I was excited to learn that the new SPOT watches are now available. From what I’ve read, the SPOT watches are the first iteration of a new technology that is sent to you personalized (assuming you’re in one of the United States’ 100...
The northwest has been having some real cold spells...of all days, I had a fingerprinting appointment with the INS today here in the Burien office. Now, they do not have a phone number listed anywhere. The appointment letter says if you do not show up...
So, it's time to move RedHat from my VMware to our new VPC solution.. Im pulling from the ISO's, on the same drive, estimated duration is 3 hours and 06 minutes.. It's the full RPM all products, around 4gb....
i'm sitting in the lounge of my holiday house in Narooma, on the south coast of NSW - no phone, no cable, no broadband. But I have my XDA! First & last post while I'm OOF. Catch you all at the end of January! [posted from frankarr's xda]...
Because the copy dialog is just guessing.
It can't predict the future, but it is forced to try.
And at the very beginning of the copy,
when there is very little history to go by, the prediction can be really bad. Here's an analogy:
Suppose somebody tells...
A friend of mine, Dominic Hopton, recently joined our ranks here at Microsoft – he’ll be a test developer, just like me. Congratulations, Dom! We always need more smart testers here at MSHQ. If you need anything to help get settled in, let...
Yup, as you all may know by now, blogs.gotdotnet.com will go into the deep freeze very soon, so all new posts (there will be new posts, I promise) will be available at http://weblogs.asp.net/olegl V...
Yes, I admit it - I have been bad. I haven't posted in quite a while - although I do have quite a few ideas for the new posts. Not to get into the lame details, but lots of things have been going on in just about every area of my life which kept me quite...
Microsoft Portable Media Center (aka Media2Go) was announced at CES 2003, but this is from a current article in SeattlePI : “ The Microsoft Portable Media Center with a 40-gigabyte hard drive is expected to hold up to 175 hours of video, 10,000...
How did I miss this ride? Reading this post by Ed Almos in Slashdot this morning, I was astounded to learn SCO’s stock price has risen in the last 12 months from $1.09 to a high of $22.29 and is now sitting around $18.19. Wow. It makes a pretty...
The ice is building up in the fountains. I may bring skates to work tomorrow. :)...
Kit George is working on a guideline around versioning wrt Enums and he needs your feedback. It’s a know issue that adding values to enums is bad (from a breaking change perspective), WHEN someone is exhaustively switching over that enum. For example:...
To all my friends who love to tell me how “guns don't kill people“... A new report quoted in The Australian shows that in the last ten years, deaths from firearms have dropped in Australia by 50%. That's amazing. This stat particularly jumped...
Carter Maslan has what some could call a dream job… Wouldn’t you love to build amazing demos with current LH bits and shoot videos showing how cool LH is? Check out his latest work , I hear there are more to come every month or so… I have seen several...
I've been playing around a bit with xPlanet . It's pretty cool, but a bit hard to get working right on Windows with the right command-line switches and options for downloading cloud data, maps, etc. I've seen some Windows clients that try to wrap the...
In a past life I worked with some great folks on standardizing the Base Class Library for the ECMA CLI Standard . I was reminded of the experience today as some folks on my team prepare to update the standard with some new stuff (for example generic collections)....
SteveMakofsky is looking into making FlexWiki run on the compact framework. Wow. Does that mean that I could run it on my SmartPhone (er, my upgraded SmartPhone when I get the SmartPhone 2003 upgrade for my Mpx220; and no I don't know if there will ever...
I got the latest FlexWiki sources down so I could try out OmarShahine 's web service for FlexWiki ( FlexWikiWebService ) and the WinForms wiki client ( FlexWikiEditor ). Alas, I couldn't get it to work. Probably just a configuration issue. I'm a web services...
Totally agree w/ Scott on this one - this tablet is wonderful. Great screen, and really good power mgmt. I have noticed that if I get really aggressive w/ the power mgmt, it sometimes seems like the little bugger has locked up for a couple seconds......
Back from vacation which was pretty blog-less on my part. But now I'm back in the fray. Omri Gazitt writes about the Web Services Security Kerberos Binding that was published in December. Omri talks a bit about how you really get cross-realm Kerb interop...
I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not a bleeding edge hi-fi, home entertainment kinda guy. In fact, the only TV that has ever made me say “Ooooh” is a 60” flatscreen. I own a 27” Quasar television that interfaces...
My friend Steve has been doing some thinking around and about the convergence of the weblog and WikiWiki mediums; a medium that has become known as bliki (or wikilog). Steve thinks that a wiki might be a good place to store blog comments. Martin Fowler's...
As things wind back up again (and I try to get my head out of Hordes of the Underdark I bought myself over the holidays), a few articles that fell onto the ASP.NET Developer Center silently over the holidays: Roy Osherove's sequel to his Creating a Plug-in...
For me, the most valuable take-away from the PDC wasn't the free bag (it's starting to come to bits), the mound of advertising inside it (thrown away before I arrived at the airport), or even the geeky gadgets and toys (there's only so many pen/torch...
One
of the comments to my discussion of 16-bit calling conventions
wondered why the 8086 had so few registers . The 8086 was a 16-bit version of the even older 8080 processor,
which had six 8-bit registers, named
A, B, C, D, E, H, and L.
The registers...
... 10249 ...
