After installing Windows 8 on my main PC I went to launch VMWare Workstation (version 7.1.5 build-491717) and was greeted with this nice message: “Not enough physical memory is available to power on this virtual machine with its configured settings. To fix this problem, increase the amount of physical memory for all virtual machines to […]

According to StatCounter, Internet Explorer’s market share has been declining sharply over the past four years.  One core reason is that newer versions of IE require the latest versions of the Windows operating system.  Recently we developed an entire web reporting framework for IE9 only to discover during rollout that our client’s desktops were running […]

While likely intended for social issues, this quote seems to also apply to software development: “For every complex problem. there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.”  —Henry Louis Mencken

To see a list of all pages Google has indexed for a website, in the Google search-box enter site:sitename.com (e.g. site:offeman.com).  Interestingly, site:google.com has almost 5 billion results where site:yahoo.com only has 1 billion.

After reading the manual and figuring out that the EZ Flash Utility needed a FAT formatted USB drive I consulted the manual again to see if the CMOS could be reset (since the PC bricked after the BIOS upgrade). Luckily the CMOS can be cleared via a jumper on the motherboard: Switching the jumper as […]

Read me first: the USB stick that has the new .ROM file MUST be formatted with FAT (not NTFS). Directly from the manual   Step 1: Prepare your USB stick (if I need to tell you formatting a drive will delete all files on that drive, please don’t try upgrading your BIOS) Step 2: Download […]

Many thanks to Jordi Corbilla for his excellent post on using ADPlus, Windbg and map2dbg to analyze windows’ crash dump files from Delphi applications.

While dynamic and VM languages have been in vogue, Delphi and Free Pascal have been quietly chugging along.  Using Pascal one can natively target most leading operating systems and hardware platforms.  Plus native code is fast. Although partial to Delphi for Windows development, Lazarus is an excellent cross-platform IDE.  The screenshot on the left is […]