Tripp Parks's WebLog

Peer Netwoking is looking to hire System Admins , Developers and testers! From webservices to kernel mode if you use computers we want you! send your resume to me either through the feedback link or my direct email alias!

For some sick reason I can't explain, I continue to read Slashdot even though I know that it is incredibly biased. Anyhow, yesterday they ran a story on yet another grand conspiracy titled " Stopping Linux Desktop Adoption Sabotage ". So, I took the bait...

I saw this on Ed Bott's blog   http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=34&threadid=1678445&enterthread=y

Christian Huitema  thinks we should move to a p2p system for DNS replacement. Who is he you ask? Since I've known him, he has been a Architect at Microsoft and now is the Director for Wireless in Windows Networking. Before he came to Microsoft he was...

Normally a post like this starts out with: Do you enjoy innovating and solving technically challenging problems? blah blah blah Lets just cut to the chase. My team is hiring! From lab management, to Testing, to Development we have lots of technical...

PC Magazine has a preview of Hotmail Kahuna here . Having used it for a few weeks it’s a really nice application, very similar to Outlook Web Access.

How's that for an attention grabbing title? One of the best things about working for Microsoft is the benefits. One of the best ones is the parental leave policy. Basically, as a father, when you have a child you get a month of paid leave to bond with...

While surfing the blogosphere, I cam across a link to this  article on ZDnet talking about Microsoft's reaction towards security flaws found in Firefox. The reaction: When there is a security flaw, everybody looses. Microsoft is in a weird position with...

http://www.bungie.net/News/TopStory.aspx?story=biggorilla&p=4955829   will we have a 12 disc extended version? Only time will tell;)

What's the most annoying api you've ever used?   Mine pretty much has to be the winsock NSP as it is probably the hardest api in Windows to use behind the relatively harmless looking   INT WSALookupServiceBegin(    LPWSAQUERYSET  pQuerySet ...

In the Linux™ communities continuing saga of "lets freak out our corporate users" Linus has sworn off specs  as a needless shackle of "The Man". Who needs marketing when you have quotes like this?   This is my opinion and not my employers. This...

Congrads!   Now, if we can just get them running Windows 2003;)

Xbox 360 Windows Vista Office 12 IE 7 Hotmail "Kahuna" Windows Mobile 2005 Visual Studio 2005 .NET 2.0 "Whidbey" SQL Server "Yukon" Start.com Atlas   The list goes on, It's going to be a busy year or so.

Adrian Moore  is posting about working with the Windows Vista Collaboration API's (and he's wrapping them in C#!)