Someone asked me today about some information and links about the Windows 7 networking stack especially regarding IPv6. I’m going to cache my response here for future reference and updating: Generally speaking Windows 7 shares the same networking stack architecture as vista plus the following stuff: DirectAccess IPv6 transition technology improvements IPTLS transport BranchCache Network [...]
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Windows 7 Networking Information
Posted in Microsoft, Software - Technical, Tech on November 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Getting the ical/ics feed from a King County Library
Posted in Current Events, Journal, Software - Technical on April 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been working on being an event calendar curator ala Jon Udell’s system and was stuck getting a good calendar feed from the King Country Library System for my local Snoqualmie library. As in most projects, you start with some HTML page of calendar entries. In this case a search for Snoqualmie Library leads to [...]
All New Code?
Posted in Microsoft, Software - Technical, Vista on January 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Why is it that people believe that every release of Windows is entirely new code? I’ve never seen anyone from Microsoft ever claim any such thing, but every release I see people talking about the claim. Having said that, in every OS release almost every component gets touched if just to fix potential security vulnerabilities [...]
Thoughts on Monoculture
Posted in Software - Technical on January 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was reading the comments in a post by Schneier today regarding some office in the military thinking about apple servers to avoid the attacks made against windows, and kept seeing the meme of "monoculture == bad". This is not a new debate, but I want to jot some thoughts. Having a diversity of systems [...]
Finally, some good arguments against OpenXML
Posted in Microsoft, Software - Technical, Tech on August 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Stéphane Rodriguez has an article about issues one hits when trying to implement or use OpenXML. They don’t have the idiotic and artificial type of arguments that lists like groklaw has created, but some of his examples feel a bit extended to make a good story. Lets see what the summary of his issues are [...]
Windows Security Boundaries
Posted in Microsoft, Software - Technical on July 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I was reading Raymond’s post on Escalation of Privilege bugs that don’t actually escalate your privilege and then quickly read the earlier episode of the series. There I saw a lot of commenter rebilling against the concept of post by drawing new security boundaries which the hypothetical exploit would cross. This crystallized a concept for me [...]
Safari on Windows: Seeing the ugly beast
Posted in Intresting, Software - Technical, Tech on June 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
My first reaction to the news was, ah so that’s how they will allow people to develop and test their apps for the iphone. Then we loaded it up on a test box and I had three reactions. First: Why does the window frame look like crap? Second: Why is all their web page text so [...]
Pop Quiz!
Posted in Microsoft, Software - Technical, Vista on May 20, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Which day did I move Vista Media Center from my very powerful 64 bit main box to a mostly dedicated 32 bit box?
Joel praises the Windows Branching and Quality gate model
Posted in Microsoft, Software - Technical on December 1, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Joel writes: Of all the things broken at Microsoft, the way they use source control on the Windows team is not one of them. … When you’re working with source control on a huge team, the best way to organize things is to create branches and sub-branches that correspond to your individual feature teams, down [...]
Inline Search for IE (including 7 on Vista)
Posted in Intresting, Software - Technical on September 11, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Dare was kind enough to point out that there is a nice non-modal inline search for IE, available right now. I haven’t told so many people to install a piece of software as a must have for a long time.
