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Hi… mostly all of us have the one or the other old PC, sometimes assembled, mostly disassembled. Why not putting new live in the old machine?? Well, I would suggest a nice weekend project called “Install Home Server”. Step 1: Get the software - http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Windows-Home-Server-URP1/dp/B001E5Q8CO
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Hi… most US citizens see in the term Jet Blue the airline. Some others (like me) remember there was something called Jet Blue and Jet Red…remember?? Jet – A database engine So JET – once for Joint Engine Technology – was a database engine used within
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Hi… this is a cool video series about the history of Microsoft… http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/History/The-History-of-Microsoft-1975/ Now I learned why BASIC starts to print out OK instead of READY when it actually is Ready. Because it saves 3
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Hi… I observed this tool quite some time now and it convinces me more every day. First download it and try it yourself: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/devlabs/cc950524.aspx What you will find is an easy to use development environment with some very compelling
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Hi… ok, I studied Physics and as you can imagine all of my homeworks were full of formulas and stuff. I did it with LaTeX… Now here is Windows 7 and it comes with a killer feature: Math Entry Pad By using my TabletPC I have written this formula above.
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Press Play to start ;-) Music by Roberto Winckler / Video by Oliver Scheer CU @ XTOPIA / TechSummit 0xff
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Hi… you might have seen what my team does and you might have asked yourself – while reading our Tweets and blog entries – How on earth would it feel to work in that team?? Well, come and try it yourself ;-) We have an open position to fill and maybe you
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Hi… I did a directx webcast series long, long time ago ;-) That time there was no XNA and we did some managed directx (we mean Dirk Primbs at my side). Since then I get a question once a week: Where are the demos?? For me this means there are still people
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Hi… since I was asked at a barcamp some time ago I kept an eye on a project called Community Clip within Microsoft. Now you can find the tool and the clips here http://communityclips.officelabs.com/default.aspx With the tool it is easy to record from
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Hi... in the IEEE Spectrum 1/08 you can find an article on Greenhouse gas emissions. (see http://spectrum.ieee.org/jan08/5826 ) First I saw this bar chart telling the story that the US lies in the middle between European countries. Then I realized that
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Hi... working in a company like this is great fun... especially with those kinds of products and this kind of people around you. OK, they have beaten me up in Halo 3 ... but it was fun. Here a picture of our stadium in our office: Two XBox 360, two cool
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Hi... I was in Mannheim this weekend for the local bar camp. It was very interesting for me (it was my first to be honest). I have to think about lots of things I heard, I was asked etc. But... I'll be back ;-) Since Lori ( www.on10.net/blogs/lorigros
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Hi... last weekend I was with my parents and as usual my mother wanted to get rid of old things of mine. She showed what she called "an old music player of mine but since I certainly have a new one..." Well, this is an original Sony Walkman WM-31 . It
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Hi... have you ever "surfed away the afternoon"?? I mean sitting in front of your computer, reading blogs and clicking through the web (not to mention looking at senseless video clips...) ?? Now there is a formula behind this: nataliedee.com CU 0xff
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Hi... my colleague Lars Lippert gave me his beloved shirt, Steffen Weh added the nice face to it and we pinned it in the corner of my space. It is some kind of Independant Software Vendor ghost... thank you two so much!!! This present reminds me of the
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