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25. januar 2009 20:00

Change the HAL of Windows OS

I am doing a presentation on Visual Studio 2010/.net 4 parallel programming enhancements in the near future. Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010 CTP and that’s fine. The problem was that the one and only release comes in the form of a VirtualPC
Posted by Miha Markic | 3 Comments
21. januar 2009 10:15

Hollywood graphics FX

Did you ever watch a Hollywood movie/episode where police/detective/bad guy/alien manages to get a blurry low res photo of a vehicle? And then they enhance the picture to get a readable vehicle’s license plate? Like, for example the picture below: The
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19. januar 2009 14:01

Windows Live Writer doesn’t work well under Windows 7 beta x64

I’ve tried to run Windows Live Writer under Windows 7 beta today. It runs but it can’t upload pictures through FTP. There are two indications of the problem: when you configure FTP connection it will yield this warning The remote server could not be contacted
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19. januar 2009 13:54

VMWare Workstation's Easy Install

When you think that VMWare invented everything they push the innovations even further. These days I've finally accomplished Windows 7 beta download and since I don't have a spare computer right now I've though of installing it under Workstation 6.5. I
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16. januar 2009 14:03

Stop Israeli slaughter

When I started blogging I've decided not to bore the audience with political or other non-technical content. However, the situation in Gaza is well beyond political or rational - there is an Israeli state led slaughter over Palestinian, mostly civilian
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15. januar 2009 13:44

A developer diving into microcontroller world part 1

I always wanted to do play with microcontrollers but I lacked hardware knowledge. Actually the last time I wanted to play with them was at the very early stages of the internet (during my university time that is). So I let it go for the time being because
Posted by Miha Markic | 1 Comments
15. januar 2009 13:26

Lost Windows Live Writer

Today I lost my Windows Live Writer. I was doing a Windows Live update of installed WL applications. The update performed an uninstall first and install after. But the install failed and fails with an error 0x80070643. Of course it didn't rollback
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9. januar 2009 18:28

Calling WCF services from within Sql Server

It is possible to create a managed .net stored procedure for SQL Server that acts like a WCF client. SQL Server 2005 at least is required. But I won't talk about how to. I'd rather discuss an odd error you can encounter while performing this stunt. On
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8. januar 2009 13:00

Windows 7 beta at MSDN Subscriptions

In case you didn't notice Windows 7 beta is available at MSDN Subscriptions. The web site looks like under pressure so keep trying if you get errors.
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