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Running out of disk space? How’s your logs?

I ran out of disk space today. This is not entirely a new issue for me, because I like to listen to BBC Radio from back home, and my only way to do that is to download the shows overnight so I can listen to them the next day. [I’m not allowed that sort of bandwidth at work] I start troubleshooting this...

Posted to Tales from the Crypto by Alun Jones on Thu, Dec 25 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Programmer Hubris, Miscellany - not security, Windows Vista
HTML Help in MFC

I recently got around to converting an old MFC project from WinHelp format to HTML Help. Mostly this was to satisfy customers who are using Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008, but who don’t want to install WinHlp32 from Microsoft. (If you do want to install WinHlp32, you can find it for Windows Vista...

Posted to Tales from the Crypto by Alun Jones on Sun, Oct 12 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Programmer Hubris, Miscellany - not security, Windows Vista, Alun's code, Windows Server 2008
Can You Write Good Code for an OS you Despise?

No, this isn't another of my anti-Mac frothing rants. This is one of my "here's what I hate about many of the open-source projects I deal with" rants. I'm trying to find an SFTP client for Windows that works the way I want it to. All I seem to be able to find are SFTP clients for...

Posted to Tales from the Crypto by Alun Jones on Sat, May 3 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Programmer Hubris, Why is PKI so hard?, Miscellany - not security
Retro-bundling - another suck of the Apple

I thought I was done blogging about Apple Software Update, having removed QuickTime from my system completely, and sworn never to install it again or watch another QT or MOV file. But nooo, someone had to spoil it by telling me what Apple Software Update did next . If you're unfortunate enough to...

Posted to Tales from the Crypto by Alun Jones on Fri, Mar 21 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Programmer Hubris, Miscellany - not security, What my wife knows
MacBook Air debuts; iTunes Pesters Me Again

The big news from Apple this week was that they have a flatter laptop than anyone else (except Intel, who have a "Lorado" concept model that is much cooler, is demonstrated with Vista, and comes with an optional sleeve that has a Sideshow display). Conveniently for those road warriors that...

Posted to Tales from the Crypto by Alun Jones on Sat, Jan 19 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Programmer Hubris, 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
Microsoft Support Switches to Live Search

In the spirit of the famous review of Spinal Tap's album "Shark Sandwich", I was tempted to post a two-word review,the first word of which is "Advanced". My three-word review, then - "Worst. Search. Ever". But, just in case you didn't get the hint, here is the explanation...

Posted to Tales from the Crypto by Alun Jones on Sat, Dec 15 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Programmer Hubris, Miscellany - not security
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
Larry Osterman isn't that into you, either.

In previous articles, I've pointed out: Programmer Hubris - He's just not that into you Programmer Hubris - I don't run your software all the time Programmer Hubris Part 3 - Microsoft Knows I'm Not That Into Them I'm still not that into Apple All of these are on the basic theme that...

Posted to Tales from the Crypto by Alun Jones on Wed, Aug 22 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Programmer Hubris, Things I Learned At Microsoft, Miscellany - not security
I'm still not that into Apple

Apple Updater showed me two new software updates the other day - "Quicktime" and "iTunes + QuickTime". Now, remember, I never installed iTunes , and went out of my way to install only QuickTime . I use QuickTime about once every six months, when there's a movie I just have to...

Posted to Tales from the Crypto by Alun Jones on Mon, May 14 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Programmer Hubris, 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
Converting from AD time to Excel time

Here's a little formula that works to convert times and dates from Active Directory (or other LDAP servers) to Excel - really useful to use if you've exported a number of entries from Active Directory to an Excel spreadsheet or CSV, and want to see them as dates: =(B1-94353120004495000)/864000000000...

Posted to Tales from the Crypto by Alun Jones on Tue, Oct 31 2006
Filed under: Filed under: Programmer Hubris, Miscellany - not security
I'm a developer - I don't do operations.

Okay, so there's a point that Larry has here, in referring to Dare's posts 1 and 2 - that operations and development are two separate skills. [ Joe refers to it , too] I've suggested for a long time that developers should spend some time on technical support to find out how their customers use the product...

Posted to Tales from the Crypto by Alun Jones on Sat, Aug 12 2006
Filed under: Filed under: Programmer Hubris, Things I Learned At Microsoft, Miscellany - not security, What my wife knows

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