Mamanze's Blog

OT: Outlook

mamanze — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 20:31:29 GMT

First and foremost, Outlook is a tool for accessing information from Exchange. Correct? That's been the old standby definition whenever someone complains of their piss poor IMAP support. Reasonable definition, IMHO. We all know they need to make...(read more)

Undoctored screen grab:

mamanze — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 16:18:45 GMT

Yes, for some time now, my live.com homepage has been picking up the favicon from other sites I've recently visited. This one just seemed extra humorous: If anyone knows why this happens, I'd really love to know. Share this post: email it!...(read more)

Please don't change well established command line parameters

mamanze — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 23:32:07 GMT

Urgh, sit down this afternoon to play some audio via my home server and get no love. Every attempt I made ended up with the RDP audio driver being used on the server. Now, I always launch a connection via something like this: > mstsc -v:server -console...(read more)

Someone not check their UI on Vista?

mamanze — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 21:58:51 GMT

Most useless dialog ever...

mamanze — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 06:18:44 GMT

WCF JSON output broken? Uninstall SP1!

mamanze — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 17:55:00 GMT

Yup, that's right. Vista SP1 breaks .NET 3.5 B2. How, you ask? By replacing a 3.0 dll with a newer version which doesn't contain an API that 3.5 b2 expects. It was a long, convoluted road to track this down so I'll spare you all the gory details....(read more)

IE Annoyance

mamanze — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 17:17:10 GMT

Take a look at this fairly standard IE dialog: (Shown in its initial state) K, what's wrong with that dialog? How would you accept that dialog with the keyboard? Try hitting Alt+Y. Alt+E? Alt+S? Nope, there are no access keys defined. How about hitting...(read more)

Most annoying uninstall ever!

mamanze — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 23:26:00 GMT

Alright, let me preface by saying that I love all of the RedGate products. They are great products. If I wasn't such a cheap *** I'd purchase them all. However, their uninstallation process could use some work. Specifically, I installed the SQL Toolkit...(read more)

Mozilla: OnKey* Events

mamanze — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 17:40:20 GMT

This has frustrated me to no end. Why does Mozilla not fire my onkey* event handlers on a div? IE does it, Mozilla ignores me. Searched and searched, no hits. Finally I came up with this link: http://www.xulplanet.com/references/elemref/ref_EventHandlers.html...(read more)

WMP Silliness

mamanze — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:24:09 GMT

Ok, what's up with this? I have my task bar on the right side. WMP, when docked to the task bar does this: Why is it vertical? Is it because it might not fit horizontally? Nope. Seriously, did someone test this feature? At least the buttons are all oriented...(read more)

Silverlight: When Single is not enough

mamanze — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 21:14:00 GMT

As stated here : Numeric Values Stored as Single-Precision Values Silverlight stores all numeric values internally as single-precision values. This means that if a property value is set to a higher precision value, such as a double, the property value...(read more)

Visual Studio / DevEnv Request 2

mamanze — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:20:05 GMT

While I'm at it: Toggling key strokes for windows. For example, I routinely fat finger the F4 key, which of course brings forward the properties window. I've yet to figure out a way to get rid of it without moving my hand over to the mouse. Why can't...(read more)

Visual Studio / DevEnv Request

mamanze — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:17:42 GMT

K, on all docked windows, when they are in the auto hide mode, please put a button on there to hide immediately. It is one of the most frustrating things ever when you pull it open, do something with it, go back to your doc and then stare at it, willing...(read more)

NTS: Stop Debugging != Detach

mamanze — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 05:40:46 GMT

I often make the mistake of typing without really paying attention. Simple things like attaching to Cassini: ALT D P W ENTER I don't even think about it anymore. Then, when I need to make a change I hit Shift + F5 to stop the debugger. For Cassini this...(read more)

Infuriating redundancy

mamanze — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:27:47 GMT

Alright, I realize that nobody will read this but I'm quite annoyed and need to spout again. In my ever evolving quest for information, I've subscribed to a lot of RSS/Atom feeds. I have about 50 feeds that get pulled every couple minutes (Outlook does...(read more)