Gathering computer information using WMI
After a ton of questions regarding the the DriveInfo examples (Determine Hard Drive Serial Numbers and Revenge of DriveInfo) asking how to determine other information such as CPU identification, mo...
After a ton of questions regarding the the DriveInfo examples (Determine Hard Drive Serial Numbers and Revenge of DriveInfo) asking how to determine other information such as CPU identification, mo...
Although not a totally unbiased survey, this survey does present some interesting numbers. With over 800,000 machines being polled (yes, machines… not people), you can see that most of them have a ...
…yet want to sound like they do. I would love to see the like of Jay Roxe (Microsoft) put in a room with this Tom fellow and see the sparks fly. This guy claims that he has the “inside” track as to...
Well, the MVP Summit calmed down at about 3:30pm today and, although I’m extremely tired, I have to say my Microsoft batteries are recharged. But… I’m really hoping that Microsoft will work harder...
A couple of weeks ago, I started consciously paying attention to people in Microsoft presentations mention the various languages of .NET. I noticed a couple of things: C++ is extremely rare in ...
… flying to Redmond for the Microsoft 2005 MVP Global Summit! Not sure what to expect, but from what I’ve been told it’s a lot of fun and very informative. If I have Internet connectivity (which I ...
Hmmm… how should I start this off? Well, first things first, it was great to see Brian Randell again and his presentation skills were excellent. Saying that, let’s dig into things as a little revie...
…I kind of got distracted with a whole broken foot sort of thing. Now that the pain in starting to subside (or rather, I’m getting used to it), I can get back to it. ;-)
Getting ready to head over to Dallas to hang out in The VB Upgrade Tour presentation. Although I’m not needing (and haven’t been needing for the past 3+ years) to upgrade from VB 6.0 to .NET, it ...
In the spirit of the last post as to what was going on 10 years ago, here’s a small video clip of me participating in an instructional video on Stickboxing. I’m the smaller of the two guys (yeah,...