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Re: Unbinding C# projects from SVN

RJ — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:17:03 -0000

Looks like I was once again in such a rush I didn't check the obvious. Sigh.
Thanks for the pointer ;)

Re: ECMAScript and Internet Explorer

RJ — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:42:36 -0000

"Oh, by the way, we’re shipping a Firefox 3 Beta soon. Can you comment on when an IE 8 (or IE 7.5) Beta will be released?"

$5 says we get IE8 announcements and/or info within 2 days of the FF3 beta.

Is the IE codebase really as messy as I've heard (unsubstantiated rumour from a friend of a friend at the moment)? And if so why don't Microsoft just use Gecko and add their own Chrome (NiH withstanding)?

Re: ECMAScript and Internet Explorer

RJ — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:23:08 -0000

Yes, I saw the NDA comment - sounds like a diversion to get you to keep quiet, :(

Fair comment about the codebase, and I don't think anyone would be surprised by internal bug metrics given the public ones :)

Thank you for your attempts to get the IE team to discuss IE8 more widely - something even Dave Massy seems to have trouble doing .. unfortunately my confidence in IE8 is already shattered so it will always be 'that other browser that we'll fix last'.

Re: ECMAScript and Internet Explorer

RJ — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 04:38:14 -0000

Yup - understood, but I am harsh sometimes with my friends too, especially when I believe they may be doing the wrong thing .I think it is fairly widely understood that Chris isn't responsible for every decision made by the IE team. It is just unfortunate that he is currently the public face. Sorry if I gave the impression that I either thought it was personal or that it should be - it's business it should *never* be personal.

And given the fairly widespread reaction to the post, I guess we can all understand why they don't post more information on IE8 as no matter what they post you can be fairly confident they'll get slammed by someone. I'd still like to know though so I can make decisions, or start to, for the future - at the moment I have to consider decisions based on IE7 even thought it won't be the targetted platform :(

Re: Black n’ Red

RJ — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 03:22:38 -0000

I swear by the ID notebooks (designed by John Dickinson), but I get them over here in the UK and I dunno if you can get them over there. The page layouts are great and I would be *totally* lost if they stopped making them (hence my bulk orders).

http://www.idnotebooks.com/

Oh.. the iPod, you know it was designed by a European? J. Ives is a Brit. :P

Re: Introducing the ‘new guy’

RJ — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:55:29 -0000

Will Jon be blogging here too? Can't complain if employee #1 is a Zep fan :)

Re: RedPost/Kit compared to other digital photo frames

RJ — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 13:53:12 -0000

I don't know what they're like over there, but in the UK, if there is one thing I would kill for - it is a Wifi digiphotoframe without a one foot long power cable. I can't mount it on the wall if it has a power cable, and I can't mount it anywhere else if the cable doesn't reach.

Also 19" is cool, any chance of a 12" as well?

Re: Question: Blogging ethics…should I give away free RedPost/Kits for review?

RJ — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:10:31 -0000

Put a couple aside to send out for review, but make it clear that you want the unit back (so you can send to someone else to review). You get to sell them at discount later and in the meantime you have units for review that you can send out when the bloggers send them back.

If their blog is old enough I can't see them risking the damage to reputation by not returning kit.

Re: American households watch 3 hrs more TV a day than any other nation on earth

RJ — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:25:21 -0000

How on earth would anyone be able to find 8 hours a day to watch TV unless they were unemployed?
I barely find enough hours in the day to sleep, TV is a luxury.

Re: New Orleans: Windows is a dead-end digital signage OS

RJ — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 06:09:24 -0000

I wrote, or rather moaned, on this subject recently - http://www.teeko.org/blog/2007/08/06/digital-si... - well recently according to my slow blog posting record. It is just so unfortunate that when targetting internal comms for a large customer they really really fight against anything other than Windows - at least over here.

Disclaimer: I work for a Windows-based DS company (and yes the recent rumours that MS is on the verge of releasing a product in this segment worries me).

Re: Domain name bartering

RJ — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:19:04 -0000

redpo.st is available
Registrar is nic.st

Re: RedPost World HQ 2.1: Photos

RJ — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 04:10:09 -0000

Wow - that is some change since the first pictures when you first found the spave- the ones that looked like something out of an old black and white thriller, you know the ones with the detectives th.. nevermind.

Is it the same building?

Re: Alive

RJ — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 04:48:19 -0000

Wow. Glad you're okay.

I have to say though considering what it has been through it is impressive how well the car held up - alongside wearing a seatbelt it must have had some impact on your survival. You're a lucky guy, but I guess you know that.

Good luck in 2008 :)

Re: RedPost/_______ (it’s a Sign without the LCD…what should we call it?)

RJ — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:03:28 -0000

How about just Redpost/Box? That way usage is 'let's just install a redpost box.'

Re: RedPost/______ Day 2: Stand? Post?

RJ — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:24:08 -0000

I like Sign/Post but maybe the Redpost/ is now a prerequisite. Shame because Sign/Post is nice.

Re: Networking at no charge: an update

RJ — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 03:41:17 -0000

" networking is built-in (for free!) to every PC"

Well sort of, except not on Windows. They're software may be free but if you're using Windows you can use the IP stack for free, but if you are accessing a CIFS share or a Windows server, then you have to pay a client access license (yes, ridiculous I know). You can of course pay for one of the schemes that essentially gives you unlimited CALS, but it isn't cheap. It gets worse if they use Sql Server, suddenly your free software is far from free.

Re: TXTing Digital Signs: A data point

RJ — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:54:42 -0000

I don't know if it reflects whether people would actually target signs with their SMS, but the usage rates in Europe are exceptionally high - above 80%. Maybe feeling more comfortable with SMS might have an effect on whether people would do it, but over here we SMS our votes to TV shows, radio shows, to find our nearest hotspot and a host of other services.

There is a little info on European SMS usage with advertising at http://telephonyonline.com/wireless/news/teleco... The wikipedia entry ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_messaging#Europe ) also gives a few figures and sources on worldwide usage.

Re: What I like to hear

RJ — Wed, 13 May 2009 03:54:36 -0000

There are SO many people who think that unless your sign is showing a ticker as well as an RSS feed, video/flash/ppt all at the same time then it has no value - but having worked on building systems like that I think I've come around to your way of thinking. Not only is there the "crap' don't look" aspect to it, even if you do it either takes you far too long to decide what information on the screen you should be looking at, or just get information overload and watch the flashing lights (video) instead, which makes the rest sort of pointless.

Trying to advertise with video seems such a bad/bizarre idea - most people are going to catch the video half way through, if that is the case then they're unlikely to hang around for the rest of it unless they are static and not moving (that some people call this a captive audience, I think, explains a lot). If people are walking past then they're seeing even less of the video and seeing so little of the message that it is pointless. At least with a 'poster' system all of the information is there in one glance, I can (probably subconciously) decide whether the information has value to me without getting information out of context - my only worry about all of these sort of things is that if the information is really interesting to me and it moves on to the next item in the playlist before I have a chance to read it fully - some way of going back to the previous item because I was reading it would be great.

Anyway, more posts from the soap-box please ... :)

Re: Standards-Fail, Microsoft-style http://fixoutlook.org/

RJ — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:00:46 -0000

I think we should have a whip round on twitter and see if we can round up enough cash to help 'em out :) poor guys, must be hard to ship with no budget

Re: Don’t Panic

RJ — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 08:09:26 -0000

The casting of Martin Freeman was though pure genius, but I can't help but agree that they have screwed up big time on the marketing - your blog was actually the place I found out about it. Maybe the blogosphere (or those that like Adams) could do the job on Disney's behalf and prove the point?

On a related note I hope this film flops so that they don't do Dirk Gently's HDA.

Re: our ess ess

RJ — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 05:48:55 -0000

Agreed. The way Robert went about it though was a little heavy handed.

The problem with getting RSS in use by non-techies is that you either have to disguise it so that they don't know they are using RSS (the name doesn't help either), or you have to solve the subscription problem. Currently it is just too fiddly to subscribe to a new blog..

1. Why do I get gobbledigook when I click on the Orange XML button.
2. What *is* that orange XML button, and why do I care to know what XML is.
3. RSS 2? 1.1? Atom? Eh? Which do I choose? Why?
4. Cut and paste? What? To where?

This wouldn't be too bad but nobody seems to be making any effort to describe a technology wide spec for doing this, some people use feed:// which is not supported everywhere, some people use Browser extensions.

Until the aggregator developers get together and decide (possibly with the help of browser vendors) reading blogs is going to stay by geeks for geeks.

Re: Best Line Ever to Run in an AP Obituary

RJ — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 02:58:23 -0000

We have a phrase over here in the UK.
"Only in america". As in "Only in america can .."

Re: Upcoming Events

RJ — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 09:18:02 -0000

I hope you will be sticking up for those of us who

a. Can't go.
b. Don't believe blogs will be ready for the mainstream until the 'user-experience' is fixed (i.e. No orange XML tags, no needing to copy and paste urls).

Re: Krafty

RJ — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 07:47:37 -0000

Manchester eh? Going there soon :)

Re: Shoe on the other foot

RJ — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 12:58:47 -0000

Does it start "I'm very good Jim, how are you?"

Re: RIP The Yellow Pages

RJ — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 06:32:04 -0000

The rest of the planet outside of the US still have need of it. Nobody ever remembers the other 6 billion people outside the US :(

Re: Customers gone mad

RJ — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 11:26:56 -0000

Microsoft would kill for users like us. Not that I've spend the last half-hour looking for a working link for that video.. nope. Not me.

Re: Fake Blogs I Love

RJ — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 14:24:40 -0000

Geek.
..but least they are trying with HHG now.

Re: Marklar confirmed

RJ — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 14:32:45 -0000

Knowing that this is going to be June 2006 do they *really* expect me to buy that new PowerPC mac now? Stoopid. And have they given up on 64 bit computing? Sigh.

Re: RSS, Microsoft and wild-eyed theories

RJ — Sun, 26 Jun 2005 14:24:09 -0000

Actually I believe it is a couple of weeks until Atom is finished :P

Apparently Bill Wyman got boo'ed at GDex for saying RSS 2 was legacy ;)

Re: RSS, Microsoft and wild-eyed theories

RJ — Sun, 26 Jun 2005 14:24:23 -0000

Gah forgot the link
http://dannyayers.com/archives/2005/06/24/ms-rs...

Re: iTunes now with podcasting support

RJ — Tue, 28 Jun 2005 13:09:06 -0000

That'll be Apple adding their own (unnecessary) extensions to RSS 2 with a new author element (rather than using the existing one).

Re: Help Wanted

RJ — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 12:56:15 -0000

Real link

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki

Re: Help Wanted

RJ — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 13:15:26 -0000

Do you mean configure, or do you mean install?

Install is easy enough (shouldn't take more than 5 minutes)

Download http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wikipedia/me...
or wait a couple weeks for 1.5

Unzip

Copy to webserver which has both PHP and MySQL installed after renaming folder to something useful (let's say test for now).

If you use Transit to upload then you can change the permissions on the config folder to make it writable.

Point browser at http://mywebserver/test

Move LocalSettings.php from test/config back up to test.

Delete config folder.

Re: Pandora

RJ — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 14:40:33 -0000

Seeing as i can't get in .. any clues on how this is different from http://www.last.fm/

Re: Get a job

RJ — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 17:52:49 -0000

No European version? :(

Re: funny ha ha?

RJ — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 07:56:21 -0000

Well it made me smile, but it is nowhere near as funny as my curry joke.

Re: If you are going to mess with Wikipedia

RJ — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 14:20:18 -0000

Yeah last thing you want is a blogger posting your home address and telephone number on a widely read blog.

Re: Hey Asshole!

RJ — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 16:16:43 -0000

The most interesting thing about it is Dave Winer wading in on Ben's blog and calling him a coward for not being civil. Oh the irony.

Re: Get a job

RJ — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 12:41:31 -0000

Just thought I'd mention that if it works on Google Talk, chances are it'll also work on other Jabber clients, I believe Gaim and Trillian both support Jabber. And given Google's upcoming support of AIM you can add AIM and iChat to that list as well :)

Re: Who?

RJ — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 11:38:40 -0000

Do you guys watch the old Dr Who (Baker, Davidson et al) or just the most recent episodes? You know that the story goes back for like 40 years. That's like 600 episodes if you need to pass some time - I spent a whole summer in 1992 watching all of the Dr Who and Blakes Seven episodes with my friends, although I believe we saw daylight once or twice.

Re: Say Backpack

RJ — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 14:51:02 -0000

If this doesn't work for you, try http://www.rememberthemilk.com/

Re: Say Backpack

RJ — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 14:56:04 -0000

Alternatively this flash app for building your Hipster PDA - complete with folding instructions :)
http://www.pocketmod.com/app/index.html

Re: ego trip

RJ — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 07:43:08 -0000

801 - I've *REALLY* got to try harder.

Re: emergency request

RJ — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 07:03:33 -0000

Do we get a clue?

Re: Chat is the new chat

RJ — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 09:50:42 -0000

I wonder if either of them support XMPP (Jabber) which might help with integration into the other IM nets.

Re: fly fly away

RJ — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 09:10:53 -0000

"don’t be tripping in my mellow man"

Or indeed twisting my melon. Have a good holiday :)

Re: Confusion in her eyes that says it all

RJ — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 05:10:17 -0000

Well you might be happy *before* you listen to JD, but you won't be afterwards ;)

Arctic Monkeys is where it's at now so the yound kids keep telling me, but personally I despise them - you'll probably like them.

Re: Confusion in her eyes that says it all

RJ — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 13:53:17 -0000

I still haven't worked out the Madchester, Manchester thing. It rains a lot, but it isn't particularly mad.

Re: We call it life

RJ — Sat, 20 May 2006 04:33:29 -0000

WTF. I'm speechless. Only in america.

Re: We call it life

RJ — Sun, 21 May 2006 13:32:36 -0000

David, have you seen this.
http://www.climatecrisis.net/

Re: the day’s activities

RJ — Mon, 29 May 2006 11:47:01 -0000

Someone else waiting for Tim Oreillys next post?

Re: Finding blogs

RJ — Wed, 31 May 2006 15:07:55 -0000

It was doing so well until I noticed http://www.readysteadybook.com/ isn't in the literary list. Especially as its owner was nominated the 51st most important person in publishing by the Observer (uk broadsheet) - probably deserved, I've seen fewer books in public libraries than in that bloggers mail alone, the poor postie.

Which brings me to my point - I've made a suggestion on PubSub, but how can anyone be sure they are getting a fair deal and not being ignored out of hand - that there is no impropriety taking place? It could be like asking Tim ORA to list his favourite IT blogs, you can bet Tom R won't be in the list, but is that fair? At least computer generated lists don't get emotional and don't require trust :)

Re: Our wonderful American media

RJ — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 03:44:31 -0000

I could guess that it might be related to the relationship between the BBC and politicians. There are constant arguments and shouting matches between the BBC and Government here about the BBCs right to publish whatever it sees fit in the national interest - hence the big argument about the reporting of the 'apparent' suicide of the WMD expert over here.

Maybe the US politicians have far too much influence over the US media, and just don't want people to know that two and a half thousand people have died when not in defence of their country?

Re: PR people in Second Life

RJ — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 11:05:12 -0000

Who's the dude with the red-dreads?

Re: dit dah whatever

RJ — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 08:00:27 -0000

If there were any doubts that you really are a geek, I think you've just dismissed them :)

Re: On learning and unlearning

RJ — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 04:35:52 -0000

Always handy though Stephen to know both how to operate a radio and morse code for when all the computers stop working :)

David you've raised an interesting point about kids' learning ability. I see this every day with my daughter, who flips between English and French mid-sentence without even blinking - and seems to recall German words I taught her over a year ago without even straining. This scares me after trying to learn french for over a decade and struggling with even the basics now...

Now is definitely the age for letting kids pick up new languages, and French is as good as choice as any (it gets you started with the other romantic languages) even if it is not as widely spoken as say Spanish, or Chinese - We do have some schools over though here teaching Mandarin Chinese instead of French.

Re: You know you want it

RJ — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 18:52:16 -0000

Everybody in the echo chamber wants one - have you *seen* Techmeme this evening?

Re: Why didn’t I think of this first?

RJ — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:09:57 -0000

Very good idea, but if I were you ... I'd wait for the weather to get a little better first - plenty of time to get bored of WoW.

Re: Add your own caption

RJ — Wed, 02 May 2007 11:13:45 -0000

Where'd the Finder go?

Re: My name in lights

RJ — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:48:47 -0000

Sorry, Pablo "Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Clito Ruiz y" Picasso has got you beat. Nice try Kelly.

Re: Meet the inventor of the Wiki, I’m off to the races

RJ — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:14:52 -0000

Did Ward mention at the time that he was leaving Microsoft to go and work for the Eclipse Foundation?

Re: John Dvorak gives interesting reason for MSFT’s bad press

RJ — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 14:07:25 -0000

Herb "Sorry, I just don’t buy the belief that Mac users don’t know Windows. They may not be *experts* in Windows"

I don't know any Mac users in my circle of friends who have not had to endure Windows - some of us don't mind it but none of use are 'ma and pa' users.

Re: Scoble should be fired, author tells Microsoft

RJ — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 07:53:14 -0000

Let's face it - you'd be at Google before the day was out if they fired you, and I doubt the Microsoft shareholders will be too happy about having to buy so many chairs ..

Re: Om wonders if Microsoft will kill Mac client of FolderShare

RJ — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 13:20:25 -0000

I've got to agree, the only thing that Microsoft currently ship on OSX (that is good) is Office. WMP has far too many bugs to be useful (and missing codecs) and Messenger is *still* so 'un'-mac that it's painful.

Re: Goodbye Europe!

RJ — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 10:32:55 -0000

Better check your flight isn't delayed by the explosions today.

Re: New “teamX” development methodology

RJ — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 02:30:31 -0000

MicrosoftGadgets.com is down atm. Nice to see it runs on communityserver though.

Re: Paul Colligan says “where’s Microsoft on podcasting?”

RJ — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 17:11:05 -0000

"Why does Microsoft need to put its partners out of business by doing its own podcasting tools?"

Why indeed? I bet the AV guys are asking the same question at the moment. And not the first time Microsoft has decided to take a market and put its partners, if not out of business, in dire straits.

It seems like this comes up as the excuse any time Microsoft doesn't know how to deliver something - just claim they're leaving the market for someone else. I know Apple do the same but at least they don't pretend otherwise ..

Re: Paul Colligan says “where’s Microsoft on podcasting?”

RJ — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 09:32:47 -0000

Robert, seeing as Joe hasn't answered and as a regular participant in C9 I'll tell you why it sucks. Because it is the Anti-Slashdot, because it supports people like Beer28 who should have been banned a long time ago, because it's a one way conversation, because there are so few members of the community who do anything but watch the videos, because all these people contribute to your bottom line and get nothing in return, because it feels like we're being marketed at, because with two notable exceptions the people who are responsible for C9 rarely if ever post there ....

Re: Om talks about Apple 2006

RJ — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 05:49:32 -0000

Hopefully he'll be showing Leopard. He'd be crazy not to, if he wants to make a point about how Vista is only a cosmetic change to XP* he needs to show what is up his sleeve for the next release, and not rely on the changes that were in Tiger. If the rumours about the new Finder (explorer.exe equiv) are true then I bet we'll find out at WWDC.

* Whether this is true or not, I don't know. I haven't bothered trying to install Vista yet - nothing there that is really inspiring enough for me to waste the time doing it.

Re: Dave Winer working on new RSS aggregator?

RJ — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:17:04 -0000

Is the Google Reader not a RiverOfNews then? No folders or three pane view there.

Re: The anti-RSS hype

RJ — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 15:22:28 -0000

I think the comparison between RSS and the PC industry is a rather large stretch.

How about a comparison with another protocol instead? The problem with making that comparison is that RSS doesn't stand up so well compared to other protocols that we make use of on a daily basis - is RSS more interesting to most people than email? IM? HTTP? It may be more interesting to you, but I can't see members of my family subscribing to a couple of hundred feeds to find the latest gossip in technology or who Mr Winer is gunning for next.

Re: Hell’s weather report: cold and colder. Beattie switches to Windows

RJ — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 07:29:13 -0000

Congratulations on finding someone willing to switch from Linux to OSX to Windows - I knew you'd find one one day - the question is though what will he switch to next?

Re: Hell’s weather report: cold and colder. Beattie switches to Windows

RJ — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 17:27:37 -0000

He *has* had a change of mind .. amazing how time mellows people :)

http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1002409....

I have no problems admitting that I hate all things Microsoft. ... There is NOTHING to like about that company.

Re: Engadget all over MacWorld too

RJ — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 14:25:11 -0000

Microsoft *talks* about RSS, while Apple is delivering it - same ole same ole.

Re: Microsoft to abandon Mac player?

RJ — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 03:49:13 -0000

I've been moaning about WMP OSX for a long time, and I am glad that Microsoft took an alternative approach.

It must make more sense for them to licence flip than to fix the mess that was WMP, and watching WMV using just another codec in QT is a great bonus, even with the bugs - makes C9 more useful to me at least.

Thanks Microsoft, proves that not everything you do it wrong :)

Re: Off to Macworld we go…

RJ — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 13:42:05 -0000

Don't forget to keep an eye out for iSale (http://www.equinux.com/us/products/isale/index....)

Re: Off to Macworld we go…

RJ — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 17:45:38 -0000

Did you buy him the iBook? What a cool thing to do :)

Re: Off to Macworld we go…

RJ — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 18:27:21 -0000

Looks like I'll have to reassess my judgement of Mr W.

Re: More on WMF, did Microsoft leave a backdoor?

RJ — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 04:21:39 -0000

Well it appears that this exact same flaw appears in the Wine implementation, which was written from the specs without access to the Windows source code - so did the Wine guys put the backdoor in as well?

Pure nonsense ..

Re: Why do I need Windows Vista?

RJ — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 14:15:57 -0000

You need Vista because in 2 years there will be no more patches for your operating system and you will have no choice but to upgrade. Mind you OSX is no better with it's short lifespan for Operating Systems, but then I guess more people *want* to upgrade.

Re: Dual booting Windows on new Macs…

RJ — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 13:30:33 -0000

Pure. Unadulterated. FUD.

Somehow I doubt very much that you ever intended to buy a mac, the whole post reads like you're setting the scene for a 'constructively critical' post, just before you drop in the 'but it doesn't support legacy products' bombshell.

Are you worried that people will buy a Mac and try OSX first before they try out Vista (if they indeed can) - sure there is an article on how to hack it together, but isn't that one of the popular criticisms of Linux?

Unsubscribed.

Re: Link to women, Gia reminds

RJ — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 14:02:07 -0000

Here's one.
http://geekswithblogs.net/waterbaby/archive/200...

Re: Overwhelmed with pitches, Dave, say it isn’t so!

RJ — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:41:19 -0000

Maybe Dave just needs more time off to sue all his ex-colleagues?

Re: The new A list

RJ — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 17:51:26 -0000

Robert, I don't think it is so much people going after Dave, I think it is a case of 'what goes around comes around'. You can't take the kind of attitude to people that Mr W does and *not* expect to get any grief back - and whilst he is publically denigrating friends and colleagues do you expect them to just take it and walk away? Because he invented something? How many other tech inventors have a bad attitude and feel the need to lash out at people sp publically and voilently when they disagree with them? TimBL? Bill Gates? Vint Cerf? Steve Ballmer (oops).

Dave will get the respect he is due, when he stops acting like a child.

Re: The new A list

RJ — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 12:41:00 -0000

"Winer responded by pointing to a childhood picture of Cadenhead on the author’s site and writing, “See the little boy? Want to have sex with him?”"

WTF?!?! What the hell did he hope to achieve by doing that? Robert, if you are truly his friend, and I suspect you are - take him to get therapy.

Re: Yes, our Web site branding sucks

RJ — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 08:08:46 -0000

I think the tipping point for me was when Avalon and Indigo got renamed to 'Windows Presentation Framework' and 'Windows Communication Framework' (respectively). I still haven't figured out what was wrong with the initial names that they had - could you imagine Apple renaming stuff like Quartz, Carbon, Cocoa? Do your Marketing guys really think that the end user *cares* what the technology is called?

Re: Yes, our Web site branding sucks

RJ — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 08:09:18 -0000

I should point out I mean the end user rather than the developer ...

Re: Where the heck is Scoble?

RJ — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 12:14:07 -0000

Further evidence, I am not sure how someone from Acer knows what is happening internally but hey -

http://www.smarthouse.com.au/Computing/Software...

Re: Google announces more sleepless nights ahead for MSFT product managers

RJ — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 13:05:14 -0000

I'm not convinced that Google will provide any competition to Microsoft with Writely and Spreadsheets, but I am convinced that Microsoft will waste thousands of man hours trying to counter something that will not impact the Office bottom line (any more than YAOV - Yet Another Office Version) will.

And I hope that, having been through Middleware 1.0 (servicemark? anyone?), the guys in charge will be too wise to go through it again - it is a pity that takeup of ClickOnce and JNLP (Java version) doesn't seem to have been that great, a much better compromise. The last thing anyone needs is to have to go through the Applet,ActiveX,TCL plugin (remember that?), Flash pain again.

Lets see if WPF/E gets any more traction than something like laszlo (http://www.laszlosystems.com/) before we claim that MiddleWare 2.0 is just around the corner.

Re: Download Windows Vista

RJ — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 14:48:40 -0000

It looks like another feature has been removed ... hopefully it is the last one.

http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,...

Re: Download Windows Vista

RJ — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 17:07:26 -0000

Ervin, I guessed you missed the bright red text on the Vista page that said ..

Note: This is beta code and should not be used in a production environment or on a main machine in the home.

Re: John Dvorak explains how he tweaks Mac users for traffic

RJ — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 14:05:43 -0000

Mirror : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOHzHVF-4Mg&...

Re: Chris Pirillo doesn’t get Second Life (and gives us Windows Vista stats)

RJ — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 15:47:22 -0000

“our download servers and Internet links are overloaded thanks to Windows Vista”

From what I've heard about frequent timeouts and failed downloads, it is probably just a couple of guys in Canada sitting on the F5 key :) but PLEASE consider using BitTorrent for files this big, I know NIH is a bit of an issue but it makes so much more sense than monolithic downloads.

Re: Correcting the Record about Microsoft

RJ — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 05:18:26 -0000

All the best for the future Robert, this looks like a good move, and I hope it all works out.

We'll miss your funny laugh on C9 though, so if you could train up Chazz to do the laugh before you go that would be great :)

Re: Gates steps down

RJ — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 17:43:01 -0000

Video is up ...http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=205005

Re: Bittorrent HD videoblogging is here?

RJ — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 17:01:19 -0000

Shame your ex-employer couldn't see the sense in using it to distribute the latest Vista beta ...

Re: Browser wars (Opera ships)

RJ — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 12:08:26 -0000

Does nobody use the OSX version of Opera any more?

Re: The challenge for Europe: keeping tech there instead of the valley

RJ — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 07:17:22 -0000

Could you generalise about an entire continent a little more Robert? Since the mini-msft posts you've started to come across as a little arrogant ... just my perception.

Re: One for my son

RJ — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 15:02:52 -0000

Yeah that's funny. My suspicion of your son's reaction - Dad, that's lame.

Re: Will I get one of these Zune?

RJ — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:49:56 -0000

Well its not PlaysForSure

Re: Richard tells me to explain my view on Google Calendar

RJ — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 04:52:47 -0000

Totally OTT, but Gideon, you could try yojimbo - not as complete (from what I can tell as OneNote) but certainly more maclike - http://www.barebones.com/products/yojimbo/

Re: Microsoft helping Firefox team?

RJ — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:15:09 -0000

"Firefox team members can even work with IE team members to help make sure that both products work the same"

And now I have coffee all over my new Mac. *Why* would the FF team want to have FF work like IE? Surely it is up to Microsoft to catch up, not for the FF guys to slow down ;)

Re: Microsoft helping Firefox team?

RJ — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 17:09:05 -0000

Robert you accuse me of showing my religion. Problem is, I don't use Firefox except very occassionally on Windows (I even made a fuss on C9 to get the guys to help me stop using it). On the whole I use Safari or Camino.

So to accuse me of a bias is a little silly, but just because I don't use FF doesn't mean I don't think it is streets ahead of IE 6 and 7.

Re: This kid wants Bob the Builder

RJ — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 14:15:23 -0000

Robert, have you thought that maybe Patrick is dragging you into Apple Stores for a reason?

Re: How do you keep your stuff private on WiFi networks?

RJ — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 09:16:40 -0000

So how does this affect those of us using gtalk or another Jabber implementation using SSL/TLS? I was also under the impression that MSN sent data over SSL - am I wrong? Are these guys breaking ssl?

Re: Trip to Google tomorrow

RJ — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 10:36:15 -0000

Did you ever find the answer as to why it wasn't listed?

Re: Wow, Sony delays PS3 in Europe

RJ — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 07:39:20 -0000

@jbwebb: If you want originality in games, you should be following Nintendo for the game content and the new console - you'll get games that are fun, new and playable instead of yet another game that is all too similar to a dozen others in the same genre. Everybody in my social circle has said to me independently "I want to get a Wii on launch day - don't tell the others".

Don't underestimate Nintendo...

The problem with Sony isn't *all* about the delay it's the price and the fact that it has cost them another Christmas.

Re: Download your Windows Vista RC1 here!

RJ — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 17:00:25 -0000

@20 - As of today, and after installing an update, you can run Vista in Parallels on an Intel Mac (or Mac Pro). Vista in a Window ... mmmm.

Re: New Nano from Apple

RJ — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 14:05:06 -0000

Why no use NetFlix? Because I want to keep the films I have paid for, especially as in the UK it is now possible to insure your digital media.

I am still disappointed though, outside of the US we get no TV, no movies and I fully expect no games. Lame.

Re: New Nano from Apple

RJ — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 16:30:02 -0000

@18, the fact Apple can at least play it on more than one OS, we don't have to watch rentals within 24 hours of starting, Apple have given a timeline for RestOfTheWorld ?

Amazon screwed up ... not much more to it.

Re: Is Apple copying Microsoft?

RJ — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 10:43:36 -0000

Reader numbers down again are they Robert? Or have you got into that frame of mind "Why I hate this", "Why X is useless", "Why my old company is better than X company" again where you need a holiday? So soon after the last. Are you living proof that Information Overload is not a good thing?

Re: Gearing up for the ScobleShow

RJ — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 05:10:43 -0000

You've not checked Techmeme recently then Robert?

Won't play PlaysForSome, will add DRM to open content (including Creative Commons licenced content - which is a nono), too big, available in Brown, no release date, no pricing.

On the plus side, it supports AAC :)

Re: To videoblog or not to videoblog

RJ — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 09:58:43 -0000

"Give me one minute of video or 10,000 words to explain to me what Halo 3 does."

How about 9 words and no video ....

The same as Halo 1 and 2. But prettier.

Re: Judge the Made in Express software contest

RJ — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 08:05:43 -0000

Did you actually participate in the judging eventually?

http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2...

Re: Microsoft and Adobe developer/designer death match

RJ — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:53:14 -0000

Did they not show you Flex? RIA with Flash - works with .Net or J2EE on the backend (or Ruby or PHP), available now. WPF/What?

Re: Apple’s PR is "blame it on Microsoft"

RJ — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:22:22 -0000

Who is it you work for Mr Mooney?

Re: IE 7 just released

RJ — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 07:51:36 -0000

Pity they didn't fix the outstanding security flaws. Less than 24 hours? That has to be a record.

http://secunia.com/Internet_Explorer_Arbitrary_...

Re: IE 7 just released

RJ — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:32:21 -0000

I was pretty ambivalent about IE7 figuring that they wouldn't break anything that works now. Then when I worked out how they are parsing RSS feeds (read - badly) and how it broke my XSL based app I got annoyed.

It appears the IE team feel that searching the first 512 bytes for an element that begins with RSS (any case and even with following chars) or FEED (any case) will cause it to show the error page for a bad feed. So 'RssWomble' as an element will cause it to show the error page instead of doing the XSL thing. Of the two workarounds (turn off RSS on users' computers, or put 512bytes of comments at the start of the file) I don't really like either, so I guess I've got *more* work on my hands than I anticipated.

Re: A Zunester’s response (Microsoft employee)

RJ — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:33:06 -0000

2008 to get a Zune in the UK? I'll have forgotten about it by the time it launches.

Re: No, I don’t know what Microsoft is up to

RJ — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 16:40:08 -0000

"All our Miguel De Icaza belong to us."

You're not joking, I am surprised that he never accepted Mr Box's offer to join Microsoft before.

Re: Patents bring Novell and Microsoft together

RJ — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 18:29:06 -0000

CastleSoft - it's legal if you use it on Suse is all they are saying.

Re: Can Google please fix my search?

RJ — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 17:50:15 -0000

But if it is your old site that has all the linklove, what do you expect? Maybe you should have move your content and just provide a redirect?

Re: Demo of the Year: Photosynth

RJ — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 16:54:29 -0000

@21: I believe Microsoft bought this in, at least according to the C9 video from July - http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2...

Not that this makes it any less cool though :)

Re: The things you learn by reading feeds

RJ — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:28:21 -0000

So Robert, whilst Mr Arrington's post *may* seem reasonable to you (it doesn't to many others) I hear Sam has had this typepad account locked/deleted. With professionalism like this, should MSM really be worried?

Re: The things you learn by reading feeds

RJ — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:29:38 -0000

Oh yeah sorry - link. http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/index.php/2006/12/1...

Re: Big gadget sites don’t link to blogs (I went overboard, read updates)

RJ — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:38:55 -0000

Talking of deleting comments/posts - what's happening to the Scoble boys?

http://franchisepick.com/?p=154

Re: I still love Xbox, TabletPCs, Media Center, Halo, etc.

RJ — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:23:16 -0000

Jeff@24 said "ATLAS, .NET 3.0, WPF (reinventing the GUI on Windows) and so forth. It’ll take a DECADE to absorb it all."

It'll also probably take a decade for Microsoft to finish WPF. Rushed out of the door with 3.0 in order to meet the artifical Vista deadline - and quite possibly over-engineered (it's Microsoft, I wish I could expect different). Working on the Microsoft platform has gone harder, not easier in the past couple of years. For those of us in small companies trying to keep up with all of that output is a full-time job in itself.

Re: Killer demo? Listen to the keyboards

RJ — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:10:22 -0000

Dan@4

It *is* Flash, but it is built with Flex which is worth a day's worth of research of anyone's time (assuming you can code). There is a 30 day trial I believe.

Re: Open source developer warns about Adobe…

RJ — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 04:28:29 -0000

In addition to the open components mentioned by Mark at 6 above, did nobody notice Adobe donating ActionScript 3 to the Mozilla Foundation?

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/press/mozilla-2006...

Re: The Irrelevant Mix07 Predictions

RJ — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:15:36 -0000

This Dynamic Language Runtime they are going to release for allowing dynamic langs (a la Ruby) to run on .Net is going to be a mess. IMNSHO what is the point of making all of these languages use exactly the same framework and runtime? Why then choose Ruby over Python or whatever? You've heard the saying 'right tool for the right job', Microsoft want to turn all of our tools into hammers and offer performance as a trade-off for lock-in.

I suspect it is just jealousy that most of the popular dynamic languages, whilst they run on Windows, generally aren't deployed on Windows - something that I don't think this is going to resolve. Microsoft need to look at *why* nobody wants to ship RoR apps on Windows (hint: *cough*licences*cough*. Dozens of languages already compile down to run on the Java VM - how many have you seen shipped that way?

Re: News tonight for developers

RJ — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:22:16 -0000

If it is a *full* .Net runtime, feature complete, on OSX I'd be happy. Not bothered about VS.Net (it is a mess) but .Net would make my week. If they can get Apple to ship it with Leopard then better still.

More realistically have Microsoft decided to actually release some *working* dev tools for WPF on XP? :P

Re: The Irrelevant Mix07 Predictions

RJ — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 02:47:35 -0000

Guiness@18 - after spending 2 years contributing positively to Channel 9 (and 5 years building .Net apps) calling me out as a Microsoft hater seems a bit like a long shot. Or is *any* criticism of Microsoft now to be labelled as bashing Microsoft?

It is funny that Apple get criticised for the zealous fervour of their supporters I find it quite surprising that there are so many Microsoft fanboys who seem to think it impossible that Microsoft might possible make a mistake.

Re: MSFT to YHOO?

RJ — Fri, 04 May 2007 14:15:52 -0000

I am not looking forward to seeing Microsoft spent the next half-decade trying to port the software from their new acquisitions to .Net when they should be trying to make money from them - NIH writ large.

Re: No “Microhoo”

RJ — Sat, 05 May 2007 15:19:38 -0000

"Who’s search technology would be thrown away? "

A rhetorical question given Microsoft's inability to make much of an inroad in the search market, even with some very smart people involved.

Re: It’s the users, not the technology

RJ — Tue, 15 May 2007 19:02:39 -0000

Of course it is all about the users, but is also all about the technology. All your friends using Twitter is great, but if their technology sucks and can't keep up with the growth in user base people will start looking elsewhere for something that does something similar/the same. Trying to drag everything into 'forget the tech concentrate on the users' seems to be a bit narrow minded - how about 'concentrate of making sure the tech keeps your users happy' instead?

I've seen XMPP mentioned several times in the comments, but not once have I seen anyone post what is it - which might give you a better idea of why Boris is suggesting that it will scale (and keep users happy) ..

define:XMPP
Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol, or XMPP, is an open, XML-based protocol for near real-time extensible messaging and presence events

Re: Something fun

RJ — Fri, 25 May 2007 05:38:04 -0000

Youtube full screen? Did you forget to click the full-screen button Robert? The button is at the bottom right of the player. Maybe it is Flash 9 only or something?

Re: Ahh, the PlayTable, er Surface Computing, how it works…

RJ — Wed, 30 May 2007 06:34:59 -0000

It looks very cool, I've been watching all of the multi-touch stuff for quite a while and I can't wait to get my hands on it (bad pun unintended).

Unfortunately given the initial target market I can see this is going to be well outside most people's budget for a couple of years - and hopefully it doesn't end up in a patent war (the ideas have been around for a LONG time) and all the companies with patents just agree not to sue for the greater good - chances of this happening, slim to nothing :(

Re: TechMeme: the anti-linking engine

RJ — Thu, 31 May 2007 02:58:20 -0000

"the problem is when Google sticks four of us in a room and tells us the same news, doesn’t it make sense to link to the other three people?"

But it is the final Google page that you all link to that should be at the top of the Techmeme list - isn't it? Or am I missing something.

It seems like you just want Techmeme to be a list of who is linking to news - personally I'd prefer to the see the page with the most inbound links at the top (the actual news) and then a list of people who link directly to it and then a list of people who link to those people who.. you get the idea. Doesn't it make more sense that the actual news come at the top?

Re: The better iPhone: Nokia N95?

RJ — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 14:40:52 -0000

It will be interesting to see how the browsers differ, as both the N95 and the iPhone use Apple's (and Konquerer's) WebKit (used in Safari) for rendering. At least I've been led to believe that all S60 phones now use webkit.

Re: Um, Apple, Nokia N95 has Wifi

RJ — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:11:28 -0000

"Keyboard you can use without looking at the phone."

Why would you want to do that? Doing X whilst driving is not a good answer btw (but I see it all too often).

Re: Um, Apple, Nokia N95 has Wifi

RJ — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:20:46 -0000

Robert @5, I live in Europe, and I've only ever seen people look at their phones when txting. Are you sure they were sending SMS?

Re: Why Sue Decker isn’t CEO of Yahoo…

RJ — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:15:13 -0000

Who cares about Yahoo, DTrace is much more interesting :P

The fact that DTrace is in Leopard (for a developer) is worth the price of admission all by itself. This could be the first ScobleShow I watch all the way through :)

Re: If you are going to sell your soul…

RJ — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 17:08:54 -0000

Dare points out the hypocrisy ... I am glad someone did. I guess 'principles' only last until someone opens their chequebook,

http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/2007/06/23/Mi...

Re: Another Gnomedex past

RJ — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 16:30:57 -0000

CSB I can't see where he is defending him, just ignoring Dave's childish outbursts and hoping nobody asks any awkward questions by the look of it. Wouldn't want to be next eh Robert?

Re: Things on my mind…

RJ — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 06:45:06 -0000

Good luck with the break Robert, spending time with your family - both new and old really - shows you what the *really* important things are.

Re: Reverse Engineering TechMeme

RJ — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 08:29:36 -0000

Lolcatz@6

Of course C9 is on Techmeme, it is a sponsor - check out the right hand side of techmeme.com

Re: A new way to surf the New York Times

RJ — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 05:37:26 -0000

What'd make it really useful, is if you could choose some of the keywords that Dave is using to cluster stuff and say that you are not interested in that. At least I could get just relevant interesting (to me) news in a single place quickly.

I don't suppose Dave has done this for any other sites like the BBC?

Re: Getting around school site blocks

RJ — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 11:07:03 -0000

"hell with IT folks who try to keep you from doing what you want to do."

If he is at school, shouldn't he be learning and spending his own time on facebook instead of his teachers'? Just a thought.

Re: New browser war brewing over JavaScript?

RJ — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:27:36 -0000

Given Al Billings comments about the JScript team being broken up 18 months ago (if not longer) - as a comment in the original post from the IEBlog -why should anyone trust the IE team's intentions as being positive and not self-serving?

After the IE 6/7 fiasco, why would anyone not continue to assume that the IE team is following their own agenda, rather than provide their users what they want?

Re: New browser war brewing over JavaScript?

RJ — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:33:24 -0000

Chris, if the JScript team are working on the next release, and you are trying to slow the ES process down - can we assume correctly that the JScript team are fixing all of the bugs in JScript that have been present since IE4, which makes them what? a decade old? I am sure those fixes would be appreciated by those that have had to suffer them.

Re: New browser war brewing over JavaScript?

RJ — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 04:44:32 -0000

Sorry, my bad. I used your point about it being mothballed as the basis for drawing conclusions about Microsoft's intentions. In retrospect that was probably wrong :(

Re: Google Android: we want developers but…

RJ — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 05:53:26 -0000

I am guessing, and it is a guess, that you didn't bother watching the architecture videos, or the HOWTO video? If you had you would have seen the potential of the platform and what you can do with the frameworks.

In fact I know you didn't watch the arch videos, because you didn't mention one of the most relevant and interesting points - you might write code in Java, but it runs on Google's own in-house VM and NOT on J2ME.

Maybe you should get your developer friends to watch more than the demos?

Re: Twitter reactions to Apple’s OS update

RJ — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 04:22:53 -0000

ordinal erased and restored? Why did he not archive and install - which would have cost him an hour at most?

Re: Twitter reactions to Apple’s OS update

RJ — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 04:28:50 -0000

Not that I am justifying the failure of the software to update properly, but it does seem rather like you are extrapolating from a very small vocal minority and giving the impression that this is exceptionally widespread.

Quick question though - how many people having problems are using APE (the cause of the Leopard failures) either directly or because Logictech (in their not so infinite wisdom) decided to ship it with their drivers?

Re: Join the New Media Douchebag Club

RJ — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 14:41:24 -0000

@CC - "New Media is the same as Old Media, just minus the writers and talent"

I recently saw this quote about Robert (not very flattering, but follows your line about talent)

The writings of Robert Scoble are like a thousand monkeys typing, short about 999 monkeys.

Re: Is Steve Jobs lying about Flash not working on iPhone?

RJ — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:05:00 -0000

I can't see this being about PDF. Why would Apple rely on a third party for something that is so core to their OS?