I recently tested a prototype of a Xamarin Android app that should run on Android 4.1+. So I fired up Visual Studio Emulator for Android and saw that […]
Hardware / Windows
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Finally upgraded to Windows 8.1 (from 8.0)
Since Microsoft released Windows 8.1 I’ve tried to upgrade my 8.0 to 8.1. Without success though. Every upgrade ended just a little bit before 100% with a BSOD […]
Hardware / Tip / Windows
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SSD’s firmware version might be really important
I had a good old Asus EEE 1005HA netbook running Windows 7 just fine, albeit slow. The best way of speed it up was to upgrade it to […]
.net / Windows
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Two Windows 8 feature requests
Microsoft started blogging about Windows 8 (there is twitter account @BuildWindows8 as well) and I started thinking what I’d like to see in Windows 8. I can think […]
Windows
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Windows Home Server 2011 restore is just horribly flawed
I am a long time user of Windows Home Server (first version) and it saved me quite a lot times. Its restore had only one annoying flaw – […]
Windows
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The long path of installing Windows Home Server 2011 under Hyper-V R2
Here is my experience of Windows Home Server 2011 aka Vail installation under Hyper-V R2 server (Core2 Duo E7600, 8GB RAM, 500GB RAID 1 and 3TB RAID5). What […]
.net / Parallel programming / Windows
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Jinxing your application
If you ever wrote a multithreading application you should understand how hard is to get it right. If you don’t understand it then your application most probably isn’t […]
Windows / Windows 7
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Putting sleepless Windows 7 to sleep
A while ago I had the problem with Vista. The thing was that it woke up randomly from the sleep state. The same problem reappeared when I’ve upgraded […]
Windows
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Investigating Windows BSOD cause for dummies
Does your Windows displays nice, we all love, BSOD once in a while or perhaps, god forbid, often? There are two most plausible suspects for this behavior. And […]
.net 4.0 / Slovenia / Virtualization / VMWare / VS 2010 / Windows
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Change the HAL of Windows OS
I am doing a presentation on Visual Studio 2010/.net 4 parallel programming enhancements in the near future. [MS] released Visual Studio 2010 CTP and that’s fine. The problem […]