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I figure out that to get the content from https://api.github.com/events programmatically (it works from the browser), I have specify something, anything for the UserAgent:
HttpWebRequest request = WebRequest.Create("https://api.github.com/events") as HttpWebRequest;
request.Method = "GET";
request.UserAgent = "Hello There";
Sigh. That was 3 hours spent on what I thought should be ridiculously simple and was hoping to spend on productively writing code to process and display the digest of events.
I'd still be at it, if not for this obscure[^] post by Buddha (at the bottom.)
Marc
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That spontaneously reminded me of this gem:Marc Clifton wrote: if LEN(@accountnumber) >= 4
(WeirdAndWonderful[^])
- Sebastian
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manchanx wrote: That spontaneously reminded me of this gem:
Indeed, the same thought occurred to me. 
Marc
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I went through something similar and learned that painful lesson also when I built my DragonSharq web browser (retrieves the web site as text) which I wrote a CP article for at:
DragonSharq Web Browser: Safe Browsing / Source Viewing[^]
I ended up adding a droplist which let me set the user agent to mimic numerous browsers because sites will respond with different content depending upon the user agent.
DragonSharq also displays the returned headers which is kind of interesting.
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Marc Clifton wrote: I'd still be at it, if not for this obscure[^] post by Buddha (at the bottom.)
That's why I always read all the answers and not just the accepted one.
I have upvoted his answer on behalf of you. 
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
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Agent__007 wrote: I have upvoted his answer on behalf of you.
Cool, you actually looked. I didn't upvote it myself yet because I wanted people to see that it at received ZERO upvotes! Heading there now...
Marc
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It's not what you think[^] (video) 
//edit//
Yes, it is SFW.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
modified 19-Feb-15 18:47pm.
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Ain't no WAY I'm clicking on that!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Again, it's not what you think. It is definitely safe for work.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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In case someone else is initially intimidated by that link: fbcdn.net is a Facebook static content server and the link points to a pure video stream. And it's a funny video, with german comment, but you'll get it even if you don't understand german.
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Yeah, I didn't want to point to a facebook page. Just the video. Thanks for clarifying.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Maybe one of you are an expert in this area. I'm in a battle with my customer's IT department. I need to set up a couple of VMs to run Windows 7. Of course, you cannot directly buy Windows 7 any more. There are OEM licenses out the wahzoo, but you have to put those on new hardware. So, IT won't allow me to use their OEM in the VMs.
First question - does a virtual machine constitute "new hardware"? I would argue yes, but then I'm doing battle with IT.
Second, Windows 8 downgrade rights - what I've read is that you ONLY have downgrade rights if you have a Windows 8 oem license. Anyone know?
Thanks for any pointers
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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If you have MSDN, you have a bunch of win7 keys for test use including VMs. In theory you should be able to use them. I can't, I believe the problem is that Corporate ITs audit tool can't tell the difference between a VM using an MSDN key and one created using a key that increments the cost of their MS site license. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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OEM on a VM is a no go. VL and SA allow downgrading as does OEM (limited), but I cannot say about retail.
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tgrt - VL? SA? wtf?
English or some other foreign language pls.
And wtf is the issue with MS selling 1 license for 1 use? Oh $hiut, I made it too simple. God, I am back working for DEC
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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VL = volume licensing
SA = who knows? South Africa? Googling turns up another interesting possibility though.
And we've been tearing out our hair at the complexity of MS's licensing too.
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VL = volume licensing (open value & enterprise)
SA = software assurance
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SA- software assurance is a marketing thing, and all I want to know is how to play fair. In going back and forth with IT, I declare FI (elaphanting it). MS is making this too damn hard and frustrating. I suspect that the s/w I want to run will do just fine on Win8. I have a 90 day trial to test.
The sad thing is - and this is meant for all you MS lurkers - you're making it too hard to worry about your license. And I could care bloody less for your legal rules. All I want to do is pay you some $$ for Windows 7 so I can run it on a VM. Let's say 10 VMs. I'll pay you 10 fees, yes? No, nothing I find on your website makes it that simple.
rant over.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Sorry, I fear their bureaucracy has started to confuse even them. We've got an annual battle (at least, sometimes it's every few months) to try and prove to MS that we're actually not pirating their stuff or using more server lics than we've got. It's not so much the actual fees that's the issue - that's budgeted for and we've always paid properly. It's the inordinate amount of paperwork we need to wade through in order to prove that we've actually paid what we owe. It's getting to a point where we're seriously thinking of getting away from all things MS, unfortunately we simply cannot get away from the Desktop due to some of our main business programs only available on Win. But definitely the server lics are killing any chance that MS will ever again make it's presence felt in our server room.
And then just to throw salt on our exposed whip-marks we're battling with VMWare on their Horizon View server. They can't actually tell us how their licensing works. Apparently it's something to do with cores and ram use, but they cannot give us any figures. How's that for you: "We'll tell you later how much you should have paid ... probably in the court case when we finally made up our mind and decided that you've paid too little".
This makes me remember something I read in Terry Pratchet's Good Omens: "Crowley had been extremely impressed with the warranties offered by the computer industry, and had in fact sent a bundle Below to the department that drew up the Immortal Soul agreements, with a yellow memo form attached just saying: "Learn, guys..."" (Crowley being a demon from hell).
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 laughing... MS, you so silly.
Years ago, I worked at a telecom that made use of a Telco switch - 128 lines in, 128 lines out. Basically, we could handle 128 connections simultaneously. The original team for this product had negotiated with Oracle some licensing terms which were ridiculous. Basically, one license per connection, and shared threads were not allowed.
Then came the upgrades to 256, 1024 lines, etc. Oracle gladly took our money, until we got the new VP. When Oracle heard that we were about to implement a virtual Telco switch (effectively infinite connections), they started salivating. The VP said, no, we're not going to do this. Amazingly, Oracle refused to be reasonable... They actually wanted a real-time monitor in place to track peak usage.
We switched to MySQL
I'm going to get some demo licenses for Windows 8.1 and see if it works for my application. F it.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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This is the horrible state of affairs...
A new client asked for some software which needs very little GUI. But they want to be able to "grow" the number of machines running it (it tests their hardware)...
A quick review of the Windows vs. Linux solutions... They opted for the Linux based SOLELY on the licensing fees. (I do have to say, the first response was "how are they going to know how many
machines we run it on?"... LOL). If they are successful, the could see having 50 of these machines running all the time.
To be honest, I am glad they made the choice they did.
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irneb wrote: And then just to throw salt on our exposed whip-marks we're battling with VMWare on their Horizon View server. They can't actually tell us how their licensing works. Apparently it's something to do with cores and ram use, but they cannot give us any figures. How's that for you: "We'll tell you later how much you should have paid ... probably in the court case when we finally made up our mind and decided that you've paid too little".
Sounds like they hired licensing drones away from IBM (ir)Rational. In completely unrelated news my employer shut down all their (ir)Rational product servers a few years ago. (And GOOD RIDDENCE to them!)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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