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Win8 enforces driver signatures by default. If you have a Win7 driver that worked OK, I suggest the following to disable driver signature enforcement: From the Metro or Desktop Bring up Charms by mouseing over to the right of the screen Go to Settings More PC Settings General Advanced Startup > Restart Now Trouble shoot Advanced options Windows startup options Restart Click on 'Disable driver signature enforcement Reboot Install the relevant driver, allowing the non signed driver to install. This has worked OK for me installing various old printer drivers. Just make sure you know the provenance of the driver being installed, as always.

Yeah! I never thought I would professionally develop for Android! But the powers that pay me, have decided to port our product on to Android and so being the sole person available as of this moment I have been tasked with this enormous task! Hell, I have even got a time line for this! 15 Days! Now, I did visited the washroom afterwards and laughed my arse off!!! Some statistics for the task: Approx 17000 LoC C++ STL/Qt 4-5 shared libraries being used by the project Cross-platform code (Written for Win/Lin as main platforms) PostgreSQL database being used To top it all, the code has never been reviewed, forget about a proper audit. I have worked on parts and I have done my best to clean up about 4000LoC but remaining all is three-four year old crap that would give me nightmares if I dipped my toes in it... Suddenly life has become a war for survival...:D

Qt5. It's a miasma. It's a beast for me. It's something mysterious. I don't know if I should love Qt5 or hate it. And I think that summarizes my thoughts about Qt5. I first stumbled across the fifth iteration when some functionality in the product I was working on couldn't be done in existing Qt version (4.5.3 btw). So after looking around for the Oracle, I came to know that the functionality can be achieved by moving to Qt5. Now our development platform (WinXP/CentOS 5.3/ Qt 4.5.3) was getting a bit too old. And it was all quite buggy to boot. So we decided to embark on the adventure of upgrading the base. Took us two months to upgrade the Linux side to CentOS6.3/ Qt5.0.1 and port the product to new Qt. But after that other high priority work kept us busy and we never got to get the Windows side up to speed. But then came the fateful day two weeks ago when our IT Manager announced the upgradation of all our faithful old XP systems into Windows 8. And th...

Songs tested against on Samsung Omnia W Bezuban from abcd gangnam style Sun raha hain - female  from Aashiqui 2 Saajna from I, me aur main Teri jhuki nazar - murder 3 Let me call Panasonic p and sennheiser s. P sounds good, but not excellent. It had reasonable amount of bass and the soundstage is good. The sound is on the warmer side. And if you haven't heard s then you might think p is great. Yeah its that good. Now when you plug in s, the first thing you notice id that the highs are much more perfected on s. The bells and thrums of guitar sound fuller. The bass gets punchier. The sound experience becomes better by about 35%. And that's that straight forward difference you hear. P are not bad headphones. In fact these used to retail at about 30% price of s's. And so these are excellent value for money. The pair I have is about five years old and even though it looks totally plasticky it has held through rough use. The cable is strong and doesn't have slightest cable no...

Link to original article: http://qt-project.org/wiki/Compiling-ICU-with-MSVC Text highlighted and notes added Compiling ICU with MSVC (Microsoft Visual Studio)     Qt 5 / QtWebkit requires ICU.         Pre-built packages     The ICU Project site [ site.icu-project.org ] provides pre-built packages for MSVC 2010, which should work with compilers too. Anyhow, you have to compile your own version if you want to avoid the MSVC 2010 runtime dependency (because you’re using another MSVC version), or want to tailor the ICU configuration.     download.qt-project.org [ download.qt-project.org ] also hosts packages for MSVC 2012 .        

Recently stumbled on this problem. We have just upgraded all systems to Windows 8 in my office. The newly installed PostgreSQL was not starting. In PGAdminIII it would ask for password. But fail to proceed further. On going through logs I came to see this error: 2014-04-08 15:00:10 IST FATAL:  no pg_hba.conf entry for host "::1", user "postgres", database "postgres", SSL off So after un-commenting the line for IPv6 in pg_hba.conf, and restarting the server, it all started working fine. The line is : host     all     all     ::1/128     md5 Interesting point is it used to work fine on Win XP. Maybe Windows 8 has some special handling for IPv6. Don't know.