Enjoying Physics

Richard Feynman is well known bongo drum player who happened also to be a great theoretical physicist. His areas of work included quantum mechanics and electrodynamics.

Thing that separates him from great deal of big names in Physics is his passion for explaining complex things in simple manner.

Microsoft Research collected some his lectures (The Messenger Series given at Cornell University) in Tuva project. These lectures are definitely something everybody should take a look at.

Lectures are:

• Law of Gravitation
• The Relation of Mathematics and Physics
• The Great Conservation Principle
• Symmetry in Physical Law
• The Distinction of Past and Future
• Probability and Uncertainty - The Quantum Mechanical View of Nature
• Seeking New Laws

VHD Attach 1.00 (Beta)

I wrote quite a lot about virtual disk support in Windows 7. I even gave some C# code on how to use it. Single thing that I haven’t done is to actually make complete program with it. That is changed now.

Idea for this program is quite similar to VhdMount. Difference here is that this program uses native virtual disk support brought to you with Windows 7.

Since I hated necessity of going through Disk Management each time I want to perform attach (a.k.a. mount), there is also right-click support for .vhd files and for already mounted drives. Just select detach on any virtual drive’s context menu and program will find itself which file that is.

While this program is not completed yet, I see no reason why you should not test it and check whether you like it.

Download it here.

Windows Server 2008 R2 Now Available.

Now, one week after Windows 7, you can download Windows Server 2008 R2 but only if you are MSDN subscriber. Others will need to wait a little more.

For those who like freebies, Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 will be available very soon.

As for control freaks, Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7 are available also. This should fulfill all your management dreams.

Gadget's MIME Type

Once upon a time I created Windows gadget. Since I wanted to distribute it, I just uploaded it to my site I thought I was done with it. However, once I tried to download it, I got famous 404 “The page cannot be found” message. I double-checked everything and file was there. What wasn’t there is ability of IIS to handle it.

In order for IIS to know what to do with it, there is little piece of something called MIME type. I will not go into deep definitions of it, but it is sufficient to say that “gadget” extension should be defined as “application/x-windows-gadget”. Once that task is done, file can be downloaded without furher problems.

Firebathero Humiliated

Firebathero is player most known for his rituals after a win. Those rituals usually include dancing, throwing rice, going for a swim or just having fun.

He is both loved by fans and hated by his opponents for this. Usually, this act of his goes unpunished, but sometimes he gets taste of his own medicine.

Bellow is firebathero’s game against Much, a teammate of sAviOr. While this game seems like normal protoss vs terran, it is what happens as game is nearing to end that makes it special. Revenge is sweet.

Here are all parts (1, 2, 3 and 4).

P.S. Yes, I know that this video is quite old, but I am living in past. :)