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I’ve always been a bit twiddler – whether it’s doing machine code on an 8-bit RCA COSMAC microprocessor or writing 16-bit drivers for Windows 3.1 or doing Windows Server 2003 storage related development, I’ve never shied away from getting into the meat...
Last night I went to the party at Mountain View's Computer History Museum hosted by IBM. I figured it would be a low key affair with other curious folks like me. Nope the parking lot was full and the lecture hall packed. Had several laughs listening to...
Apparently until recently, the Linux kernal value that measures “uptime” was a 32 bit number. Uptime is measured in centiseconds (.01) and thus after 497 days, 2 hours, 27 minutes and 53 seconds, the counter wraps around to zero. Doing a Google...
I never thought I'd be doing this. As of 9:10am, Tuesday March 2, 2004, I have just started the installation of Linux on my IBM ThinkPad X20 laptop. Egads! FYI, for those who don't know me - I'm pretty much a dyed-in-the-wool Windows guy. Back in early...
I hate rebooting. Most people do. All too often though, it's the only way to get running again. Think it's a problem only to Microsoft Windows? Imagine having to do 130 reboots before you could get working again . That’s what NASA’s Mars rover...
As many of you know, I wrote a popular developers book on Active Directory for Microsoft Press titled Microsoft Windows 2000 Active Directory Programming . When it was published in April 2001, I pleaded with Microsoft Press to not put “Windows 2000”...
I'm finally learning the Perl language. Being a Microsoft guy for so long, I really stuck with C/C++/C#, VB, VB.NET and VBScript. I even wrote client-side scripting in JScript and not JavaScript. :-) This will be my second new language in the past four...
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