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 »
Silverlight, Netflix and Tech Support
Posted in Microsoft, Software - Religious, Tech on December 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In response to some news from Netflix regarding the need for less specialized tech support after going to silverlight, the correct answer is “Duh”. Doing your own custom ActiveX control means a lot of exposure to install and platform issues goes away or becomes someone else’s tech support problem.
Open a specific set of Perf Counters in Perfmon
Posted in Microsoft, NoteToSelf, Tech on October 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This is from my stupid demo trick series (okay, this is the first in such a series, and may be the last….). With a recent Windows 7 demo I was doing there is a set of perf counters I wished to show quickly in a report view. Setting it up is a many click process: [...]
More on the IE8/Standards fun
Posted in Intresting, Microsoft, Software - Religious, Tech on March 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I really enjoy Joel’s writing. He does a nice job explaining the state of affairs: Martian Headsets – Joel on Software
Not understanding the Constraints
Posted in Software - Religious, Tech on January 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Reading the original IE Blog Article and the /. Discussion on the X-UA-Compatible markings, I have reached a couple of conclusions. There is a camp of people who think that standards are an end to themselves free from nitty gritty details like solving real world problems. Some people understand the issues but are happy to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Cleaning up a minor security argument
Posted in Ideas, Microsoft, Tech on May 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I saw a slashdot article this morning about Apple releasing more vuln fixes. In the comment section, discussion broke into the usual “why do people think Macs are safer then Windows” arguements. The two major points of “it has less of a market” and ”it’s just more secure” went back and forth. I happen to think both are an oversimplification of the [...]
Get together my thoughts on OOXML/ODF
Posted in Microsoft, Software - Religious, Tech on February 12, 2007 | 2 Comments »
An attempt to respond to the latest thing I’ve read and stake out my feelings on ODF/OOXML. From what I understand of the market, you have a number of (free) add-on ODF plugins for Microsoft Office. This means that the simple requirement being able to read and write the format will be satisfied to the level of [...]
Vista DRM
Posted in Microsoft, Tech on January 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
There a pretty reasonable podcast about Vista DRM in Security Now #75. Key points: Worse case is that you can’t play content that demnands a super secure path. No known media is requesting the super secure path. It is very questionable if anyone will ever want to take the PR hit of actually using it. [...]
