Against better judgement, I decided to try installing Windows 7 SP1 yesterday. This morning I was greeted by this: I can already feel today is gonna be uphill all the way… One more week till brincess is home and I won’t have to put up with this crap anymore! MichaelTime person of the year 2006, […]
Tag: Windows
Jamie Lynn
I got a new laptop for my work. It’s an Aguilera-ugly HP something-or-other laptop. It’s built in a design that aspires to Russia in the seventies and is as heavy as a Lada, which is qwuite light for a car but quite heavy for a supposedly portable computer. It runs Windows, which apparently is a […]
The Joy of Windows
It seems that everytime I boot into Windows, I spend most of my time staring at the below screen: In fact I have a suspicion, I spend more time updating Windows, anti virus, and other crap to get less malware that I do actually being productive in Windows. Unfortunately, I need to check an application […]
Parallels Desktop
I can highly recommend the newest version of Parallels Desktop for running Windows applications under OS X. I already posted, showing how the new Crystal mode makes the integration near-perfect. Disclaimer: I’m not associated with Parallels (or whatever their company is called), just a happy customer. I thought, I’d follow up on that. Today, I’ve […]
Legacy Code
I’m currently working on making CPN Tools, a tool for editing and simulating coloured Petri nets (CP-nets or CPNs), work on Windows 7 64-bit versions.
Problem the first: Nobody has compiled CPN Tools in 2-3 years. In order to compile, we need a specially patched version of the Beta compiler and the linker from Microsoft Visual Studio 6.
Problem the fourth: The crap didn’t run. I even tested the file before making the build image. All I got was a “Beta Execution Aborted, Reference is NONE” (basically a null-pointer error or segmentation fault). […]