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# re: How not to answer a telephone

Sunday, 29 July 2007 11:47 AM by davidr

# re: Getting rid of Nero cruft

Thursday, 2 August 2007 2:02 AM by G

Thank you! I was rolling up my sleeves for a fight, but that was easy!

# re: Office 2007 - Help Help I'm being repressed

Tuesday, 16 October 2007 12:43 PM by davidr

Funnily enough this is the same feature I went looking for in Word not 2 weeks before you wrote this.

# re: I'm not sorry

Thursday, 14 February 2008 6:24 AM by dave

i couldnt agree more far from being "stolen" they were rescued

# re: I'm not sorry

Wednesday, 20 February 2008 6:19 PM by Daniel

Couldn't agree more....  Pity more people don't have enough guts to speak the truth instead of hand fed bullshit born of second hand guilt.

# re: How to synch your domain with an external time-server

Saturday, 28 June 2008 10:16 AM by Mark

Hi,

I am trying to sync an ip based telemetry system to a ntp server. In the setup I have the option of defining an ntp server address together with a port number - have been told I should use port 123 - but system doesn't seem to update - any thoughts?

Thanks for your time.

Mark

mark.grimes@macsc.com.au

# re: How to synch your domain with an external time-server

Saturday, 28 June 2008 10:01 PM by davidr

Actually, the best source is the NTP Pool Project:

http://www.pool.ntp.org/

There are zones for all over the world. A good sample for Australia is a timeserver name of au.pool.ntp.org.

# re: How to synch your domain with an external time-server

Sunday, 29 June 2008 8:51 PM by davidr

Mark - you need to make sure that your firewall is allowing UDP port 123 out. No other port or protocol will do - NTP servers are all UDP port 123 (don't get confused with TCP port 123).

# re: How to synch your domain with an external time-server

Wednesday, 2 July 2008 7:22 PM by peterw

Mark, I've been thinking about it but Dave's beaten me to the punch. I'm pretty sure he's right - you've probably opened your firewall for TCP 123 when you actually need UDP 123.

# re: Men are from Mars, women are a PITA

Monday, 15 September 2008 5:00 PM by PaulB

I've told the missus that rather than having to cop all her feminazi ***, I should be worshipped in my house.

I earn a good wage, way in excess of the national average, I don't waste my money on smokes, I don't drink to excess, sleep around, piss my life away in a pub with my mates or beat her (although sometimes I wish I could) and I'm a bloody good father to my kids. I am the main breadwinner and without me the family would disintegrate (in fairness it would do the same without her but for different reasons). This is in marked contrast to a fair percentage of my gender - dole bludgers, alcoholics, wife beaters, absent fathers and other losers.

So no thanks, I'd rather not have to be a good listener in addition to all my other duties thanks. That's what her girlfriends are for.

Some women have never had it so good and they need reminding of that.

# re: Truth, justice and taking the law into your own hands

Friday, 7 November 2008 1:50 AM by Alex (email: sanyaya A bk.ru)

Hello Peter,

I've caught somewhere the idea about rich text in SSRS 2008. As I see it will allow me to make such static text

"Some test with some text in bold and some italic text"

with a single text box which was impossible in RS 2005. (even don't know good way to make it there)

You wrote it doesn't require SQL Server 2008 to be installed. What about IDE for reports development ?

Looking forward with big hopes for SSRS 2008, thanks for attention in advance, Alex

# re: Proposed water theft

Monday, 27 April 2009 11:40 PM by Warwick Allison

Charlie, Rockhampton is NEVER too far away.

# re: Motorcycles are a lot safer than you think

Friday, 5 June 2009 8:13 AM by bill

Thank God you told it the way it is.

You are right about the "agendas".

Out of all my buddies who have had motorcycle accidents, they were all under equipped and acting stupid with no question.

I am so glad you wrote this.

# re: Cisco Router Configuration Tutorial

Tuesday, 27 October 2009 11:19 PM by David

Quote: Until you hit ctrl-Z (or type exit until you reach parent mode) your command has not been put into affect. You can enter config mode, issue several different commands, then hit ctrl-Z to activate them all.

Firstly it's "put into effect" not "affect". But that's minor - actually commands affect the configuration immediately (for example, watch the log messages appear if you shutdown an interface but don't end configuration mode).

# re: Flash vs Silverlight revisited

Wednesday, 10 February 2010 6:37 AM by bassvix@gmail.com

Silverlight for Linux: www.go-mono.com/moonlight

Other outdated facts too.

# re: Flash vs Silverlight revisited

Wednesday, 10 February 2010 9:41 AM by Ken Smith

A couple Silverlight corrections:

(1) Silverlight supports a wide variety of video formats, including H.264, the most advanced video format that Flash supports.

(2) Silverlight still doesn't support GIF files, for some astonishing reason.

(3) Silverlight supports sockets-level programming, with some significant security-related caveats (such as limited ports, and the appropriate client access policy).

(4) Silverlight 4 doesn't have any built-in ability to encode or stream video or audio.  You can roll your own, but you don't want to.  Trust me.  I'm trying.

(5) Nobody likes ActionScript.

(6) Neither Flash nor Silverlight have a good mobile story at this point, but they both claim that will change with This Next Release.

:-)

Ken Smith

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Wednesday, 10 February 2010 10:24 PM by uberVU - social comments

This post was mentioned on Twitter by msdevweb: Flash vs Silverlight... http://tr.im/NwmH someone forgot to read the release notes of latest flash versions... bahhh :)