DirectFlip is a feature which allows the DWM to: This was not particularly hard to implement, but after getting it to work I realized that we had a fundamental architectural incompatibility. To understand the issue,…
Date Archives September 2024
Shared Breakfast for the Homeless – Sept 9, 2024
For the past several years, my wife and I have been volunteering at the shared breakfast for the homeless which is hosted by the First United Methodist Church in downtown Seattle (right next to the…
My Career – Part 12: Problems Running Windows on Mobile Devices
While the focus of Windows 7 was to fix Windows Vista, the focus of Windows 8 was to make Windows scalable to the point where it could run on tablets and phones. This had always…
My Career – Part 11: Windows 7 (2006 – 2009)
Everybody hated Windows Vista and everybody loved Windows 7. They did not understand how one release could be so bad and next so awesome, and if we could do one awesome release, why not do…
My Career – Part 10: How we Virtualized the GPU (2001 – 2006)
The 5-year period between Windows XP and Windows Vista was a career highlight – partly due to what we accomplished, but also due to the great team that I got to work with. The LDDM…
My Career – Part 9: The New GPU Virtualization Architecture
Before I describe my experience implementing GPU virtualization, I want to first describe the overall architecture. As the internal codename for Windows Vista was “Longhorn”, we referred to this architecture as LDDM (Longhorn Display Driver…
My Career – Part 8: The need for GPU virtualization
After we shipped Windows XP in late 2001, it became apparent that we needed to redesign the operating system architecture that supported the GPU. Before I get into this, I need to explain how things…
Why do Christians lean Republican?
I’ll admit that I was a Republican until 2016. Perhaps this is expected given the above chart above and that I was raised Mormon. But I switched when Trump became the candidate and I just…
Book: Hit So Hard: A Memoir (by Patty Schemel)
I bought this book on a whim several months ago while browsing the Sub Pop store at the Seattle airport. I was a big Hole fan back in the day, although I knew nothing about…
First Trump/Harris Presidential Debate
Last night was the first presidential debate between Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. I listened to the debate and it was kind of crazy. Donald Trump’s MO has always been to…