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Feb 01 2010

Top 5 Microsoft FAILs

Sometimes, learning from past mistakes gives us the best tools to prepare for the future. This post might be taken as a flame against MS, but I would love to see similar ones related to Linux, Apple and other major companies like IBM. I would write them...
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Aug 23 2009

Hack your Windows Vista 32 bits to address 4GB or more of RAM

No, the subject is not fake, but as I will explain there is a hidden limitation. After some research, made almost entirely by my friend Lobo666 , the actual limits of Windows Vista 32 memory address are just a licensing imposed limit, not a real one....
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Aug 16 2009

Windows 7: Now we’re talking

I’ve been using Windows 7 RTM for a few days, so I wanted to give my thoughts about it running on my home development laptop (Core 2 Duo 2,2GHz, 2 GB RAM, NVidia 8600M GT). I haven’t tried any betas or RCs previously (mostly because I don’t want to make...
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Aug 01 2009

Your worst enemy: Ignorance

This post will surely appear as a flame for some people, but I can’t avoid talking about it now that I work in a very heterogeneous workplace and I’m part of the smaller slice of Windows users. It started being funny, being asked things like “but Microsoft...
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Jul 23 2009

Review: PC Desktop Cleaner

Today I’m going to review PC Desktop Cleaner , a Windows tool to avoid things like this Windows desktop (real photo from a friend): The interface of this software is quite simple and easy to use. Just a few tabs and buttons, and context menus for some...
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May 26 2009

Tip: Increase user process address space to 3GB (and other misc. tweaks)

If your gaming PC uses Windows XP (or Windows 2003) and you mainly use it for gaming (I have a “dedicated gaming PC” only for that and watching movies/listening to music), you can change one option in the boot.ini file to achieve two goals: Force detection...
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Apr 18 2009

Tip: Logging to a file results of a MSI installation

If you’ve worked creating MSI installers (for example with WiX ) and you’ve built a “silent installer” (one without GUI or wizards), sometimes the error message box or looking at the Windows Event Log is not enough to discern why the installer failed...
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Oct 21 2007

Gamefest 2007 presentations fully available

After some delays we finally can download the full archive of presentations from the XNA Gamefest 2007 Microsoft event. There are a lot of them, covering all aspects of XBox 360, Windows and XNA development, so you should start downloading them right...
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Aug 27 2007

Wired article on Halo 3

Today I've been reading an interesting Wired article about Halo 3 . I strongly recommend to you, because it's very interesting how Microsoft has setup a "gamers lab" to test their responses to playing games. They use in-game data (hot...
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May 27 2007

Offtopic: Windows Boot screens

I can still remember that boot screen... and the ones that followed it. A lot has happened since then... If you wanna get nostalgic, surf to this ZDNet article with screenshots of all the windows splash/boot screens since the 1.01 version up to Vista...
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