| 1. |  | Why Does Setup Make Windows Reboot So Much?  - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:04:04
The short answer is: because memory mapped files are locked by the system and can't be changed while they are in use.
For the long answer, I want to go way back to how programs are run on a computer and begin at the beginning.
Full article ==> Why Does Setup Make Windows Reboot So Much?
From: myShoggoth |
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| 2. | | Fun With Scripts - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:04:04
Computer usage can turn out to be an exercise in repetition, often defeating the purpose of having a machine capable of automating repetitive tasks available. When you're doing that repetitive tasks on the machine designed to get rid of them, we're talking real irony here (not the Alanis kind).
One day some friends of mine pointed out that the steps I was taking to launch Battlefield 1942 and connect to our GameVoice server were repetitive and could be scripted. When I stopped smacking myself i...
From: myShoggoth |
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| 3. | | Note enough commute time - Captured: 5-1-2005 11:14:00
About a 1 ½ years ago, I decided to purchase an iPod and get a membership with audible.com (which I highly recommend) in an effort to “read� more. Since the birth of my second child in mid-2003, my amount of free leisure time had been drastically cut and hence my reading time had become almost non-existence. I am pleased to announce that this experiment has been quite successful, and in fact – I am basically stopped listening to the radio during my 70 minutes of total commute...
From: Andrew Conrad's WebLog |
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| 4. | | XSD gripe 2 – DataType hell - Captured: 30-12-2004 12:43:00
I know I am just the latest in a long line of people to “comment� on this subject – but I just wanted to give my two cents. I appreciate the fact that the XSD designers wanted to vastly enrich my datatype life. But why come up with a bunch of built-in SimpleType datatypes which are just derivations of other SimpleTypes when you gave me a nice mechanism for doing so myself? If I really want a nonPositiveInteger – then I can easily define it myself using constrain...
From: Andrew Conrad's WebLog |
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| 5. | | Schneiers 5 Questions - Captured: 12-1-2005 0:15:15
While talking about fingerprinting students on Buses, Schneier
gives us five questions to use to evaluate Secuirty Countermeasures:
What assets are you trying to protect?
What are the risks to these assets?
How well does the security solution mitigate those risks?
What other risks does the security solution cause?
What costs and trade-offs does the security solution impose?
From: Doubt's Log |
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| 6. | | Links continue - Captured: 15-12-2004 3:01:07
Joel points out the deeper
coolness of Google
Suggest, and announces
a geek dinner this Saturday.
Jon Udell is playing with Calendaring which
is a subset of a problem space I've been interested in since college.
JWZ has a link about folding
shirts.
Gladwell has two new pieces up, I found the one on the nature of getting
on with life over grief and trauma pretty interesting.
There appears ...
From: Doubt's Log |
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| 7. | | Hanukah and Biking Weekend - Captured: 13-12-2004 22:55:56
Had a pretty busy weekend, Friday night was the our holiday party, which was pretty
decent once my headache went away and I could enjoy the band. The Dancing Heads room
was especially enjoyable. They use green screen technology to get a video of just
your head and then overlay it on to a video of headless dancers keyed to a the playing
of a popular song. The results are VERY amusing.
Saturday I woke up and joined a cascade cycle ride for what should have been a 40
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From: Doubt's Log |
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| 8. | | Tuesday Morning Links - Captured: 7-12-2004 19:19:14
The lame duck session of congress gives us an Intelligence
Overhaul.
Reality seems
to continue marching in Iraq, although not
everyone agrees.
Here is a pretty detailed article about the status
of Nuclear Weapons and Iran. Things that stand out to me is that the civilian
program issues is still a two year timeframe, alligations of military programs especially
related to two sites, Parchin and Lavisan II, an Iranian ...
From: Doubt's Log |
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| 9. | | Why Choose Microsoft for your Portal? - Captured: 14-1-2005 10:51:00
Whether you're a business or technical decision maker, it's important to think about what's important to your organization when making a software decision. For most companies, software is an enabler of business. That is to say, your company is probably not in the business of making/developing software, but rather using software to run your business. Since I'm most familiar with the Portal space, my remarks are specific to Portal software. Nevertheless, many of the same suggestions and concepts a...
From: Arpan Shah's Blog |
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| 10. | | Security Through Obscurity For Linux - Captured: 3-2-2005 15:43:52
Its been the Linux crowd who has been telling everybody, that every vulnerability needs to be disclosed imediatly. Now they have changed thier mind. Despite the ability to fix every bug, now
they think it is required to have a closed security mailing list. Furthermore they want to withhold information when they do not have a bug fix yet. This of cause is the correct practice. I only wonder why it took them so long to realize it.
From: Benjamin J. J. Voigt :: Creativity is Inspired by Activity |
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| 12. | | Gotdotnet: a suspicion that weve created a life form - Captured: 28-1-2005 13:02:00
So I don't normally inflict more than one blog post on you guys per week, but I feel I owe it to the greater Gotdotnet community to talk more about the site's ups and downs this week.
I joke around with people with dark humor - especially the old Gotdotnet team who know the site well - about how sneaky the site is. If there's a server or application problem, it usually shows up ....
1) On a weekend when there's a skeleton Microsoft.com ops crew that doesn't know G...
From: Betsy Aoki's WebLog |
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| 13. | | Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam - Captured: 22-12-2004 11:33:00
I was surprised a few years back when James, a friend of mine, introduced me to what looked like "Spam sushi" - nori seaweed paper rolled around sushi-vinegared rice and a big long hunk of spam. I made the normal protests ("I'm too hip and cool for this Spam business ") and then shut the <blank> up and tried it. It....was.....AMAZING. I couldn't believe it. The official Hawaiian dish is called Spam musubi and you can find a recipe here, but you should really follow the traditional s...
From: Betsy Aoki's WebLog |
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| 16. | | Best of from the naming conventions chat... - Captured: 1-2-2005 22:58:00
Today I reviewed the chat transcript from last weeks following up from the Naming Conventions session, it should be posted soon. In order to encourage you to attend tomorrow’s chat from the Rich Type System session I thought I’d post a few gems I pulled out of that chat. So, just a reminder, the Rich Type System chat is 2/2 at 1pm PST [Sign up for the chat]. See you there! BradA [MS] (Expert):
Q: What phase of Beta2 are you in now? Ask, Tell, Final ...
From: Brad Abrams |
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| 17. | | Yahoo Seeks Spotlight in Hollywood - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:06:25
Yahoo, the Internet portal created a decade ago by a pair of Stanford University computer geeks, is getting serious about muscling in on the entertainment business.
From: CURRY.COM |
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| 18. | | Security Updates for February - Captured: 8-2-2005 13:51:00
The Windows Security Updates for February have been posted. Here's a link to the page:
Windows Security Updates Summary for February 2005
The security updates for February 2005 include several high-priority updates for Microsoft Windows that also affect Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Internet Explorer, and Microsoft Media Player technologies. If you have any of the software listed on this page installed on your computer, you should install the updates from Windows Update.
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From: BufferOverrun |
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| 19. | | Reminder: Digital Blackbelt Series - Captured: 4-2-2005 11:32:00
The first webast in this series is about to begin.
MSDN Webcast: Digital Blackbelt Series: The Software Security Crisis: Selling Management on the Need to Invest in Secure Software Development (Level 100)
Friday, February 4, 200511:00 A.M.12:00 P.M. Pacific Time, United States and Canada (UTC-8)
Tune in for an introduction to the Digital Blackbelt Series. Learn about the evolving "Secure Culture" at Microsoft Corporation and how your company ...
From: BufferOverrun |
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| 20. | | Indigo: the future of asmx/wse/es/msmq/remoting - Captured: 8-2-2005 19:35:52
I
just finished watching Eric Rudder’s keynote on Indigo at VS Live in
San Francisco
. As with all keynotes, it had glitz and glamour and gave a high-level view of what
Microsoft is thinking.
(for those who don’t know, Eric
is the Microsoft VP in charge of developer-related stuff including Indigo)
Among the various things discussed
was the migration roadmap from today’s commun...
From: Rockford Lhotka |
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| 21. | | Can a Service have Tiers? - Captured: 4-2-2005 6:32:50
One last post on SOA from my coffee-buzzed,
Chicago-traffic-addled mind.
Can a Service have Tiers?
Certainly a Service can have layers.
Any good software will have layers. In the case of a Service these layers will likely
be:
1. Interface
2. Business
3. Data
access...
From: Rockford Lhotka |
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| 22. | | From VAX to Windows - Captured: 19-1-2005 17:29:50
When I first got involved with Microsoft
it was around 1990 or ’91. The world of the time was dominated by IBM, with
DEC a close second. If you wanted to network PCs you used Novell or Banyan. All PC
programs were DOS programs. “Windows” was just one of many graphical libraries
being used by software to handle drawing on the screen. And if you wanted to do real
work you used a mainframe or minicomputer.
At the time, M...
From: Rockford Lhotka |
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| 23. | | OSS sabotage of Windows security? - Captured: 10-1-2005 18:50:27
On the PeerCast website there is an FAQ in which
they recommend turning off the Windows XP Firewall:
I got everything right with my broadcast, but no matter what I do, my stream
can't get through. Should I get lost?
You are probably behind a firewall, if it is a personal firewall installed
on your local PC, try turning it off. (Windows XP Pro for example..)
No wonder open-source is “more secure”, when they are actively runnin...
From: Rockford Lhotka |
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| 24. | | 20 Year Usenet Timeline - Captured: 10-1-2005 16:45:59
Google has released a 20
year timeline of usenet newsgroup history, highlighting notable events along the
way.
I find it very interesting to see the history of the “world's largest BBS“.
Personally I got involved in usenet in 1989 or 1990. I was working for a bio-medical
manufacturing company, and managed to convince a local defense contractor to allow
us to tap a usenet feed off them. The feed came through our 1200 baud modem, with
us dialing...
From: Rockford Lhotka |
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| 25. | | Now everybody do the propaganda! - Captured: 4-2-2005 14:49:31
The
February issue of The Reader’s Digest has an article entitled “
America
’s Worst Judges”.
It
begins, as many regressivist commentaries on a variety of subjects do, by asking you
to imagine that you’re the victim of a crime. Because
we all know how much that sort of imagery contributes to rational thought.
Then
it goes for the ...
From: Anomalous Data |
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