WAIK = Windows Automated Installation Kit (what used to be called the unattended setup kit)

New blog here . [This is my part of the org :-]

Eric Law posted details on how to get Fiddler to work with new Windows 8 Metro style applications : Over on StackOverflow, a new Windows 8 user asked how to get Fiddler working with new Windows 8 Metro-style applications. These applications work...

Some Powershell love on the Metro style apps forum about the Appx cmdlets to deploy and inventory Appx packages NOTE: I'm still looking for the official docs on MSDN. Don't laugh - there's a LOT of new documentation for the Developer Preview :-) ...

//Build is underway, the Windows Dev Center is open for business, and information is rolling on out. So I can finally share what I've been working on the past couple of years. I'll go into more detail as the week progresses and sessions unfold, but...

//Build begins

Big day - //Build starts tomorrow. Session information supposed to start showing up soon. Exciting times.

" Impossible to understand Javascript " is an understatement. Here's the code _=$_=+[],$=+!_,_$=!_+",_$$=!$+",__=({})+",_$_=($/_)+",__$=__[$+$+$+$+$];$_$=[][__$+__[$]+_$_[$]+__$+_$$[$]+_$[_]];$__=($_$+")[$$$$=(($+$)+''+(($<<$)*($+$+$)))]+($_...

The ThreadPool APIs are pretty cool, but the docs are confusing at first blush and the sample code is horrible (just one sample, and suffers from kitchen-sink syndrome). But fear not! MSDN lets users comment, so I did :-) Repro'd here for posterity: ...

Why leap seconds exist, their benefits and problems, and the upcoming decision if they should be abolished or kept (or a 3rd option). Personally I'm in the "Kill It" camp. Theoretically they're relevant, but pragmatically they're not, and the only ones...

TwitterKeys is a nifty bookmarklet that let's you insert emoticons from a pick list, as long as the target supports UTF-8. Twitter does, though this tool has nothing to do with Twitter per-se. I ♥ TwitterKeys™ so ♛ and mate☺ For those who prefer the...

http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/04/09/2123209 It ain't just for Chrome anymore. Neat.

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." George Bernard Shaw Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

Snicker : Josh Berkus is well known as a PostgreSQL hacker, but, as it happens, he also picked up some valuable experience during his stint at "The Laboratory for the Destruction of Communities," otherwise known as Sun Microsystems. That experience...

" Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone...

Great article about Windows Server 2008's access control. ACLs, AccessCheck and more security yumminess.

From Donald E. Knuth's Wikipedia page : To explain the concept, Knuth intentionally referred 'Circular definition' and 'Definition, circular' to each other in the index of The Art of Computer Programming Vol. 1 . Technorati : humor Del...

Totally random but fascinating historical factoid I never knew: The Phillips head was developed for use in automated manufacture - it's designed so that the machine driving it will tend to slip the slots rather than over-torque the screw. And for...

exFAT, aka FAT64, is a significant revision of the FAT32 design, for current and future needs (specifically, mobile storage like USB flash keys and the like). Lots of improvements beyond raw storage size, e.g. timestamps with 10ms granularity. The Wikipedia...

Explains the basis behind UAC (among other things). I've heard of 'integrity levels' but this is the first meat I've seen about them. Plus links to chml and regil, utilities to view and manage integrity levels. Handy.

Handy little spelunker to itneractively exercise LoadLibrary/Ex in all their various permutations. [Update 2009-12-06] LoadLibraryExplorer is a C++ application in source-only form (no precompiled bits), with build bits for Visual Studio 2005. Loading...

Words of wisdom: Trust but verify Now you are extremely busy and have a new task. Perhaps you negotiated with your manager for help from other people. Unfortunately, those people are clueless. They're not going to do it right, which is to say...

Ever wondered which columns in Task Manager mean "memory in use"? I stumbled over a simple, clear definition (finally): "Memory usage" = working set "Virtual memory" = committed memory First time I ever found a simple definition, and I (like...

Microsoft Research Redmond did an empirical study of software-development processes , providing some quantitative analysis of some common beliefs about software development. The article's an interesting read, but I'll summarize the key findings: Code...

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