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Comment on Is your LCD making a buzzing or high pitch noise? by John

John — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:12:08 +0000

My Samsung also makes a high pitch noise and so i won’t buy another Samsung monitor again either.

Comment on HowTo: Change VMWare Player Guest OS Display Resolution by pradeep

pradeep — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:58:56 +0000

Thanks it worked for me..

Centos 6.2 64bit on vmware exsi 4 ( Vsphere 4.0)
after making changes to xorg.conf
no need to restart just log out and log in back and go to display settings and select your resolution

Comment on Microsoft Responds to Horrified Developers on Future of Windows 8 by Rahul Gangwar

Rahul Gangwar — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:28:32 +0000

.NET doesn’t mean simply Windows forms.
Windows apps are just a very small piece.

I don’t see any threat to ASP.NET, Entity Framework, WCF, Windows Identity Foundation etc.
Microsoft always release many forms of programming. For example we exposed Azure through REST, we follow WS TRUST. Even .NET had options of many languages right from very start. Has that ever been a threat to .NET? Never!

When talking about design and architecture, I see that through this Microsoft has only added a new capability to UI layer, none of the other layers will be affected.

If a person has to develop a UI meant for standards he anyway have to chose HTML 5 and Javascript, if he wants to do something extra to Macintosh he has to chose SL (not Javascript) if he has to develop for Windows 8 he now has MANY options and if someone chooses HTML + Javascript that would be either because he wanted that to be standards based OR he is good at that. For sure WPF and WinForms will now be an ioption that one would use only if he wants to use existing rich UI controls.

I would never imagine a person to access Windows 8 platform capabilities through Javascript because he cannot anyways use that JS code anywhere else. It would only be because that developer is comfortable with JS. Everyone else would still choose C#.

XAML vs HTML is a race now and windows 8 has got nothing to do with it. If Microsoft can continue to keep SL ahead of HTML standards, people will chose SL for sure if they are not looking for absolute interoperability.

Rahul Gangwar

Comment on Microsoft Responds to Horrified Developers on Future of Windows 8 by Morris

Morris — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:41:12 +0000

Microsoft’s adoption of HTML5 and JavaScript is a necessary step into the future, because that’s what is (or will be) running on most mobile devices. If MS is going to make inroads in that direction, it needs to ditch .Net and adopt a ‘write once/run anywhere’ development platform. Although the .Net framework was in theory designed to be platform-agnostic, it never really turned out that way.

I never liked .Net anyway, even if I have been using it for ten years. It has a bloated object model that minimises any offsetting gains in application development efficiency, because it takes a long time to become familiarised with the model. HTML5 used in conjunction with JavaScript libraries like JQuery don’t present the same learning curve.

Also, the .Net postback and viewstate were corruptions of the W3C standard for HTTP, which is supposed to be a stateless protocol. Hopefully, the end of .Net will return HTTP to its original intents.

I won’t be weeping any tears for .Net.

Comment on HowTo: Change VMWare Player Guest OS Display Resolution by Vineet

Vineet — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 08:31:51 +0000

I have a RHEL5 image running on my laptop (Win XP). The issue is – the image opens up in a 840×600 size (which is small). My laptop can support a max of 1280×800. I tried the above suggestion of editing the xorg.conf file, made the necessary changes (as root user) and restarted the image, but there is no change in the image size. The problem i am seeing is – even after changing the modes in teh xorg.conf file, the “SCREEN RESOLUTION” option in the RHEL “Preferences” setting does not show the new values that we have entered in the xorg.conf file. Unless, i see the new values, I cannot change the resolution.

Please help me as I have spent close to a day without any success.

Thanks,
Vineet

Comment on HowTo: Change VMWare Player Guest OS Display Resolution by Raj

Raj — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:56:30 +0000

Thanks ! it worked for me..

Comment on HowTo: Change VMWare Player Guest OS Display Resolution by Mike

Mike — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 16:26:48 +0000

Thanks! This was driving me nuts. I hate to waste screen real estate.
Worked using CentOS 5.6 on VMWare WS 7.1.4 using GNOME.

Comment on Microsoft Responds to Horrified Developers on Future of Windows 8 by Matt

Matt — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 01:56:30 +0000

I kind of thought this was obvious from the first video. I’m not a .NET developer but I can see why they would be annoyed that to develop these new “immersive” apps they have to learn yet another toolkit. It would be nice if they could (since it’s built on IE) also allow Silverlight apps.

I’m all in favor of them trying to use more open technologies though.

Comment on Microsoft Responds to Horrified Developers on Future of Windows 8 by eh?

eh? — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 00:45:38 +0000

He mentions html and javascript a lot, but I don’t believe I heard anything about .NET. It may be there but, this isn’t Microsoft’s attempt at reassuring anyone about it in the meantime. (Well I suppose the fact that that piano app ran on both ARM and Windows.)

Comment on Smartest Linux Move Ever? And Why Ubuntu will Fail by Ryan Sharp

Ryan Sharp — Fri, 13 May 2011 23:29:26 +0000

All you people saying Linux is pointless are complete and utter morons. Linux is not just a good alternative, it’s a necessary alterantive – even if adoption is low. Would you like to wake up in 20 years time and see the entire world dependant on computing and Microsoft so far ahead of any competition that they have a practical strangle-hold on the entire industry. You f*cktards need to watch some Richard Stallman presentations on Youtube. Granted, he is a freak but he sure as hell speaks the truth.