I've been using Safari online books for several years now: I like[ed] to have books rather than just API docs, MSDN - and of course Code Project. Last week I got an offer to move to New Safari books. I just tried it - which I understood would cancel my current subscription. I didn't realise that all of my existing Safari favourites, bookmarks and notes wouldn't be transferred. The "New" site looks noddy and is obviously not aimed at the same market. Despite the "can cancel anytime" blurb it also appears that there's no going back to the other subscription. Having been a subscriber for ~5 year - and having recommended Safari to a number of colleagues I am now a bit miffed. Any recommendations for legal online technical books sites? I may have to just start buying those papery things again.

I noticed that the quiz machine that I was playing yesterday was running Windows 2000. I wonder how many systems (ATMs, quiz machines etc.) are still running Windows 2000 in kiosk mode? (A had a quick Google but didn't find anything useful.) Anybody here develop for Windows kiosk type systems? What's the preferred Windows OS for that now?

This states that they are getting rid of the NPAPI support that (I believe SL requires - link?) https://www.chromium.org/developers/npapi-deprecation[^]

"...there's what people want to hear, there's what people want to believe, there's everything else, THEN there's the truth!" - New York D.A., The International

Unfortunately it looks like Sky have no immediate plans to ditch SL[^]

Chrome v42 is becoming a pain: I've resorted to IE for NowTV (which uses Silverlight); and I've just been blocked from completing a purchase at the VISA verification stage (possibly something to do with SSLv3 support - I've yet to investigate - it worked okay last week). I know there may be Chrome flags that I can set to get around some issues but it now looks like I'll need to use an alternative browser (IE?) for everyday use. I'm aware that there are issues with plug-ins and with protocols that have possible security weaknesses/issues - but the technologies that Chrome is dropping support for *are* still in use (and I don't think that Silverlight is going away anytime soon). Do any of you wholeheartedly support Google's approach with Chrome? Do you just boycott sites that use unsupported technologies? I'm off to research my options. Wags

Google Translate produced this (from para. 9 of http://habrahabr.ru/post/166377/ (don't ask!)) Tower of Mordor - it is certainly beautiful, but how to decipher? originally: Башня из Мордора — это, конечно, красиво, но как это расшифровать? It made me chuckle. Is "Tower of Mordor" a good translation? Is this a term [now] in common (geek) use - or are Google having a laugh?

"...there's what people want to hear, there's what people want to believe, there's everything else, THEN there's the truth!" - New York D.A., The International

Thanks Dave. I can see it now.

"...there's what people want to hear, there's what people want to believe, there's everything else, THEN there's the truth!" - New York D.A., The International

Thanks Dave, but if I view all questions under QA (All Questions | Latest) I don't see it. Am I being a dumbass?

"...there's what people want to hear, there's what people want to believe, there's everything else, THEN there's the truth!" - New York D.A., The International

I'm using a PropertyGrid in C# to display ConfigurationElements. I have an implementation of a ExpandableObjectConverter TypeConverter to display the sub-elements (with descriptions) in the property grid. E.g.

Item 1
First sub-item
Item 1 ID
Second sub-item
x
Item 2
First sub-item
Item 2 ID
Second sub-item
x
...

I want to display the sub-elements in a specific order - not alphabetically (e.g. The ID before the other sub-elements). Could anyone please tell me how to specify the ordering? (I've Googled it, looked at CodeProject articles, looked on MSDN - where I (momentarily) thought I'd found a solution using SortProperties - which turns out not to be overridable.) Any ideas would be much appreciated. P.S. I tried posting this in the Quick Answers - but I can't see my post (so please don't flame me for cross-posting if you can see it in both places).

"...there's what people want to hear, there's what people want to believe, there's everything else, THEN there's the truth!" - New York D.A., The International

Who said (with regard to the expression 0 == 1) something along the lines of, "0 never equals 1 - except for large values of zero and small values of one"?

"...there's what people want to hear, there's what people want to believe, there's everything else, THEN there's the truth!" - New York D.A., The International

I'm building my C# solution from the command line in a batch file and then checking the %ERRORLEVEL%. The build is failing - I can see that the DLL is not being produced and can see the error when I'm in Visual Studio - but the %ERRORLEVEL% is 0. :confused: Is this a known "feature"? Has anyone else experienced this?

"...there's what people want to hear, there's what people want to believe, there's everything else, THEN there's the truth!" - New York D.A., The International

I hadn't noticed that the PropertyValueChanged event was being handled. :doh:

"...there's what people want to hear, there's what people want to believe, there's everything else, THEN there's the truth!" - New York D.A., The International

I have a .NET PropertyGrid that (amongst other things) display a property with the validation rule:

[IntegerValidator(MinValue = 1, MaxValue = 5)]

If the user attempts to set it to a value outside the range then I would expect a "Properties Window" dialog with the message "Property value is not valid" and a Details button that allows the dialog to be expanded to display the message: "The value for the property 'XXXX' is not valid. The error is: The value must be inside the range 1-5." Occasionally though I just get an exception that is caught at the top level by my application (which then terminates). Any ideas why this should happen? (It does seem to happen when, on leaving the cell, the user immediately scrolls the grid - but not always.)

"...there's what people want to hear, there's what people want to believe, there's everything else, THEN there's the truth!" - New York D.A., The International

Actually LOL :laugh:

"...there's what people want to hear, there's what people want to believe, there's everything else, THEN there's the truth!" - New York D.A., The International

:)

"...there's what people want to hear, there's what people want to believe, there's everything else, THEN there's the truth!" - New York D.A., The International

I didn't know that Marvin the Paranoid Android's second name was Nelson. :) He's only a poor drone. I wish these companies would actually employ people and motivate them (i.e. pay and train them properly) to give a f*ck (and use some bloody common sense!).

"...there's what people want to hear, there's what people want to believe, there's everything else, THEN there's the truth!" - New York D.A., The International

I introduced a colleague to the term "Bobby Tables" the other day, after a discussion about SQL input sanitisation. http://xkcd.com/327/[^] And an electronics engineer friend commented the other day that he used to understand computers when he did "Narrow Code" - meaning assembler - but didn't understand all of this "Wide Code" that I wrote. We also have the term "Green Code" for code comments. Do you have any strange terms for programming / computer related things?

"...there's what people want to hear, there's what people want to believe, there's everything else, THEN there's the truth!" - New York D.A., The International

Try SAMenu from Smaller Animals. It will give you the full path of the selected files. http://www.smalleranimals.com/samenu.htm[^]

"...there's what people want to hear, there's what people want to believe, there's everything else, THEN there's the truth!" - New York D.A., The International

Aside: I still like the "Fish Sticks" episode of South Park. I didn't even know who he was (obviously a rapper but hey - who cares) - but when I Googled him and found so many people taking the p*ss out of his (self-righteous / narcissistic) antics, I thought that it made it doubly funny. :)

"...there's what people want to hear, there's what people want to believe, there's everything else, THEN there's the truth!" - New York D.A., The International

I was just looking at an article (off-site) relating to Test Management software when I noticed the tag cloud on the right. Cool animation. Just mouse over it. http://www.jayphilips.com/2009/09/10/15-open-source-test-management-tools/[^] (I'm sure this is common and I should just "get out more" but...)

"...there's what people want to hear, there's what people want to believe, there's everything else, THEN there's the truth!" - New York D.A., The International