The Fate of Tyrlon and other Dubious Things

I just started seeing more of these ads lately so I think they are ramping it up some, but Microsoft is doing a fairly interesting ad campaign built around something they call the Mojave Experiment.
If you go to the website you can watch videos of people that they did “user focus testing with”.  The people [...]

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Mozilla has this new project called Mozilla Labs where they post new ideas and request collaboration from people on developing concepts or prototypes for the idea.  One of these concept ideas is a browser called Aurora and is a look at how the idea of browsing may change in the next few years.
The idea itself [...]

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At work I primarily use Windows XP but we also are starting to see more and more Windows Vista machines since a lot of students have them and the University is officially switching over to Vista this fall.  Using Windows XP and Vista both i’ve occasionally encountered issues where an application tries to do something [...]

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Perhaps i’m the only one who runs into this kind of thing on a weekly basis, but I have to write VB Scripts for my job to be able to do fancier things with our systems management appliance.  One of the things that I was messing around with this week was cobbling together a script [...]

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DeedCAD is coming along well, over the weekend we got most of the new system tied in and now just have a few issues with saving/loading and a few more things on the setup window that have to be converted over to DirectX.  I’m getting excited because i’m much more proud of this rendering system [...]

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That when you are working with DirectX you have to specify a BackBuffer width and height that match your client render window area or else you get really strange results such as blurry text, bad translations and odd scaling effects?
Well, I apparently didn’t so I wasted hours upon hours over the last week trying to [...]

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