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KronoS

19:00

whoa... Siri and Bing?

Ben Richards

Huh?

@KronoS Not watching it. What?

Just asked my coworker. You can use Bing with Siri now? Neat endorsement.

Though I wonder how much of that is Apple trying to not rely on Google solely for anything anymore.

KronoS

@BenRichards Siri now has integrated Bing searches

Ben Richards

Neat

allquixotic

19:17

Bing is a useful "second opinion" if Google doesn't slam-dunk whatever I'm trying to find -- but 99% of the time I find Google's results to be as good or better

last week though Bing was returning no results for "Superuser"

Ben Richards

@allquixotic It's a question of preference. I'm happy with either.

allquixotic

so, it seems like they still have some bugs

Ben Richards

Who?

cpx

There appears to be no "Native SATA" enable/disable settings in BIOS on this computer.

Oliver Salzburg

19:42

@BenRichards The IE thing?

Ben Richards

@OliverSalzburg Yeah

Well, the scrollbar thing

Oliver Salzburg

That teaches us to put chat problems on the site more often ;D

Ben Richards

Haha, yeah :P

Oliver Salzburg

Right, not really specific to IE

Ben Richards

You even got a star on your question, @OliverSalzburg :P

If only I could combine Outlook message windows into a tabbed window

Windows needs Compiz. :P

Wait... is this a reference to Compiz for Windows? >.>

allquixotic

19:55

@BenRichards what do you think of the big news around town today?

Ben Richards

@allquixotic Yeah I know. Nuts. Still, good on him.

Aw. No dice.

It was an April Fools' joke post :P

Got my hopes up

allquixotic

@BenRichards what was?

Ben Richards

@allquixotic Compiz for Windows :P

That would be awesome if it came to be :P

allquixotic

it'd also be insanely hard to implement, as you'd have to reverse engineer the proprietary WDDM interfaces (or use an NDA licensed document from graphics driver developers) and build it on top of that

and then convince Windows to stop using dwm.exe and the Windows shell that sits on top of it, and use something else instead

Ben Richards

I'm sure it's doable. Stardock has been hooking into the WDDM for a while, I believe.

allquixotic

20:02

@BenRichards WindowBlinds 8 (for Windows 8) is out! (in beta)

Ben Richards

@allquixotic Really? :O

Must try that out!

allquixotic

figured you would like to hear that; surprised you hadn't already... I got the email

haven't personally tried it just yet but I expect it to be about as flexible as it was before, maybe with new cool options like injecting different shaders for minimize/maximize animations? :D

Ben Richards

Aha neat

Oh, WindowFX supports that stuff already :P

allquixotic

o_O

cool

Ben Richards

I just installed the demo of WindowFX5

WindowFX is like Compiz but doesn't have tabbing :(

allquixotic

20:05

tabbing?

Ben Richards

As in being able to combine multiple windows into a single window with tabs.

Didn't use it much in Compiz but it could do it.

allquixotic

you can do that? oh, right, compiz

window virtualization of sorts? each tab thinks it has its own window, i guess it'd have a HWND

it would probably have a true toplevel window offscreen that gets its contents blitted into the tab :P

Ben Richards

Something or other

allquixotic

you might be able to add that functionality on top of windowfx even

hook user32!CreateWindow(Ex)

Ben Richards

nods

Dangit, been doing IRC again lately. Habits!

Ben Richards

20:21

Woo, it works! I'm a fan of this :)

I'll wait for it to come out of beta though :p

allquixotic

20:43

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Daniel Beck

@KronoS Doesn't Android have great compatibility libs that add new functionality to older releases?

... so that users don't really have to upgrade to get shiny new apps?

Ben Richards

21:04

@DanielBeck I always heard that Android had fragmentation woes that rivaled only Symbian's.

Daniel Beck

@BenRichards Device capabilities, screen sizes, etc. are probably a huge PITA for developers, but I thought OS version issues alone weren't so bad due to the libs.

Ben Richards

@DanielBeck I've heard of API differences (at least in Symbian). I just thought Android was similar. Different hardware platform = different API?

Daniel Beck

21:17

@BenRichards Not that I know of, except for regular device capabilities (keyboard y/n, resolution). I work with occasional Android devs and they're pretty happy.

Ben Richards

Aha

Daniel Beck

This is the compatibility lib I mentioned above: developer.android.com/tools/extras/support-library.html

Luke

Gotta love the review audits... Just got one I took care of already: superuser.com/review/first-posts/118856

Oliver Salzburg

21:33

@Luke Approve + upvote!

...as always

KronoS

@DanielBeck things may have improved, but I read an article a year ago? that was from a more major app dev team... the said that they had supported several hundred android enabled devices

and yet their major complaint was that they had was incompatibility with user's devices

having to test for several hundred devices is an extreme waste of time

Luke

@OliverSalzburg I can't wait to hit 10K, I want to see a lot of the deleted posts you guys go through

Ben Richards

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Q: What should I use to keep tabs on a database?

I am in the process of building a web application that will be running on my raspberry pi. It will basically be an application where you can schedule a certain program (I've written it in python) to be run at any time(s) that you enter. Building the web interface is not a problem, I have experien...