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Vista RC1 is out!

1September2006GeekTieGuyVista

Build 5600.16384 isÂ the RC1 build of Vista that Microsoft published to select testers on Connect today. It will be more widely available next week. Thanks for reading! It looks like you’re new here. Welcome! If you like what you see, I encourage you to subscribe to my RSS feed. If you’re worried about adding another

Trying out Zooomr for blog photo hosting

27August2006GeekTieGuyPictures

Zooomr has an offer to upgrade bloggers to free pro accounts. I’m wondering how practical that is. So here’s my test post for a photo I took recently while making a visit to Microsoft (and doing some Seattle sightseeing). It’s a reflection of the Space Needle in the Experience Music Project building. IMG_7470 Hosted on

CompositionTarget.Rendering can be a CPU hog

23August2006GeekTieGuy2 CommentsWPF

I ran into an issue where my WPF application would consume about 20% of CPU time just sitting idle on a Page. A question from Tim Sneath led me to investigate an aspect of the app that uses the CompositionTarget.Rendering callback to do some animations that can’t be done in other ways in WPF right

Boeing shuts down in-flight Internet access division

17August2006GeekTieGuy1 CommentOpinion

According to this news.com story, Boeing is shutting down the division that built the in-flightÂ Internet service Connexion by Boeing. One of the airlines that picked up the service was Scandinavian Airlines. They charged $29.95 for Internet access during transatlantic flights. Gee, let’s do some math: The flight from Seattle to Copenhagen probably takes about 12