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April 2005 - Posts

Friday, April 29, 2005 7:54 PM

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

We had a "morale event" at the theater today, attending the opening of The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy . Given the review that I wrote about a while back, I wasn't expecting very much. I wanted to be wrong about what I had read, as Adams' difference
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Thursday, April 28, 2005 5:33 PM

Headphone amplifier?

Some of the CDs that I own are from the early days of CDs, the days when recording engineers were very careful not to approach the 0dB level. This was a good thing, given the level of experience at the time, but it also means that I have a number of MP3s
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Thursday, April 28, 2005 3:45 PM

You're getting very sleepy

You're getting very sleepy Requires shockwave
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Thursday, April 28, 2005 1:30 PM

TestDriven.NET...

I came across a link to TestDriven.NET today. Given that I'm not as plugged into the C# space as I used to be, I hope this is news to at least some of you. TestDriven.NET is a VS add-in that builds on top of NUnit to give you IDE integration for your
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Thursday, April 28, 2005 12:24 PM

BWM 3 series tires...

I bought some new tires for my 328i a few weeks ago. I've had lots of good luck with Michelin tires over the years, but doing some research this time showed me that the Michelins that I liked were going to be $160 per tire. That's a fair bit of money
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Tuesday, April 26, 2005 11:56 PM

Serenity the Movie

The trailer for Serenity was released today. I really enjoyed Firefly a bunch - it had a different feel than most of the other sci-fi that's made it to television, and it looks like Joss Whedon (of Buffy fame) will be able to bring the same feel to the
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Monday, April 25, 2005 5:24 PM

What's wrong with this code #6? (Discussion)

Thanks for all the comments on my recent post. I have one more that I'll do in the next couple of weeks, and after that, I'm looking for suggestions for future posts. If you have an idea for one, please email me. The answer I was looking for was related
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Friday, April 22, 2005 1:59 PM

Visual Studio Debugging Slowness - Solved

My debugger had gotten slow recently. Really slow. Slow as in the "takes 20 seconds to hit a breakpoint" slow. After conversing with some of the debugger devs, it was discovered that there was an invalid directory in the "debug source files" list. One
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Friday, April 22, 2005 10:12 AM

What's wrong with this code - #6

In this post, Eric continues his series on C# code problems. In the spirit of full disclosure, it should be noted that no llamas were harmed in the creation of this post.
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Friday, April 22, 2005 9:41 AM

IR Extenders

Barry asked me how my components worked inside of the new stereo cabinet. I started to post a comment, but decided it warranted a full post. In our old house, my old Sony receiver sat about 5' off of the floor behind glass doors. Unfortunately, if you
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Thursday, April 21, 2005 10:59 PM

Solving a problem

For quite some time, I've had a problem. You may have the same problem. It looks like this: I've had a tall and wide entertainment cabinet for quite some time. It has three drawers for CDs and videos, a space in the middle for the TV, and the room at
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Tuesday, April 19, 2005 11:06 AM

Slacker Astronomy

I've been listening to the Slacker Astronomy podcast for a few weeks now. It's really nice to have some hard science presented in an enjoyable and humorous context. Noteworthy shows: The Big Bang Rambles On ( MP3 ) If you've ever wanted to know how we
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Monday, April 18, 2005 10:35 AM

Silent Bob Speaks - An Evening with Kevin Smith

Last week, two DVDs showed up from Netflix . Because of the speed at which we've recently gone through movies, there are a number of old items in our queue, and the two DVDs I pulled out were "An evening with Kevin Smith", part I and part II. Kevin Smith,
Posted by ericgu | 2 Comments
Thursday, April 14, 2005 10:55 PM

PIC Programming Help?

I've come up with a project for next year's holiday display, and I think I might want to build 7 or 8 copies of a single microcontroller circuit. I need to use a controller that's relatively cheap, and it seems reasonable to consider the PIC. So, I'm
Posted by ericgu | 10 Comments
Thursday, April 14, 2005 1:19 PM

Deep Windows - Inside the NT Kernel with Dave Probert

I spent part of this morning watching/listening to a series of interviews with Dave Probert, an architect on the kernel team. Lots of interesting data about why Unix and NT have the structure they do and why, and lots of information about how things work
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Wednesday, April 13, 2005 1:06 PM

37 galaxies per hour

[Update: Fixed BigPhotoHelp link] A Hubble image showing some 10,000 galaxies, created from a total of 11.3 days of exposure time. I downloaded the 61 MB full-resolution JPEG , and then uploaded it to BigPhotoHelp and ordered a 24" x 24" print (for about
Posted by ericgu | 4 Comments
Wednesday, April 13, 2005 1:00 PM

Windows Media Dev Center Launches

I've spent some time working with Windows Media SDK (s) in the past, and had some trouble finding things. I'm happy to announce that there is a new Windows Media Dev Center to make that easier.
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Wednesday, April 13, 2005 11:09 AM

Who says the arts are dead for the younger generation?

Who says the arts are dead for the younger generation ? Most of these are after my time, but I did get the most obvious one.
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Monday, April 11, 2005 4:52 PM

More information on web forums

Josh Ledgard pointed me to this introductory post about the the new web forums...
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Monday, April 11, 2005 12:54 PM

Go ahead and panic...

I wrote earlier about some misgivings about the upcoming Hitchhiker's Movie. Okay, I blew one issue out of proportion. But today, I came across a review of a pre-screening of the film by MJ Simpson, author of the biography, "Hitchhiker". There's a short
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Monday, April 11, 2005 11:06 AM

Cleanliness is important

Cleanliness is important
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Friday, April 08, 2005 1:18 PM

Web Forums 1.1 now available...

Web Forums 1.1 , the new place to ask questions around Whidbey beta 2 and related technology. I hope this is a replacement for our newsgroups...
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Friday, April 08, 2005 9:45 AM

Product feedback and language design

I got an email today with a suggestion for a C# language enhancement, and I pointed the person to the MSDN Feedback Center , which is the best way to give the language team usable feedback. If a lot of people want something, it helps aggregate the feedback
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Thursday, April 07, 2005 11:17 PM

Design question

You need to design the outside of a fish. What is the first thing you do? You build a scale model.
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Thursday, April 07, 2005 11:49 AM

I need handheld advice...

My 10-year-old daughter has asked for a portable game system for her birthday, and my ignorance in that area is considerable, so I'm looking for some advice. I looked at the new Sony PSP. It's beautiful, but I think $250+ is way out of the price range,
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Thursday, April 07, 2005 11:17 AM

C# and Windows Forms Europe and Africa Tour

C# and Windows Forms Europe and Africa Tour
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Thursday, April 07, 2005 10:34 AM

Chris Flaat and Scrum

Adding an overdue link. I don't think I've linked to Chris' blog before. I worked with Chris in my early VC++ days when we were both on the VC++ QA team. Chris is a developer now, and has been writing about his experiences with SCRUM (not scrum ), and
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Wednesday, April 06, 2005 11:46 AM

Anders TechEd Preview

A short Channel 9 interview with Anders , with some ideas on what he'll be doing at TechEd. Mostly introductory stuff, but it's always good to hear Anders speak. If you've never seen him explain generics, you should definitely watch this. On of the phrases
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Monday, April 04, 2005 2:28 PM

From the woodshop to the operating room

Last night, my wife and I were watching an episode of " Discoveries this Week ", on The Science Channel . This is a pretty good show, though I haven't warmed up yet to some of the other offerings on the channel. It may be because their website does a
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