Apr 25 2012

SkyDrive, Windows 8 and Domain Account

Category: .microsoft — Amit Bahree @ 7:18 am

I am running Windows 8 on my primary work machine now, which is domain joined. When I try and use the SkyDrive metro app (which ships with Windows 8), it does not like that fact I am domain joined and wants me to switch accounts, which is something I don’t want to do. This of course works great for those who are not domain joined and essentially are personal machines. For many of us who will be using this on ‘work’ machines, this seems like we will be ignored.

Of course I can install the desktop app, but that is not Metro and I am then in the ‘old’ world. Also the free 25 GB has now dropped to 7 GB, if you already have a Live account, I suggest you login and upgrade your account back to 25 GB for free!

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Apr 18 2012

Concurrency and CEP

Category: .architecture — Amit Bahree @ 7:36 pm

The sooner we all understand the Concurrency ≠ CEP (Complex Event Processing), the better the world will be!

CEP is generally used when we implement real-time systems (of course that is not the only area where CEP is used). Real-time does not mean concurrent or for that matter high-performing system.

Of course there are correlations, but at the same time they are fundamentally different paradigms.

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Apr 14 2012

AWS Extension for Visual Studio

Category: .code — Amit Bahree @ 12:59 pm

I had forgotten that I had the AWS Extension for Visual Studio installed until recently I noticed AWS Explorer item in the View menu option. This add-in allows you to explore the various features that Amazon exposes right from within Visual Studio. The toolkit makes it easier for developers to debug and deploy a .NET solutions that uses AWS.

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When you install this, you also get AWS SDK for .NET which provides one with all the building blocks that are required for consuming the IaaS services exposed by AWS including SimpleDB, S3 and EC2.

If you are or planning to use AWS, this add-in is a must have in my opinion.

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Mar 26 2012

Had to post this!

Category: .lol — Amit Bahree @ 11:22 pm

Got this in one of the chain emails, and thought it was too funny to pass up.

interesting thought of the day

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Mar 22 2012

Thought of the day

Category: .live and learn — Amit Bahree @ 12:46 pm

Whilst the following was said in the context of mobile ad-hoc network (MANETs) I believe it can hold of many situations that life throws at us.

Efficiency and quality are of equal importance!! Both come from experience, not from study. Study as you go, don’t assume that you’re ready for the real world because you studied first.

—Jon Davis

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Mar 17 2012

What I am working on today? Optimisation Algorithms

Category: .architecture — Amit Bahree @ 9:34 am

I often get the question – a what am I working on today? Some of the things I can’t discuss in an open forum, but some I can. Those that I can, I thought it was best to share via my blog and do quick small posts on it. Will this become a new series? Well time will tell – depends on how much bandwidth I will have.

This weekend, I am researching Optimisation Algorithms – both Deterministic and Probabilistic. Specifically interested in Swarm Intelligence (which are a type of Monte Carlo algorithm) and in that in Ant Colony and Particle Swarm routing are the main ones I am researching.

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Mar 17 2012

Suggestions for a new Camera?

Category: .personal — Amit Bahree @ 5:42 am

Our current camera (Canon IXUS 860 IS) is on the last dying leg – the camera itself works OK, but the screen is going to give up any day now – there are big holes where the pixels are dead (looks like a black hole). We love this model and want something along the same form factor and not interesting in anything fancy. One of the options was the new Canon IXUS 240 HS which has a built-in Wifi connection and has just been released, though is not available in all the markets.

As it happens I am going to be flying through Singapore soon and was thinking of picking one up at duty free. Does anyone have any recommendations for a model along the same lines? Want something decent enough in a small form factor.

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Mar 10 2012

Realisation of the Day

Category: .live and learn — Amit Bahree @ 3:30 pm

A common mistake people make when designing a computer system completely fool proof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools :)

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Mar 06 2012

Enabling Win 8 Metro on a Netbook

Category: .microsoft — Amit Bahree @ 3:43 am

When you install Win 8 on a Netbook the screen resolution would be too low for Metro apps to run which is a bummer. One way to get around this and “fix” this is to update the registry (and you thought that was so XP!) :) .

Run Regedit and search for “display1_downscalingsupported” (without quotes). Find all occurrences of this entry and change its value from 0 to 1.

Reboot when finished and you should have more options on your Screen Resolution choosing which will allow you to run Metro. :)

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Mar 01 2012

A great example of a MANET

Category: .drool,.geek — Amit Bahree @ 5:54 am

I have been doing some research on MANETs and UAV’s and this TED talk is a great example of how a number of nodes operate in a MANET and implement some predetermined algorithm, which in this case is the Bond Theme Song. Worth watching. :)

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Feb 28 2012

Less than Symbol in Latex

Category: .opensource,.tips — Amit Bahree @ 5:30 pm

If you want to show a simple less than symbol (i.e. <) in Latex, you are in for a surprise as you cannot use that character as is. If you are in math mode and writing this part of a formula then you might be still OK, but if you are in text mode then it is quite difficult.

Surprisingly, searching for this online also did not provide any obvious answers (perhaps I was searching for the wrong thing).

Anyways, I did figure it out in the end, and I needed to use the \textless directive for latex. I also found a few more symbols and have them listed below in case they are helpful for anyone else.

Symbol Latex Command
^ \textasciicircum
< \textless
> \textgreater
~ \textasciitilde
ª \textordfeminine
* \textasteriskcentered
º \textordmasculine
\ \textbackslash
\textparagraph
| \textbar
· \textperiodcentered
{ \textbraceleft
} \textbraceright
¿ \textquestiondown
“ \textquotedblleft
” \textquotedblright
‘ \textquoteleft
’ \textquoteright
• \textbullet
© \textcopyright
† \textdagger
‡ \textdaggerdbl
® \textregistered
$ \textdollar
§ \textsection
. . . \textellipsis
£ \textsterling
— \textemdash
™ \texttrademark
– \textendash
_ \textunderscore
¡ \textexclamdown
  \textvisiblespace
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Jan 26 2012

Rich Copy – a Robocopy GUI

Category: .tips — Amit Bahree @ 10:36 am

I needed to copy a bunch of data (Photos and Music) from my primary laptop to both the WHS and MCE and instead of hand crafting a Robocopy script I came across something called RichCopy (download from here) which is a much better version of Robocopy GUI and allows for quite a few advanced features. If you use Robocopy a lot then I would highly recommend using this – you can setup multiple profiles depending on your environment.

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