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Zebras claim.........

Henry Minute — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:40:00 GMT

.....there's no flies on us[^]!

I'd always understood that the patterns were a form of camouflage. Maybe it's a combination of both plus a few others for good luck.

Henry Minute

Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus!
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.

Idiocy taken to new levels

Espen Harlinn — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:05:00 GMT

Tim Berners-Lee Takes the Stand to Keep the Web Free[^]

At the time X Windows[^] had been around for a long time. Hypertext systems had bin around for some time too - on X which is interactive enough.

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Something really awesome in Visual Studio.

Pete O'Hanlon — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:21:00 GMT

I've been hinting for quite a while now that Sacha and I have been working on some software together. Well, I've been writing a Visual Studio extension and it has some settings that we show in the Tools > Options dialog. Well, it's vital that the user enters these settings (they can't get to any further activities without setting these). If only Visual Studio allowed us to get to the property page, well thanky-dank you Microsoft for giving me something awesome:

EnvDTE.DTE dte = (EnvDTE.DTE)Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Package.GetGlobalService(typeof(SDTE));
dte.ExecuteCommand("Tools.Options", GuidList.PropertyPageGuid);

And that's it - Visual Studio shows me the settings page (all you have to do is provide the property page guid).

*pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington

"Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos

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DFJOTD

Walt Fair, Jr. — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:11:00 GMT

Yesterday, I was at my local pet store buying a large bag of dog chow for my dogs. I was in the check-out line when a woman behind me asked if I had a dog.

What did she think, I had an elephant? So since I'm retired and have little to do, on impulse I told her that no, I didn't have a dog, I was starting The Dog Food Diet again. I added that I probably shouldn't, because I ended up in the hospital last time, but that I'd lost 50 pounds before I awakened in an intensive care ward with tubes coming out of most of my orifices and IVs in both arms.

I told her that it was really a perfect diet and that the way that it works is, to load your pants pockets with dog chow nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry. The food is nutritionally complete so it works well and I was going to try it again. (I have to mention here that practically everyone in line was now enthralled with my story.)

Horrified, she asked if I ended up in intensive care because the dog food poisoned me. I told her no, I stepped off a curb to sniff a poodle's butt and a car hit me.

CQ de W5ALT

Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software

Well slap my thigh and call me Morris!

Nagy Vilmos — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:07:00 GMT

Today hurt.
I was with a client today for 'a quick coffee and a chat'. This turned into a full 4 1/2 shakedown of the project progress. On the back of this I then had an hour plus phone conference with NY and didn't gut back until gone 7. Mrs Wife was then wandering why I'm so grumpy...

... I can't wait to go home tomorrow. I need a cuddle [from Mrs Wife].

Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett

Looking for advice

DavidCrow — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:23:00 GMT

I've never done work outside of an employer, whether contractor or full-time. I've been asked to do a small-ish project in my free time. One of the subjects that came up regards fees. Some options that were discussed: 1) by the hour, 2) one lump sum (maybe payable in installments), 3) royalties per license sold. I'm not necessarily looking for which one would be more lucritive, but more along the lines of the "gotchas" to look out for with each.

Any thoughts and/or ideas?

Thanks.

- DC

"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson

"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons

"Show me a community that obeys the Ten Commandments and I'll show you a less crowded prison system." - Anonymous

Carey Sherman (RIAA) What were you thinking?

Henry Minute — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:16:00 GMT

Google and Wikipedia undemocratic in their actions against SOPA/PIPA[^].

I reject your reality and substitute my own.

Best Privacy Policy

Nagy Vilmos — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:46:00 GMT

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/screenshot-pimp-screengrab-scr/privacy/[^]

And it ends with BACON!

Call me Mr Cynical...

Dalek Dave — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:30:00 GMT

But how long do you think they will be married?[^]

They are 22 years old, and with enough money to do anything.

I suspect that his perfect life partner (Cindy, 18, blonde, 44DD) will be just around the corner.

Her perfect life partner (Roger 44, dark, owns a razor) will help to console her.

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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave

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Argh!

Marc Clifton — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:29:00 GMT

I was writing an article with FrontPage (my editor of choice for writing articles) when my computer seized (this is the second time, I suspect due to the USB->VGA adapter I'm using, which otherwise I've been very pleased with) and lost the entire document - for some reason I wasn't saving the document, only the code. Two hours of work, about which 1 hour was in the article content. Happily, Visual Studio recovered the code files!

Marc

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Some browser stats for CodeProject

Chris Maunder — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:42:00 GMT

These are rough numbers:

Chrome  34%
IE      31%
Firefox 28%
Opera    3%
...
Lynx    28 visits

cheers,
Chris Maunder

The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP

RIP Roger Boisjoly

Dalek Dave — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:07:00 GMT

Slightly late, I am surprised I missed this one.

Roger Boisjoly[^]

I have seen him over the years on various science programs or investigations etc.
A clever man who never got over allowing Challenger to launch, (He was over ruled by others and knew what would happen on a cold launch).

If ever there was a man who could say "I told you so" it was him.

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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave

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beaten up by the anchorman

TorstenH. — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:45:00 GMT

Bill O'Reilly standing up for Ellen DeGeneres[^]

Worth watching

It's about JC Penny, who have chosen Ellen Degeneres as their spokesperson. One Million Moms, a mathematically-challenged group of 40,000 bored, whiny stay-at-home pastors’ wives really hate the gays. So they called for a boycott - and received a close down for their facebook group page.

regards Torsten
When I'm not working

I keep reading that these 'new' UltraBook thingies are gorgeous.

Henry Minute — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:44:00 GMT

But from the images I've seen, this does not manifest itself. "Meh, a laptop".

So has anyone actually got their hands on one and does their gorgeousness increase in person?

I was just thinking ...

DeathByChocolate — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:18:00 GMT

... what if there were no hypothetical situations?

Ali

"Tofu is the Dark Matter of the culinary world." - Henry Minute

IsUserInRole too slow - ASP.NET

sharp_k — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:07:00 GMT

While debugging my slow application, I found the culprit is

Roles.IsUserInRole

It take from 3 sec to 9 second to execute. I found the reason it through the entire user list and calls other function, but it shouldn't be that slow to what I understand.

My question is can it be made faster?

And Relax...

Dalek Dave — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:56:00 GMT

I have been home, had a large gin, a plate of lasagne and some seriously deep breaths.

I only got irate once when Sky News reported the Bank of England is going to extend "Quantitive Easing"

"It is Quanititative Easing you [Insert appropriate expletive]" I yelled at the screen.

And Relax...

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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave

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Doh

Rage — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:52:00 GMT

Gregory House retires.[^]

Pity, I really enjoyed that show.

~RaGE();

I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb

So a Jew, a Catholic, a Muslim and a Handicap Atheist Boy walk into a bar....

MehGerbil — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:50:00 GMT

...and the bartender says, "What will you have to drink", and the Jew says...er, uh... you know, it occurs to me that this joke might offend some people so I probably shouldn't tell it.

Sorry.

A lighter note

Pete O'Hanlon — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:22:00 GMT

Tim Vine has won the funniest joke award with "Conjuctivitis.com. A site for sore eyes" at Loaded Laftas[^].

*pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington

"Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos

My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier - my favourite utility