Google Voice

Yesterday I got invitation for Google Voice service and I must admit that I was delighted. Those who know me also know that I am sucker for testing new things. Everything can only get better when I get invite from one of my two favorite companies (yes, I love and use both Microsoft’s and Google’s products).

However, this service is limited to US and my Google profile clearly states Croatia, so I must wonder why Google sent me this in first place.

Same situation happened to me with invitation for Microsoft Hohm and that makes me wonder…

Are they just showing me what I cannot get?

[2009-07-19: I gave my invite away. I do hope that he will enjoy it and that Google would not mind it.]

[2009-07-19: It seems that my invite is linked to my e-mail and cannot be used by anyone else. :(]

Starcraft Lectures

Berkeley university is having Starcraft lectures.

I could only find lecture 1, 3, 4 and 6 on YouTube (there is also lecture 10 but sound quality is bellow anything listenable).

I do hope that they will record everything next year.

Visio 2010

Today I downloaded and decided to check Microsoft Office 2010 technical preview. While is too early to say anything about improvements in applications (I just installed it), there is one peculiar thing I noticed.

When installing Microsoft Visio you can go to customize screen to be presented with choice of installing Microsoft Outlook (trial) by default.

Why on earth would somebody install Outlook (selected by default) just because he is installing Visio?

I have no idea.

One Step Back

I was more than surprised to find that Visual Studio 2010 (beta 1) has moved from “Any CPU” as default platform target to “x86”. In short, every application you create with Visual Studio 2010, will not run on 64-bit Windows without compatibility layer (WOW64).

While this may seem like a minor change, I consider it a major problem in 64-bit programming. When Visual Studio 2008 defaulted to Any CPU, that did caused whole range of bugs and errors. However, by resolving those errors, developer was at least somewhat introduced to problems with his code in 64-bit environment. If he could not resolve it, he would switch it manually to 32-bit.

This change just seems like allowing careless developers to stay careless. In short time, this will not cause too much problems, but in long run you will get bunch of code that requires 32-bit compatibility layer (32-bit Windows will not be with us forever).

MagiWOL and \"Program Too Large\"

It seems that there was error in uploading MagiWOL installation. Result of that was corrupted file and installation gave “Program too large” error on command line.

I re-uploaded file now and everything should be fine once again. I am truly sorry for any inconvenience.