How Would You Have Reacted...

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:38:35 GMT

... if C|Net tells you Microsoft to work with Eclipse on Java?

Well, Ted Neward is setting us an example:

Ted Neward: My first reaction has to be characterized as... WTF?!?
My second reaction has to be characterized as... WTF?!?

There's some serious credulity issues here. Not credibility, mind you, because I believe the reporter is entirely accurate in this story, but credulity. As in, "That's incredulous!", which is another way of saying...

WTF?!?

Ted went on to remind us how Sun and Microsoft fought over J++, and how J++ had delegates way back when, and how C# 3.0 has lambda expressions which are a natural outgrowth of delegates, and how Java people is still longing for something similar called closures.

I think the real story is not as incendiary. Microsoft is helping Eclipse with porting SWT from Win32 to WFP, just like they would help any other Win32 application to port to WFP. It's not a big deal.

If you are a little bit curiouser, you would do a Google search on the Eclipse guy's name that was mentioned. I did. And what did I find?

See, things aren't always what the press-releases make you to believe. You see, SWT relies more on the underlying system, and the underlying system is going out of their ways to help SWT. Good for SWT. (And Microsoft, and Apple! Where is Gtk+? Red Hat, Novell, Sun (a big GNOME backer), are you listening?)

Weird Windows XP Pro Problem

Fri, 25 May 2007 20:42:00 GMT

I've been having some stability problems with the work PC. It's been going on since Monday. Brian and Dale both saw the problem. But until three minutes ago, I thought I was the only one having the problem.

I was chatting with Kevin in the hallway when Chuck walked by.

Kevin: Chuck. I'm having some PC problems.
Chuck: Funny you should mention it. I'm having some problems too.
Kevin: Something-something-host is crashing.
Me: svchost. I'm having the same problem.
Kevin: My PC has been crashing twice a day.
Me: Mine too. It's been crashing at least twice a day since Monday.
Chuck: I have the same problem. It seems to have started Monday.
Kevin: Early when it crashed, it allowed me to start Visual Studio to debug the thing. Now it simply crashes the machine.
Me: I debugged into it. It's an illegal access error.
Kevin: Did you patch the binary and make a new release?
Chuck: I don't know what it is.
Kevin: There was a Windows Update this week. But it doesn't seem to fix this problem.
Chuck: The update came in mid-week. So it couldn't have been the cause of all the problems.
Me: Shortly after I clicked on the "Do not Send" button in the crash dialog box, my Explorer.EXE process seems to freeze.
Kevin: I can still use the programs that are already started. But I can't start any new programs.
Me: Wow. I'm glad to know that I'm not the only one having this problem. I thought I had a hardware problem.
Kevin: It's so weird. It turned all the windows into Windows 95 style at one time.
Me: Yeah, yeah, mine too.

It could be a secret Microsoft ploy to get us to buy Vista.

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How Would You Have Reacted...

Weird Windows XP Pro Problem