Here are some interesting news items: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/is-intel-delaying-usb-30-to-give-light-peak-an-advantage/8493?tag=nl.e539 http://www.techeye.net/hardware/usb-3-0-the-misery-continues Intel pushed USB 3.0 chipset integration into 2012. Why? As we say in Greek, "Who is crying 'miaou miaou' on the roof top?" (a cat of course)... LightPeak of course. Intel knows..
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What is the problem with the Greek people? What is the 'curse' of the Greeks that got them into this situation? A lot of people ask me, because I live abroad and I happen to be Greek. What do I...
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I watched EX last "night" in the airplane... My goodness, this movie is so hilarious, I just hope my hysteric laughter was not a big annoyance to the other passengers. Of all the lines in the movie, here is my...
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Oh I feel so happy whenever I solve yet another mystery in the wonderful ways that Windows works :-) So happy that I desperately need to blog about it :-P Last year I bought a ThinkPad laptop with Windows Vista....
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The FireWire Reference Tutorial was officially announced a few days ago by the 1394 Trade Association. This is a free guide to help engineers understand FireWire and it teaches FireWire starting from scratch. It assumes no prior knowledge. The tutorial...
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Today I was literally saved by the bell... or rather saved by my RAID10. When I bought my latest workstation I decided it would pay off to spare no expense, while trying to stay out of the "Game Machine" zone....
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Very recently a good friend of mine, Prof.Vasilis Vassalos, made a comment on Facebook about Parkinson's law by referring to this article. Parkinson's law says that all work expands to fill all time available for its completion. This has be...
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Last week I told you about the forthcoming news on 1.6 Gbps and 3.2 Gbps FireWire. Now, here is the official press release from DAP Technology!!! Have fun! Dimitris Staikos
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Two weeks ago I visited the Vision Show 2009 exhibition in Stuttgart, Germany. Two very important things happened there with regards to FireWire (IEEE 1394) technology. DAP Technology made a demo of their S1600/S3200 solution. That's 1.6Gbps and 3.2Gbps respectively....
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I recently watched a recorded presentation of Prof.Diomidis Spinellis, author of a couple of world famous books on programming, like "Code Quality". At some point Mr.Spinellis discussed the issue of program optimization and mentioned some famous quotes related to this...
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Today I was walking the streets of downtown Stuttgart in Germany and of all things possible, I was looking for a post office. I was given some directions by some friendly local, but I still couldn't find it. So I...
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For days now Vista has been bugging me about an update that just would not install (KB967723). Even if I would shutdown the machine, it would just try and fail. And not simply fail... but give me an amazing error...
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Hi I always had a strange fascination about batch files in Windows. I like automation, but for some reason I don't like using an elephant gun (Perl, Powershell) to shoot a mosquito. Plus I like the automation stuff to work...
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QUIZ You can tell that something is wrong when: Something that usually takes half an hour is not finished after 5 hours OR Yet another piece of technology is functioning in unintended ways. A couple of days ago I read...
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I had some trouble today with the Windows 7 WDK when I tried to install a driver on the checked build of Windows Vista x86. Actually I found the answer after searching around a little bit, but since all the...
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More than words can say... ntStatus is declared as DWORD or anything equivalent to unsigned long. Works both for Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2005. Fare well Error Lookup ;-) Have Fun! Dimitris Staikos
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Compared to the average person I would probably rank as a pretty experienced computer user. This unfortunately means (and that’s not Windows specific) that I am often expected to take irrational actions in order to produce the desired outcome. Lately,...
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I am in nirvana... I am in an ecstasy... I have walked the path of no return... Finally, after all my computing years, my never ending quest for Promised Land has come to an end. I have solved my most...
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Oh dear... This article at http://www.ms...
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Hi everyone, Some weeks ago I posted a link to some Firewire informational videos. Now there is an insiders' blog about the history and business decisions that affected Firewire's development, written by the man himself, James Snider the Executive Director...
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This is a superb book that I picked up for a second reading. I own a used copy but with some effort you might find it somewhere: The Book of est on wikipedia The Book of est on Amazon Here...
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Hi all, The 1394 Trade Association (www.1394ta.org) recently started a series of Firewire informational videos on YouTube. These are like "video FAQs", not full fledged tutorials. However, these videos are not made by "self-proclaimed" experts but by the 1394 Trade...
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Happy New Year everyone :-) Although I planned to kick off with a much more inspiring article, I finally couldn't help it. I bumped onto a Digital Misfortune of such proportions that it was just impossible to resist the temptation....
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Macros in C/C++ is an extremely powerful feature, basically one I can't live without. The use of macros has been widely debated and mostly they are labeled as 'evil', as a no-no. This is the usual moral dillema that shows...
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Yeah sure... Sleep tight and noone is gonna rock your boat, at least while you are sleeping in it. This is a very luring statement. The reason it is so luring is that it is so obviously true. Or is...
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