If you are a software developer, it´s quite frequent that applications crash when thery´re not finished. If you usually open the task manager to take a look, you´ve probably noticed that a process called dw20.exe kicks in everytime an app crash.Well I honestly still don´t know if that process was the cause, but since I installed vista, application crashes were very slow to recover. I´ve been googling...
Howto set an InitialDirectory to FolderBrowserDialog
If you still don´t know, this might be useful:The FolderBrowserDialog that comes boundled with .Net doesn´t have a InitialDirectory property. Maybe that´s why so many programs make us navigate through a hunderd folders again and again.Well, making the FolderBrowserDialog to pre-select a folder is piece of cake. Just do the following:this.folderBrowserDialog1.RootFolder = Environment.SpecialFolder.MyComputer;this.folderBrowserDialog1.SelectedPath...
1962 Volkswagen T1 beats Porsche and Aston Martin
Imagine you are a rich guy. Or even better, imagine you are a poor programmer that suddenly sells it´s software to a big company by, let´s say, 140.000 euros.You will obviously want to leave the freak group of your town, become popular and a well known computer geek. The first step is to buy a decent car... let´s say: a nine-eleven or an Aston Martin. What´s next?Easy. Take it into Nürburgring for...
MMC cannot open the file XXX.msc
A copule of weeks ago, my home machine started to show a weird behavior. Suddenly, both Diskeeper nor the normal windows defrag.msc didn´t work.The message was something like:"mmc cannot open the file XXX.MSC. This may be because the file does not exist,is not an MMC console, or was created by a later version of MMC. This may also because you do not have sufficient access rights to the file "Right,...
Encuentro NavarraDotNet con Unai Zorrilla y el Maligno
Esta tarde, a las 18:30, se celebrará un nuevo encuentro de NavarraDotNet en el que podremos disfrutar de la compañía de Unai Zorrilla (MVP Compact Framework)Os paso la info:Evento: Unai Zorrilla viene a la 3º quedada de NavarraDotNet 2.0!!Día: jueves, 10 de enero de 2008;hora: 18:30Lugar: Centros de Excelencia de Software. Polígono Industrial Mocholi. Plaza CEIN. NoainOrganiza: NavarraDotNet con...
Los comerciales de Dell utilizan nicknames castizos... Me Parto!
No se si es impresión mía, pero cada vez estoy más convencido de algo que es francamente inquietante:"Los comerciales de Dell utilizan nicknames castizos"Ja jaaaaaa... es que me parto.Quizá era tartamudeo agudo, pero hubiera jurado que el comercial que me atendió hace un par de meses no era español. A pesar de que su email era Daniel_Rodriguez@dell.com. Yo pensé... "quizá sea hijo de españoles o latinos,...
XNA session. Iñaki Ayucar + Javier Cantón. Microsoft CodeCamp 2007
En este link podeís encontrar algunos vídeos que grabó Ander en el CodeCamp del 2007 que MSFT organizó en Huelva. Más concretamente, el de la charla que dimos Javier Cantón y yo sobre XNA, en baja y alta resolución.Saludiñ...
History
In 1976, a new supercomputer designed and developed by Seymour Cray and it´s team (Cray Research) was announced. It was the Cray-1. The first unit was installed in Los Alamos National Laboratory for $8.8 million, could perform 133 megaflops (millions of floating point operations per sec.) and had 8...
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