Channel 9 - Discussions by cro

Tech Off - How to play wtv file on Windows 8 ?

cro — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:26:42 GMT

Thanks !

I can understand that they didn't put Media Center in Windows 8 by default. But they should at least put the drivers so that we can watch wtv files without add-ons. Is there a licence that Microsft has to pay for that format?

Tech Off - How to play wtv file on Windows 8 ?

cro — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 04:26:10 GMT

How can I play wtv files on Windows 8? In Windows Media Player only the sound is playing.

Thanks.

Tech Off - W8, HDD make strange noise when resume from sleep

cro — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 17:29:53 GMT

That's what I was affraid of. But I've reinstalled Windows 7, and every things is good. No noise of any kind. I have read some info, and it seem that I should put it in hibernation insted of sleep. But I have not found yet where I can change the settings.

So for now on Windows 8 I just turn it off insted of letting him go to sleep.

Tech Off - W8, HDD make strange noise when resume from sleep

cro — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 16:28:55 GMT

I have installed Windows 8 on my Dell Vostro 430. When resuming from sleep, the HDD make some strange noise. It look like is trying to spin, turn off, and turn back on again. Never done that on Windows 7.

Any idea?

Tech Off - bitmap pixels "upside-down"

cro — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 18:36:03 GMT

Do you have any ideas why the pixels in a bmp file are stored upside-down ?

Coffeehouse - Xbox 360 dashboard

cro — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:19:24 GMT

@magicalclick:what is the name of the theme ? I do have the Bing tab, this is just a screenshot that I have found on the Internet.

If I remember correctly, I have the Xbox 360 theme, the night theme and an Halo 3 theme.

Coffeehouse - Xbox 360 dashboard

cro — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:50:56 GMT

I was surprise by the new dashboard. My dashboard don't look like the picture and preview I have seen on the Internet. But some friends of mine have the clearer look. Any idea how to change it, why do I have the darker one ?

as seen on the Internet

my dashboard look like this

Tech Off - Environment.SetEnvironmentVariable native c++ ?

cro — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 18:54:07 GMT

Is there a function in native c++ that do the same as Environment.SetEnvironmentVariable in c# ?

Tech Off - vcredist_x86 9.0.30729.5570 ?

cro — Thu, 05 May 2011 12:26:23 GMT

Is the Microsoft Visual Studio C++ 2008 Redistribuable - x86 9.0.30729.5570 available for download ? I want to distribute it with my application.

Tech Off - array to matrix in c# ?

cro — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 18:04:25 GMT

Is it possible in c# to transform an array to a matrix with a minimal impact on memory ? Because the array can ben very big.

For exemple:

int[] a = new int[100];
int[,] m = a.ToMatrix(10, 10);

Tech Off - Share a printer with Home Server 2011 ?

cro — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:33:34 GMT

I have install the server from scratch. The printer is a samsung ml 2510 and I have install the win7 driver and I can print from the server. I have install the print server role and after that I have share the printer from the network and sharing center.

Tech Off - Share a printer with Home Server 2011 ?

cro — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:44:46 GMT

I have upgrade my home server to 2011 and now the printer don't print anymore. I can see the printer on the network, I can install the printer but when I try to print the test page, I've got a message that said "The test page could not be printed". Then I started the wizard to solve the problem and of course, that didn't work.

Any idea ?

Tech Off - Microsoft Chart Controls in a GPL licensed application ?

cro — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:30:43 GMT

So it is legal, but it is not in the spirit of GPL.

Tech Off - Microsoft Chart Controls in a GPL licensed application ?

cro — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 18:15:00 GMT

Is it legal to use the Microsoft Chart Controls in a GPL licensed application ?

Tech Off - VS2008 and Windows SDK 7.1

cro — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:27:45 GMT

_MSC_FULL_VER report 150030729 from within VS and 160030319 from the build environment.

Tech Off - VS2008 and Windows SDK 7.1

cro — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 23:03:52 GMT

I have used the registration tool but it told me that vs2008 is not install. So I run the tool from the command line and it works. I will check cl.exe tomorow. Thanks.

Tech Off - VS2008 and Windows SDK 7.1

cro — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 16:35:11 GMT

How can we verify wich compiler VS is using ? I have install the SDK7.1 but I'm not sure that VS2008 use it.

Tech Off - {...} notation VS2010 C++0x

cro — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 13:39:22 GMT

But they have already implemented part of C++0x ? Some features are in final stage ?

Tech Off - {...} notation VS2010 C++0x

cro — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 20:49:50 GMT

Is it possible that all C++0x feature will be in the sp1 of vs2010 ?

Tech Off - {...} notation VS2010 C++0x

cro — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:50:13 GMT

Is this type of notation is support in VS2010 ?

vector v = { 1, 2, 3, 4 };

Coffeehouse - New zune software, new bugs...

cro — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:16:00 GMT

I've just install the new zune software and now I can't sync TV shows from my media center. It tell me that my zune device is full. I have delete all the content and try to sync a small TV show (1.6gb) on a 4gb device, and same error message.

Is it just me ?

Tech Off - VS2010 always zoom in at 150% ?

cro — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 12:47:52 GMT

Is it possible in VS2010 to have the code editor always zoom in at 150% ?

Tech Off - Tips to determine functions type in OCaml ?

cro — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 01:41:58 GMT

W3bbo said:

I can't speak for OCaml (or F#, which is derived from OCaml) but in Haskell you use the :t command (in interactive mode) to get type information.

e.g.:

:t foldr

:t map

:t filter

etc...

I need to do it witout a computer . In OCaml you type the function and it will return the type but computer is not allowed in exam.

Tech Off - Tips to determine functions type in OCaml ?

cro — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 01:29:10 GMT

I'm in a cours on OCaml at university. I'm having difficulties to determine the types of functions. Any tips or web site that explain it ?

This is one of the last year question :

let f a n = let rec h x = let x' = a x in if x = x' then x' else h x' in h n;;

Coffeehouse - Ubuntu 10.04

cro — Thu, 06 May 2010 12:32:49 GMT

Erisan said:

cro said:

*snip*

Live CD stalls at black screen - 10.04 Lucid

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9232381&postcount=3

With the live CD a see an icon with a man in circle and a battery (look like) at the bottom of the screen and then the black screen. So I can't do what is mention in this post.