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Video - Neal Gafter shows off LINQ to the 'other side'

felix9 — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:33:42 GMT

the videos from JVM language summit is online,

http://java.about.com/b/2010/09/01/jvm-language-summit-sessions-online.htm

there are many interesting stuff like

http://medianetwork.oracle.com/media/updateMedia/15487?n=playlist&nid=1

http://medianetwork.oracle.com/media/updateMedia/15488?n=playlist&nid=1

and among them, 'our' Neal Gafter was talking about LINQ, no new stuff for us to hear but interesting still, since he was and still is an important figure in 'the other side' of the world (or 'the other evil empire' maybe ??), and often explain things by comparing or refering to the jvm counterpart .

but overall it looks like JVM is evolving towards a multilanguage vm,

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Towards-a-Universal-VM

so what happened to this slogan ??

Windows 7 update

rjdohnert — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:25:16 GMT

Well guys, the copy that I bought online had been sent back to MS. I figured what they would send me was Windows 7 Home Premium or even Home Basic. They sent me a copy of Windows 7 ultimate. Was hugely surprised at that. Thank you MS.

What's the dual of the universe?

Charles — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:41:11 GMT

Thanks to the great Erik Meijer, especially, and Brian Beckman, we have learned a great deal about duality here on Channel 9. What's the dual of a universe, which can be defined as an infinite collection of matter and energy derived from a single source?

Windows Phone 7 – Released To Manufacturing

kitron — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:29:31 GMT

http://windowsteamblog.com/Windows_Phone/b/windowsphone/

it seems that they also added an option to filter your facebook friends so that they won't all show up in your contacts list.

The new Apple TV

CKurt — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:14:52 GMT

http://www.apple.com/appletv/

A summary:

99 dollars for the hardware
HD playback (720p probably) - Ethernet Plug - 802.11n - Optical audio out
Rent TV shows 99 cents in HD (only Fox and ABC right now)
Netflix integration
YouTube integration
'AirTunes' is the PlayTo from the iPad to the AppleTV (not the other way arround)

What do you think? Seems like a decent product, with very good content. I don't know if it can top the the US Zune Video Marketplace. But it does seem very good it's working with DOLLARS instead of MICROSOFT POINTS.

Microsoft needs to up there game:

More content in European Countries (launch worldwide with PH7 please!)
Say the price on the Xbox Zune Marketplace (not the number of microsoft points)
Integrate YouTube
Movie Rentals in the Zune Desktop Client ?
PROMOTE IT (commercials , billboards, get ZUNE out there)

What did I miss ?

Apple's definition of Streaming

CKurt — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:35:23 GMT

For the first time ever Apple will stream a keynote live over the internet! http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/1009qpeijrfn/event

Well over there part of the internet. You need to be on Mac OS X Snow Leopard and on Safari 4 or 5. What gives? This is a new low of trying to keep poeple in the ecosystem.

Are they afraid there experience might not be good enough if everyone tunes in? Microsoft is streaming all the PCD10 keynotes and sessions over the internet. Apple is streaming to one piece of the internet for about 1hour.

Microsoft eReader

Gio — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:12:18 GMT

I almost forgot it existed until I landed by coincidence on the Microsoft eReader page. To me, it seems that the page is well updated and alive even though the client is a little old (dates of 2005). Microsoft was among the pioneers of eBooks, but it seems to me that it losts interest. How is it possible that it is leaving this new market in the hand of Linux based devices?

Browse SSAS Cubes from your iPhone

Jeff — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:01:30 GMT

Does the world want an iPhone app that allows you to connect, browse and pivot SSAS cube data? What features would that app have? Is there existing apps that are close? Looking for others thoughts on this concept. Thanks in advance!

Wp7 C9 App.

Go Microsoft !!!!!!! — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:03:22 GMT

Windows Phone 7 Channel9 Application

VS LightSwitch and MySQL

CKurt — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:52:20 GMT

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/5.2.html#downloads

Has anybody tried to use Visual Studio LightSwitch to connect to MySQL databases ? I'm trying to get it to work to do some basic CRUD operations via een simple GUI, but the connector does not show up. They do say it should be possible.

Channel 9 NSFW

Juan Manuel Zamudio Lujan — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:03:41 GMT

I know this social stuff its the new cool but please can we have a site that is more Enterprise friendly?, at my work Facebook, twitter and all that stuff are blocked and its a pain to download any video.

The browser (Firefox and IE) get stuck in api.facebook or twitmeme.com and I have to hit reload like 20 times to see the download links (I can't watch it online).

I know a second page with no social stuff is too much to ask but at least can you put the social stuff at the end of the page so the important stuff gets rendered first?

Thanks.

Orange take on Skype

Gio — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:35:23 GMT

I have never seen anything like this before: a regular telecom company (Orange France in this case) offering a Skype like solution for its users: instead of a DSL plus TV plus VOIP on a phone, they have an offer with DSL, TV on your PC and VOIP on your PC only (link). I know this is not a revolution per se, but it is interesting that big phone companies are starting to think in this direction.

One thing that surprises me is that Microsoft has been toying with VOIP for some time on Messenger but it hasn't managed to get the thing to work with any of its partners (Orange as been one in France in the past and I remember Verizon has been one for the States).

When will SQL Server get CUDA-assisted perf?

W3bbo — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 21:11:29 GMT

Apparently some folks managed to get a billion 32-bit keys sorted in under a second using a GTX280. I can imagine how you could get that working with SQL Server which does a lot of sorting (amongst other things, heh).

Will we see GPU-accelerated SQL Server anytime soon, or will we see the FOSS guys implement it first, then IBM/Oracle, before Microsoft finally gets round to it some 10 years later? </obligJab>

Some Vista Printers - Missing Windows-7 Drivers

Steve Hathaway — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 07:06:20 GMT

Should printer drivers for Vista be compatible with Windows 7?

I have an old HP printer that is/was used with Windows (98, ME, XP, Vista) and Linux, but now there are no drivers for use on Windows-7 Ultimate. What gives? The printer is still good!

Why are not the printer drivers supported by Vista not available to Windows-7?

I understand that NT-based platform drivers for (XP, 2000, and 2003) would not be supported on Longhorn platforms (including Vista, 2008, and Windows-7). But I don't understand why Vista supported drivers are not automatically included in Windows-7!

Sincerely,

Steve

MOSS 2007 Developer - Contract Leeds, UK

rahsoftware — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 19:14:04 GMT

Hi All,

Its being a while since I posted in here, I am just wondering if their are any MOSS 2007 Developers who are available in September. We are located in Leeds, UK and looking for a very experienced SharePoint developer who has commercial experience in developing and customising SharePoint 2007.

If this is of interest to anyone or interest to any of your peers please let me know, interview available immediatley.

Thanks

Oracle vs Google: The saga continues

Bass — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 16:58:12 GMT

http://infoworld.com/d/the-industry-standard/google-backs-out-javaone-conference-591

Google backs out of the popular JavaOne conference, after being a major participant for six years.

Google's pulling out of JavaOne indicates it and Oracle are not making much progress in their dispute, said IDC analyst Al Hilwa. He cited a possibility of fragmentation for Java: "It signals more serious rifts and risks for fragmenting Java. I wouldn't be surprised to see Google rebrand the Java-like language it uses for Android and stop trying to make it conform to Java at some point."

Notice the deja-vu? Isn't that exactly what Microsoft did 10 years ago?

Meanwhile, I think Redmond is the real winner here. They are probably enjoying seeing two of their most bitter competitors duke it out, but they aren't doing it from the sidelines. They even went as far to say that they wouldn't sue if .NET somehow appeared on Android. Is that a hint to Google, or perhaps a way to look more open then Java?

Regardless, if Google does decide to switch to .NET (IMO, highly unlikely), or roll their own framework, the real loser will be Java, and maybe even Oracle.

I really think Oracle has no leverge here: Java isn't the "compelling" feature of Android. It's quite obvious to me at least that if Google would have known Oracle would throw a fit about Android, they'd simply avoid using Java in the first place - and Android would have been as successful (or even more successful) without it. They even have their own JITing VM and core libraries. Language design isn't outside of Google's expertise, they count the designers of C and Python as employees ffs.

So good luck with the injunction Oracle.

Messenger Wave 4 runaway CPU usage

Sven Groot — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 04:22:48 GMT

Yesterday, I noticed the Live Messenger wave 4 beta was using 100% CPU out of the blue. So I closed it down, and re-opened it. However, this didn't solve the problem. Restarting the PC didn't either.

I now have the following situation:

1. Logging in to the messenger service takes several minutes during which high CPU usage is observed.

2. The expanded view shows constant 100% CPU usage; compact view does not.

I removed the Facebook connection from Windows Live, which seems to have fixed issue 2 but not issue 1. I've also removed various local Messenger data folders so it could rebuild them, but that didn't help either.

Any idea what could be going on?

I think my printer has being "virus activated"

magicalclick — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 01:28:15 GMT

Just to be clear, hardware virus happens, so yeah.

Anyway, my printer as of yesterday going insane after I turn it off. It didn't turn off and starts to flash led all over. It is all-in-one, so it has many leds. And I unplug power and replug it. After that, my printer is unable to finish inistializing. The scanner keep having this weird sound.

Ok, how to fix this? I have to unplug it for at least 5 mintnues and plug it back. It will work and my scanner is completely fine. If I ever turn it off and turn it back on? It will do those crazing sound again. The only way to fix this is to unplug it for at least 5 minutes. I presume that the internal data will be lost once I unplug it long enough.

So far, I just keep it on and never turn off. Unless I unplug it without turning it off. I believe there is somekind of hardware virus embeded in my printer. I am not going to disclose the printer brand ofc. But, anyone have similar experience recently?

Windows Live Mesh -> Sync -> Mesh

DCMonkey — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:51:30 GMT

Hey look, another name change.

Supposedly the change is because it can do more than just sync files and folders, even though the only thing it does besides sync files and folders is provide remote desktop, which could have easily been presented as a separate app (ie: Windows Live Remote Desktop).

Stack Exchange - CS Theory

Charles — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:51:23 GMT

Interesting: http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/

Phone security

vesuvius — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:47:18 GMT

I have an android phone, that now contains all my email accounts (3 of them), one of which I think has been hacked into, and personal detail stolen. I am trying to piece together how this has happened, but am curious to know how secure an always connected phone is?

If I enable wireless connectivity to open networks, what are the chances someone can hack into my phone, possibly steal my passwords?

What's going on with Media Center?

magicalclick — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:18:30 GMT

Anyone know what happen to my Media Center? I used to watch movie trailers and there are tons of other channels on it. But now, I got none. What's going on?

Windows Phone 7 audio performance (latency, efficency etc...)

dentaku — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:43:01 GMT

It's great that WinPhone 7 can do all kinds of nice LOOKING stuff

for example

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSpA0PCddQg

What about audio apps?

How different is the audio technology in Windows Phone 7 from the plain old high (slow) latency Direct Sound/MME stuff we used to have in XP?

OR how similar is it to the nice low latency WASAPI/WDM Kernel Streaming stuff we now have in Vista/Win7 that unfortunately doesn't get used as much as it should because we already have ASIO that works fine?

If you look at Keyboard Magazine or Electronic Musician etc. they take iPhone/Pad music apps very seriously. Musicians now use software instruments just like they used to use hardware and having it on a mobile device is obviously perfect for them.

I hope to see many different midi controllers and music production apps on WinPhone 7 devices. Music might seem like a small segment of the market compared to games but face it, musicians and even DJs are far more influential when it comes to promoting new products than gamers :)

Midi/OSC controller apps don't actually make any sound so they're really more dependent on the speed of the phone's processor but stuff like the Rebirth or Electribe apps rely on the OS being able to create sound with very little latency

for example

http://rebirthapp.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeVx5PQERKE

Notice I'm not talking about audio QUALITY. Any phone can sound good but not all phones and mobile OSes are well suited to creating audio on the fly fast enough to be used as a musical instrument.

Disabled programmers need help finding a code editor

ironsides35 — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:04:00 GMT

Hi everyone,

I'm new to programming, I am also disabled. I broke my neck 18 years ago and am trying to learn programming. It is very difficult to write code when you can't use your hands. I use Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 preferred to write this, and it is a great tool for the disabled, but it is very limited when it comes to writing code. I've tried using Windows 7 voice recognition in Visual Studio, what a bad idea that was! It doesn't even understand IDE interface and writing any code with it is totally impossible. I heard some genius tried to make an add-on for Visual Studio to enable voice recognition in C. sharp, but I never heard anything else about it. So I was wondering if anyone out there could suggest a code editor that works well with voice recognition or perhaps teach me how to integrate voice-recognition into an editor of my own creation. By the way usually I write code using what's called a mouth stick, and that is just what it sounds like a stick you hold in your mouth. It is a very inefficient and painful way to do anything. So if you could please drop a suggestion or two it would be very appreciated thanks.

Ironsides 35

Copy data from Excel to Database

Ganesh Shelar — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:21:21 GMT

Hello All,

I don't know, is this the right place to ask this question.

I want to do following thing:

1. Open excel sheet.

2. Copy all data using ctrl+c option. So now data is in clipboard.

I have web application, in which on upload data form, I have a grid & some button(copy,paste, etc.)

3. If I select grid & click on Paste button then it should copy all data to grid & in background to database also.

Can sharepoint or other tool supports this?Or we have to write code for it?