The answer is: “Yes!” and “No, never!” or somewhere between. SSD disks has overcome the physical limitations of traditional harddisks. It is actually not a harddisk any more because it doesn’t have a disk. Traditionally when you access a fragmented file the data is scattered around on the disk so the read heads has to move around on… Read More »
A couple of days ago I bought a 60GB SSD disk for my primary computer (home desktop). It made a world of difference. I thought I’d share some info on how disks works and what the differences are. The aim is to keep this post at a level where people with a medium understanding of computers and hardware… Read More »
In this article I thought I’d try to explain the exception: Cross-thread operation not valid: Control ‘someControl’ accessed from a thread other than the thread it was created on. This article is a simplification and applies to WinForm and WPF (though samples are for WinForm). What is the GUI thread? When an application starts the main thread is… Read More »
Windows attempts to auto detect any changes to the plugs in your sound card. That doesn’t work well with my sound card (X-Fi something) so the speakers keep falling in and out randomly. Solution: The sound card drivers are located under the registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class{4D36E96C-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} Search for “EnableDynamicDevices” (located under GlobalSettings somewhere) and set it to 0 (zero).… Read More »
I always thought that when Norton Antivirus ran an “idle scan” it meant it would scan the computer when I was in front of it. But very often I find Norton scanning my disks while I’m sitting in front of my computer. So I thought I’d investigate. It seems I was idle about 8 minutes ago. At that… Read More »
NOTE: Microsoft has released Kinect SDK since this article was written. You probably want that instead of this. :) Much of the stuff I’m doing with Kinect involves two input pictures and one output I figured I’d make a platform to make it easy to test new stuff. The main idea is that I can add multiple modules… Read More »
Yesterday I bought a Kinect and hooked it up to my PC. After a couple of hours of compiling drivers and finally realizing I had to switch USB ports for the camera to work I could start writing code. I used the CLNUIDeviceTest as a base since it already had the lines of code required to pull the… Read More »
Update: As commented by ‘pifcnt’ this is for VS2010 files. Today I had the daunting task of combining multiple solution files into one. The reason for this was that the project I’m working on originally started as multiple separate solutions with shared projects. Now we find it more convenient to have it in a single solution both for automated… Read More »
A few years ago I came across this poem. A must to have in any large project. // // Pointers to pointers to printf()-like functions, // Unary minus and nested conjunctions, // Integers, booleans, characters, strings, // These are a few of my favorite things! // // Encapsuled functions with routines embeded. // Parallel process to run multi-threaded.… Read More »