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Saturday, May 23, 2009 1:02 PM

Mounting ISO images as a drives on Windows

This week I wanted to try the Windows Automated Installation Kit (AIK) for Windows 7 RC in order to play with the new feature that allows you to boot from VHD files . After I downloaded the WAIK I hit my first stumbling block - it’s distributed as an
Posted by saveenr | 4 Comments
Wednesday, May 20, 2009 8:53 AM

Scripting: Reliably Finding my 32bit EXEs on a 32bit & 64bit OS or Where is IronPython?

Having enough of not being able to use that last 1GB of the 4GB physically available on my machines, I used the recent release of the Windows 7 Release Candidate to move into the world of 64 bit computing. As a typical end-user the transition has been
Posted by saveenr | 1 Comments
Sunday, May 17, 2009 12:09 PM

Typing Polish Accented Characters on a US Keyboard

I’m learning to speak Polish. As someone who enjoys learning challenges I certainly found one in this wonderful language. (And any language that calls November “Listopad” has got to be interesting.)   Generally I create my own study materials whenever
Posted by saveenr | 5 Comments
Wednesday, May 13, 2009 7:35 PM

Visio: Conference Schedule Sample

As a very distributed engineering organization, our teams in Dynamics AX periodically schedule “workshops” that bring team members from our sites worldwide to meet at a single site and learn hands-on about our plans, features, and visions for our areas.
Posted by saveenr | 2 Comments
Sunday, May 03, 2009 9:14 AM

Beautiful New Segoe UI Fonts in Windows 7

After I installed with the Windows 7 Release candidate, I discovered that Windows 7 comes with some additional variants of the Segoe UI font that first shipped in Vista. I love the Segoe UI (and original Segoe font) and so it’s nice to see that we now
Posted by saveenr | 3 Comments
Saturday, May 02, 2009 10:42 AM

Monitoring ReadyBoost on Windows 7

I purchased a Kingston DataTraveller 400 (4GB) to try out ReadyBoost on my Dev workstation. My initial impression is that it has visibly improved application launch time (Visual Studio 2008 was definitely faster – but YMMV). Out of curiosity I had to
Posted by saveenr | 5 Comments
 
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