| 1. |  | Back in the saddle again  - Captured: 13-1-2005 14:15:00
Whew! It's been a while hasn't it? My new son was born 9/30 and I returned to work late October after infant care leave. We're all hard at work here getting Whidbey Beta 2 ready to ship. The holiday's hit and I spent a bunch of time on the road and on airplanes. I'm back from vacation now and sitting in a rountable discussion with VSIP partners at the January VSIP Dev Lab here in Redmond. Good suggestions and a lot of hard work getting partner products ready to run...
From: AllenD's WebLog |
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| 2. | | Safe Computing - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:04:04
Here are the things I think are necessary for a safe computing environment. Some of these are Windows specific, many are not. If you run your computer within a corporate or otherwise managed environment, make sure to check with the administrators and/or support personal before making any major changes to your network configuration or computer settings.
Full article ==> Safe Computing
From: myShoggoth |
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| 3. | | Productivity - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:04:04
The reason I like to go into such detail about what is required to make a good computer program is that too many people and companies have lost sight of the fundamental reason why computers are valued and worth spending money on: Productivity.
Full article ==> Productivity
From: myShoggoth |
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| 4. | | 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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| 5. | | 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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| 6. | | 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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| 7. | | I got a new SmartPhone - Captured: 27-1-2005 20:29:00
I got myself an Audiovox SMT5600 smartphone today. This thing is amazing. It syncs to my outlook server for mail and calendar. It has IE on it. I can play movies and music on it. It came with all the cables to sync up to my computer like a PDA. And it is very snappy to use. Screen is a good resolution too. And you can use it like a phone without any hassles. Where will these things be in 5 years? The fact that I could compress 10 DVDs onto a card and play them on my phone is amazing to me - I di...
From: BenCon's WebLog |
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| 8. | | Windows Needs To Get Worse! - Captured: 4-2-2005 0:07:30
Seriously, Windows needs to get worse to become better. I've
written about how Office has too much stuff. I now believe, for the average user,
Windows has the same problem.
This conclusion results from a discussion after watching a recording of brands in
the public space by Friedrich
von Borries (Author of "Who
is Afraid of Niketown" and creator of Urban-Diary)
given in mid December in Zurich at the ETH. I liked the ideas of activating the public
spa...
From: Benjamin J. J. Voigt :: Creativity is Inspired by Activity |
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| 9. | | 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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| 10. | | ASP.NET 2.0 product design changes between Beta 1 and Beta 2 - Captured: 15-11-2004 19:07:00
Today the Web Platform and Tools Team is proud to announce two product design changes made directly in response and in conjunction with community feedback. The changes, detailed below are focused around two key areas. First, in September, we announced changes to the special private ASP.NET 2.0 directory naming. Based on feedback, we are revising these names. Second, we are making changes to the compilation model in order to enable ASP.NET 1.x like behavior where the .asp...
From: Brian Goldfarb's Blog |
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| 11. | | 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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| 13. | | 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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| 14. | | 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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| 15. | | The power, the absolute power! - Captured: 31-1-2005 6:13:44
I
was recently in an argument with a guy calling himself “Thomas”, who has
posted here several times, and on Rocky’s blog several times. Now,
Thomas seems to be a pretty smart guy, but he makes wild assumptions that, when challenged,
he is unable to support without any sort of coherence. An
example would be this quote below:
“The
Founding Fathers designed the system with the assump...
From: Anomalous Data |
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| 16. | | My service to Humanity - Captured: 27-1-2005 17:02:11
Here’s
a site that let’s you know how a particular company scored on human rights and
environmental concerns in the U.S as well as globally You can also compare them
with their competitors, and make certain that your dollars are going to support the
kinds of things that are important to you and your community. Also...they list
known subsidieries and allied companies, to help you untangle the maze:
&n...
From: Anomalous Data |
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| 17. | | Google spatial engine - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:07:24
According to Government Computer News, Google Inc. will be geo-enabling its search engine with the recent acquisition of Keyhole, a digital mapping company. Keyhole’s technology lets a user enter an address, “fly� over a 3-D image of it, zoom and tilt, measure distances and find things around it.
"The Google engine will be part of the second-generation Geospatial One-Stop e-government site,
From: Online Marketing Blog |
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| 18. | | Programming languages with .NET implementations - Captured: 16-10-2004 21:41:00
Yesterday, an inquiry came up internally over e-mail about whether a .NET implementation of the PL/I language existed. This caught my eye because PL/I was the first language that I encountered on a mainframe (at the University of Toronto, from whom I have a piece of paper ascribing that my "higher learning" took place there - occasionally, possibly, somewhat). I wasn't particularly fond of PL/I but it was my first mainframe language. Actually, to be entirely accurate, it was really SP/k - a ser...
From: atmosphere - the developer blog of Bernard Wong |
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