Massive Sharepoint Bug

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:05:10 GMT

Over the past couple of days it has come to my attention that there is a huge bug in Sharepoint and I'm quite surprised that this hasn't been reported on more.

The bug only occurs in the latest versions of browsers (Firefox 3.0.1, Safari 9.52 etc.). If it was just one browser e.g. Firefox then you could possibly say that it's a Firefox bug but since it happens with all latest browsers (the only one that works is IE8 Beta 2), then it looks like it's a Sharepoint bug, possibly being non-standard.

The bug occurs when you are trying to look up a name from Active Directory. When you click on the little open book icon, which opens the popup Active Directory window, immediately the opening page gets a Javascript error and the Active Directory window will not function correctly.

This is a serious enough bug, in my opinion, that Microsoft should be working on producing a patch for immediately. It has already affected the Sharepoint deployment that we have here at my place of work.

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Cyberlink PowerDVD 8 is here

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:22:48 GMT

I must admit that I've been a big fan of Cyberlink's PowerDVD player for years now. Most people get their introduction to it through a stripped down version that comes free with some computers. I've been using PowerDVD as my main DVD player since version 3 and watched it grow over the years supporting more and more formats. Yesterday Cyberlink announced the release of their latest version of PowerDVD, version 8. Just take a look at the screen shot above to see all that is now supported with the latest release.

Some people will ask, why do I need a separate movie player when Windows already comes with WMP? The answer to that lies in how you wish to watch your movies and what technologies it uses. WMP for example doesn't support Dolby digital, cannot play Blue Ray movies etc. where as with PowerDVD, it's like you're sitting in your own theatre (with the appropriate equipment of course).

However Cyberlink's PowerDVD isn't just for playing your DVDs as it supports a number of different formats, AVI, DivX and Xvid to name a few. Both picture quality and sound quality are superb as you would expect. PowerDVD uses hardware acceleration when it can to give you smooth flowing videos without interruption.

One thing however is when trying to connect to an external device I had plugged in (Archos 605 media player) through USB, PowerDVD crashed when I tried to list my UPnP devices :-

This wasn't very encouraging for a newly released piece of software and something I'll need to dig into more. PowerDVD offers you a great number of features and is very customizable including skinning if you don't like the default move player look (see above).

I'll be taking a look at all these features and more in an upcoming review. In the meantime, please check this out. A trial version is available for download from Cyberlink

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