ThinkPads and AHCI Hard Disks
I have a Thinkpad T60p and I wanted to upgrade to one of these new 7200 RPM 320G disks. I purchased a Seagate Momentus drive and, as I’ve done with other disk upgrades, just plugged the drive into...
View ArticleLet’s try this again…
Okay, I’m not the best blogger in the world. Actually, I’ve been a horrible blogger. Aside from the trip blog I did last year, my last post was 2 years ago… Still, I’m going to try, try again....
View ArticleWindows Phone and Multitasking
There is a huge amount of interest in the new Windows Phone platform. This new platform is new and cool and provides a great platform for applications. The new Windows Phone programming model uses a...
View ArticleWindows Embedded Compact 7 Announced
Microsoft has (finally) announced Windows Embedded Compact 7. The release would more appropriately be called Windows CE 7 but the marketing people decided they knew better. This is a significant...
View ArticleHey! I've Updated my Site
You may notice a bit of a change. I’ve updated my site and blog. I hope to bring new and interesting content to the blog. Let me know what you think.
View ArticleSilverlight for Windows Embedded
The Embedded world has both seen significant change and not so much change since Microsoft introduced Windows CE 1.0 back in 1996. Back then, when Microsoft introduced a fully featured GUI based...
View ArticleI have a new Raspberry Pi!
The Raspberry Pi is a revolutionary computer. Not because it’s fast, although it does okay. It’s because the Raspberry Pi costs only $35. For that you get an ARM based Broadcomm CPU, 256 Meg of RAM,...
View ArticlePi BSP Project Development Concepts
I’m not a Linux guy, so the first thing I thought when I saw news articles on the device was if I could get Windows Compact 7 (Windows CE) running on the device. It seemed to be a challenge right down...
View ArticleWhat happened to the Raspberry Pi project?
So, what happened to the Raspberry Pi project? Well, I did publish a BSP. However, I never did get the USB driver working properly. It was on GitHub for a while but without activity, it’s been purged....
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Azure Sphere
Microsoft announced the Azure Sphere product at Build in April but the hardware wasn’t publicly available until just a few days ago. For some background, check the following two links Azure Sphere...
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