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When is a remote not a remote?
Strangely, only a day after Mitch wrote a recent entry about Media Center [ I've just become a Media Centre junkie ], I've got something to say roughly on the same topic. I've been running a "Media Center" for 3 or 4 months now. I say "Media Center" rather Read More...
Vista Upgrade - Mostly Good
A lot of people have been talking over the weekend about how they've upgraded to Vista and either had it work without a hitch, or with some very big hitches indeed. My story is mostly boring - a couple of little hitches, but nothing too major. Things Read More...
I Hate Secrets
This morning Darren retired from being the guest blogger on TechTalkBlogs . Under his reign, many a thing Vista was pushed, poked, prodded, and presented. He did a great job (ok, so he linked to me a few times, I'm a sucker for free advertisements, but Read More...
CommandLink Control for XP
I really like the new CommandLink control that exists in Vista. Actually, it's not a new control - it's just a new style on the button control, but it still looks damn nice. The app we're currently writing at work is being written with with a series of Read More...
Sharing Interfaces in WCF
For the last couple of weeks I've been playing with WCF, Windows Workflow, and other stuff while putting together a new app that we need. It's been a steep learning curve - trying to keep things familiar (as in, the other guys on the team will still be Read More...
What Annoys You About Vista the Most?
I've been running Vista B2 as my primary OS for about 10 days now. I'm still deciding whether to activate it on day 14 or not - little things are getting in my road and pissing me off no end :) Some are forgivable, and things you'd expect from a beta Read More...
Windows Error Reporting in Vista
Windows Error Reporting seems to have been improved in Vista. At least, it looks a lot nicer - although maybe it's just the glass stuff :) One thing they know how to do is call a spade a spade, it seems. This evening I was running a modification to my Read More...
A Vista Vision for Darren- Performance Ratings
Darren, on the TechTalkBlog, is after submissions of Vista Visions - simple examples of cool new stuff. Well, here's my first contribution. When you first install Vista on your computer, it might not be running quite as fast as you expected - or faster, Read More...
Can you guess what I'm doing?
Well, can you? Yup, I'm home on a Saturday night playing solitaire on my computer. Pretty Sad. But wait! Is that....? Yes - I finally found time to install Vista B2. I've been trying since it came out to find time (I already found time once, actually, Read More...