OpenID22 items tagged “windows”
Velocity: A Distributed In-Memory Cache from Microsoft. I’d been wondering what Microsoft ecosystem developers were using in the absence of memcached. Is Velocity the first Windows platform implementation of this idea? 
6th June 2008, 9:52 pm
The strain due to the fact that most business desktops are locked into the Microsoft platform, at a time when both the Apple and GNU/Linux alternatives are qualitatively safer, better, and cheaper to operate, will start to become impossible to ignore.
— Tim Bray 
3rd January 2008, 1:08 pm
Silly MS-DOS 5 Promo Video. I can’t decide if this is better or worse than the Windows 386 rap. 
13th September 2007, 10:10 am
I’ve been using Vista on my home laptop since it shipped, and can say with some conviction that nobody should be using it as their primary operating system—it simply has no redeeming merits to overcome the compatibility headaches it causes.
— Joel Spolsky 20th August 2007, 3:58 pm
Skype: What happened on August 16. Windows Update caused a massive global reboot, which destabilised Skype’s peer to peer network due to the flood of log-in requests. 
20th August 2007, 2:11 pm
Windows Live ID Web Authentication Released! Passport lives again! Who’s going to be first to build an idproxy.net for it? 17th August 2007, 10:20 am
Instant Django. Portable Django environment for Windows, no installation required. Can also be run from a USB thumb drive. 24th July 2007, 6:49 pm
Safari for Windows, 0day exploit in 2 hours (via) Once again, down to handling of alternative URL protocol schemes. 12th June 2007, 1:30 pm
Enabling the debug menu on Safari for Windows. “Turn off site-specific hacks” is one of the menu options. 12th June 2007, 1:18 pm
Safari 3 Public Beta. Safari for Windows. Unfortunately this kills the best excuse corporate Web developers had for getting Macs (“we need to run all our supported browsers on one machine”). 
11th June 2007, 11:06 pm
Deploying a Django app on the desktop. Silver Stripe used cx_freeze to package their commercial agile project management Django application as an easy to run Windows executable. 
1st June 2007, 9:45 pm
Just because Java was once aimed at a set-top box OS that didn’t support multiple address spaces, and just because process creation in Windows used to be slow as a dog, doesn’t mean that multiple processes (with judicious use of IPC) aren’t a much better approach to writing apps for multi-CPU boxes than threads.
— Guido van Rossum 8th May 2007, 9:21 pm
Migrating Microsoft Hotmail from FreeBSD to Microsoft Windows 2000. I’d like to see them try that with Yahoo!’s 100+ properties. 4th May 2007, 5:54 pm
The problem is a lack of respect for the consumer. The manufacturers don’t act as if the computer belongs to you. They act as if it is a billboard for restricted trial versions of software and ads for Web sites and services that they can sell to third-party companies who want you to buy these products.
— Walt Mossberg 6th April 2007, 10:46 pm
Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine.
— Bill Gates 
2nd February 2007, 6:01 pm
How-to: Read and Write NTFS Windows Partition on Mac OS X. NTFS driver for MacFUSE, with full read and write support. Great for BootCamp. 27th January 2007, 12:55 am
Subversion on Windows quick start (via) Subversion cheat sheet. 5th February 2005, 6:43 pm
IE in Windows XP SP2. An overview of the new security changes. 10th August 2004, 7:39 pm
Why Windows is a Security Nightmare. The pain of Windows Update over a 56K modem. 18th May 2004, 5:50 am
XP Service Pack 2 Review. Several welcome security improvements for those still suffering on Windows ;) 21st March 2004, 9:14 pm
Bizex
I’m going to try not to turn this in to a blog about Windows security exploits but this one is genuinely interesting in that it actively tries to steal financial information and important passwords. Bizex spreads itself by spamming messages over ICQ advising the recipient to visit a specific URL. When they visit it, Internet Explorer exploits are used to download and execute the main payload which then infects their ICQ program and uses it to message their contacts. The worm also scans their hard drive for information relating to a number of well known financial services which it then uploads to a server via FTP, and it apparently snoops on their browser for any passwords travelling over HTTPS connections as well. [... 216 words]
Clearout
- Tristan Louis’ RSS to Necho convertor puts paid to the idea that the success of one format will be detrimental to the usefulness of the other.
- O’Reilly’s RegExp Power series (part one and part two) demonstrate some powerful tricks for use with Perl compatible regular expressions.
- Norman Walsh explains Content Negotiation and some of the pitfalls with modern browser implementations.
- So that’s what happened to Digitiser. See also a Digitiser Tribute and a Mr Biffo interview from 2001 for background information. I cuss you bad.
- George Orwell: Politics and the English Language
- Clay Shirky: A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy. The title is misguiding; this is an essay about how online groups behave and how to look after them.
- A Java HttpClient Class.
- Some good stuff on Boxes and Arrows: Ten Quotable Moments: Challenges and Responses for UI Designers and Views and Forms: Principles of Task Flow for Web Applications (Part 1).
- Inside our notions of “document” and Inside our documents II—the Runoff model.
- 5 days worth of XSLT observations from Simon St. Laurent: One, Two, Three, Four, Five.
- Windows programming with open source tools: Minimalist GNU For Windows and Win32 Programming with GNU C and C++.
/ clayshirky, digitiser, georgeorwell, httpclient, java, opensource, perl, regexp, rss, simonstlaurent, tristanlouis, windows, xslt
