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Microsoft TechFest

Last week, I went to Microsoft’s TechFest as part of their “Public Day”. This is the first time MVPs as a group have been invited to this event, and although it’s clear we missed some of the demonstrations that are not public-ready, this is something that I hope can be extended to us in future, even...

Posted to Tales from the Crypto by Alun Jones on Tue, Mar 3 2009
Filed under: Filed under: General Security, Things I Learned At Microsoft, Miscellany - not security
Removing Apple Mobile Device Support

As mentioned before, I'm not a fan of Appple 's, particularly because they tend to impose crap on me that I'm not interested in having. I've been trying to figure out how to remove iTunes , iPod and Aple Mobile Device Support on and off now for the past month, since it was accidentally...

Posted to Tales from the Crypto by Alun Jones on Mon, Dec 17 2007
Filed under: Filed under: General Security, Programmer Hubris, Miscellany - not security, What my wife knows
DRM should always be a choice

Jesper's recent frustration with a bug in the DRM support on his Windows Media Center Edition (MCE) system demonstrates a couple of basic truths in system reliability: Complexity negatively impacts reliability. DRM contributes to complexity. Clearly, this means that DRM makes systems less reliable...

Posted to Tales from the Crypto by Alun Jones on Tue, Oct 2 2007
Filed under: Filed under: General Security, Programmer Hubris, Miscellany - not security, DRM
Why complain about UAC prompts?

Jesper's article in TechNet Magazine on the purpose and future of UAC in Windows Vista and beyond reminded me that there's a whole slew of behaviours more annoying than UAC's prompting (which, as Jesper points out, is only the most visible portion of a system-wide and company-wide approach...

Posted to Tales from the Crypto by Alun Jones on Mon, Sep 3 2007
Filed under: Filed under: General Security, Programmer Hubris, Miscellany - not security, Windows Vista, What my wife knows
Windows Script 5.6 - making me less nervous.

Remember my posting " How to make me nervous ", where I talked about Microsoft's release of Windows Script 5.7 , and their rather sudden removal of Windows Script 5.6 and before? My concern was that this removes our ability to fix broken script engines by merely applying a Windows Script...

Posted to Tales from the Crypto by Alun Jones on Tue, Aug 28 2007
Filed under: Filed under: General Security, Miscellany - not security
How to make me nervous

How to make Alun nervous in 3 easy steps: Release a new version of a tool that Alun uses throughout his home and work life. For bonus points, make it a back-port from a later version of the operating system. Back-port it to operating systems as far back as you can, since this is something you generally...

Posted to Tales from the Crypto by Alun Jones on Mon, Aug 13 2007
Filed under: Filed under: General Security, Miscellany - not security
Catch me at Tech-Ed

For those of you who want to catch me at Tech-Ed, if it's only to let me know that real people (rather than spammers) read this blog, you can find me in the yellow section of the Technical Learning Center, in the Security sub-section, at the Solution Accelerators / Security and Compliance booth....

Posted to Tales from the Crypto by Alun Jones on Mon, Jun 4 2007
Filed under: Filed under: General Security, TechEd, Miscellany - not security, What my wife knows
Alternate Data Streams in Windows Vista

Windows NT 3.1 was released ... oh, back in the early to mid '90s. Ever since then, I've been aware that it supported Alternate Data Streams, also known as ADS, or in some technical documents that didn't make it to final review, Alternative Data Streams. This was added, I think, to support...

Posted to Tales from the Crypto by Alun Jones on Thu, Apr 26 2007
Filed under: Filed under: General Security, Programmer Hubris, Miscellany - not security, Windows Vista, What my wife knows
ReadyBoost - swap space on a stick.

So, I've finally upgraded my laptop from Windows XP SP2 to Windows Vista. The upgrade process itself took over three hours - the first fifteen minutes of which was basically me uninstalling the applications that the Vista installation told me would interfere with the upgrade to Windows Vista - they were...

Posted to Tales from the Crypto by Alun Jones on Sat, Dec 30 2006
Filed under: Filed under: General Security, Miscellany - not security, Windows Vista
IE7 - the security update that isn't

First, the big news - IE7 is now available for direct download . I cannot recommend this update strongly enough. Go and get it. My wife's not into the security stuff as much as I am, so she recommends it purely on the basis that it's a far improved user experience over IE6. Me, I see how much it adds...

Posted to Tales from the Crypto by Alun Jones on Wed, Oct 18 2006
Filed under: Filed under: General Security, Miscellany - not security
Way to "not remain silent", George!

“ We won’t remain silent as Microsoft imposes unnecessary security risks ,” wrote George Samenuk, just days before resigning from McAfee , apparently because of a back-dated stock-options scandal that started in 1996, lasting through Samenuk's reign as CEO and into the recent appointment...

Posted to Tales from the Crypto by Alun Jones on Wed, Oct 11 2006
Filed under: Filed under: General Security, Miscellany - not security
Ten reasons Dr J wants to go to Amazon.

Ten reasons Dr J wants to go to Amazon . 10. Tired of working at a desk, wants to work at a door on breeze blocks instead. 9. Commute to Downtown Seattle is better than commute to London, New Zealand, Japan, Barcelona, Amazon Basin, Tsurinam, Atlantis, etc. 8. Tired of dealing with all those damn MVPs...

Posted to Tales from the Crypto by Alun Jones on Mon, Jul 31 2006
Filed under: Filed under: General Security, Things I Learned At Microsoft, TechEd, Miscellany - not security

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