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Re: Synergy: Part Deux

Joel "Jaykul" Bennett — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:53:08 -0000

If you run synergy "as administrator" and disable the Local Security Policy called "User Account Control: Switch to the secure desktop when prompting for elevation" then it will let you do this, but you still can't get it to auto-startup because Vista Services aren't allowed to interact with the keyboard/mouse.

Perhaps if you auto-startup "on login" and set the Local Security Policy "User Account Control: Behavior of the elevation prompt for administrators in Admin Approval Mode" to "Elevate Without Prompting" and then set the Synergy shortcut in the startup folder to "Run As Administrator" in the compatibility tab (I haven't tried this).

Re: Nokia perfects the clicky tactile touchscreen – iPhone gnashes teeth, swears revenge

Joel "Jaykul" Bennett — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:50:58 -0000

Just because it feels like the screen clicks doesn't mean you'll be able to touch type -- that would require being able to tell that your fingers were in the right place without looking: That's why real keyboards have curved keys, and it's why the home row has little ridges where your index fingers rest ... and most importantly ... it's why touch feedback alone doesn't let you type any faster even if you're a touch typist.

Re: Delicious Not Shrinking, But Another Problem Looms

Joel "Jaykul" Bennett — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:01:52 -0000

Del.icio.us is great -- for their browser plugin. For everything else, Diigo is superior.

Re: Lack of Consistency in PowerShell

Joel "Jaykul" Bennett — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:26:13 -0000

I think you're right to complain. I can't understand why they haven't made a way to list all available modules and see which ones are installed, and which commands are available in each (regardless of whether they're installed or not).

The fact is, that New-PSDrive thing you mentioned just gives you the first of you module paths, when by default PowerShell includes two folder locations for modules, and you can add your own (on my system I have three, one being specific to modules I auto-load in my profile). Using that New-PSDrive method will only show one of those, and still doesn't give you a way to find out anything about a module without loading it, nor to see which ones are available vs. loaded without writing more scripts yourself.

They do the same thing with SnapIns in v1 of course -- no provider to list them -- but at least with snapins they have provided a way to list the registered snapins ;)

Re: FeaturedUsers Launches Twitter Ad Network (+Freebies for You)

Joel "Jaykul" Bennett — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:46:27 -0000

Very clever. I imagine they'll keep busy for awhile, just with corporate-backed accounts wanting to advertise ;)

@Jaykul

Re: A Revolution Begins: OpenCandy Has A Board Meeting And No One Shakes Hands

Joel "Jaykul" Bennett — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:58:41 -0000

Bwahaha. Awesome.

Re: And Microsoft Confuses Us Again

Joel "Jaykul" Bennett — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:32:16 -0000

If you pre-order in the next two weeks, you will in fact get Windows 7 for $50, or Pro for $99 ...

Re: What Analytic Information Do You Need?

Joel "Jaykul" Bennett — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:52:58 -0000

I really want monthly summaries I want to be able to track and visualize the long-term changes to traffic patterns. I'm more concerned about week-to-week and month-to-month changes than hour-to-hour changes.

Re: A Deleted Response to a TFS Blog Post

Joel "Jaykul" Bennett — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:46:30 -0000

The sad thing is, he actually had answers ... but hid the discussion. After that, I wouldn't trust him (and I appreciate you leaving his name out) -- and I totally agree with you: as MVPs we're not schills or salesmen, if anything, we should be advocates for using the best tools for the job, and should be pushing Microsoft to improve theirs to the point where we would choose them.

As a side note: I love TFS, and you can pry it from me when you give me a better full suite that's integrated into my IDE -- but I wouldn't say it's always the right tool, nor the most affordable, and I won't touch MSTest with a ten-foot pole.

Re: Google wants an act of Congress to fix orphan books mess

Joel "Jaykul" Bennett — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:06:00 -0000

How would that help?
Who is it that you imagine would benefit from these old out-of-print books being kept rare? Are you, perchance, a used book seller?

Re: Do You Want a Google Car?

Joel "Jaykul" Bennett — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:48:27 -0000

Of course, Microsoft is already in cars, so Google trying to compete there seems like a no-brainer.

Re: Coming Soon: Your Professional Network within Microsoft Outlook

Joel "Jaykul" Bennett — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:02:36 -0000

You're counting your chickens before they've hatched.

You won't be the first until you release it. There's plenty of time for someone to jump ahead of you if you wait until "early 2010" to release :(

Re: How to Start a Movement

Joel "Jaykul" Bennett — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:24:50 -0000

That's Derek Sivers, not David Sivers :)

Re: Bing Maps should be the new iPhone standard.

Joel "Jaykul" Bennett — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:39:22 -0000

The problem with that is that "Bing Applications" require Silverlight. Insert your favorite up a creek without a paddle metaphor here.

Re: Microsoft Instaload: Insert Batteries Any Way You Like

Joel "Jaykul" Bennett — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:04:33 -0000

Oh please. Show me a company that would (and could) invent something as horribly useful as this and would be anywhere near as generous with licensing. Microsoft is offering to license it FREE to companies making accessibility stuff ... no offense, but this is exactly the sort of invention that patents were designed to let people get rich off of.

Re: Kiffets: Xerox PARC Aims to Solve Information Overload

Joel "Jaykul" Bennett — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:41:58 -0000

I'm enjoying Kiffets, actually. But the interface does sort-of require you to watch a video to learn what to do -- it's not immediately obvious how to create a channel that filters with a LOT of different keywords where matching any of them is good enough ... but doing so is essential to jump-starting a channel.

Re: Survey: Atheists, Agnostics Know More About Religion Than Religious

Joel "Jaykul" Bennett — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:17:20 -0000

Your headline is not just a mis-representation of the survey results, but an outright lie. The study clearly shows that "Mormon" and "White Evangelical" people know more about the Bible -- not Atheists or Agnostics. http://pewforum.org/U-S-Religious-Knowledge-Survey-Who-Knows-What-About-Religion.aspx#Bible

The correct headline would be that Atheists and Agnostics have broader knowledge of world religions and politics than any religious group.

Of this survey's 32 questions, only 23 were actually about religion at all, and 4 of those were about religion and the government in the USA -- and 2 of them were about the definition of "Atheist" and "Agnostic" ... so there's essentially 19 questions about various religions, with the majority of them (11) being about "World Religions": (Islam, Buddhism, Shiva and Zeus, etc., including three questions about the dominant religion of various countries in the Indian sub-continent).

Re: Survey: Atheists, Agnostics Know More About Religion Than Religious

Joel "Jaykul" Bennett — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:34:54 -0000

The title is clearly NOT correct -- because it doesn't say that Atheists knew the most about world religions, it says they knew more about the Bible. That's clearly not true. http://pewforum.org/U-S-Religious-Knowledge-Survey-Who-Knows-What-About-Religion.aspx#Bible

Re: Hand-crank flashlight +soldering + Ben Heck = man-powered HTC EVO 4G charger

Joel "Jaykul" Bennett — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 12:35:02 -0000

Sorry, but that's just silly. The nPowerPeg already charges while you walk: http://www.npowerpeg.com/pe... and the guys at Simon Fraser University are working on one that actually generates energy while saving you energy when walking ... http://www.technologyreview...

Re: Hand-crank flashlight +soldering + Ben Heck = man-powered HTC EVO 4G charger

Joel "Jaykul" Bennett — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 12:44:28 -0000

Not to mention http://www.greendiary.com/e...

Re: Who Needs OSS Anyway?

Joel "Jaykul" Bennett — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 19:56:12 -0000

Isn't that a little disingenuous? This is NOT just about who control's it -- it's also about language and frameworks. Microsoft couldn't really be expected to build a .net open source package management system on top of Ruby Gems now, could they?

And let's not forget that Nu has been basically restarted from scratch twice before already, right?

Re: Starbucks CIO shows why next version of Windows is “risky business” for Microsoft

Joel "Jaykul" Bennett — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:24:39 -0000

Yeah, "crammed" ... but what percentage of people who come in to buy a coffee do you think actually stick around to drink it?

Re: Starbucks CIO shows why next version of Windows is “risky business” for Microsoft

Joel "Jaykul" Bennett — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:17:27 -0000

No, 30 million sign on. It doesn't say 30 Million stick around. The whole point of the article is that most of the people using the wifi are doing so from their phones ... and if you've ever been in a Starbucks, you know they're doing most of that while they're waiting in line. You don't have to stick around to log in, UNLESS you only have a laptop.

Re: Microvision

Joel "Jaykul" Bennett — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 09:23:26 -0000

I for one can't wait to have green lasers shining in my eyes...

Re: Nokia Simplifies the Mobile Landascape - Miguel de Icaza

Joel "Jaykul" Bennett — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 11:06:27 -0000

I love that GNOME users are complaining about posts from Miguel not being Gnomey enough. I'm pretty sure there's an Alanis Morriset song in there somewhere...