This post is mainly for my notes, I want to capture this somewhere before I forget. Following steps walk-through (from my perspective) how I setup a local debug VM (running Windows 7 HP version) and setup WinDBG in the host OS to connect and debug drivers in the VM Created a Windows VM in the [...]
Source code for Chess UCI Protocol Tracer Utility
This tool has shown more popularity than I expected. Common question from the readers is whether I can share the source code. I am releasing it here, no strings attached. A copy of your SW (if you make use of this) will be nice, though. Link to this post!
Effectively debugging the end-user issues
Every developer knows how difficult it is to debug when the end-user reported issue is not reproducible in their test bed. Apart from following the traditional way of studying the ubiquitous ETW & system/app logs, what I have found to be more effective is to get a system snapshot of the end-user machine’s hardware and [...]
[Repost] English Movies – 4
**Reposting this again, as my previous posting got deleted due to a wrong DB restore. More info here** Its been a long time since I posted movies that are available online, though I keep watching them in dozens, just that my laziness has been on a peak for quite sometime now, preventing me from making [...]
Webhost4life lost my last post
Yesterday my site was down as the backend (mysql) had some some issues. I pinged the tech support after waiting for one hour. The tech support guy confirmed that it was a known issue and already a team of guys were on it. I was surprised. If they had known that already, why didn’t they [...]
Garry Kasparov: My first Firefox persona
Firefox 3.6 has this new feature called Persona, another glorious term for skins. There is also a detailed How to create Persona article. It is so simple I thought I’d put together a theme for my favorite Chess player – Garry Kasparov. I wanted to actually name it “The stare”, but just settled on Garry [...]
Monster Chess – Lego Mindstorms NXT Magic
I love LEGO Mindstorms NXT 2.0 (though I am still not allowed to own one – my home minister hasn’t approved yet ). The possibilities it opens up are endless; Really a good way to satisfy your creative part. I own couple of books on NXT (I know…buying the books before the actual NXT pack [...]
Download ChessBase 3 and Fritz 1 – Abandonware
Chessbase is undoubtedly one of the most useful and most prevalent DB software in the Chess community. What with its siblings like CB Light 2009/Premium, everybody has had a chance to dabble with it one point of the time or other. My interest on Chess started in 2002 (relatively recent). At that point of time [...]
Capitalizing on blunders: My latest FICS game
One of my opponents in FICS today allowed me a nice attacking win. I am happy I could capitalize on his blunder. Following is the game position we reached after 9 moves. Till this point I made so many sub optimal moves (a.k.a weak moves ), I was pleasantly surprised when I won the game. [...]
