^^ This. As a sad old geek I'd pay for an IT calendar with some racy hardware pics.
Cray XMP (old geek remember) flashing all it's got anyone?
Any other suggestions for hot kit pix?
Posts by mikeyd
4 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Aug 2009
Hot Swedish nurses in charity calendar rumpus
Boffins build blood-swimming medical microbot
Microsoft's high-risk Windows 8 .NET switch
Monday 19th September 2011 21:19 GMT
As a C#/ASP.Net developer this all sounds like moves in the right direction to me.
I'm too am not convinced by Metro for my apps but I suspect that it will be essential for tablets. Allowing a choice seems reasonable to me.
Having the apis described by metadata is good as well - I very much doubt it will be possible to have an out of sync metadata file (strong naming??) so DLL hell will be much less likely.
It should also be a lot easier to call "COM" APIs from C# since you don't need to write so much of the interop code.
Sony's Windows 7 virtualization switch-off (partly) reversed
Friday 7th August 2009 21:45 GMT 
VT bit working on Sony Z21
Hi,
I just wanted to thank Anne-Lise Pasch above for the pointer to enable the VT bit on Sony VAIO's.
I owe you a glass of your favourite beverage at the very least for that tip.
I reluctantly bought the Z21 because it was the best spec laptop for my needs. I knew the VT bit was locked but I figured someone would crack it eventually even if Sony didn't enable it in a BIOS update. Finally today my google alert came up trumps.
The patch is very easy to use so long as you have a suitable USB flash drive and from what I can tell is unlikely to trash the laptop as it doesn't modify the BIOS.
A very happy Vaio owner - no thanks to Sony!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
