I personally know how difficult and overwhelming it can be to have a system that is bugchecking commonly without any clue as to why it is. Well - I came across this TechNet article on MSDN that people in that situation can utilize to at least start the debugging process and to get them on their way to success. That article has both a list of the bugchecks that are built into the kernel as well as a...

Alexander has posted a FAQ on HORM (hibernate once resume many) at his blog. These are some of the questions raised during his MEDC presentation last week. - Andy

It's Thursday morning, 9am, at MEDC 2006 here in Las Vegas. I am at the Cabana checking e-mail and on-hand to answer questions about XP Embedded. So far there has been no one coming through the Cabana, just a slow trickle of people on their way to the breakfast tables (probably the function at the Tao Nightclub last night is having an effect on the numbers of people up bright and early this morning...

At the devcon this week, during Lynda's session on "Take a deep dive into Device Update Agent", a question came up which migrated to a discussion on servicing HORM and the need to dismount other volumes on the system when the hiberfile is created. Here is a really good white paper with sample code on the subject of dismounting other volumes for this scenario. And here is a great utility called...

Recently, while running some performance benchmarks, on a lark, I decided to run them on a faster PC. It was a lark, because, I figured faster would be faster and would not provide me with more insight. But 35% is a lot faster and is worthy of further consideration. So for your consideration; the first machine, "S1", I ran the benchmarks on has dual 2.2GHz Xeon processors and 1GB RAM (RDRAM). The...

If you've never been to Vegas before, they get you with the vegas experience as soon as you hit the airport. They have slot machine lounges to squeeze every last quarter out of you before you leave and as soon as you step off the plane. How cool is that? Even the baggage claim area has neon lights, look in the overhead at the top of the support columns in this pic I took yesterday on my phone (sorry...

I'm a couple days late calling out the sessions Lynda, Shabnam and I are doing but better late than never. Here's the list, see you there! EMB324 - Automating your XP Embedded build processes Speaker: Lynda Allen Tuesday, May 9 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM Have you been dreaming about automating the XPe runtime build process in place of using Target Designer for everything? Do you prefer to script everything...

Check out Wade Simmons' blog , he's blogging in realtime as he's sitting in XPe sessions and checking out events. I met Wade in Sean Liming's Hands On Lab walking attendees through the E2E process of building, deploying and booting configurations. And definitely check out Mike Hall's blog , it was a given he'd be blogging everything. He's wearing the "i'm blogging this" shirt and running around...

Devcon starts Monday with the pre-con sessions, the keynote will be Tuesday and is the official kickoff for MEDC 2006. If you haven't signed up, there's still time! Click the MEDC button on the left of this page for details; it's being held at the Venetian this year . If you're attending, I'd like to meet with you, talk about your devices, what you need from us to be more productive, what you think...

Here’s a great tutorial on flash memory I found while perusing one of my favorite publications EETimes . In addition to providing a nice comparison between NAND and NOR flash devices, a very thorough description of the operation of NAND devices is provided. While the second half of the article might be more detail than anybody but a device driver engineer would need to know, the first half has some...