Why Micro$oft products suck badly ?

The answer is pretty simple. Cause they were made to be sold, no as a primary platform a human person can keep, work, use it for a long time. This is economy in fact, progress. But how would you call it “progress” when even the developer tools are bugged no matter what service packs they produces released.

Let me be straigth. I was working in the past days to GPS server platform (a new one). Project went perfectlly till about 80% when taaa-daaa blue screen. I was like WTF !!! “Windows fucked me again !”. I restart, after a long period of waiting to load i can log in. “Wonderfully !”, i said. I open Visual Studio ’08 and trying to load project so i can finish my work. Again blue screen ! I follow same shitty restart steps and again, i open VS08. I open another project. Works !!! I try to open my project, blue screen.

Went outside smoking and trying to think what options i got. Ummm…only one: reinstall OS, VS08. Bad stuff is that i got like 30GB of pictures on my main drive. The second one is also full with movies i took in my holidays. Lazy to burn them down(You should imagine that). Suddenly, an ideea. What if…(this is how all good things start, isn’t it ?) i create a new project, i copy/paste the code and after i remake the design. Would take me less time !! Did that, works now !

Now, this was just a story of what happend and how i manage it. But after, i search on Google for the error i used to get when blue screen. Simple explanation from Micro$oft: “Windows or Memory problem.” that made me be like O_O. WTF !! can’t be memory, but let me test it. I put memory on another PC, worked like a charm. No problem at all. Put it back, reinstalled Win, VS08, .NET Framework. Open project…guess…blue screen.

Uninstalled .NET Framework, open project, no error but this doesn’t help me at all. What might be ? For shure not what the Micro$oft guyz are saying.

Windows Vista – Boot faster

First thing you should do is always get rid of your temporary files and any unused programs. Once you have done that then run the defrag tool to reorganize your hard drive. Defragmenting your files puts them back into one contiguous space on your drive optimizing your boot time.

To get Vista’s defrag tool to give you some information about your hard disk, and to control which hard disk or partition it defragments, you will need to use the command line defragmentation utility. It will still not give you any feedback while defragmenting, just as the GUI version of the defragmenter will not, but at least you can get information on the fragmentation level of your hard disk, control whether to defragment even if the file fragments are larger than 64 MB, and control which partition or hard disk to defragment.

To use the command line defrag tool in Windows Vista, you have to run the Command Prompt as an administrator. In Vista, this is not automatic even if you are logged in as the administrator. Click the Windows button (previously the Start button in earlier versions of Windows), the All Programs menu item and the Accessories menu item. Right click the “Command Prompt” button and select “Run as administrator”. A command prompt window will appear. Everything you run in this Window will be run with administrator rights.

To view a file fragmentation analysis of (say) your C: drive, type:

defrag c: -a -v

The “-a” parameter tells the defragger to perform a fragmentation analysis. The “-v” option tells it to be verbose in its report. If you want a report on drive D: or some other drive, substitute that drive letter in place of c:.

To defragment a particular drive, say C:, type:

1. defrag c: -v -r

   The “-r” option tells the defragmentation utility to treat files that are fragmented with 64 MB fragments or larger as though they are not fragmented. This partial defragmentation is the default for “defrag”, and it’s the only way the GUI defragmenter in Vista works.

   You can also force the defragmenter to defragment everything. That is, even if the file fragments are larger than 64MB, the Vista defragmenter will still attempt to put the file into contiguous sectors. To do this, run the defragger with the following options:

   2. defrag c: -v -w

   As you have probably have guessed, “-w” tells the Vista defrag tool to do a full defragmentation. All file fragments will be consolidated where possible.

   You will still not get any feedback as to the progress of the defragmentation with the command line tool, just as you did not with the GUI version. However, at the beginning and the end of the defragmentation, “defrag” with the “-v” option will give a report, much like the old Windows XP GUI defragmentation utility. Again, though, it will not report fragmented files with 64 MB fragments (or larger) as being fragmented.

Please NOTE: With the command line method there is no progress bar so you just have to sit and wait for it to finish.

If defragging doesn’t really help your boot performance then you should at least see improvement in your application load times when the operating system is finally booted up.

Also there is one quick edit to the registry that can make Vista shut down quicker than you can say “shut down.” Those not comfortable with delving in to the registry had better not proceed because making a mistake here could (and usually does) mess up your system bad.

At the Start Menu, type “regedit” without the quotes in the search box and hit Enter. Find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control and go to the Control folder, right click the entry “WaitToKillServiceTimeout” and set the value to something lower, 1000 is usually good (the numbers represent milliseconds). The default value is a (too) generous 20000. However, the cost with this is that it won’t give running programs much time to save data so losing work using the tweak is a definite possibility.

Windows XP / RAID 1/ drivers

Yesterday, i was trying to install Windows XP Professional on a server. I prepared the hardware, connect those 2 hard drives in RAID 1 (mirroring), got the drivers from Intel’s website and here we go, i got prepared to install stuffs.

Everything went great till that moment. We got licensed Windows XP Service Pack 1. Well, don’t know how many of you know, but SP1 has no SATA/RAID drivers support. I installed 3′rd party drivers, but again, when he reached copying files into temporary hard disk folder, BAM !, insert the CD with appropriate drivers. How could i do that if when it loads them, it asks for a floppy disk !!! and now he’s looking for CD. Well, i managed it out. Skipped copying those files, enter again in repair console mode, then copy the files to System32/drivers and Inf folders under Windows directory.
Everything is great, till BAM ! again. Error after loading mup.sys. In fact, can be some reasons of the error: ACPI Enable in BIOS, SATA driver, RAID driver, Video Card… I got confused and mad. I got all drivers from Intel website, and guild my own unattended Windows version.
Works like a charm ! Congrats to me !

Well the day haven’t passed over so fast. I’m still after some SDK for mouse gesture recognition. I need to make a PHP date site, in fact, a community-dating portal; i have some other mate waiting for the images and text for a website to do.

Been thinking…all the Trojans, Rats are using internet communication for sending data from your computer. How would be, if will use Bluetooth communication. You infect your girlfriend for example, for example, power your laptop next to her PC/Laptop then, start the client who automatically will download all the collected data. Amazing ! No anti-virus/trojan/spyware/malware will detect this. I’ll try build something like that, well, when I’m gonna have some spare time.

Back to my business, i wanna recommend some sites for some of you, sites i have found useful on today’s work, on everyday life, in fact, in lots of things.

First, Steve Pavlina will explain us the “10 reasons you should never get a job“. It’s a well made article, great one in fact.

Then, Veerle’s blog. Another great place for web design and development tutorials and examples.
And in the end, magnificent article from The Future of the Web: “Freelancing: First eight months“.

If you need a change in life, want something better, no more stress, under payment and you have the capabilities to do that, do it. Freelancing is one of the best job ever. More profitable. Time+Money/4-10 hours/day > 5.