March 2005 - Posts
Transmeta is making drastic changes in their organization, here’s the scoop from CNET . I knew they were looking for an exit from the CPU market but now it’s more official. Their Efficeon proc was exciting when i got my hands on the first one last Fall,
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In Target Designer, if you have ever selected the "debug" option in the "Build type" dropdown list of the "Build" dialog box you may have experienced some unusual error messages and behavior when you deployed your image. Aside from being frustrating,
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In Windows, it's possible to replace the standard Explorer shell with another shell program, such as the CMD prompt or a custom written shell. What is less commonly known is that there is potential to use Internet Explorer as your shell in an embedded
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Let’s continue the theme of discussing undocumented features in the tools like we did with Database Manager's "/v" switch. A long time ago around Beta1 of Whistler Embedded (Spring of 2000 I think) was the last time Component Designer had the ability
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This " CyberKnife " system (with pic) from Accuray is pretty cool. It uses "...precise diagnostic X-Ray" to target cancerous tumors. There's no blood, no anesthesia and is done on an outpatient basis. This particular device is running XP Embedded with
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You may have already heard that a preview version of Avalon and Indigo is available to download for XP. There is no equivalent component package for XP Embedded, I’m not aware of any requests to componentize it either. If you think you’ll be back porting
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I dream of a day when Windows Embedded can fit into form factors like this article on Slashdot refers to: “ World's Smallest Linux Box Fits in RJ-45 Jack ” (it's an ARM proc). And some of you will chortle and say “keep dreaming”. <grin> Of course,
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Unlike my difficulties over defining the Kiosk device category, defining the Set Top Box is more cut and dry. The information below was collected by browsing dozens of product brochures from 8 different manufacturers, browsing many STB OEM/ISV web sites,
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Over the years, the product team is periodically contacted by different internal Technical Account Managers for some of our premier customers and the conversation goes something like this: TAM: I’ve got this customer and they have this cool device and
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The product team is always concerned with ensuring the scenarios we target mimic “real world” conditions. You can help with this by telling us what components your devices are shipping with. If you’d like to help make future versions of Windows Embedded
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Here's the deal, i have enough topics to blog about for the next several months, but sooner or later the steam in this engine will run out. So I'm looking to our customers or other interested parties to help by suggesting topics of interest to *you*.
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Don’t be fooled by the content of this post, read all the way through to see where I’m going with it, Stewart Tansley would understand, this topic has been debated before. I have respect for these guys and gals at MP3Car.com and other hobbyist sites like
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Here’s a real question from the 'windowsxp.embedded' newsgroup : “I have noticed in TD that some components have resources called "RAWDEP (819)"... How do I create such resources in Component Designer?” OK, here’s the scoop. “RAWDEP” resources are used
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I know Andy has been posting like a fiend to our new Embedded team blog so I am going to jump in while I can. Last week I attended the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) West in San Francisco. I shared the duty of manning the XP Embedded desk in the Microsoft
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Have you ever wanted to delete a component from the database through DBMGR but the visibility was too low? Of course, some of you just go into the SQL table for the dependency database and hack (er, *tweak*) the vis setting for the component to 1000 and
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Woohoo, look at us! We've got our own Windows Embedded Bookstore on MSN. I used to say that there were 2 books you needed to have in your arsenal for XP Embedded development, now there are 3. To recap, if you're new to this environment, do yourself a
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Windows for Devices has its annual survey in progress for 2005, please take a moment to fill it out, it's just 11 questions. Check out the results of the 2004 XPe survey where you had the chance to tell us what's right and wrong with the platform. I'd
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What is a Kiosk? If you asked a hundred embedded developers to think of what the word “kiosk” means to them and asked them to define the software features of a kiosk you’ll likely wind up with dozens of broad answers. My basic definition of a Kiosk is
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Hello world. Since i'd lose karma for doing a "First Post" on Slashdot, let me take this opportunity to do it on our Windows Embedded Team's blog. First Post! Yeah, not original. <grin> But now that it's out of my system, let me first apologize
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