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You can get your own word spelled using flickr. Below is how “amit” is spelled: ...

Charles talks about how installing WAIK on a functioning VS 05 or TFS system will fail and screwing up the .NET 2.0 runtime bits; best to avoid doing that for now.

I stumbled across this article talking about how to keep your computer spyware-free, all good advice. Now one less thing I need to be tech-support for the friends and family. :)

Thanks to Wai for pointing this out, this is a rock song (I think) dedicated to Developers, you can download the songs in both mp3 and wma in various bit rates and they also have the lyrics; not bad I would say. :)

Adrian’s Rojapot has published the ultimate desktop graphics card comparison guide with over 240 cards being compared, grouped by Vendor and 15 points of comparison.

As a few of you had requested below are links to some screen shots for the Belkin router. Current Status Login Screen LAN Settings DHCP Client List WAN Connection Type DNS MAC Address Wireless - Channel and SSID Security Use as Access Point MAC Address Control Firewall - Virtual Servers Firewall - Client IP Filters Firewall - DMZ Firewall - DDNS WAN Ping Blocking Parental Control Restart Router Restore Factory Defaults Save/Backup Current Settings Restore Settings Firmware Update System Settings ...

Well it has been a week+ and the Belkin Pre-N Wireless Router I got has been humming away merrily, no issues so far - zilch, nada, nothing, null, unlike the Linksys piece-of-crap-good-for-nothing-junk ! Awesome! Have been very happy. I would highly recommend it. The first thing I did was update the firmware (it also has an auto-update feature, but more on that some other time). And once it was configured and up and running, did not need anything else. ...

If you have been following my Wireless blues here , you would know its been 48 hours (or so) and the new Wireless router is still going strong (touch wood) without any issues so far. This is what I had in the log so far (which is quite interesting when compared to Linksys as if I did have a similar log internally then I do not know how to get to it). ...

BBC is reporting that the copy protection on the XBOX 360 has been cracked by a group called the Team PI Coders. It is not quite at the stage where its usable, but this is definitely the starting point. Today you can get just some of the information, and cannot run the dumps, but the day you can, then it might be worthwhile investing on one. :) My biggest rant is the fact that I have a US XBOX, why can’t I play those games in a UK XBOX? ...

Say you want to test mathematical model of your friendly neighbouring snail, how do you test it? Why, with a robo snail of course! :)

This is not new, but I recently stumbled on it. If you are developing or wanting to develop for bluetooth developing for Bluetooth technology (exposing Bluetooth services, enumerating devices or services, and connecting to services) the Windows Embedded Source Tools for Bluetooth Technology program provides a Win32 API Wrapper that developers can expose in Visual Studio .NET or the .NET Compact Framework. The class library wrapper provided helps make development for Bluetooth Technology faster and easier by reducing the lines of code necessary to develop for Bluetooth Technology from hundreds to just a few and the components include: ...

If you recall my previous posts about Wireless blues I have been having I did decide to get the Belkin Pre-N device. Well after a order screw up with Amazon where they delivered someone else order to me (with the correct address), I did finally get the device delivered yesterday and set it up last night. First impressions have been good so far; it seems to be working good although its only been 8 odd hours, but atleast it seems to be promising. I’ll post back here with an update this weekend - by then I would have ti up and running for about a week and can give some real world feedback. For those curious, I did upgrade the Firmware with the latest on their Web Site, and I am using only 802.11g devices to connect to this. ...

Now this is something cool that almost everyone will find very handy. If you are a developer, engineer, architect or just an enthusiast and want to play around with a few different configurations, the best way to do that is using a Virtual Machine. So if you got a hold of some beta’s or demo VM and to use it till now you had to have a licence for something along the lines of Virtual PC or VMWare Workstation. Not any more! With VMware Player , you can “play” (i.e. run) those virtual machines without buying a licence. You cannot create virtual machines using this, but you can open them and run them - perfect for the handsouts from the PDC you have been attending. Not to mention, VMware can also read your Virtual PC images, how sweet it that? So, whats your excuse for not getting this? If you are interested you can compare the various versions here and see how they stack up. ...

Not sure why one would need this kind of power on a laptop (from a practical point of view), but if you do need it, then it seems like the new dual core laptops are just around the corner . Rumor has it that Dell is going to be releasing some in February next year and Toshiba in Q1. But if I was you, I would probably wait for a x64, instead of a dual-core on the laptop, but then thats me. :) ...

I am quite fedup of the Wireless Router I have at home; lots of connection drops, lots of reboots. If the Wireless is working then the router packs up or vice-versa. I currently have a Linksys WRV54G and it sucks! Don’t take one even if its free! So, now after living through its irritation for a year+ (what can I say, I am either brave or foolish), This is my second Linksys device with which I have had issues. We also have a Linksys WRT54G at one of our client offices which we use to connect and that is very moody as well, one day it would be perfect and other days it won’t be running for even 10 mins! ...

Picked this up on one of the communities at work, and is possibly a true case of Geeks Gone Wild ! Make sure you have your volume turned on to appreciate the effort gone into it. I want to know where does this chap live and the cost of electricity, especially on this cold, foggy, mysterious night here in London :) ...

So, if I want to do something like this , and install Mac OS X on an old machine (with an Intel x86 CPU) then where do I get a version of Mac OS X (10.4.1 I think will work), so I can play around with this? I have never had a Mac so not sure where to start. Thoughts? ...

I stumbled upon this via a colleague of mine who was answering a different question on our internal newsgroups at work. Paul Wilson shows how you can have multiple forms in ASP.NET

Zilla Smash has some excellent hi-res screen shots of the new Beta Yahoo Mail and as someone else said, boy does gmail look clunky in comparison!

Hats off to the mono guys who got this running on Nokia 770 (their new internet appliance running Linux); screen shot here .

Meenakshi wanted an old version of a JDK, and it was quite interesting to try and find an old version at Sun’s site, they don’t plainly display a link - one would suspect that it should be somewhere on the download page itself, but if only things were made using common sense. E.g. Meenakshi wanted to get J2SE 1.4.2_05 (not very old from the current shipping which is 1.4.2_09), try googling it and you will see what I mean. Of course, if Sun had gotten it right in the first place, where every minor upgrade does not break everything in the older versions (even point upgrades for the most part), this would not be an issue to begin with. Like I said, if only common sense was so common. ...

Creating PDF’s is relatively easy these days, but I have found so many instances, where I wanted to convert to other formats from PDF’s for some reason or the other, and till I stumbled upon PDF Conversion Central it was not possible (as far as I knew), without too much trouble. But now I can convert it to word documents, RSS, html, xml, etc - even audio formats - cool. ...

I have an old server which right now is running Windows 2000 Server and I want to install Linux on it. Unfortunately, I cannot boot from a CD as the BIOS was on a different partition (this is an old Compaq machine), and there is no way for me to get into that now. Also, I don’t have any floppies lying around that I can use. Which means I was stuck. But, I came across an article by Marc Herbert which details how to install Linux for someone exactly in my situation - without any CD, floppy or USB-Key . ...

I don’t know if you knew or not, but as a kid Physics was my favorite subject (yep more than Computers), and I almost went into that line of things, but the idea of controlling a machine at my will (machine being a computer here) was more fun, so here I am many moons later. But, every now and then my old physics roots still pull me to something interesting I read about (its only reading now, no more experiments). One consequence of Einstein’s theory (E=mc²) is that a clock in motion will always appear to run slowly compared with one at rest (and since all motion is relative, the clock at rest will appear to go slowly from the vantage of the one moving). ...

This is very cool! Google now has officially released their API’s for Google Maps; till now there were a few hacks in place such as my where I work , but now its all supported. You would need to get a key, which is associated with a specific url, you can get that here and also read up on all the fun details here . ...