It’s good to be famous. It’s good to be inspirational.
Conclusion: It’s good to inspire someone to create something that will make you famous.
My part starts here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook_mobile/archive/2009/06/10/texting-a-non-mobile-number.aspx
“Commenter Jakub Anderwald notes how hard it is to send a text message to a home or work phone. I totally agree.”
It’s very nice to see that your comments are acutally being read and are inspiring others to create something. It gives the small feeling of doing something good and thinking valuable thoughts.
I just switched to Windows 7 64 bit RC on my main computer. Since Crimson Editor was constantly throwing UAC popups, I decided to try something else as a text editor.
I started by looking at Wikipediaa “Source Editor” page. I quickly scanner the list of free text-editors for Windows and decided to go with Notepad++, since it had most of the features I need.
I downloaded the installation package (with some plugins included by default) and it installed just fine. However, there’s a glitch. It doesn’t allow you to type in regional characters easily – they appear as if they were entered with ISO into a CP-1250 text editor. 10 years ago that would not be a big surprise, but hey, we have unicode all around us, such things should not happen, right?
I tweak the settings around a bit, but nothing helped. But, since I’m a geek, I have to resolve it.
I googled a bit, found notes about removing HexEditor plugin (which I don’t have installed) and then something about transparency problems on Windows 7.
Then I tried switching Notepad++ to run in backwards compatibility mode and I found out it’s enough to “downgrade” to Windows Vista SP2 and it starts working properly.
So – if you have the same problem with Notepad++, just set the executable file to run in Vista compatibility mode.
I just passed 70-290 exam and am happily one step closer to MCSA. Hooray!
Virtualisation is coming more and more into our lives.
Right now I’m setting up a “jail” XP virtual machine to install a stubborn application there (that doesn’t work with Vista and is sometimes affected by patches, so it needs a special treatment) and playing around with XP Mode in Windows 7 RC on my laptop. At the same time, I have another virtual machine opened, where I’m connected through Citrix client to a remote access machine at work, which is, guess what, just a virtual box running on some access farm.
I know it’s a bit geeky, but wait 3-4 years and you’ll see the same amount of virtualisation in regular people’s lives.
