Ignore as appropriate (IAA). A big weekend of sport requires a big post, no? This weekend I managed to cover the Rugby World Cup (Aus v Wales and Canada v Fiji) as well as a few NFL games (although, not many since the televised games were all pretty one […]
Guten Tag, Salut and G’day. The blog here has officially just clocked over 5,000 unique hits since the inaugural post last year (it’s almost 12 months.. time flies). That’s not a huge amount of traffic if you’re a site like http://www.microsoft.com, but for my own wee little blog with its […]
So, another shameless slashdot repost, since it concerns copyright and also because it’s one of my personal bugbears.From AECNews comes this interesting article about AutoDesk Inc (makers of AutoCAD) who invoked the holy Digital Millennium Copyright Act to have copies of AutoCAD removed from sale on the popular auction site […]
Hiya, If you’re unlucky enough to be working with IIS 5.1 under Windows XP Pro, you’ll no doubt be aware that out-of-the-box it doesn’t support multiple websites. Luckily, IIS does ship with a number of administrative VB script files which allow you to modify the IIS metabase as well […]
Hi Gamers, So partly based on feedback from an earlier post, I’ve formulated a sort of workaround for the simulation freeze/lockup issue in Madden NFL 2008. Basically, I’ve been able to *easily* reproduce this bug so accurately, it’s like clockwork (EA should be embarrassed). The Problem: In […]
Continuing the ongoing and exciting Mini Project series with Part 2 – setting up the project… Right, so now that you have Visual Studio and at least Windows Media Player 10 installed, start a new Windows Application Project. You can call it whatever you like, but I’ve gone […]
Okay, it’s time for……. Madden 2008 (XBOX 360) : The Good, The Bad and The UGLY Hi to all. I’ve been playing Madden NFL Football for over ten years on various consoles (PC/PlayStation/PS2/xbox/xbox360). Last year I made the switch from the xbox to the xbox 360 (to take advantage […]
Nick Randolph posted this to the aus-dotnet mailing list today: Anyone interested in doing any form of mobile or embedded development should head over to the OpenNETCF community site (http://community.opennetcf.com). This site has just been launched and they are currently working to migrate the existing OpenNETCF forums across. […]
OK, I’m just about ready to lose it. I’ve had Madden 08 since the Friday before last and the game has locked up about 30 – 40 times. Last night *I COULD NOT SIM ANY GAMES* (I tried about 7 times with 7 hard resets). Yes, that’s right. When you […]
So this week I’m concerned with what has become of Australia as APEC gets underway at the Opera House, in Sydney. But first: on Saturday night I went and saw the third Bourne movie, the Bourne Ultimatum. Now, why is it that when someone has a cold, they decide, […]
Well, hi all. This is the first of a new brand of Tech posts. I’ll be attempting to walk through steps to creating some projects for various nefarious uses. This Mini Project focuses on re-using Media Player by hosting the WMP COM Control in a .Net Framework WinForms application. Overview […]
From the good people at Ars Technica comes this weeks’ bogus US legal ruling, which originated from a court case pitting the Motion Picture (MPAA) against well known BitTorrent site, TorrentSpy.com which is based in Europe: "Judge Cooper took issue with TorrentSpy’s argument that data in RAM is not […]
Hi Readers, This week I am on assignment in Melbourne helping out the team here with some requirement and architecture analysis. Internet access was down for a time, so I was unable to post any updates. This has now changed. I was going to do a series this week in […]
Game Platform: Xbox 360 @ 1080p w/h surround sound Well, the movie was pretty good so I figured it was worth the risk to see if the game followed suit.Wrong. For a "top shelf" game, I can’t see it avoiding the bargain bin for long. Certainly after the movie […]
G’day. So yesterday I tore out some more hair trying to duel with Subversion (SVN). I’m not using the Ankh Visual Studio plugin (as yet). What ended up happening was that somehow SVN got the idea that I wanted to delete a Web.config file. Somehow it got committed, and […]