Did you know that all the cool Aero GUI that everyone is talking about in Vista is actually an acronym? It stands for “Authentic, Energetic, Reflective and Open” - whatever that means. 😉

I recently bought a new Multi-function printer at home - a Dell 1815dn and it works great. I am quite impressed with the speed and quality - both of which are fine for home use. This can also scan documents and send it to a machine on the network and that was one of the features that was very useful at home, but the Windows Firewall did not like it and would block the incoming request. To allow the Network Scan to work you need to open up the UDP Port 1054 on your firewall to allow this. ...

If you are like me and are running Vista x64 and are having some driver issues and would like to use the XP x64 drivers in Vista, but cannot because Vista expects the drivers to be signed, well then you can disable that. Disclaimer: please use common sense and back up your data and don’t blame me if this breaks stuff. Note 2: Using signed drivers is the recommended practice! I would resort to this only as a desperate measure (till all the drivers are released) or if you want to use it in a development scenario. ...

I am finding all kinds of interesting bits and bobs now that the primary OS I am running is x64 bit. For example did you know that Flash Player does not have a x64 bit implementation? Believe me, less Ads for me to see on pages and you don’t see me shedding any tears! Here is what I get when I tried to install Flash on IE 7 x64: Flash Player is not supported for playback in a 64-bit browser. ...

Vista x32 is available on MSDN - go get it! 😄 Update: Here is a screen shot:

Still trickling down …. just another few hours to go.

I love the pun on the US in this - awesome. :)

If you are running Community Server (CS) like this blog and you would like to get Google or YouTube videos in your posts ( like this ), then you need to add the following setting in your section of the communityserver.config file. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 <embed style="true" type="true" src="true" quality="true" bgcolor="true" scale="true" wmode="true" salign="true" FlashVars="true" width="true" height="true" /> <object width="true" height="true" /> <param name="true" value="true" /> (via Chris Hammond’s post )

Did you know there is a new method called DragMove which is part of the Window class and allows you to move the window using a mouse? I certainly did not - till now. This is part of .NET 3.0, specifically part of WPF and . Here is an example from the SDK: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 protected override void OnMouseLeftButtonDown(MouseButtonEventArgs e) { base.OnMouseLeftButtonDown(e); // Begin dragging the window this.DragMove(); }

Nope, you ain’t that lucky - I am alive and kicking and just have been quite busy lately (or for a change as some of you might say). Between starting a new project and traveling (with very limited access to emails and the Internet), getting the final chapters and code samples for the book out the door and have friends and relatives over from abroad, does not leave me any time for blogging. ...

Nope it is not 1 minute or even 60 seconds rather is 59.9990235 seconds

This certainly has to excite your geek molecules - digg in 3D (use your mouse to navigate around) ( Thanks to Chris for the link)

I don’t think there were many fans of Windows Genuine Advantage, needless to say there would be fans for Office Genuine Advantage .

Yep its true, Win CE 6 is released with lots of new features and Microsoft has released the complete (that is 100%) of the Kernel source code and legal - check it out .

If you thought you had a thing managing logistics - well then check this out and see how you fare! (Thanks to Meenakshi for the link)

This is the first for me - google server error while searching. You can click on the image to see the full version.

You need to turn up the volume and listen to the words - awesome

If you buy a en eligible Dell on or after October 26th you can upgrade to Vista. Check out Upgrade Express Site and http://www.dellvistaupgrade.com/ and for more details.

 What do you know, Vista finally has a whoami.exe - you do know the whoami from Unix/Linux, right? Type in “whoami” (without the quotes of course) in a command prompt to launch this. It shows you all the user and group information in addition to SID details, privileges access tokens, etc. Pretty cool and handy especially when trying to debug applications and security related issues. Below is a screen-shot of the output of this dumped to a text file (click the image to see it in full size). ...

Yes, they are like Military Intelligence - an oxymoron. And HSBC is not too off as well by locking out accounts of users running on NetSurf (which incase you did not know is an opensource browser for RISC OS platform). See I keep saying, common Sense ain’t very common. ...

Rough First Day

Yes, it is one of the simplest rules of grammar, but I still get confused - I call it Writers Block . Technically my mother-tongue is Hindi , and I can speak the “street version” of it and while I can read it - you honestly don’t want me to. The fact that most fellow Indians around at that time are in splits and rolling on the floor might give you a clue. Well I am not particularly proud of that, the fact remains I suck at Hindi and no matter of dressing can fix that. On the flip side, my English is quite strong and for the most part I can read and write it just fine, some of my spellings and grammar sure can do with a refresher (hey but Word helps). ...

I guess, Dheera did not like the faculty entering his dorm room at MIT, so he had to fix the situation I suppose . . If I ever get to own a house with a basement (which would be my “hang out” area), I am sure to get one of these. Writing the PS/2 keyb driver seems simple enough and the code unlock door code is straightforward as well (however, you might want to format it to make it readable). Sweet, I do need to make one of these. ...

Those who know me, know how much I love Fry’s electronics and is the single most thing I miss after moving to London! They finally have a website now ! Although they have had the domain for a while they have not started using it till now. If you have not heard of Fry’s (where the heck have you been living dude), then read up more here . ...