Computerworld has an article entitled “10 Things you Should Know About Microsoft’s Silverlight”. I just wanted to add a few notes comparing things to Flex, since the author doesn’t even acknowledge the existence of Flex. 1. Silverlight Avoids Cross-Browser/OS Issues As long as you don’t count Linux as an OS. Flex spans Windows, Mac, AND Linux. […]
Microsoft has released a new version of Microsoft Reader for UMPC devices. I bought some eBooks for Microsoft Reader back when it came out (almost 8 years ago now), and after paying a significant premium for the books and then coming to realize that I couldn’t give or lend the books to anyone, that was […]
C:\Users\stibbett>taskkill /im myapp.exe /fSUCCESS: The process “myapp.exe” with PID 8548 has been terminated. C:\Users\stibbett>taskkill /im myapp.exe /fSUCCESS: The process “myapp.exe” with PID 8548 has been terminated. C:\Users\stibbett>taskkill /im myapp.exe /fSUCCESS: The process “myapp.exe” with PID 8548 has been terminated. C:\Users\stibbett>taskkill /im myapp.exe /fSUCCESS: The process “myapp.exe” with PID 8548 has been terminated. How can Windows […]
I haven’t posted a Vista complaint in a few weeks.. but that’s mostly because I was on vacation. Today’s problem is a pretty serious one. I typically turn on auto updates on systems I don’t look at very often, and my Media Center box is one of those. Today, while fighting with a problem getting […]
My team at work spent the last week on Flex training. I’ve dabbled in Flex, but it was great to be lead through a lot of different areas of Flex, and more importantly, to spend a week in an IDE writing and thinking about Flex and ActionScript. Meanwhile my RSS reader is flooding me with […]
I have an external USB drive that I use for backups. This morning I went to update my backup, and plugged the drive into the PC as usual. Vista responded with this prompt: “You need to format the disk in drive N: before you can use it.” This is my backup drive. The drive I […]
Found this bizarre feature on the Vista Compatibility Blog: SetThreadPriority from Run key. So they’ve hacked something in Windows to keep programs that launch at startup from raising their priority for 60 seconds at bootup. This seems like a bizarre address-the-symptom kind of fix. The problem is that every app wants to launch something at […]
Major Nelson released some info on the Spring 2007 Dashboard Update for the XBox 360’s firmware, and basically it’s a big yawn. A couple of nice little touches, like being able to see the name of an achievement you’ve just earned without having to hit the guide button, and MSN Messenger integration, but where are the […]
Check out the excellent research MSR has been doing into search spam, specifically by following the money to find out who is profiting from it. Good stuff.
After comparing Google Desktop Search and the Microsoft Vista search tools, I’ve decided that Google wins hands down. So I switched off the Windows search indexer. I don’t need everything indexed twice, right? OneNote thinks I do: When running on Vista, OneNote uses Vista’s search capabilities instead of its own built-in capability (that it must have […]