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Windows 8 on Microsoft Surface 1.0 (video)
I've been neglecting this blog a bit since I'm trying to focus on finishing my book , but I had to break my self-imposed radio silence to break this news: I installed Windows 8 on Microsoft Surface 1.0 hardware, and it works! By "it works"...
Listen to your hard drive’s S.M.A.R.T. status – part 3
I’ve written about this topic a couple of times before. But it seems like another post is in order since my main box is now running Windows 7 and I’d like to share how Windows 7 has changed in the area of SMART monitoring. I keep all my “data” on a separate...
TouchSmart 610 launch mentions around the web
Same software (TouchSmart 4.0), totally new hardware… Engadget: http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/07/hps-touchsmart-610-and-9300-all-in-ones-tilt-and-twirl-on-out/ CNet: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20030815-17.html Seattle Times: http://seattletimes...
A roundup of news about the new HP TouchSmart 310 and the HP TouchSmart 4.0 software
Only a little vanity post; a collection of links to stories and other potentially interesting tidbits. These were some of the first mentions of the HP TouchSmart 310 with HP TouchSmart 4.0 software, unveiled on September 20, 2010. Most of these have no...
Quick IT tip: How to build bootable USB stick
Because of my main job and lack of human resources there, I invest less and less in community. Thus I lost my MVP title. Sorry, guys. Also a ton of management tasks in big company prevents me from actual coding. However I am still able to find some time...
Running Windows 7 RTM on REALLY old hardware
How old? How about a laptop shipped in 2000, a Dell CPx H450GT: Obviously this is from before I started my current job… One of the benefits of my current job is being able to verify soon after RTM that the Windows 7 bits you can obtain “out there” have...
Brilliant, yet simple technical questions, can be used for work interview
Few days ago, a friend of mine, sent me set of demonstration questions for 11th grade computer science students from Russia. I throw eye on this exam and decided to use some of those questions to test candidates in my company for hardware engineer position...
Windows 7 – dry run or why Intel does not like Microsoft
Finally, I got a couple of free minutes to install Windows 7 x64 on my work machine. I have to admin, that installation was extremely fast. I just put DVD and keep talking with one of our architects near whiteboard. We enough to close only one issue,...
Microsoft Tag vs. QR tag
One of Microsoft’s announcements on CES09 was Microsoft Tag. Do you remember last try of Microsoft to create mobile barcodes on Live platform? I remember it. So why Windows Live Barcode was deprecated, while Microsoft creates new one? What the key difference...
Audio CD operation including CD-Text reading in pure C#
Recently we spoke about reading radio data in C#, however as in any vehicle we have also CD players. So what can be better, than to have an ability to play CDs while being notified about track name, gathered from CD-Text? So, let’s start. First of all...
USB FM radio library was published on CodePlex
I just published a part of my latest project – dynamic library to work with FM receivers on CodePlex under MS-PL. So, feel free do download, test and use it. Note, that this release is preliminary and has a lot of bugs. Also, RDS is not fully implements...
New year – new blog or how to migrate Community Server to any other engine, supports XML-RPC
Please update your bookmarks, because the new url of this blog is http://khason.net/ (you have not update RSS feeds, it will be done automatically). Why I did it? Why I decided to go to “stand-alone”… Well. there are some reasons. Generally, I do not...
Read and use FM radio (or any other USB HID device) from C#
Last time we spoke about reading and decoding RDS information from FM receivers . Also we already know how to stream sound from DirectSound compatible devices . However, before we can do it, we should be able to “speak” with such devices. So, today we...
Capturing and streaming sound by using DirectSound with C#
I already wrote a little about managed way to use DirectX DirectSound . Today we’ll speak about how to get sound from your microphone or any other DirectSound capturing device (such as FM receiver ) and stream it out to your PC speakers and any other...
What boots faster – Netbook, powered Windows XP or Nokia E71 mobile phone?
Some days ago, somebody from Microsoft was shocked, when I told him, that I’m planning to run Windows XP (and later Windows 7) as operation system for mission critical automotive device. He even checked with Windows XP embedded team boot times for XP...
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