Under The Hood - Matt Pietrek
Mr. Burgermaster passes on
This makes me sad: https://www.techflash.com/seattle/2009/10/rip_mr_burgermaster.html My own personal...
Date: 10/20/2009
Visual Studio 2010 Linker performance improvements
A long, long time ago I wrote quite a bit about PE files, OBJ files, compilers, linkers, etc......
Date: 10/13/2009
Adventures in creating a Windows 7 HTPC – Part 2
In my previous post, I described the requirements and purchasing decisions around a new Windows...
Date: 08/25/2009
Native VHD support in Windows 7 and WS08 R2
This is truly cool stuff. VHDs are no longer "just" a virtualization file format. They're baked into...
Date: 05/14/2009
New Hyper-V Release Candidate available
If you're still using the original Hyper-V that runs as part of Windows Server 2008, this is a big...
Date: 05/06/2009
Analyze Wait Chain - Why is my program stuck?
My new favorite "Nerd" feature in Win7 involves the Resource Monitor (not surprisingly.) It's...
Date: 04/17/2009
My favorite Windows 7 feature so far - Resource Monitor
While the Windows 7 UI is currently getting most of the "What's new?" attention, I'm a system guy at...
Date: 01/16/2009
Fast Forward - Catching up on what I'm up to
I've been somewhat quiet in my blog lately, posting vary sparsely in 2008. Consider this the...
Date: 01/09/2009
The Case of XBox 360 not playing ripped DVDs from a WHS share
Stealing a page from Mark Russinovich's blog here. I've been going batty trying to play ripped DVDs...
Date: 11/01/2008
Celebrity Restaurant Sightings
Last night my wife took me to the Met for dinner. Midway through dinner I glanced over at the...
Date: 01/29/2008
R.I.P. NuMega Lab
In a previous post, I lamented the loss of SoftIce. Now, we truly are at the end of an era....
Date: 06/11/2007
Windows Home Server Update - Waiting on a new build
Yes, it's been awhile since I posted anything on this topic. My bad. My WHS box is happily purring...
Date: 03/28/2007
Why don't I get ETW events from ASP.NET in Vista?
One of the cool features of IIS 7 is it's modular architecture. It lets you create just the IIS you...
Date: 02/21/2007
Windows Home Server - A peek at Remote Access
Here's what it looks like when I'm at work, accessing my home network via Windows Home Server. I've...
Date: 02/21/2007
Windows Home Server - Remote Access is working!
This morning my wife was firmly ensconced on the couch with the puppy, catching up on her shows on...
Date: 02/17/2007
Windows Home Server beta is expanding
See the Windows Home Server blog for details.
Date: 02/13/2007
Fun With Crimson Eventing in Vista
(Switching away from WHS for the moment...) In my current work life, I've been playing extensively...
Date: 02/09/2007
A question about Windows Home Server storage space
Andre asks: what is the effective size of the server if i have 4 250GB disk? is it 0.5TB or 1TB? The...
Date: 02/08/2007
Windows Home Server, Day 8
No, you're not missing any posts. I've jumped from Day 4 to Day 8. Last night WHS box passed the...
Date: 01/30/2007
Windows Home Server, Day 4
I'm in troubleshooting mode now. The last two mornings I've woken up to a frozen server machine. No...
Date: 01/26/2007
Windows Home Server, Day 3
Last night was exciting as we got another build of WHS to play with. Since I had no data on the box...
Date: 01/25/2007
Windows Home Server, Day II
Maybe it's just because my new box is setting next to me on the desk, but it's pretty loud. I...
Date: 01/24/2007
Windows Home Server - It's alive!
The new PC I ordered to run Windows Home Server arrived last night, and I'm happily fiddling with...
Date: 01/23/2007
Robocopy built into Vista
OK, perhaps not news to everybody, but I was surprised to learn this yesterday. Robocopy is a...
Date: 01/16/2007
A nice intro to Keyed Events and Slim Reader/Writer locks
In a previous post, I mentioned the new slim reader/writer locks in Vista. A kind reader just sent...
Date: 12/13/2006
At last I can break the silence
OK... It's not a super-duper juicy revelation, but it's exciting to me. Raymond Chen has finally...
Date: 12/07/2006
New AeDebug functionality in Vista
Perhaps jumping the gun here as the official doc still hasn't been posted yet, but soon, I'm told....
Date: 11/22/2006
Stupid PE File Tricks
If you're an aficionado of all things PE file related, you'll get a kick of this article:...
Date: 11/07/2006
A New Role For Me At Microsoft
Today marks my first day in a different division at Microsoft. I'm now part of the Center For...
Date: 11/06/2006
I Love Rock N Roll
So I'm just a wee bit sleepy this morning. The missus and I were out late last night at the Showbox,...
Date: 11/02/2006
Slim Reader Writer Locks
In a recent internal thread, there's been some good discussion about the new Slim Reader Writer...
Date: 10/19/2006
Humorous comment of the day
I saw this comment in a design spec, and it made me laugh: TEST NOTE: Please test that we don’t...
Date: 10/18/2006
New Synchronization APIs in Vista
Somehow in my heads down mode lately, I haven't had a chance to monitor all the new Win32 API...
Date: 10/16/2006
Typo in WinBase.H (RTL_CRITICAL_SECTION_NO_DEBUG_INFO)
Yes, it's been awhile since my last post. While I've been busy on lots of interesting work, nothing...
Date: 10/12/2006
My channel 9 video is up
https://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=219294 It's me, talking about what I've been working...
Date: 07/24/2006
Who Are These People - Answers
In a prior blog entry, I asked if anybody could recognize the people in the picture. Surprisingly, I...
Date: 07/19/2006
Who Are These People?
I was working with my scanner this weekend, bringing in old pictures to my digital image library....
Date: 07/17/2006
Finally, some more concrete guidance on the mystery's of DllMain
I spent many years prior to coming to Microsoft doing "dangerous" things inside of DllMain. If...
Date: 06/21/2006
Cool new Vista APIs for determining Thread Wait States
I haven't yet had a chance to play with these yet, but Vista includes new APIs for determining why a...
Date: 06/20/2006
A cool site for debugger / system programming junkies
Mr. DbgHelp just sent me this link: https://www.debuginfo.com/index.html I confess that I haven't...
Date: 06/19/2006
X64 Calling Convention Docs available online
As Raymond mentioned in his post, the MSDN site finally has some decent documentation on the x64...
Date: 05/17/2006
X64 Article Questions & Clarifications
Finally, a response to some comments and questions about my x64 article. Registry Fun Noah Harrison...
Date: 04/27/2006