For the past two years, we’ve been diligently working to bring up a sort of
“technical home page” for Windows driver writers. We think we’re finally
done, and we’re going to officially announce it at WinHEC.
http://www.osronline.com
What’s available at this site?
- Every issue of The NT Insider on-line (articles are posted in “real time”,
before the issue is mailed). You can even leave comments on the articles or
ask questions.
- Hector’s memos – Quick takes and breaking news that’ll help you avoid
problems
- The Online DDK – Not only can you search and read the DDK, but you can
leave comments on a particular page, and read comments posted by others.
This approach has been very successful in the open source community, and
we’re glad to be able to bring it to the Windows DDK.
- Jobs Exchange – A place for companies to post job opportunities, and for
Windows system software professionals seeking greener pastures to post
resumes.
- All OSR’s cool utilities for downloading in one, easy to find, place.
Not to mention, tech stock quotes and the latest tech news.
Check it out, and let us know what you think.
Peter
OSR
Peter,
nice site at first look. It is great to have NT Insider articles on line
(usually, when I need one at work, it is at home and vice versa :). The only
problem is it doesn’t work well in Mozilla. No problem if DDK on line is
MSIE only but why other pages? I prefer to not use MSIE for security reasons
(and prefer to not play Russian Roulette, too). I’d like to know if I’m only
one who sees it as a problem; that’s why I post it to the list. If not, I
guess your site deserves exception and I’ll use MSIE.
Thanks.
Best regards,
Michal Vodicka
STMicroelectronics Design and Application s.r.o.
[michal.vodicka@st.com, http:://www.st.com]
From: xxxxx@osr.com[SMTP:xxxxx@osr.com]
Reply To: xxxxx@lists.osr.com
Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2003 4:01 AM
To: xxxxx@lists.osr.com
Subject: [ntdev] Introducing: OSR Online
For the past two years, we’ve been diligently working to bring up a sort
of
“technical home page” for Windows driver writers. We think we’re finally
done, and we’re going to officially announce it at WinHEC.
http://www.osronline.com
What’s available at this site?
- Every issue of The NT Insider on-line (articles are posted in “real
time”,
before the issue is mailed). You can even leave comments on the articles
or
ask questions.
- Hector’s memos – Quick takes and breaking news that’ll help you avoid
problems
- The Online DDK – Not only can you search and read the DDK, but you can
leave comments on a particular page, and read comments posted by others.
This approach has been very successful in the open source community, and
we’re glad to be able to bring it to the Windows DDK.
- Jobs Exchange – A place for companies to post job opportunities, and
for
Windows system software professionals seeking greener pastures to post
resumes.
- All OSR’s cool utilities for downloading in one, easy to find, place.
Not to mention, tech stock quotes and the latest tech news.
Check it out, and let us know what you think.
Peter
OSR
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Simply Great :-)…
Subodh
----- Original Message -----
From: “Peter Viscarola”
Newsgroups: ntdev
To: “NT Developers Interest List”
Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2003 7:31 AM
Subject: [ntdev] Introducing: OSR Online
> For the past two years, we’ve been diligently working to bring up a sort
of
> “technical home page” for Windows driver writers. We think we’re finally
> done, and we’re going to officially announce it at WinHEC.
>
> http://www.osronline.com
>
> What’s available at this site?
>
> - Every issue of The NT Insider on-line (articles are posted in “real
time”,
> before the issue is mailed). You can even leave comments on the articles
or
> ask questions.
> - Hector’s memos – Quick takes and breaking news that’ll help you avoid
> problems
> - The Online DDK – Not only can you search and read the DDK, but you can
> leave comments on a particular page, and read comments posted by others.
> This approach has been very successful in the open source community, and
> we’re glad to be able to bring it to the Windows DDK.
> - Jobs Exchange – A place for companies to post job opportunities, and
for
> Windows system software professionals seeking greener pastures to post
> resumes.
> - All OSR’s cool utilities for downloading in one, easy to find, place.
>
> Not to mention, tech stock quotes and the latest tech news.
>
> Check it out, and let us know what you think.
>
> Peter
> OSR
>
>
>
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I like the style of the home page but the blue on purply blue of the
contents list makes it the devil’s own trouble to read!
Cheers
Don Sharp
Peter Viscarola wrote:
For the past two years, we’ve been diligently working to bring up a sort of
“technical home page” for Windows driver writers. We think we’re finally
done, and we’re going to officially announce it at WinHEC.
http://www.osronline.com
What’s available at this site?
- Every issue of The NT Insider on-line (articles are posted in “real time”,
before the issue is mailed). You can even leave comments on the articles or
ask questions.
- Hector’s memos – Quick takes and breaking news that’ll help you avoid
problems
- The Online DDK – Not only can you search and read the DDK, but you can
leave comments on a particular page, and read comments posted by others.
This approach has been very successful in the open source community, and
we’re glad to be able to bring it to the Windows DDK.
- Jobs Exchange – A place for companies to post job opportunities, and for
Windows system software professionals seeking greener pastures to post
resumes.
- All OSR’s cool utilities for downloading in one, easy to find, place.
Not to mention, tech stock quotes and the latest tech news.
Check it out, and let us know what you think.
Peter
OSR
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Thanks for the feedback… We’ve had some trouble with the CSS;
I see WHITE on purply blue. Are you seeing the links “about this site”,
“The NT Insider”, etc. in BLUE?
(we can take this offline)
p
“Don Sharp” wrote in message news:xxxxx@ntdev…
>
>
> I like the style of the home page but the blue on purply blue of the
> contents list makes it the devil’s own trouble to read!
>
> Cheers
>
> Don Sharp
>
“Michal Vodicka” wrote in message
news:xxxxx@ntdev…
> The only
> problem is it doesn’t work well in Mozilla. No problem if DDK on line is
> MSIE only but why other pages?
>
I didn’t even know there WAS a Mozilla anymore.
I just tried it, and except for a differing interpretation over style sheets
(resulting in links having the wrong color), and some other strange ordering
things, the site seems to work pretty well in Mozilla. I was impressed that
Mozilla apparently understands several “IE-only” window attributes). We’ll
look at the color problem (I can see that it’s REALLY annoying).
The Online DDK uses some window and document properties that are IE
specific. I’ve changed the pop-up to just warn you, instead of blocking all
access. At least that way you can use the full-text search of the DDK. And
I’ll try to see if I can’t get the user comments window to pop up under
Mozilla (they SORT of work under Opera, but you have to constantly click the
“toggle user comments” box – twice – to get them to show up.
p
On Sat, 2003-05-03 at 09:42, Peter Viscarola wrote:
“Michal Vodicka” wrote in message
> news:xxxxx@ntdev…
> > The only
> > problem is it doesn’t work well in Mozilla. No problem if DDK on line is
> > MSIE only but why other pages?
> >
I second this; most of our developers use mozilla. That said, it looks
fine to me (Mozilla 1.3 for Linux).
Great site; thanks.
-sd
From the NT Insider registration process: Do you listen to national
public radio?
I like NPR as much as the next person, but what’s the point?
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Another oddity in (re)registering for NT Insider: The Web page doesn’t
accept 9-digit zip codes with an imbedded dash (even though my latest NT
Insider shows my 9-digit zip with dash).
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I’m glad you were thoughtful enough to provide a printer-ready button in
artciles so that one can print something that prints cleanly, without
truncation on the right. I for one insist on reading long pieces of
information on paper. Now if only MS would do the same (for example,
when I print KB 320275 from IE 6, I get truncation).
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James Antognini
Hello Peter,
Saturday, May 03, 2003, 4:01:25 AM, you wrote:
why i have to sign to view the NT insider articles? i mean, if you
have (finally) put your ntinsider articles on the web (i mean the new
ones) and will update it, you still want people to register to recieve
it via snail mail. i’m not against it, it’s nice, but pls think about
it this way too:
there are some people on the world, who doesn’t want/can’t pay
$<i_don> for snail mail. i will give you all the
info you want i don’t care, but yet, i can’t afford to give out money
for the snail mail (still you say, it’s for free).
pls think about it
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Best regards,
Ivona Prenosilova</i_don>
People… Send this sort of thing to me offline, or send it to
xxxxx@osr.com.
I want to hear the feedback, but I’d prefer not to junk up this technical
forum with talk about our web page formats and the content of our
registration form.
To you questions:
“James Antognini” wrote in message
news:xxxxx@ntdev…
>
> From the NT Insider registration process: Do you listen to national
> public radio?
>
> I like NPR as much as the next person, but what’s the point?
>
Marketing wanted it. It went in. Nuf said?
(FYI: OSR is a long-standing NPR underwriter in Boston, SFO, and Seattle)
> Another oddity in (re)registering for NT Insider: The Web page doesn’t
> accept 9-digit zip codes with an imbedded dash (even though my latest
> NT Insider shows my 9-digit zip with dash).
Yeah, this’ll have to get fixed, eventually.
Peter
OSR
“ivona prenosilova” wrote in message news:xxxxx@ntdev…
>
>
> there are some people on the world, who doesn’t want/can’t pay
> $<i_don> for snail mail. i will give you all the
> info you want i don’t care, but yet, i can’t afford to give out money
> for the snail mail (still you say, it’s for free).
>
That’s the point. It’s free. We’re not asking for any money.
But we like sending out the hardcopies, and we like knowing who our readers
are, what they do, and where they’re located geographically.
That’s how we know, for example, that there are about 20K subscribes –
About 50% in the US and Canada.
And, no. We don’t sell our mailing list (and we’ve never done so, all
these years).
Peter
OSR</i_don>
“Michal Vodicka” wrote in message
news:xxxxx@ntdev…
> > > > The only
> > > > problem is it doesn’t work well in Mozilla. No problem if DDK on
line
> > is
> > > > MSIE only but why other pages?
> > > >
> >
> > I second this; most of our developers use mozilla. That said, it looks
> > fine to me (Mozilla 1.3 for Linux).
> >
I didn’t even know there was a Mozilla until you mentioned it, Michal. I
spent a couple of hours on Saturday downloading it and checking the site
out. I fixed some of the style-sheet compatibility problems… There are a
few more to work out.
I also changed the “alert” in The Online DDK to just warn you if you’re not
using IE instead of blocking all access. Mozilla doesn’t seem to work at
all. Which is strange, because Opera almost works. I’ll put that on the
list of things to fix as well.
Peter
OSR
Hi, Peter,
I second the call to support Mozilla. It’s the choice web browser for Linux.
BTW, great site ! I love it.
Alberto.
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Viscarola [mailto:xxxxx@osr.com]
Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 11:10 PM
To: NT Developers Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] Re: Introducing: OSR Online
“Michal Vodicka” wrote in message
news:xxxxx@ntdev…
> > > > The only
> > > > problem is it doesn’t work well in Mozilla. No problem if DDK on
line
> > is
> > > > MSIE only but why other pages?
> > > >
> >
> > I second this; most of our developers use mozilla. That said, it looks
> > fine to me (Mozilla 1.3 for Linux).
> >
I didn’t even know there was a Mozilla until you mentioned it, Michal. I
spent a couple of hours on Saturday downloading it and checking the site
out. I fixed some of the style-sheet compatibility problems… There are a
few more to work out.
I also changed the “alert” in The Online DDK to just warn you if you’re not
using IE instead of blocking all access. Mozilla doesn’t seem to work at
all. Which is strange, because Opera almost works. I’ll put that on the
list of things to fix as well.
Peter
OSR
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“Moreira, Alberto” wrote in message
news:xxxxx@ntdev…
>
> Hi, Peter,
>
> I second the call to support Mozilla. It’s the choice web browser for
Linux.
>
Sounds to me like a good reason to make sure it DOESN’T work on the site 
(nah, seriously: I think we’ll be able to get it to work – It’s just a
matter of prioritization)
> BTW, great site ! I love it.
>
Thanks Alberto.
Peter
OSR
> I second the call to support Mozilla. It’s the choice web browser for
Linux.
xxxxx@sneakemail.com said:
Sounds to me like a good reason to make sure it DOESN’T work on the
site (nah, seriously: I think we’ll be able to get it to work –
It’s just a matter of prioritization)
(After recovering from a near heart-attack, I’m going to assume
that you really *do* want to hear about incompatibilities.)
The page seems to work in general with mozilla 1.0 on my Linux/alpha.
It did make a rude comment when I clicked on “The Online DDK”,
then proceeded to open a window and not work anymore.
The address for web page support somewhere on the front page would
be nice.
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