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re: Tracking shortcuts and the early history of multiple monitors
Those monitors aren't being used for displaying UI. They're just screens. (Unless you think you're going to take your mouse and go drag drag drag drag drag all the way to monitor number 35.) You...
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re: You already got your answer, why are you re-asking the question?
@AndreN: In my case I've got a bunch of acknowledged bugs in Microsoft Connect that are not fixed. One affects every version of VS starting with 2003 (I'm the one who reported it in the 2010 version).
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re: You already got your answer, why are you re-asking the question?
Some urban legend says if you keep asking the same question 1,001 times, you'll see a different answer. *joke*
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The problem here appears to be customer liaisons who don't know the difference between their job and an email gateway. Â It is their job is to determine the customers *precise problem* before seeking a...
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re: Tracking shortcuts and the early history of multiple monitors
Raymond, you're not reading carefully enough. The question you were actually asked by Comedy_Gaz is "Why can you not rename *in* Recycle Bin in Windows XP?" (Note the *in* there.) I also wonder why,...
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re: Tracking shortcuts and the early history of multiple monitors
"10 monitors is enough for everyone."
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re: You already got your answer, why are you re-asking the question?
@Joshua: Did you explicitly mention that you want the bug fixed?
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re: You already got your answer, why are you re-asking the question?
@AndreN: Just take a look at the Connect-site and the bugs that are closed as "By Design". In most cases "By Design" is used as an excuse for ignorance.
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@cheong00: "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results."
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@ThomasX: Doesn't help. At this point I'm starting to wonder if I could make a killing publishing fixes for some of these bugs. Most of the ones I find and report are not that hard to fix but Microsoft...
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re: The continuing battle between people who offer a service and others who...
It would have been fun to sit both parties at the same table, preferably with a few pints of beer between them. It surely would have spawn a few memorable stories :-) .
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Nice concept, and it actually doesn't need a security hole to implement, by making the "client identification" touring complete. The server could send a script which has read-only access to the clients...
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re: You already got your answer, why are you re-asking the question?
I refer the honourable gentleman to the answer given some moments ago
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Did the piggybacking company try to exact their revenge by exploiting the same buffer overflow for evil? With all the work to reverse-engineer and consume someone else's service, wouldn't it have been...
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Is it OK to guess completely nonsensical choices? If so, I'm guessing the product was Jif Smooth Peanut Butter being used by Hersheys in their peanut butter cups.
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You are saying this as if providing an alternate client were a bad thing.
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This story reminded me of the Black Sunday kill, which is worth reading if you haven't already: www.codinghorror.com/.../revisiting-the-black-sunday-hack.html
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"Once upon a time, there was one company with a well-known service that used a non-standard protocol, and another company that was trying to reverse engineer the protocol in order to provide an...
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@Joshua: "I've got a bunch of acknowledged bugs in Microsoft Connect that are not fixed." "This behavior is by design." MS Connect exists particularly to funnel and park bug requests. *joke*
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They needed to use HTTPS on the wire. Good luck snooping on that.
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