The code-base that I am currently working with consists of a large set of binaries that are all signed. The savvy .NET devs out there will know that any assembly that’s used/referenced by a signed assembly must also be signed.
This is an issue when dealing with third-party libraries that are not signed. Sometimes you’ll be [...]
I’ve been meaning to blog about this for well over a year now, but for some reason I never got round to it. This came up in conversation the other day with a couple of workmates and it prompted me to revisit the issue.
Have you ever fired up an application on Windows XP and got [...]
Before I even started using Vista, I hated UAC. I read about it all over the place, and laughed at the stupidity involved in asking users to constantly “cancel or allow” every action they wanted to take. As soon as I was forced to use Vista for work (both on my work laptop and on [...]
This may come as a surprise, but living in Australia can have it downsides Right now I can only think of one, and that’s (part of) the reason for this post.
We may have constant sunshine, lovely beaches and a lifestyle to die for, but our broadband just sucks. That’s a fairly sweeping statement, so [...]
When I started my new gig on the 15th of this month, I was handed a new laptop to do all my work on. It’s a nifty little gadget with 3GB RAM! Very schmick. There was one catch..
… see, the company is migrating to Vista, which means I have to use it too. A while [...]
Microsoft’s Automatic Update feature has always been annoying. I don’t care who you are, none of you can possibly say that it’s not annoying I thought that it wasn’t possible for it to become any more annoying than it already is, but today I was proved wrong.
My main gripe was that almost regardless of [...]
I’m sure that everyone knew that this was going to happen at some stage. Whether or not they believed it’d happen so quickly is another matter. Either way, it’s official, the new wonderdumpling operating system from Microsoft has been cracked. Aparently the activation and installation of the whole thing has been bypassed, and it’s available [...]
As a final post for today, I just got sent this classic Google Video from Dan over at Shifty. It’s pretty funny!
Having said that, I’m sure that most devs know how tough something like voice recognition can be to build. Try demoing something like this to the world, it’d be an absolute nightmare! I [...]
I just thought I’d add this last post as a bit of food for thought before signing off today. This link comes from a bloke who’s been through the pain of wanting to move away from Windows, only to find that the results were just as, if not more, painful than sticking to what he [...]
OK, so it looks like I might have been misinformed (er… wrong :)) by stating that the basic versions of Vista can’t be installed on VMs. That’ll teach me not to read the licencing details properly myself! It looks like it was a slight misunderstanding of the terms and structure that MS used in stating [...]
