A lot has been written lately on what’s missing from Vista, and why Vista isn’t really a big deal. “Boycott Windows Vista”, a Business 2.0 article, is a perfect example. I think these people are missing one of the best features of Vista: The little things. I’ve been testing Vista builds for a while now, and every […]
I’m trying to figure out why my Windows Media Center sometimes just starts going nuts with the disc for short periods of time. I’m watching TV and suddenly the disc starts thrashing like mad and sometimes this causes my program to skip. Part of diagnosing a problem like this is using the excellent tool FileMon from […]
It’s a good thing the Texas Hold ‘Em Poker on XBox Live Arcade doesn’t use real cash. I had $28000 virtual dollars, joined a table with a $1000 buy-in, and while I was waiting for the game to start, put an audio CD in the drive to listen to it while playing. The XBox flipped […]
Every single version of Visual Studio has had problems with IntelliSense, and Visual Studio 2005 is no exception. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. Every version, I’ve reported it, but because I can’t come up with an exact scenario to make it happen (it just seems to break after a while), it doesn’t get fixed. […]
Windows Media Center Edition records video to files with the extension DVR-MS. It’s disappointing to see that Windows Media Player 11 in Vista can’t play a DVR-MS file.
I installed Vista Beta 2 on my wife’s computer last night. What a mistake. First off, Vista really needs some sort of administrative mode or something that says “I hereby authorize myself to do frikkin’ everything, so stop bugging me”. I must have typed in my credentials 100 times last night, just doing the usual […]
Google called Microsoft a “convicted monopolist” this week, when talking about how they’re going to fight to prevent Microsoft from abusing their monopoly power when it comes to the default search engine in IE7. This is a bad sign for Google. For one thing, does it really seem anti-competitive for a company to use their […]
Seriously, who decided that MFC’s CRegKey::QueryStringValue should return a LONG instead of a CString? It’s an MFC class. MFC has a string class. The purpose of this function is to query a string. Why do I have to pass in a buffer and a buffer size? Why can’t it just return me a string? I […]
I picked up a new system this week, an Athlon 64 X2 based system. I’ve been planning to buy a new system for a while now, and major criteria were 64 bit, and dual core. AMD’s offering seems to be a bit ahead of what Intel has today, so while an Intel Pentium D 820 system […]
Maybe I’m missing it, but Ive looked around for a thin client for Windows XP Media Center Edition, and I can’t find one, nor even find anyone looking for one. Media Center supports this idea of Media Center Extenders, that you can hook up to a TV use the Media Center PC from that TV. […]