Archive for October, 2004

Ho il mio Media Center 2005!

Posted on the October 29th, 2004 under Life by Marco Trova

Sono riuscito a far funzionare Media Center 2005 sul mio pc.

Il mio sistema:

Barebone Asus T2P-Deluxe con P4 2,8Ghz, 1Gb di RAM e HD 120Gb
Tastiera e mouse wireless Logitech Cordless Desktop MX
Scheda TV Hauppauge WinPVR 250 MCE Amity
Nvidia DVD Decoder 
Telecomando radio SnapStream FireFly

Quanto ho speso? Molto meno dei prodotti in commercio, come ad esempio questi.

Hauppage Personal Video Recorders support per Media Center 2005

Posted on the October 27th, 2004 under Life by Marco Trova

Li aspettavo..

Sono finalmente usciti i drivers delle fantastiche schede hauppage WinTV PVR per Windows XP Media Center 2005.

[Software for the WinTV-PVR's under Windows XP Media Center Edition]

Activate ‘Full Screen Mode’ During your Source Code Editing

Posted on the October 26th, 2004 under .NET by Marco Trova

Okay, I admit this is a rather lame tip which can hardly qualify as ‘insightful’, however this is one of my favorite features of Visual Studio .NET (as well as previous editions of the Visual Studio product line) which many folks are (surprisingly) unaware of. Under the View menu you will find a menu item named ‘Full Screen’. When activated, the only window displayed will be the active document. This is especially helpful for those working on low resolution monitors, given that the size of your code window can shrink dramatically if you have too many windows docked within the IDE. To escape from full screen, just click the Full Screen button floating over your code window.

[Andrew Troelsen]

Trenitalia tecnologies..

Posted on the October 20th, 2004 under Life by Marco Trova

Ho notato con stupore che i controllori di Trenitalia hanno in dotazione un bel Qtek 2020 per emettere i biglietti “Ticketless” con la stampantina Bluetooth attaccata alla cintura..

Oggi, con sorpresa, il controllore ha tirato fuori dalla sua borsa una bella forbice per togliere dalla stampante lo scontrino..

che ridere..

Project ‘XXXX’ could not be opened beacuse the Microsoft Visual C# .NET compiler could not be created. Please re-install Visual Studio.

Posted on the October 14th, 2004 under Life by Marco Trova

Grazie. Non so ancora perchè è successo. Ma il risultato è che mi tocca rifare la macchina. sgrunt.

Gmail Agent API v0.5 / Mail Notifier & Address Importer

Posted on the October 13th, 2004 under .NET by Marco Trova

An open source Gmail API written for the .NET framework, and a proof of concept Windows application built on top of that API that provides basic remote Gmail functions.

[Gmail Agent API v0.5 / Mail Notifier & Address Importer]

Any fool can write code..

Posted on the October 11th, 2004 under Life by Marco Trova

“Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.” – Martin Fowler, Refactoring

Ars Technica – Redesign FAQ

Posted on the October 11th, 2004 under .NET by Marco Trova

Q. Why did you change over from Linux?

A. This is a loaded question, so we’ll be brief. Ars started out on Windows NT back in 1998, but shortly after that we moved to FreeBSD, and then later, Linux. We ran Linux until March of 2004, when we made the move to Windows Servers. Linux and Apache had served us quite well, but when we turned to look at building our new CMS, .NET was simply so attractive for our needs that we felt it warranted the switch. If there are enough requests, we may do an article later documenting our thought process, but for now I’ll say that the decision was largely a programming one, with the added benefit of the fact that more of us support Windows in our real lives than Linux.