SteveX Compiled

No, not at work. At home.
This is how I played games before I got into console gaming. On computers. The Vic-20, Commodore 64, Amiga, DOS-era PCs, and the PCs are all systems I used for gaming. They all sat on my desk, hooked up to a monitor. They all [...]

Apple has made the videos from their latest WWDC available for purchase on iTunes, the way Microsoft did for the PDC videos.
Except that Microsoft doesn’t charge you $999 to watch them.
Crappy move, Apple.

EC2 is Amazon’s “computing in the cloud” infrastructure. Curious, I found this Getting Started page that documents how to bring up a machine in the cloud. It’s a bit like rocket science.
Today Microsoft announced Windows Azure, their own cloud computing infrastructure.
I expect Microsoft will nail the tooling part and make it dead simple [...]

Microsoft has come out with their first ad response to the Get a Mac ad campaign by Apple.

I don’t get it.
It’s fun and whimsical, but it seems like one of those videos you show at the start of a company meeting, not something you use with mass media to try to improve your image.

Okay, it’s probably not WHS’s fault, but an hour or so ago WHS told me that it needed to repair the system drive. No problem, I told it to go ahead. That’s the last I heard from WHS.
I went downstairs to check, and found a black screen telling me that c:\windows\system32\config\system is corrupt. [...]

Last month I blogged about a problem I’d been having where my Vista machine kept waking up for no apparent reason. I think I’ve found out what was happening.
The computer in question was my old Windows Media Center box, now decomissioned. I deleted the user accounts and created new ones, but I didn’t [...]

I have a fairly decent old system that I am repurposing to use as a main floor computer, something that will be used occasionally for playing a video for my son or maybe playing music. The computer I’m using used to be my Media Center, and so never needed to go to sleep. [...]

Microsoft released a tool that lets you move your content licenses from one console to another. This is a great thing for me because my 5 previous repairs (between Christmas 2005 and Christmas 2007) left me with content licensed to a mish mash of consoles, and a lot of content I purchased not tied [...]

Ars Technica is posting a series on Cocoa (the Mac UI framework) and part of it is a comparative look at the .NET Framework. And in my opinion, it’s not very fair.
Here’s a quote:
The .NET library does work. It more or less has all the main pieces you need, but it’s full of areas [...]

Oh look, another Google search result that leads to an MSDN page that’s gone missing (the 2nd link on the results page, at least as of right now).
This happens far too often.  There’s really no excuse for Microsoft not realizing by now that search engines index their site, and that users use search engines to [...]