Sunday, July 25, 2010

3D Acceleration & WPF Development+VirtualBox

Apparently doing WPF using VirtualBox when 3D acceleration is enabled in the virtual machine is a no go :(
Found out the hard way by trying to run VS2010 inside Windows XP in VirtualBox in Mac OS X.
The program launches but all you get is a grayish-white background and the program is effectively frozen!
3D Acceleration & WPF Development bug report for VirtualBox

Monday, July 12, 2010

Eat a lot less, live a lot longer

Not gonna happen :(
As the author of the article mentioned himself humans won't do much on their own unless they are forced to.
"But we all should try to eat less, because science has indicated that we would live healthier longer, if we were to only consume less calories."
I'll just say as the wise Yoda once said there is no try just do.

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Facebook engineer loses security challenge

Ha
Ha
Ha
ROFL!
The dangers of shooting your mouth off

Erasing all digital footprints 'impossible'

Not really that hard if you don't use a computer except when necessary or are locked up like Charles Manson, although I hear he got into trouble for his website a while back LOL?
But what would it take for an individual to erase his digital footprint? Is it even possible to exit the Internet?

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/06/BU4V1E8D9V.DTL#ixzz0sxGJHBbX

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Apple Exam and Certification Questions

Useful information for future reference.
Exam and Certification Questions
I found the following one quite amusing:
#12 I scored zero in one of the sections. How is this possible?

You answered all the questions in that section incorrectly.
 
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