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Windows Vista Ultimate Signature Edition unboxed

30January2007GeekTieGuy2 CommentsPictures, Vista

Update 2008-02-18: Â It seems like this post is getting a lot of hits, which is kind of odd to me. I suspect it might be because there’s a mention of theÂ phrase “key sticker” in here, so that makes people think I’m publishing my activation key. I’m not. The key is digitallyÂ erased with a bunch of

More on pouring away gas

26January2007GeekTieGuy13 CommentsEnvironment, Personal, Sustainability

This is something I’ve had stuck in my mind ever since I read the book “Stuff: The secret lives of everyday things” (or was it “Natural Capitalism”? I’ve lent out both books right now). Take a wild guess at how much of the energy in the gas you put in your car actually goes towards

Try this search on Google. I promise you’ll be surprised!

26January2007GeekTieGuy2 CommentsEnvironment, Personal, Sustainability

Doing some research for an illustration I wanted to post on this blog, I typed the following search terms into Google: aluminum can volume. What do you think a search like this would bring you? Try it out yourself. You’ll be as surprised as I was. It’s this: Almost every result talks about how much

Debugging XBAP applications on Vista using Visual Studio 2005

23January2007GeekTieGuy4 CommentsSoftware development, Vista, WPF

I ran into an interesting little quirk with Visual Studio 2005 on Vista yesterday. I was trying to start an XBAP debugging session from VS (using the F5 key), and none of my breakpoints got triggered. Upon exiting the IE instance that hosts PresentationHost.exe, VS considered the session as still “running”. I had set my

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Windows Vista Ultimate Signature Edition unboxed

More on pouring away gas

Try this search on Google. I promise you’ll be surprised!

Debugging XBAP applications on Vista using Visual Studio 2005