I’ve recently been playing around with my old Athlon XP 1800 box and Windows 7. There is no way Vista would approach usability on that old hardware, but Windows 7, suprisingly, does just fine! Most hardware was recognized out of the box, even a WiFi card that Windows XP never was able to find on [...]
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No Sound? Get Sound Blaster Live! and Windows 7 to Play Nice
Posted in How To, tagged drivers, hardware, Windows 7 on June 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Remove GPT USB Partition: How to Remove a GPT Partition from a USB Drive
Posted in How To, tagged usb format fat ntfs restore on April 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What you need is this handy (Windows) tool from HP. It formats anything with a USB plug (well, maybe not everything)…
Restore XP on the Acer Aspire One: How to Restore XP from the Acer Aspire One Hidden Partition
Posted in How To, tagged os, system administration, windows on April 14, 2009 | 9 Comments »
ARM: What is thy bidding my Master?
You: It’s Windows 7 we’re after.
ARM: I’m sorry, did you just say Windows 7?
You: You got a problem with that?
ARM: Actually, I, uh…
You: ARM? Are you OK?
ARM: My mind is going…cannot format..failed to format…partition not found…
Let’s face it: Acer eRecovery Management needs a little love to get through this. Here’s what you need to do.
usability > easy_to_use. Can you define usability?
Posted in How To, tagged design, interaction, usability on February 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When interviewing software developers I often ask them to define the term usability. What I’m really asking is, “have you ever thought much about how your users interact with your software?” This is a rather important aspect of software design.
Tips for using the ASP.NET cache to store SQL Server DataSets
Posted in How To on July 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In my new job I’ve been not-so-gently introduced to the world of ASP.NET. Coming from a Ruby on Rails background, ASP.NET is like a slap in the face. Ouch! I ran into some major gotchas today while adding caching to an RSS feed (generally a good idea, BTW), via the ASP.NET global cache, datasets, and [...]
