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PDC Viral Video [PDC Viral Video]

blowdart — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:25:07 GMT

Errr, really? I dunno if this is sexist or not really

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_IxO3p1_ek

Keyword filtering [Keyword filtering]

blowdart — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:31:32 GMT

I'd love the ability to ignore a thread, either by clicking on an ignore link (after which I don't get the bold if something new is posted in it), or by filtering on keywords (in preparation for the US election *grin*)

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Kill switches [Kill switches]

blowdart — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:34:09 GMT

So we heard lots of crap about MS, software kill switches, TPM and the like, and not a one to be found. And yet Apple put on in the iPhone and it's all quite quiet.

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Ceiling cat attacks Microsoft offices [Ceiling cat attacks Microsoft offices]

blowdart — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:04:31 GMT

http://blogs.msdn.com/johnguin/archive/2008/08/08/the-thing-about-leaving-your-office-for-any-amount-of-time-around-here.aspx

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What happened to insert image? [What happened to insert image?]

blowdart — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:25:00 GMT

I get a not implemented yet message now.

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Automatically close hanging tags [Automatically close hanging tags]

blowdart — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:08:37 GMT

See http://channel9.msdn.com/forums/Feedback/418084-Spam-Threads/ for an example

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Unlimited Mesh invites with today's refresh ... [Unlimited Mesh invites with today's refresh ...]

blowdart — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:48:33 GMT

And it's open to the US, UK, NZ, Aus regions from www.mesh.com

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Spam Threads [Spam Threads]

blowdart — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:06:18 GMT

http://channel9.msdn.com/forums/Coffeehouse/418038-Chris-Hardings-TOGAF-Workshop-at-SOA-Conference-in-Bangalore-BT-Summit-2008/ and http://channel9.msdn.com/forums/TechOff/418040-Chris-Hardings-TOGAF-Workshop-at-SOA-Conference-in-Bangalore-BT-Summit-2008/ and http://channel9.msdn.com/forums/Coffeehouse/416704-Most-Compelling-Conference-for-SOA-marketplace-in-India/

http://channel9.msdn.com/forums/TechOff/418054-How-to-convert-protected-wma-playlist-to-mp3/

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The FSF advocates harassing Apple [The FSF advocates harassing Apple]

blowdart — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:31:16 GMT

http://www.defectivebydesign.org/apple-challenge

The idea is to completely book all Genius Bars and then ask the "geniuses,", over and over again, a few questions about Apple's proprietary ways (while, apparently, real customers with support issues are left to flounder).

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Nasa put image and video archive on-line [Nasa put image and video archive on-line]

blowdart — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 11:49:11 GMT

http://www.nasaimages.org/

Searchable too

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Ah security - San Francisco posts VPN usernames and passwords [Ah security - San Francisco posts VPN usernames and passwords]

blowdart — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:58:35 GMT

You have to love it.

For those not following San Francisco is suing their network admin for "kidnapping" their network; hiding passwords, configuring routers so they couldn't be reset and so on.

Yesterday they introduced some hard evidence, including a list of VPN usernames and passwords that was discovered at the admin's home.

Except they didn't redact the information, and so it was published as a court document. Which anyone can request. Heh.

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Creating a link in Firefox 3 [Creating a link in Firefox 3]

blowdart — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:11:25 GMT

Gives an error page in the popup dialog. Nothing useful in there of course :)

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So is anyone else having fun with Pandemic II? [So is anyone else having fun with Pandemic II?]

blowdart — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:31:55 GMT

I finally wiped out the earth. Take that Madagascar!

www.crazymonkeygames.com/Pandemic-2.html

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Timezones [Timezones]

blowdart — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:10:06 GMT

Why does my timezone say GMT Casablanca when I keep setting it to GMT London?

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Oh look! Go to last. [Oh look! Go to last.]

blowdart — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:25:43 GMT

I only just noticed you can click on the text beside Time:

(And Jamie; no claiming this was because you whined outside the feedback forum)

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Minesweeper cheats! [Minesweeper cheats!]

blowdart — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:47:46 GMT

http://www.subversity.net/reversing/hacking-minesweeper

During this process, I found out that Minesweeper CHEATS, only spawns about half the bombs, and moves bombs mid-game. (Sometimes to where you are clicking, sometimes it will move a bomb that you click on.) Regardless, I consider this project a success.

How can I ever trust any Microsoft program again?!

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switch (object.GetType) ... [switch (object.GetType) ...]

blowdart — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:08:45 GMT

I thought I'd throw this up for fun.

I have an object passed as a parameter into a function. It may be of various types (all inheriting from Exception funnily enough).

I want to perform certain actions based on the actual type of that object. You cannot switch on the type of an object (for rather obvious reasons).

So how would you do it? Do you feel a massive bunch of else if utilising IS is correct? I doubt there's a right answer; I just thought it would be a fun argument, errr, discussion to throw open.

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Twitter [Twitter]

blowdart — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:34:24 GMT

As you're pulling in latest blog posts, could we have a twitter entry as well; and publish the username/address?

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Hey look! A splog is taking the C9 RSS feed [Hey look! A splog is taking the C9 RSS feed]

blowdart — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:15:07 GMT

http://katalog-stron.az.pl/

Doesn't it make you feel proud?!

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DDD7 Call for Submissions is open. With a prize for girls [DDD7 Call for Submissions is open. With a prize for girls]

blowdart — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:57:43 GMT

The DDD7 call for submissions is open.

This year I decided to try to encourage women to submit topics; and so am offering an 1 year MSDN Premium Subscription as a prize. For details see the girl geek dinners blog.

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Testing testing [Testing testing]

blowdart — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:31:52 GMT

Hello mum

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Cannot add new thread in Firefox 3 release [Cannot add new thread in Firefox 3 release]

blowdart — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:46:05 GMT

Ewww I'm using IE.

Basically hitting ADD in FF3 does nothing for me; no saving message, nada.

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New Mesh Update - Global Rollout [New Mesh Update - Global Rollout]

blowdart — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:45:23 GMT

http://blogs.msdn.com/livemesh/archive/2008/06/18/service-update-new-build-released-2815-17.aspx

Live Mesh is now available in all English-speaking countries (not just the U.S.)
Removed the User Account Control (UAC) requirement when installing and using Live Mesh with Windows Vista SP1 (as promised)
Index for Desktop Search now works with Live Mesh folders
Fixed bug where an underscore in a Hotmail account name returned an “Invalid Hotmail Address” error
Fixed bug with Silverlight 2 Beta 2 failing to load in Silverlight Media View
Fixed bug where the notifier tooltip incorrectly indicated that Live Mesh Remote Desktop was unavailable for a computer running in non-admin mode
Fixed bug where the Live Mesh folder icon was not displayed in the e-mail inviting someone to share a folder
Fixed one of the bugs that caused Live Mesh to fail to start
Fixed problem with Live Mesh returning errors when waking from sleep/hibernate

Mesh integrates with desktop search? Cool

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AMD & Intel kiss and make up [AMD & Intel kiss and make up]

blowdart — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:08:08 GMT

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/06/12/amd-teams-havok-physics

AMD AND INTEL are teaming up to backhand Nvidia in the physics arena. They are presenting a unified front to shut out NV for the first time.

So I guess we'll see a bunch of Nvidia sucks posts from our resident astro-turfer soon.

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The Zune is seriously uncool .... but ... [The Zune is seriously uncool .... but ...]

blowdart — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:32:27 GMT

I so *want* this. Oh. Darn. US only.

Any US softies want to take pity on me and try to get one? I can have someone pick it up in July?

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