Philip Greenspun had Let's Bash Microsoft Day over the weekend and I couldn't resist Scoble-baiting. Sure enough, Scoble defended the Outlook / VBA security model: "...it's impossible to double-click on executables in Outlook 2003, so the chances you'd get a virus now are very small...." Oh dear, now I am worried …
more ...I love the Internet. I just spent the past, oh let's see, 1:22 trying to figure out why the "OK" Button in my .NET CF program disappears when I recycle a dialog a bunch of times. So finally I Google for the problem and, boom!, I discover that it's …
more ..."Alternate Programming Languages for .NET" got approved as a BOF gathering at the PDC! Since I'll be the host, I guess now I really do need to get a room...
more ...Is there ink-recognition relevance to the rsereach at an Elingsh uinervtisy, taht seowhd it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are? Should word recognizers try to exploit a similar strategy, concentrating on recognizing the initial and ending strokes of an ink group, the length of the …
more ...Your tax dollars at work: the latest PC Magazine reports "Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory have developed software that can detect extremely tiny differences -- smaller than a fraction of a pixel -- between two digital images...."
Update: PC Mag's description is wildly …
more ...All the Tablet bloggers are pitching in ideas for Microsoft's internal Power Toys competition (it's so easy to think of software). Loren's suggested a "snap on dwell" tool and Peter a "pen scrolling tool." So my suggestion is that if you can't pull off a fully customizable and skinnable tablet …
more ...Disruptive Programming Languages Technology Todd Proebsting, Microsoft Research, October 16, 6 PM - 9PM, PARC, Palo Alto. See you there!
more ...Peter Coffee reviewed C# Builder in a recent eWeek article and came to pretty much the opposite conclusion as I did. I respect Peter tremendously and there are no facts in his review that I dispute (although I was very surprised to see his report that the performance was excellent …
more ...This pan of Borland's C# Builder was among the hardest things I've ever written. It's a crying shame that Borland didn't do a better job on this product.
more ...Funny:
A colleague of mine at SD Times tried to sign up for press credentials to Sun's SunNet conference and received the following error message:>
>Application Web Server Busy
>The application web server is too busy to handle your request at this time.
>Possibly reached capacity.
>Please notify the site's …
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