Install Microsoft XNA 4.0 refresh without VS2010 for VS2013

Microsoft XNA 4.0 refresh is a very good framework for doing various things including game development, simulation, etc. Of course as with all good things, Microsoft is not going to support it anymore. And one more reason in not investing in MSFT technology. But that is besides the point that one cannot simply install XNA […]

Configure “Delegate” as a Forward Proxy

Delegate is a very simple and nice proxy which can be configured into many different kind of proxies depending on the use-case you are trying to implement. Best of all, it is open source i.e. free and works across various operating systems including our most hated Microsoft Windows platforms. But before I start to write […]

R.I.P. Nokia…

Today, 11th February 2011, is an unfortunate day in the history of mobile computing. Microsoft and Nokia has announced partnerships for Windows Phone 7 (WP7) as the primary smartphone platform on Nokia devices. Besides WP7, Nokia will also run Bing and in turn Bing will use the Ovi Maps for their backend. Nokia will also […]

Windows 7 – Packaging stupidity at its best

I received my free upgrade from Windows Vista Home Premium to Windows 7 Home Premium. Of course the free upgrade was free (as in beer) where I had to pay for the shipping charges, etc. which were more then standard shipping charges (around 17 USD). The other thing was that since I am living/working in […]

External hard drives not working in Vista!

I had an ASUS 6000VM laptop and had partitioned and installed XP on the 80 GB Fujitsu 2.5″ hard drive. I had created a root partition (C:\) of 20 GB and 60 GB worth of data partition (D:\). My computer charging circuit burned because of a problem with my charger and I am now trying […]