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February 2008 - Posts

Thursday, February 28, 2008 9:08 AM

A nice surprise and powertoy should be ready on Monday!

I don't want to tip my hand too much or over promise anything, but I have to say that if everything comes together on Monday we will have a new addition to go along with powertoys. I will only say for now (teaser) that I have a powertoy almost ready to
Posted by JohnGuin | 5 Comments
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 9:35 AM

Grief with the Gateway

I got my Gateway to replace the Lenovo which had given me problems. The Gateway had been working great until today - nothing exciting like the random failures the Lenovo exhibited. It simply would not power on. What can you do at that point? No fan, no
Posted by JohnGuin | 4 Comments
Monday, February 25, 2008 7:01 AM

Paper wins again

  I received an email a week or so ago from Jeffrey and he made this comment: "I have TODO lists in Outlook, OneNote, and in my back pocket at all times, with the latter being the most effective (go figure). " I agree with him about the
Posted by JohnGuin | 7 Comments
Thursday, February 21, 2008 7:30 AM

Some soon to be updated documentation for napkin math

I had an old machine give out on me earlier this week. The memory on it had started giving parity errors, and the hard drive finally went out completely - fdisk simply would not even run any more. This particular machine had been the machine I use to
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Monday, February 18, 2008 7:05 AM

Automation tasks for the OneNote test team

Right now we have a little bit of spare "bandwidth" to complete some automation tasks which have been building up over the last few months. The lingo around here never lets us refer to spare time: we always call someone who has a few free hours to spare
Posted by JohnGuin | 3 Comments
Thursday, February 14, 2008 9:17 AM

Performance testing with OneNote continued

My last update was about indirect performance testing of OneNote when I was creating the Gutenberg addin. That was an example of some bare minimum performance testing - using a stopwatch and built in memory tracking tools (Task Manager) to measure performance.
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Monday, February 11, 2008 9:03 AM

Testing OneNote performance with huge amounts of text on a page

I was reading the newsgroups a few weeks ago and saw this question : "Will onenote run better if I keep my pages shorter?" OneNote performance is pretty good overall, but I had also noticed when I was creating my Project Gutenberg importer that things
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