My B20 Life

iSCSI meets ASIC

One of the events this week at the PAC involved compatibility testing of Longhorn with the latest bits for Volume Shadow Copy Service . VSS has 3 different pieces (storage management, application agents, and storage hardware) so once or twice a year Microsoft

Preventing cross team access to VSTF projects

So I maintain this Visual Studio Team Foundation server (VSTF for short) for Microsoft's architect evangelists to use when working with outside companies on a common project, usually a technology adoption project or a proof of concept. Microsoft uses

How we capture hi-def Vista video streams

We've developed a pretty novel way to capture presentation and demo content from Vista here at the PAC. There are a couple of old ways that don't work quite well, maybe you've used them: Convert the VGA signal to composite video. Use a continuous screen