Tech Review: Windows: Friday, August 17, 2012

How to get Windows 8 ahead of the general public

http://www.zdnet.com/how-to-get-windows-8-ahead-of-the-general-public-7000002731/

8 tips to make your Windows 8 upgrade a more pleasant experience

http://www.zdnet.com/8-tips-to-make-your-windows-8-upgrade-a-more-pleasant-experience-7000002795/

Windows 8 evaluation for developers

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/jj554510.aspx

Tech Review: Windows: Friday, August 3, 2012

Microsoft Surface tablet release date confirmed in SEC filing

http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-surface-tablet-release-date-confirmed-in-sec-filing-7000001881/

Microsoft Windows 8 Games:  Software Developer War or Empty Words

http://www.thevarguy.com/2012/07/30/windows-8-games-blizzard-valve/

• perhaps the real concern is having to go through the Windows market

Hacker delves into secret world of warranties

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57481671-83/hacker-delves-into-secret-world-of-warranties/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

• can hack warranty log on

Tech Review: Virtual Machine: July 24, 2012

installing vs 2005 windows 7

Visual Studio on Windows Vista and Windows 7

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa948853.aspx

Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005 Express Editions Service Pack 1

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=804

how do I close a frozen VM?

Anatomy of a VMware Workstation virtual machine (VM)

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/virtualization-coach/anatomy-of-a-vmware-workstation-virtual-machine-vm/141

Tech Review: Windows: Monday, July 16, 2012

 

How to partition Windows 7 to well manage it?

http://www.partition-tool.com/resource/partition-windows-7.htm

Microsoft's Downfall: Inside the Executive E-mails and Cannibalistic Culture That Felled a Tech Giant

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2012/07/microsoft-downfall-emails-steve-ballmer.print

• "stack ranking" the bane of creativity.

Perhaps is more an issue of good old fashion pride.

Tech Review Windows: Thursday, June 21, 2012

Microsoft's new Surface tablets make a solid first impression

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/microsofts-new-surface-tablets-make-a-solid-first-impression/5142?tag=nl.e539

http://winsource.com/2012/06/18/microsoft-surface-specs/

• specs

Microsoft Surface tablets: Reading the fine print

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-surface-tablets-reading-the-fine-print/12965?tag=nl.e539

Tech Review Windows: Friday, May 25, 2012

How to Set Environment Variables

http://stanlearnswindows.blogspot.com/2011/09/how-to-set-environment-variables.html

• There are a few variables that I have a terrible time remembering
• If I go to where they are set, I can see which ones I don't remember.

Tech Review Software Development: Friday, April 20, 2012

Installing gacutil exe

• You really need to install the Windows SDK

Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 4

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=8279

• download and install
• takes about 15 minutes

Tech Review Windows: Thursday, March 29, 2012

Performing a Windows 7 Update

• Select the Windows Icon at the bottom left
• On the input line type 'Windows Update"
• In the Programs result select "Windows Update"
• The Window "Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Windows Update" dialog appears.

Tech Review Microsoft: Monday, January 30, 2012

Netflix Sliverlight Hell

This is not my error, but seem to be related.  My error is 

Connection Problem Error Code:  

    N8106-101 Unable to connect to the nteflix service.

Netflix sent me to talk with MS.  Seems like I need to pay to even talk with MS.

In trying some solutions on the net I found my own solution:

• Uninstall the current Silverlight
• Install the 3.0 version of Silverlight
• http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=150228
• I saved this in a safe place for future use.
• When I tried to run Netflix it insist that I update.  After updating, silverlight starts working.
• This all might be simply related to the removing the mspr.hds file.
• http://www.kristoferbrozio.com/2011/03/07/fix-for-netflix-error-code-n8156-6013-updated/
• Note that simply uninstalling and re-installing Silverlight did not work.
• This is probably a problem in digital right management (DRM). 

http://forums.silverlight.net/t/55198.aspx/1

• Sounds like there have been lots of problems with Silverlight

I believe that the problem lies with Microsoft; however, if MS blows off big customer like Netflix, how do think they are going to treat a little guy like me.  Yes, that's right, they will charge me $60 dollars and tell me it is a Netflix problem.  Netflix need to resolve these issue with MS themselves and not sent us off like lambs to the slaughter. 

Computer Tech Review: Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Moonlight - Silverlight

http://go-mono.com/moonlight/

• An Opensource implementation of Silverlight for Unix systems.

http://www.microsoft.com/getsilverlight/Get-Started/Install/Default.aspx

• Silverlight itself

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=13350&iTestingId=30583

• running silverlight in wine.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1239333

• Silverlight in Ubuntu

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=25

• Internet Explorer in wine

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1452735

• IE 8 in ubuntu

Cygwin

What is Cygwin?

http://www.cygwin.com/

• a collection of tools which provide a Linux look and feel environment for Windows
• currently at version 1.7.9-1

Virtual Box

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1517197

• Could not get it to work on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS AMD64
• Could not find the module

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1574582&page=3

https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/794

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1098946

Netflix in Linux

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1091125&page=5

• discussion with no success

New Sykipot variant can steal PINs from DOD smart cards

http://gcn.com/Articles/2012/01/13/Sykipot-Trojan-targets-DOD-CAC-cards.aspx?s=gcndaily_170112&Page=1

• from servers in China
• arrives via phishing attach
• keylogger
• hijack DOD and Windows smart cards
• spear-phishing attack
• through opening a Adobe PDF attachment
• list public-key encryption certificates stored in system
• back-door access Trojan
• targeting defense contractors
• December 2011 attack of military's fleets of unmanned aerial vehicles
• discovered by Lockheed Martin defense contractor

NASA and Women in Technology 

http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/79558

• Lt Uhura works at NASA
• Inspired by Dr. King
• http://women.nasa.gov/
• inspirational stories of women in technology

Too big to fail? Microsoft, ARM, and Windows 8.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/too-big-to-fail-microsoft-arm-and-windows-8/10147?alertspromo=&tag=nl.rSINGLE

• perhaps this should be intitled, to big to succeed.
• An interesting view of MS attempt to exclude other OS from their hardware.

ASUS TF101A1 Eee Pad Transformer Android Tablet - Android 3.0 Honeycomb, NVIDIA Tegra 2, 16GB Storage, 10.1" Capacitive Touch Screen Display (Refurbished)

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=1404521&sku=F12-101400&SRCCODE=WEM2971BY&cm_mmc=email-_-Main-_-WEM2971-_-tigeremail2971&utm_source=EML&utm_medium=main&utm_campaign=WEM2971

• I wish I had spent the extra $100 and gotten this.

Tech Notes: Installing TortoiseGIT

For windows need to install two packages:

http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/detail?name=Git-1.7.8-preview20111206.exe

• msysgit

http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/downloads/detail?name=TortoiseGit-1.7.6.0-64bit.msi&can=2&q=

• TortoiseGIT