This is an excerpt from an excellent book that I am currently reading: It's no surprise that people who are faced with choices about how to influence others will often base their decisions on thinking that's grounded in fields such...
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This is another variation on my previous sloppy programming post. When something potentially dangerous is displayed on TV then we hear them say "Do try this at home". Well for this kind of sloppy programming I say "Don't try this...
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It seems that lately I have been having a peak of digital troubles, which I have come to call "Digital Misfortunes". These are situations where programs or computers do not behave in the expected way and I have to utilize...
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Now this is a really tough one...I was checking my blog statistics as usual and all of a sudden noticed that there was a pattern that I just couldn't explain... No way...Why is it that my stats skyrocket (double the...
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Hi all,I have been using an antivirus/firewall product on 4 of my computers, 2 desktops and 2 laptops, for more than a year without any troubles and was more than happy for the money I paid for it.However at some...
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Well, although my overall opinion for Vista is kind of on the positive side, there are far too many things that I consider just BROKEN. One of those areas is the silly USB stick. Before Vista, I used to plug...
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You might find this Vista tip useful from George Adamopoulos' blog. Have Fun! Dimitris Staikos
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Dude, it seems that some things are made by sadists... It can't be explained otherwise... Before explaining the horrors I will give you a tip that I think you will find useful. Typing the following line in a BAT file:...
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Hell, it seems that the Apple incident inspired me after all and I got our SBP2 bug down :-) That was a tough nut to crack. The SBP2 driver was failing with a sample 4TB external hard drive, actually giving...
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I am sick and tired of hearing all the newly enlightened Apple enthousiasts about how cool Apple and Macs are. Everything is so cute! Everything "just works"! Everything is so fast! Everything is so well designed! Hallucinations can be really...
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As I described in one of my previous posts, there is a special kind of fatal error called NMI error, a form of ultra fatal error that Windows users don't encounter as often as the infamous Blue Screen of Death...
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Last night I came across a dialog box in Vista that I found to be incredibly funny. Take a look (I hope the text is readable in the 30% reduced image, otherwise click on the image to view full size):...
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Hell, I am furious! I come to work on a bloody Saturday, to review some code so that we can release our new product on time and I stumble twice on one of the most basic coding crimes when it...
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This is a very important issue that I would like to inform you about today. There is a branch of physics that deals with the concept of "New Energy". This branch of physics is not recognized by the "scientific establishment"...
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My good friend George Adamopoulos extended this invitation to me, so here is an overview of my desktop at work: So what can we see here? On the right is my main workstation, with two monitors of course. The monitors...
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Inner change is an issue that has in one way or the other occupied the mind of each of us, at one point or another in our lives. Becoming better persons, better partners, finding what we really want and following...
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I've been feeling a bit recursive the past days, so I thought I should try to explain the word "explain". Let's start by seeing what the infamous online dictionaries propose: Cambridge: To make something clear or easy to understand by...
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This is yet another of those "Explorer Copy Estimated Time" bugs, but not THE "Explorer Copy Estimated Time" bug that gets fixed by the KB938979 hotfix MS released (described here). I've always found the concept of estimating the remaining time...
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Given that we all need to relax a bit these special days, I won't blog about Writing Debuggable Code yet. Rather I thought I should share a photo I shot almost two years ago, when my son was just 19...
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Hey man, isn't software boring nowadays? I mean you press OK and you know what will happen, you press Cancel and you once more know what will happen. Boring boring booooring. Thanks to the Allmighties of this world, some guys...
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This is a story that should really tell us something broader about how computers work and how software that controls computers works: Often in weird ways. Often in totally unexpected ways. Often in sadistic ways. Often in seemingly nonsensical ways....
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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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