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Sunday, March 7th, 2010I recently stumbled upon a very interesting project – a CIL (.Net assembler) backend and frontend for GCC. Suppose you have source code in one of the languages supported by GCC (C, C++, Ada, Fortran,…) and you want to use the code from managed code (say, a C# application). A CIL backend would allow you [...]
Geosense for Windows
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010Okay, quick post because this is too awesome to not to write about it. Rafael Rivera from withinwindows.com and Long Zheng from istartedsomething.com have put together a driver for Windows Location API in Windows 7. The driver provides geolocation information for location-aware Windows applications using Google’s Location Services. All it needs is your WiFi turned [...]
Security Essentials on Server 2008
Thursday, November 26th, 2009Update 15. 3. 2010: this technique will fail at the genuity verification step of setup with recent Security Essentials installers. So it doesn’t work anymore. (And I will not be writing an update of this post, because I have moral problems with bypassing genuity verifications, sorry.) I was getting a lot of e-mail about my [...]
Autodesk SketchBook Mobile
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009Can you say “resource leak”?
Security Essentials on Windows Server
Saturday, October 17th, 2009UPDATE 25. 11. 2009: here is a step-by-step tutorial for 64bit versions of Windows Server. Even though not officially supported, Microsoft’s free antivirus Security Essentials installs and runs just fine on Windows Server 2008. You only have to trick it into thinking it’s Vista while installing. The first challenge is downloading the installer. If you [...]
Headless Windows installation
Friday, October 16th, 2009I recently faced a problem with installing Windows on a headless (no monitor, no keyboard) computer. The computer in question was HP MediaSmart Server LX195 – a nice and cheap piece of hardware. The server comes with Windows Home Server preinstalled – a very neat consumer-grade server operating system. But being a geek – the [...]
Reclaim disk space after SP2 install
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009Quick post. If you already installed Vista SP2, you probably noticed the decrease in free disk space on your system drive. The reason for that is that the SP2 installer stores all data that is neccessary for uninstalling it. If you don’t plan on removing SP2, you can reclaim the disk space pretty easily: start [...]
iPhone OS 3.0
Monday, May 18th, 2009There has been a lot of buzz about the coming iPhone OS 3.0 in the last few weeks, but I never really had time to look at the new features before today. According to the Apple website, these will be the key new features of the new “most advanced mobile OS”: The ability to search [...]
Dangers of web code snippets
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009Every programmer knows these situations: you are in the middle of programming something when you realize you need to do a thing you never did before. Instead of opening library/programming language/toolkit documentation, you just fire up google, type in a few keywords and import the first snipped that google finds straight into your source code. [...]
Geolocation over WiFi
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009I was playing with my iPod Touch today, skimming throught Google maps, when I accidentaly hit the Show current location button. I knew that my iPod doesn’t have a GPS so I never really expected it to work. I was really stunned when after 3 seconds it showed me a map of Uppsala, with a [...]
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