Anith Gopal

Baseball is the arguably the most hallowed game in America.

By Michelle Benedict                                                                             It’s amazing what a second pair of electronic eyes can do.  Besides selling 8 Million units in the first 60 days, the Microsoft Kinect for Xbox 360 has more of an altruistic feel than traditional gaming systems.  Perhaps it’s because all you need to be able to play is the ability to move your body and the system literally plays off you. It’s for this simplicity of game play, but complex design to mirror the player that the Kinect for Xbox 360 is already being used as a seeing aid, a rehabilitation device, a surgeon’s assistant and a developmental tool.  Here are a few of our favorite stories emerging about how Kinect users are making medical breakthroughs with this Microsoft technology.   Kinect to help the blind ‘see’ in augmented reality (Please visit the site to view this video) Designed by graduate students at the Universität Konstanz in Germany, this seeing-eye Kinect has been dubbed the NAVI, or Navigational Aids for the Visually Impaired.

It’s been almost fifty years since Maxwell Smart, Agent 86, goof-balled the mobile phone into the popular imagination when he used his shoe for clandestine conversations. A lot has happened since then in the ‘smart’ phone world. Angry Birds and Plants vs.

In Microsoft Open Protocol documents, there are many algorithms that involve with crypto operations in some particular ways.   Sometimes the protocol documents also provide specific protocol examples that include the initial input, the intermediate results and the final result for each step of the algorithm.   The correctness of the result  is very crucial for the implementers to validate their implementation step by step.   Occasionally there may be some steps missing or wrong information included.  The best way to verify if the examples are right is to have a sample implementation that is only based on the algorithm documented. One of the examples is the operation of deriving a password and encrypting a connection string used in Remote Assistance Initiation over PNRP Protocol ( MS-RAIOP ).   An example is provided at the section 4.1 of the document.  It requires many steps of buffer manipulation, hashing, cipher key derivation and encryption.    The documentation of some steps was not very accurate or clear initially.   Some readers had problems to implement the operation correctly.  We have to develop a sample implementation to verify the existing documentation and then fix the problems found. This blog will provide the sample implementation for each step and point out the document problems corrected.  As an attachment, the complete source file will be attached for any implementer to use with the protocol document

Over at ZD Net, contributor Ed Bott writes about an experiment he conducted between Internet Explorer 9 and Google Chrome and how good they were at catching malware: Social engineering has become the dominant method of distribution for fake antivirus software. And most modern browsers, with one exception, do a terrible job of dealing with this type of threat

The January 2011 Release (build 6.0.0.1024) is live: http://mfcmapi.codeplex.com .

Набор средств CASI, часть 3 Это третья публикация из пяти в серии материалов, посвященных набору CASI Kit (Claims, Azure and SharePoint Integration — утверждения, Azure и интеграция с SharePoint).   Часть 1 содержит общий обзор всей платформы и решения, в ней также перечислены вопросы, рассматриваемые в серии публикаций

I happen to be old enough to have had a screening colonoscopy on two occasions.  As anyone who has had this procedure performed will know, the exam itself isn’t nearly as bad as the preparation for it.  With good sedation, one hardly remembers the procedure.  However, drinking a gallon or so of go-litely bowel prep and then waiting for your gut to evacuate has never been high on this doctor’s list of favorite things to do.  For that reason alone, many people avoid having a screening…( read more )

We’ve posted an update to our sample pack at http://code.msdn.com/concrtextras for the release candidate of Visual Studio 2010. There’s a lot of good stuff from the team here including demos, concurrent data structures and additional parallel algorithms and helper functions. New Demos: There are 3 new demos in the sample pack: The parallel plug-in for excel we blogged about earlier is now available in the sample pack it’s a great example of how to use the PPL for financial applications and how to build an excel plug-in in C++.

I was working on a small project for personal use that I wrote in C++ and I wanted to test it. Since it’s a tiny project, I didn’t bother installing a well-known test framework that ships with a plethora of features. I just wanted a simple test runner that can show me a failure when it happens

When? Tuesday 9th February 2010 at 6.30pm Where? University of Sydney: New Law School Auditorium Who

Attach the debugger to the process Load SOS ~* e !clrstack to view the CLR stack of all the threads and where they are Look for System.Threading.Monitor.Enter(System.Object) in the top frames Load SOSEX.dll from http://www.stevestechspot.com/SOSEXUpdatedV11Available.aspx !dlk to detect deadlocks. The output looks like the following: Deadlock detected: CLR thread 5 holds sync block 0018f05c OBJ:010d909c[Microsoft.Sample.SampleEvent]             …( read more )