be Telecom's Billing System..... talk about Mickey Mouse... even the CSR said so.
Rants|Thursday, April 22, 2004 1:28:32 AM UTC||
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