Νοέμβριος 2007 - Δημοσιεύσεις
It just occurred to me recently that most people don't really have a clue about what it is that Device Driver Developers (DDDs) do for a living. Since I am a DDD myself, among other things, I thought I should...
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I am in a fancy mood tonight, so I thought I could share some personal stuff. Based on the photo below I have some first indication that my son will get involved in the same profession that both his dad...
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Well, sometimes software engineers can get really inventive. And when that happens usability goes down the drain. Here is a one-of-a-kind dialog box, a monument of inventiveness: A question on the dialog caption? On the dialog caption for heaven's shake???...
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I am a device driver developer and Unibrain, the company I work for, produces what's called a software stack. In plain text this means several pieces of software that are layered, one on top of the other. Each piece uses...
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Jochen Kalmbach RULES! I don't need to say much more :-) Dimitris Staikos
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This post marks the beginning of a new category of posts: Funny Software. I work in the software business, and I often get into weird situations when trying to do my work or simply have fun with the computer. These...
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Finally, on my 7th day being in Taipei I found the time for a visit to the infamous Taipei 101 currently the highest building in the world :-) So I will add it to my list of "Been there, Done...
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Do you want to play a really nasty joke on your good friend? Well, here's the deal: When a Windows computer has booted in DEBUG mode (/DEBUG and friends in boot.ini entry) then pressing PrintScreen causes a kernel breakpoint, bringing...
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Suppose that you have a thingy called something like "Minimum Amount of Time that must elapse after the occurrence of event X before Event Y is allowed to occur". Now you want to turn this thingy into a setting in...
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