FedEx delivered my shiny new XPS 420 yesterday and I was very happy to receive it right before Christmas. My XPS 420 came with a Intel Q6600 quad-core CPU hosted on a Intel X38 based motherboard, plenty of USB ports, two 1394a ports, five sound jacks, SPDIF, and a surprise eSATA port. Dell also included a card reader with bluetooth receiver [...]
I’ve downloaded Gentoo 2007.0 Live CD and burned it. My target PC is a P4 2.8GHz with Intel 865G chipset, which uses built-in VGA. There are two disks available and I plan to use LVM2 to make a good use for them. Boot into LiveCD and let the party begin. I’ve also have another computer [...]
If you build your application using VC8, you probably already are suffering from the new CRT deployment. There’s a document on MSDN talking about how to do that. However, if you choose to deploy the CRT as private assemblies, and miss the very subtle line below, you are very likely to be tricked.
Create a folder [...]
Recently I started develop things using Visual Studio 2005 SP1 (a.k.a. VS8 SP1). The biggest change of VS8 is that the CRT library is now deployed in WinSxS so that the DLL hell problem related to CRT could be solved, as suggested in Martyn Lovell’s blog.
As a result, VC linker will auto generate appropriate [...]
In the PDC, many people are so impressed about what Microsoft Max can do. However, Microsoft Max can not be installed on Windows Vista if you use that address they give out on PDC: http://www.microsoft.com/max
But the demo was run on a Vista machine! There must be some way right? Yes.
Use an XP machine or VM, [...]
I got a spare machine recently, so I tried to install Longhorn beta 1 (now called Windows Vista). Same as old beta versions of Windows, installation is painfully slow. It’s a Dell GX280 with 3GHz CPU and 1GB RAM, but I only partition 10GB hard drive for it. Vista took a whooping 7 something GB [...]
I learned a new point of view that Avalon is a “form-based” kind of UI. Currently the UI that we have consists a frame window which takes care of most displaying job, and a bunch of dialog boxes which take care of most jobs which need user interactions. A “form-based” kind of UI means shifting [...]
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