Fixing a VirtualBox Windows XP blue screen

By tim, on June 19th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

The great think about virtualisation is that virtualised hardware stays the same, so you don’t get problems when you move to new hardware, right? Unfortunately when I ran up an XP image on VirtualBox, newly installed on Vista 64, I got this blue screen, an 0x0000007B stop error:

The problem was that

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Survey ranks developer tools, and reveals what developers care about most

By tim, on June 18th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

Evans Data has published its 2009 Software Development Platforms survey, to which around 1200 developers contributed, scoring their chosen development tools in eighteen different categories.

The tools covered are Eclipse, Embarcadero’s Delphi, IBM’s Rational Suite, IntelliJ, Microsoft’s Visual Studio, NetBeans, Oracle JDeveloper and Sun Studio.

I was sorry not to see more

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Adobe “Committed to bringing Flash Player to the iPhone”

By tim, on June 17th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe CEO commented during yesterday’s earnings call:

We are also equally committed to bringing the Flash Player to the iPhone, so now we do have a Flash Player 10 version for smartphones. We continue to work with Apple. We need more APIs and cooperation to bring the capabilities of Flash to the iPhone and

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Google Apps add-on breaks Outlook features in email wars

By tim, on June 17th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

Google has released an add-on to Outlook that apparently breaks Outlook search. Google Apps Sync synchronizes Outlook email, calendar and contacts with Google Apps. Google recommends it as a transition tool for people migrating from Exchange, or for people who prefer the Outlook UI. A premium version of Google Apps is required.

Unfortunately it

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Opera Unite: another way to share, another nightmare for digital rights

By tim, on June 16th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

I’ve been trying out Opera Unite. This is a web server built into the Opera 10 browser, now in beta. There’s nothing new about running your own web server; one comes free with Windows, and Apache is free for anyone to download and install in a few clicks. The difference with Unite is first

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Embarcadero CEO on cross-platform native code

By tim, on June 16th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

I had a long chat with Embarcadero CEO Wayne Williams last week. I used a few snippets on the Reg – on cross-platform Delphi and Eclipse – and hope to post more from it shortly. In the meantime, here’s what he said about using native code rather than Java or other types of managed

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Adobe’s secret plans for the iPhone – but still no Flash (updated)

By tim, on June 15th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

Last week I spoke to Adobe’s Erik Larson, director of product management for Acrobat.com. Acrobat.com is a conferencing and document collaboration site which is built almost entirely in Flash. Apple does not allow Flash on the iPhone, so my ears pricked up when I heard Larson promise iPhone support for Acrobat.com from the Autumn.

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Adobe’s cloud office takes shape, gets spreadsheet, goes commercial

By tim, on June 15th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe has announced a spreadsheet-like product for its cloud Office suite at Acrobat.com, along with commercial terms for business users of Acrobat.com conferencing and document collaboration. Acrobat.com itself is now out of beta. The new product, called Acrobat.com Tables, is available to try at Adobe Labs, where it joins Acrobat.com Presentations.

First

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Moving Vista to a larger hard drive using built-in backup and restore

By tim, on June 14th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

I was running out of space on drive C, on my Vista 64-bit PC. Luckily hard drives are cheap, so I purchased a 1TB drive and then contemplated how to transfer the system. I have a slightly complex setup, with 3 physical drives installed and four versions of Windows (XP, XP64, Vista 32 and

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For your nightmares: 10 more things which could be unbundled from Windows

By tim, on June 12th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft is caving to the EU and unbundling Internet Explorer from Windows 7 in Europe. Arguments over whether bundling a browser with Windows is anti-competitive go back many years of course, and were central to the US Department of Justice case in the late nineties. The DOJ won in court, but too late to

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