MSDN Canada is running a contest called “Last Developer Standing”. And, in my opinion, it’s a joke. The premise is that there are 8 rounds of tests that test your knowledge in all areas of .NET development, with prizes for whoever gets the most right. There are also prizes along the way for people who [...]
Well, they did it.. Jobs announced at WWDC that the Mac will be using Intel processors. They’ll have a P4 3.6ghz developer system available for $999 for developers to start porting their stuff. I still don’t like it much but it does mean the Mac can gain a lot of performance in a short time [...]
According to CNet, Apple’s going to switch to using Intel chips in the Mac line. I find that thought somewhat depressing. It’s hard to explain exactly why… I think it has something to do with that the x86 architecture, what we call a PC, is what’s gone wrong in the computer industry. Spyware, viruses, crap.. [...]
The Google Sitemaps page says my sitemap is OK. Cool.
Google’s introduced a thing called Sitemaps, where you can describe your site using a simple XML syntax, and they’ll pull this and use it as hints to their crawler to influence how and when it crawls your site. They probably could have used RSS for this, but I guess that’s a point I’ll let Dave [...]
Micrsoft AntiSpyware popped up an alert this morning that “An Unknown Startup Program googledesktopupdate.exe Requires Approval”. Apparently Google Desktop Search has the ability to download updates and install them without asking me. There is no “automatic update” setting that I can see; it just downloaded it and scheduled it to run the next time I [...]
What is malware?There are plenty of definitions, including: Malicious code, in the form of viruses, worms, and Trojans, is also referred to as malware.But exactly what is “malicious”?Frequently, desirable software is being bundled with software that generates revenue through advertising. If you want to use SoftwareX, you must run AdwareY. Or, if you want to [...]
Well, I finally got it sort of working – I couldn’t get it to stay in sync, but then again I was using a GeForce MX440 (not an ATI card as I thought). Setting the PC to 1920×1080 got me nothing (probably because it wasn’t interlaced), but using 1280×720 gave me an image. It was [...]
I’m installing Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 on a spare PC, mostly to see if it will work… the PC has an ATI card that supports HDTV resolutions, and I have the ATI DVI to Component adapter, and it’ll be great if it “just works”. But during the install of XP MCE, it prompted [...]