Tripp Parks's WebLog

$60 drop in one day . Ouchie

I was reading the comments on craigrow's blog about WHQL signing and I saw a rather interesting comment from Will Dean " Acheiving WHQL signing is difficult, slow, expensive, and backed by an extremely poorly documented test suite " The expensive...

Get your IE beta here! Also, a hint if you want to revert back to ie6 make sure to click "Show Updates" in Add Remove Programs

Tripp's Office I bet you could see me, but my office is hiding behind a bush:)

Recently Microsoft announced the requirement for Kernel mode drivers to be signed, this is diffrerent than WHQL signing, all this does is tie a driver to a publisher. It provides no testimony to the quality of the driver, in fact, it is stated in the...

WMF exploit fixed here: Windows Update or Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-001

Guy Kawasaki has some excellent pointers on how to use PowerPoint effectively.

Russell Beattie switches back to Windows! (and its Windows XP Media Center Edition no less!) I tried living in the Mac world for the past year (I got my mini last January) but I just can't deal with not being able to be on the bleeding edge anymore...

Joel  of Joel on software says that teaching only Java is bad for computer science and I agree. A more rounded education is needed, starting with assembly, moving to  c/c++  and then to a "managed" language such as C# or Java. Building the knowledge of...

So, I’m currently sitting in a hotel room, surfing the web at near DSL speeds over Bluetooth using my cell phone as a modem, isnt technology grand? When I first started at Microsoft, I origionally worked on Bluetooth. While it isnt the all encompasing...

I watch American Chopper so I find this interesting. Orange County Choppers Now Ride on Microsoft Watch the video where OCC talks about their switch from a "little black book" to Small Business Server and SQL Server 2005.

In perhaps the corniest blog ever, the new features of Windows Live messenger are detailed. See all the action here

Richard Pryor was one of my favorite comedians. He died today:( I listen to XM Comedy at work and hear him almost daily.

I must be the customer that web companies hate. I've never "Punched the Monkey", Refinanced Now, bought an X10 video camera or pretty much clicked on any web advertisement. I've also never bought anything from someone calling me (or donated either). No...

Bill Gates was on the NBC show Three Wishes last night giving a 10 year old his wish of being a CEO for a day. Too bad Bill Gates hasn't been the CEO since 1998 ;) I found it was funny when they went suit shopping so they could "look the part", which...

Dan Kaminsky has some interesting research here .

Interesting story over on Sysinternals . Sysinternals is a valuable provider of Windows utilities. Their knowledge of the Windows internal operations quite impressive. I'm fairly confident that Sony's methods wont work on x64 (currently they don’t have...

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...