Archives
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Gel Buttons in Longhorn
Absolutely great article by Nathan Dunlap over at the LonghornBlogs site:
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Mars Rover Software
It has been very interesting following the progress of the Spirit, and recently the Opportunity rovers on Mars. I had found a link on the software QA and analysis that went into writing secure, stable code for the mission critical systems. It's a very interesting read, although it is pretty short.
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Longhorn and XP Dual-Boot
After a dead-hd replacement (I dread hearing hard drives start to click), I have finally got XP and Longhorn to cooperate. Longhorn still doesn't seem to like the RAID, but at least I can have XP on the RAID and Longhorn on a normal drive. The trick is install XP first, install Longhorn, then boot off of the XP CD. Run the recovery console off the CD, and “FIXMBR“, “FIXBOOT”, and “BOOTCFG /rebuild“, adding the XP install back to the boot menu. All should be well at this point!
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DOS Syntax
Here's a new DOS command I wasn't aware of:
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Pocket RSS / Syndi
Syndi is.
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.Text My Subscribers
In setting up a .TEXT personal website, I'm trying to extend the functionality of the existing software. Dave Winer has provided an application for users to show what sites they subscribe to, as well as a form to query it. The “My Subscribers” table will show the other subscribers to the site, and how many feeds they have in their shared OPML file.
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XP Security Lockdown
While updating a family computer (you know what that's like ... 15 security updates behind), I realized just how important XP SP2 will be (Paul Thurrott's preview is here.) While it can make initial configuration of some net-enabled apps more difficult (you'll have to add the application), in the end there will be less of those annoying popup programs to clean up on peoples' machines.
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Longhorn Speech - Context Sensitivity
“The language model describes in a statistical fashion the likelihood of specific word sequences occurring at a given time. In other words, what is the probability of the word "America" following the words "United States of"? These statistics are determined by analyzing a large collection of written and spoken text. Because of their statistical nature, they are flexible - any word sequence has some, albeit small, probability of occurring - but lack the rigor required for high recognition accuracy.”
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Fun Tool: ClipboardSwitcher
Everyone has their own set of favorite tools, and I thought I'd add one of mine. Clipboard Switcher is a shareware
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http://www.injurytracker.com/clipboardswitcher/
