Archive for the ‘Microsoft’ Category

BSOD on MacBook

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

I was just playing my Curse of the Azure Bonds port, checking that the game can be played through, when Windows ‘Blue Screen of Death’.  It was a very rude feeling, as I have not seen a BSOD for years, well at least that’s how it feels.

I’m feeling really cheated on the gaming front, because I had gotten into the third zone of the fire knives, and hadn’t saved since starting the game, so lost heaps of progress….

At least Windows kept the dump files, and uploaded them so it might get fixed. The next part always make me laugh, you get taken to a Microsoft page where you get told, “sorry there is not a lot we can do about that…” and then they ask if that was helpful…  sure was!

There is an update from Apple for ‘BootCamp Installs’ which is installing right now, but I had to stop playing my game, as the Installer keep grabbing focus, which gets annoying quickly.

Well it wants to reboot now, so I’ll have to go.

It’s back, and now installing Service Pack 3 for XP, so my evening is over.

Installing Visual Studio 2008

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

I have finished now, but I have to say there was something creepy about the two male photos used. One looked too happy and the other too smooth.  What made it worse was that it kept changing and my attention would be pulled to smug guy or happy guy.

Visual Studio 2008 - Happy Guy Visual Studio 2008 - Smooth Guy

I’m not looking forward to having to do a repair, luckily I did a full install, so there are no extra features that I will have to install later……

Windows Live Writer leaves Beta

Friday, November 9th, 2007

Windows Live Write leaves Beta and moves into the bundle-ware stage. This was announced two days ago on the Windows Live Writer blog, but like previous releases, the http://writer.live.com/ URL just redirected you to some crap http://get.live.com/wl/coming_soon page. Luckily the Windows Live Writer blog has a Send Feedback link, so I did just that to tell how crap they are! and promptly gave up on the update.

Today I read that the installer in has a “new” workflow, so tried it out and the URLs all work just fine now. I agree with Kevin that the new installer is pants. In fact it’s like Microsoft wants to reinvent the control panel and have made their own just for Live ™ software.

So I’m not using version 12 of Windows Live Writer, and I’ll see how it goes, but on the whole I’m not impressed with the change to the installation model..

Windows Media Player UI Bug

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

I’m writing my bug report here, as I couldn’t find where to report this bug.  Any insight to where/how to report Media Player bugs would be good to know.

  • When you view you songs in Expanded Tile mode
    Putting Windows Media Player in Expanded Tile mode
  • You get a grey mouse over affect on song titles
    Windows Media Player UI fine
  • But when you have the display horizontally scrolled the mouse over draws to the original position, not the scroll adjusted position.
    Windows Media Player UI bug

Visual Studio 2005 can do directory based search

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

One of the features I thought was lost in Visual Studio 2005, directory/file based searches, is not!

When you bring up Files In Files (Ctrl+Shift+F, Edit.FindinFiles) you can type in the path straight

Find_In_Files

Or you can click on the Epsilon button at the side and select many directories.

Folder_Choosing

Look you can even have named sets.

I take back all those bad word I said about you Microsoft. Well maybe I leave some the table, because it has taken me so long to re-find one of my favorite features.