Channel 9 - Discussions by brantgurga

The Sandbox - Facebook Outlook Add-in

brantgurga — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:12:52 GMT

I installed this, but I see no Facebook-related user interface in Outlook 2007 afterwards. Is it authored properly to install for all users?

Coffeehouse - Does ReadyBoost really boost performance?

brantgurga — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 23:05:52 GMT

Actually, everything written to the USB stick is written to the regular drive. It is actually designed for performance not power. If it were designed as you claimed, then things would go crazy when you pull the USB stick, but because everything is on the drive, it just reads it from a slower device instead of a faster device when it reads the information back in.

Tech Off - Memory swapping

brantgurga — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 23:01:03 GMT

Just let Windows automatically set the size. It will set a reasonable minimum to avoid the performance problems of a small swap file that grows, but it will allow it to grow so that you don't run out of virtual memory. It is also import to have a swap file so that if your system crashes, a crash dump file will be written. That can then be debugged and/or sent to Microsoft's Online Crash Analysis to determine the cause of the crash.

Tech Off - uint64 and Linux

brantgurga — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:00:28 GMT

Have you tried compiling as C99. I believe GCC's default is to use gnu90, that is, ANSI C with GNU extensions. Try --std=c99 or --std=gnu99 as compiler flags if you have not done so.