http://www.notimplementedexception.com .net/mono - c#/vb.net - windows/ubuntu Thu, 29 May 2008 15:32:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I find that often when it comes to UAC (User Account Control) prompts in Windows Visa some of these prompts are confusing. On occasions I've been fooled into acepting a UAC prompt that I really didn't want to - and other times I've been completely baffled by what I'm being ... http://www.notimplementedexception.com/2008/04/11/interesting-uac-prompts/ There's little more exciting than a new operating system relase... or that's certainly true when you're invited to Microsoft campus / Apple HQ to whoop and hollar at the appropiate points. Some operating system releases have to forego the high-budget, extravegant global launch event on account of the way in ... http://www.notimplementedexception.com/2008/04/06/ubuntu-804-will-users-be-installing/ Any work you have to do to collate infomation destined for a log is wasted effort if that logging is switched off or otherwise configured such that your log message will never be output. This inevitably leads to code along the following lines: if (loggingEnabled) { int messageLength = message.GetLength(); ... http://www.notimplementedexception.com/2008/03/28/using-in-line-delegates-for-logging/ I've been banging my head against the desk for months with sound / mouse / video stutters in Vista (x64) Ultimate Edition that would come and go. The cause and solution astounded me - so I thought I would post them here. I have an MSI P35 Platinum motherboard with ... http://www.notimplementedexception.com/2008/03/07/troubleshooting-stutters-on-windows-vista/ I can only imagine that Steve Jobs himself has read my blog, found the reference I made to the iTunes / Vista x64 / iPod Touch combo not working, and fixed it in iTunes 7.6. Hoorah! http://www.notimplementedexception.com/2008/01/26/itunes-76-with-ipod-touch-on-vista-x64/ Here's a list of the wonderful tech gifts I got for Christmas. iPod touch Bought for me by my 3yr old son. Don't ask me where he got the money. Thanks son. Jailbroken (of course). The iPod Touch is the slickest bit of hardware / software I've ever used. It all works ... http://www.notimplementedexception.com/2007/12/30/have-yourself-a-techie-little-christmas/ If you receive the following error when opening an .chm file that you've downloaded from the internet: Navigation to the webpage was cancelled. Try opening the property pages for the help file and clicking 'Unblock'. This fixes this problem for me. http://www.notimplementedexception.com/2007/12/10/problems_opening_help_files/ A few months ago I inadvertently tried to burn my friend's house down by covering his router while it was on, and leaving it all day while he and his girlfriend were at work. Apparently - when he returned home and logged in to check his mail (or whatever) ... http://www.notimplementedexception.com/2007/11/27/d-link-dsl-g624t-router-miracle/ If you run rdesktop with the -f option while running compiz fusion on Ubuntu you will find that the rdesktop session appears on all of your desktops like this: Indeed - no matter which desktop you switch to, you will be presented with your remote desktop session. The solution to this problem ... http://www.notimplementedexception.com/2007/11/14/rdesktop-f-on-compiz-fusion/ By exporting your font and color settings from Viual Studio to a .vssettings file, you can create 'themes' for visual studio. Quite nice if you miss that old Borland Turbo C++ editor. I've created a page of themes here. http://www.notimplementedexception.com/2007/11/13/visual-studio-themes/