2008

Sep

The Great Zero-Fill Challenge
Sep 7th

Windows Performance Tools

Remember Bootvis? That’s it, on the right. Microsoft made it to help OEMs setup XP systems...
Sep 4th

Kill-a-watt

NewEgg is currently selling this handy little device for 18 bucks, plus $7 in shipping. And...
Sep 3rd
http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/index.html#
Sep 2nd
Microsoft DHCP Team Blog
Sep 2nd

Aug

IE8 beta 2

Short and sweet: I have found no showstoppers, and several things to really like, in IE8 beta2...
Aug 28th

Vista and multiple displays: annoyance

This is bugging me. Recently I added a spiffy new monitor to my desk. My primary work system is a...
Aug 21st

About the users

If you’re anywhere in IT, I think you’ll profit by reading Joel Spolsky’s...
Aug 19th
Warch Watch
This is what they said Vista would be … in 2003. What happened?
Aug 19th

Computer Description

SF-DC-01. Many organizations name their computers (or at least the servers) like this....
Aug 16th
Troubleshooting pool memory
Aug 14th
PC Incubator
Aug 5th

Observing chkdsk

I recently had occasion to suspect there might be problems on my Vista laptop’s C: drive, so I...
Aug 3rd

ReadyBoost Blues

About a week ago, I noted in the winsat article that I was trying to get ReadyBoost to work on my...
Aug 1st

Jul

Windows perf team blog
Jul 28th
Someday, this won’t seem like much.
Jul 27th

Windows Memory Management

Unless you’ve studied it a bit, you probably have a few wrong impressions about how Windows...
Jul 26th
Lazy Linux Admin: 10 tricks
Jul 26th

Exchange Admins, read this.

Running Exchange 2003? Exchange 2003 Disaster Recovery Operations Guide Exchange 2007? Disaster...
Jul 23rd
EasyVMX
Jul 21st

Vista --> XP downgrade notes

If you have a legit copy of Vista Business, Enterprise, or Ultimate, you can downgrade to XP...
Jul 21st

Windows Scripting and CLI Reference...

I consider scripting to be an essential skill for a serious sysadmin. Anything you’ll have to...
Jul 20th

Poor Man's Tripwire for Windows

I’ve been thinking lately: one of the more frustrating experiences in sysadmin is when you...
Jul 19th

Writing better

A sysadmin often needs to write convincingly and well. Emails to the boss, the users, other...
Jul 15th

FSMO roles command.

Quick and dirty. You want to know which domain controllers hold the FSMO roles in your Active...
Jul 14th

winsat perf-testing tool

I’ve been trying to get a CF card to work as ReadyBoost memory. Still no success on...
Jul 14th
Bandwidth reference
Jul 13th
Ba-dum PAH!
Jul 13th

Update service uptimes

The folks at Pingdom have been monitoring availability of the update services for Ubuntu, Apple, and...
Jul 11th
USB speeds clarified
Jul 10th

Windows Search 4.0

So a few days ago I installed Windows Search 4.0 on my Vista machine. Searches that used to be...
Jul 10th

There is no bubble

There is no bubble. There is no bubble. There is no bubble.
Jul 10th
Linux still <1%
Jul 7th
Rootkit Detection
Jul 7th

OS Wishes

Today Ed Bott wrote about why you’ll have a long wait for Microsoft’s next OS, and...
Jul 7th
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Jul 5th
Structured Sysadmin
Jul 5th
WMIC snippets
Jul 4th
Regex Cheatsheet
Jul 3rd

Browser Plugin Version Checking

Forty Percent of Web Users Surf With Unsafe Browsers. Here’s the report that number comes...
Jul 1st
Regex helper
Jul 1st

Jun

Bandwidth calculator
Jun 30th

IT gone horribly, horribly wrong.

The video below leaves me not knowing whether to laugh or cry. A little more on the crying side,...
Jun 29th
Warch Watch
Don’t be any of these people.
Jun 29th

Risk (the game)

A good clean game of world domination. Just what you need on a lazy Saturday afternoon,...
Jun 29th

The unavailable Vista Feature Pack

Long Zheng broke the news about the first Feature Pack for Windows Vista, which Microsoft documents...
Jun 28th
ReadyBoost Compatibility
Jun 28th

quuxpad comments now enabled

I’ve enabled comments to this site via Disqus. I have no idea who (if anyone) reads this...
Jun 27th

How Mannix Made the Internet Possible

It’s been 40 years since the CarterFone decision allowed US citizens to plug their own phones...
Jun 27th
Windows cached logins
Jun 27th
Eicar
Jun 26th

Dipity Timelines

Sometimes a good way to understand a thing is to chart its history. Learn where it came from, and...
Jun 25th
oldversion.com
Jun 24th

jperf for network bandwidth testing.

“The network is slow.” I’ve long been a fan of Iperf for testing this common...
Jun 24th

Drop.io - handy way to share files

I recently discovered drop.io. It’s a handy and fast way to share files temporarily, without...
Jun 23rd
Groqit
Jun 23rd
Batteryrefill.com
Jun 20th

Cheap Wireless/Ethernet Bridge

Back home on the quux ranch, I needed to connect my wife’s OfficeJet R60 wirelessly. But this...
Jun 19th
The Enterprise Octopus
Jun 19th

Laxative Candy

Some lessons, you learn the hard way. Watch out for sugarfree candy which uses Sorbitol as the...
Jun 17th
What it's like to write a technical book
Jun 16th

Screamin' Deal on MS Software

Microsoft have a new “gamevertisement” website up. It’s at www.server-quest.com,...
Jun 16th

Simple System Backups

Lately there have been a few interesting offsite backup services offerred in the home user space -...
Jun 4th
<$200 ebook reader coming soon
Jun 4th

May

Today is Memorial Day in the USA.
May 26th

Oooh. 256GB "cheaper" SSD.

I’m not one of those people who goes all fanboy on the latest CPU, motherboard, chipset,...
May 26th
OpenID: Thoughtful Consideration
May 26th
Stackoverflow
May 26th

Hackers Diet: Followup

Maybe no one really cares about this, but I thought I’d jot down a few thoughts just in case...
May 26th

Belated MicroHoo Thoughts

All the yacking about the MicrosoftYahoo deal left me cold. I didn’t get it; I felt that a...
May 26th

Feb

Cableships of the world
Feb 19th

The Hacker's Diet

OK, I admit it. I’m in my 40’s, and I’ve gotten fat. In fact my Body Mass Index...
Feb 19th
xkcd rendition of the Google honeynet
Feb 18th

What Google's honeynet found

This paper (pdf) is absolutely fascinating, in multiple ways. The first thing that fascinated me was...
Feb 18th

Microsoft/Yahoo

Oh, yeah. It occurs to me that a technical person with a blog more or less has to comment about the...
Feb 16th

The lessons of Amazon's S3 failure

Techie news sites have been all a-twitter about the Amazon S3 outage today. Many writers and...
Feb 16th
CMDOW
Feb 13th
Vista's Integrity System
Feb 12th
Vista SP1 for tech customers
Feb 12th

Troubleshooting XP's Offline files

I recently had an a problem with XP’s Offline Files. The system was XP Pro SP2 with all...
Feb 12th
HoboCopy
Feb 11th
69 *nix cheatsheets
Feb 10th
MS shouldn't challenge Google in ad space
Feb 9th
Economics of online backup
Feb 9th

Truthy news

Sometimes, the internet (and the print/TV/radio media which are by now inextricably intertwined with...
Feb 9th

The missing PIM Triple Play

Microsoft Outlook has, for me, almost always been the one app I just could not live without. Not...
Feb 8th
Windows Flight Data Recorder - awesome
Feb 7th
Seattle Transit Blog
Feb 7th
Lost in Seattle
Feb 7th
GPupdate - syntax
Feb 7th

Conflicting reports on the cable cuts

Hmm, this cable cut thing is starting to get very muddy. A recent article seems to change the timing...
Feb 6th
Choosing Computer Names
Feb 5th
Crossloop
Feb 5th

Vista SP1 Released ... sorta

Today SP1 for Vista was Released To Manufacturing (RTM). But users like you and I won’t be...
Feb 4th

Fourth cable incident in mideast

Some forums and blog posters are noticing a fourth cable cut, and linking back to this article as...
Feb 4th
News Map
Feb 4th
More Telegeography maps
Feb 3rd
World submarine cable map (telco/data) |...
Feb 3rd

Wysiwyg Trac

Last month, I noted that a plugin to allow wysiwyg editing in Trac had come out. Finally! I’d...
Feb 3rd

Sad day in the wiki world

It’s not like I ever really felt a need to edit Ward’s Wiki before. But today I tried -...
Feb 3rd
Network Weather
Feb 2nd
Kindle
Feb 2nd
Infoesthetics.com
Feb 1st

Who's cutting the cables?

Yesterday, two data cables under the Mediterranean sea were cut. Today, a third cable was cut, in...
Feb 1st

Microsoft Bids on Yahoo.

So I finally get around to looking at Techmeme this morning around 10:30 AM. And the page is almost...
Feb 1st

Jan

Days between Windows releases

I like graphs, so I’ll go ahead and hotlink these from Ed Bott’s interesting thoughts on...
Jan 31st

Wink & how to set prefs for CMD console

A friend suggested Wink to me. It’s a pretty nifty little program for creating movies out of...
Jan 30th
MrNaz
Jan 29th
In Defense of UAC
Jan 29th
Low tide. Dang.
Jan 28th
Blog Post Lifecycle
Jan 27th
MS Influentials
Jan 27th

Do we need IPv6?

Timothy Lee at TechDirt makes a case that maybe we don’t. He notes that none of the biggest...
Jan 26th

Vista: first year security report

Jeff Jones has put out another of his controversial Vista security reports. This latest one (pdf...
Jan 24th

WMware Stage Manager - wow.

If your IT work takes you anywhere near a set of dev/test/prod environments, you really owe it to...
Jan 24th
Windows Hotpatching
Jan 24th

Office Live Workspace Beta

After signing up for this more than a month ago, and never getting my ‘your workspace is...
Jan 22nd
Visions of Seven (already!)
Jan 22nd
WMIC Snippets
Jan 22nd
The Filing Cabinet
Jan 22nd
AndLinux
Jan 22nd

Flashlight party favors!

These flashlights are cheap in cost: $12.89 gets you seven of them - and no shipping charges either!...
Jan 22nd
Can you virtualize Vista?
Jan 21st
Why hearing aids suck
Jan 20th
Website SSL cert: $9/year
Jan 19th

Is OpenID ready?

Now that Yahoo and Blogger have started offerring OpenID, it’s probably safe to say that this...
Jan 19th
Paglo
Jan 19th
Miss me?
Jan 19th
Mark Russinovich's blog
Jan 19th

California = US broadband heaven?

California’s Governator commissioned, and has now received, a state of the broadband report...
Jan 19th
Shipping Seven blog
Jan 18th
Contact lense computer display
Jan 17th
“ everyone’s first vi session....”
— http://bash.org/?795779?
Jan 17th
Security software = protection racket?
Jan 17th
MS Launch Event Calendar
Jan 17th
DFS changes in Windows 2008
Jan 17th
Warch Watch
13 minutes: how packet routing/switching work.
Jan 17th

If it's not one thing, it's another

ArsTechnica’s Iljitsch van Beijnum turns in a thoughtful essay on the next internet overload....
Jan 17th
Windows 2008 Virtual Labs
Jan 16th
Dude, where's my 4gb?
Jan 16th

Sun to buy MySQL

<scratchme> This is interesting news indeed: http://www.tomshardware.com/2008/01/16/sun_to_acquire_mysql_for_1_billion/
<quux> Yeah. I am a little nervous about it.
<quux> imo, imprinted in Sun's DNA are 3-4 standout traits:
<quux> 1) great hardware
<quux> 2) litigious
<quux> 3) snarky
<quux> 4) wierd OSS licensing
<quux> and, I guess, finally, a sort of 'blowing in the wind' business strategy
<scratchme> Sun's sue-happy nature with regards to Java is IMO what created .NET.
<quux> Right. It doesn't stop there. They were the ones who *kicked off* the whole EU thing
<quux> They were also one of the earliest driving forces in the MS<>DoJ thing
Jan 16th
Vista's UAC: how it works
Jan 16th

MacJobsWorld

I guess tumblr doesn’t (currently) let me add a few comments to a video link, so here we are....
Jan 16th
Warch Watch
Better and better and better …
Jan 16th

Edited Scrapbook theme

I have made a few customizations to lab111’s wonderful Scrapbook theme for this...
Jan 16th
The Danger of Free
Jan 16th
Has my ship come in?
Jan 16th

Telecommuting - bad for the ones who...

ArsTechnica looked at a study which suggests that morale may go down among the non-telecommuters who...
Jan 15th
Saying thanks
Jan 15th
Verify email addresses
Jan 15th

Taking VMware Server 2.0 out for a spin

Thanks to a good friend, I got to spend a few minutes playing with VMware Server 2.0 beta, which now...
Jan 15th