Tripp Parks's WebLog

From the article: Coding Horror: How to Clean Up a Windows Spyware Infestation Let my mistake be a lesson to everyone reading this: never browse the web without the very latest version of your preferred web browser . Intentionally choosing to browse the...

From the article: Firewall fire sale: Free ZoneAlarm makes it to Vista The Vista version of ZoneAlarm, a two-way firewall that will continue to be given away, is the first from a major security vendor to apply Vista's Windows Filtering Platform (WFP)...

From the article: BBC NEWS | Americas | US time capsule yields rusty car A car buried in Oklahoma in 1957 as a time capsule to mark the US state's 50th anniversary has caused some dismay after being finally unearthed. They had been asked to guess the...

New Halo Controlers and Headsets to be released with Halo 3. From the article: Xbox.com | Xbox News - Countdown to Launch with Halo 3 Accessories Gear up for the game's release with a variety of new merchandise, including two new Xbox 360™ Limited Edition...

When Apple's Safari browser was released several articles on the difference between how pages looked were posted. The majority of Windows users appear to prefer the way Microsoft renders font's and Apple users appear to prefer the way Apple does it. It...

In the article: The Old New Thing : What determines which programs show up on the front page of the Windows XP Start menu? Raymond Chen writes the following: "Software patents suck!" It's irrelevant what your or my opinion of software patents is. So long...

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Charles Simonyi, the inventor of hungarian notation , which is the primary variable naming convention used for C/C++ code inside of Microsoft, is going to space !

Get your bits here . You will need to get this if you want PNRP to interoperate with Vista.

Paul Thurrott has begun po^H^H Blog casting on the TwiT network at http://www.twit.tv/ww

Originally meant to be analogous to the non-mutable Mac bios chime. The startup sound is now Optional! There was heated internal debate on this issue, but customer feedback made this happen. Your feedback matters! Keep giving feedback on the latest build...

Food for thought: "If you had a business strategy that worked all the time that was premised on scaring the living daylights out of people, you just keep doing it" -Bill Clinton (found on Digg here ) (No, he's not, but an interesting commentary on how...

If you want your users running Microsoft Windows Vista to be happy when they use Outlook Web Access (OWA) you should install this Hotfix This also fixes the annoying "Click here to activate" prompting. Users, if your Admin hasnt installed this, and you...

This is a pretty cool application that shows some of the power of .NET and the Windows Presentation Foundation, you can sign up to download it here . Read more here: http://firstlook.nytimes.com/index.php?cat=4 and http://firstlook.nytimes.com/?p=22 Reaffirms...

This is one of the last EDW (External Developer Workstation) builds that will be posted before RTM. http://download.windowsvista.com/preview/rc1/en/do... Get your feedback in while there is still time!

Enjoy the XP Powertoy "Open Command Prompt Here"? Now its part of the OS: Shift+ right click on a folder in Windows Vista and see "Open Command Prompt Here"!

MSN has released their community video site to beta testing! Now you can watch my kid be tormented by ducks. Probably more interesting than watching Scoble buy meat .

AV Companies: Learn to CODE! Technorati Profile

Just a quick tidbit. The keyboard shortcut to make flip3d (win-tab) behave like clicking the icon is ctrl+win+tab. The same thing works for the new alt+tab ctrl+alt+tab. The Escape key will return you to the desktop.

Note, I don't work on Xbox so I have no clue if these numbers are real ( but they make sense) How much money can you make on Xbox Live Arcade?

Noah blogs about Internet Computer Names . Think Dynamic DNS, but Peer to Peer.

A regression slipped into the last CTP, that causes Windows Meeting Space to return Access Denied, to work around this, right click on the icon and say run as administrator. It has been fixed.

Symantec would like to scare you and make you buy their product. By testing on an interim (ie. not a beta) build that is over 8 months old 8贷㇝죸ԢĮĿ8죸Ԣ줐 they found bugs that were fixed by Microsoft in the build that was released 2 months ago without...

One of the great shortcomings in the Do Not Call Registry is the ability of non-profit organizations making unwanted calls(thanks Congress!). With the meteoric rise in phishing attacks both online and via phone there is no way any organization that cold...

New Mac Ads? (Warning:Cable TV language!)