Category Archives: Computers and Internet

I’ve been playing around with the Virtual Earth stuff a little bit. If you haven’t tried the 3D stuff it is pretty kickass. There is a jscript programming model as well so you can build your own apps. I hauled … Continue reading →

I am used to Amazon’s psychic ability to tell me all about things to buy I never knew I wanted. I end up spending a lot of money there. Today I saw they had a great deal on the Harmony 880 remote. … Continue reading →

One of the last things I worked on for Windows XP was making laptops resume from standby quickly. The first part of this was re-writing the power IRP dispatching engine to make it asynchronous and smarter about managing the dependencies … Continue reading →

Back in the 90’s it was all too common for pepole to call their friends from their new car phone and announce "Hey, I’m calling you from my freakin’ CAR!!!" This post is the 21st century equivalent:   Hey, I’m … Continue reading →

Raymond has another great post on alertable waits. He rolls out his trusty "Imagine what the world would be like if it did" thought experiment when exploring why APCs don’t just interrupt your thread at arbitrary points.   But in this … Continue reading →

Finally a compelling reason to upgrade all your machines to Vista. I expect MSFT to go up, up, up once news of this gets out, so buy now!

I wish I’d had this article 14 years ago.   How To Program a Bootstrap Loader   The sample code given supports only 12-bit FAT. The Windows boot sector supports both 12-bit and 16-bit FAT. But it uses a tricky hack. … Continue reading →

A few weeks ago I had a very common problem. My home server is out of disk space. I think it had around 60GB which seemed like a lot a few years ago when I originally cobbled it together. But … Continue reading →

LarryO has a blog post about converting between number bases using an old HP calculator. He’s an old school guy for sure. I’m not as old-school as Larry, but here’s my uber-geeky trick for converting betweeen hex and decimal. Use … Continue reading →

We just shipped Beta 1 of the product I am working on (Microsoft Compute Cluster Solution)   Check it out here : http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/hpc/default.mspx   If you’ve got a pile of AMD64 computers just lying around, sign up for the beta … Continue reading →