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After quite a bit of work, I've decided to move the blog to my own server and transition to WordPress. It worked for Scoble , and I have really just wanted a more modern blogging platform for a while. .Text is not exactly a spring chicken. So, please...
MD5 has been seriously broken for a while, but when I saw the news that Patrick Stach has posted super-efficient collision-generating code , I was surprised that it was that broken. I tried the code on a few boxes, and generally had trouble getting it...
I'm sorry for the amazingly high unavailability of my blog today; the blog host has been having issues. I am actively working to resolve them. Also, I've been updating the MD5 article throughout the day; if you haven't looked at it since my first post...
Patrick Stach has announced a new implementation of an MD4/5 collision generation algorithm that can generate MD4 collisions instantaneously and MD5 collisions in under an hour on commodity hardware. MD4 hasn't been considered to be secure in a while...
A lot of people were wondering why Microsoft couldn't have (or didn't) detect the Sony DRM rootkit without writing new code. I covered that topic yesterday . Today, an NTDEV reader named Daniel Terhell posted a tool that has the potential to detect some...
useful: www.dnstools.com [12:00: corrected stupidly malformed link]
Microsoft is adding support for server-based Excel in version 12. This may not seem like it's relevant content here, and that's because it's not. But boy howdy, this has been the #1 gripe of Positive Networks users for years . 5MB Excel worksheet + 1Mbps...
Microsoft has decided to add support for removing the Sony DRM rootkit to its various malicious software removal tools. My article at ArsTechnica on the subject has more info. One of the commenters on the Ars post said something to the effect of "Why...
Charles Petzold, whose books we've all read by now, has a post on his 20 years of Microsoft Windows talk, in which he describes actually writing a new Windows 1.0 program. For all of the irritation I feel whenever I have to write for Win32, the thing...
Om Malik has a post up about another one of TiVo's little marketing gimmicks . I swear, I almost got myself convinced to buy one, even though I watch exactly 1 hour of TV per week (which is, atm, occupied by Rome on HBO). But then I read the fine print...
I've been invited by the kind folks at ArsTechnica to be a contributor to their M-Dollar journal, covering Microsoft-related news. I just posted my first article over there, Static Driver Verifier finds bugs before they find you . Stop over there and...
Seen on my internal IRC: [11:29] VS2005's call graph rocks [11:29] that's *so* useful [11:29] absolutely wonderful if you're trying to understand someone else's code [12:00] SkywingDev: is it a source level call graph? [12:00] yeah [12:00] how do you...
I got this message from Infone this morning: Dear Infone Customer: It is with deep regret that we must announce that Infone LLC will be discontinuing its enhanced directory assistance and call completion services effective December 31, 2005. If you have...
Drew Bliss from Microsoft posted a note on NTDEV today, in response to a question about debugging and CLR, and in the process pointed out a really interesting utility that ships with the new debugging packages called kdbgctrl. I decided to look into it...
Well, the whole blogosphere is buzzing about the Ray Ozzie memo that was "leaked" (intentionally, obvs) recently. Ray summarizes Web 2.0 quite nicely, and discusses the place of a company that has traditionally made its money off of shrink-wrap and licenses...
Warning: No PC-related content. Proceed with caution. Two huge annoyances for me, courtesy of our pals at Apple: Mail.app spins and spins and spins... 100% CPU in top all the time... ARGH! And it can't count any more - since the 10.4.3 update, It re-marks...
After I read this Micro Persuasion article about hacking Technorati , I decided that I am not nearly intelligent enough to be a blogger. So I think I'll stick to coding drivers.
Microsoft has released free "express" editions of the visual studio products, including Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition . Maybe it's not totally earth-shattering news considering that the DDK is also free, but regardless, it still amazes me that one of...
craigrow points out that WinHEC 2006 dates have been set . It's in Seattle again. The good news: no mention of Driver DevCon, which I take to mean that they have recognized that it was Way Better in 2003 when it was on campus and not tethered to WinHEC...
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