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• Microsoft Windows Internals Review

  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... Posted Apr 06 2005, 09:10 AM by ChuckOp with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Microsoft, Programming, Hardware

• Thoughts from IBM System/360 40th birthday party

  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... Posted Apr 08 2004, 05:17 PM by ChuckOp with | with no comments Filed under: Programming, Personal

• Linux won't stay up for longer than 16 months?

  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... Posted Apr 05 2004, 12:20 PM by ChuckOp with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: Programming, Rants, FreeBSD

• Chuck installs Linux while watching pigs fly

  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... Posted Mar 02 2004, 10:57 AM by ChuckOp with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Microsoft, Programming

• Is rebooting a cure all?

  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... Posted Feb 06 2004, 04:13 PM by ChuckOp with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Programming

• Programming Directory Services with Microsoft .NET and XML

  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”... Posted Feb 03 2004, 12:55 PM by ChuckOp with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Microsoft, Programming, Personal, Directory Services

• Learning Perl

  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... Posted Jan 23 2004, 02:24 PM by ChuckOp with | with no comments Filed under: Microsoft, Programming