When it isn’t too cloudy (weather-wise or work-wise), my office has a great view of Elliott Bay in Seattle, where I see the ships come and go (airplanes too):
My new indispensable companion is MarineTraffic.com which
uses a network of crowdsourced receivers to pull data
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Emails containing troubleshooting cases keep arriving in my inbox. I’ve received many cases that start with a seemingly unsolvable problem and end a few steps later with a solution or – often just as useful – a workaround. I’ve amassed several hundred…(read more)
There are a number of terms thrown around in the world of app compat that are vaguely defined at best. Now, I’m not one to suggest that tedium is a good practice in general, but in some cases understanding the true technical definition of a term can lead to significant time savings when that definition is applied to a project.
Compatible
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ProcDump v1.71: This fixed a bug in the exception handling dump condition logic.
ProcDump v1.7: This update to ProcDump, a command-line utility that will generate memory dumps of processes based on various selectable criteria, now supports periodic timed dumps as well as dumps based on virtual memory thresholds.
AccessChk v4.24: AccessChk, a utility that shows effective security permissions for files, registry keys, services, and
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Mark’s Windows Internals Session at the Professional Developer’s Conference, Part 1
Mark’s Windows Internals Session at the Professional Developer’s Conference, Part 2: Mark dives deep to cover Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008
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Hey, I actually get this obscure xkcd reference:
We did three Entertainment Packs for Windows soon after Windows 3.0 came out (tagline:
“Not the most fun you can have with Windows, the only fun”). Each had about
eight games. Some like Minesweeper and FreeCell got bundled with subsequent
versions of Windows, but I never would have guessed SkiFree
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It
is time for Microsoft and Mozilla to make peace and together face their common enemy:
Google.
For Mozilla, Google is both sole patron and
now direct
competitor, which is at best strategically awkward. Firefox market share has plateaued.
They’re losing their
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Reaction
to the disclosure of University of East Anglia Climatic
Research Unit internal email is predictably bimodal. “Deniers” see it as
conclusive proof global warming is a fraud. True believers are righteously ignoring
the contents altogether because of how the information was acquired (it took me a
while to get a Pentagon
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Just a geek who loves to make his computer run extremely fast and reliably :-)
