PowerShell 2 CTP 3 Released
You want to get either the 32Bit version OR the 64Bit version and the readme/release notes and the help file … and you probably need to update your WinRM as well.
Microsoft Code Gallery
Microsoft has released a new website this week that I can only describe as the other half of GotDotNet. If you used to use GotDotNet, you know there were two reasons to go there: the third party projects that were hosted there, and the Microsoft Samples. GotDotNet was replaced by CodePlex, and a lot of [...]
Installing a clean Development box
The hard drive in my development box died last week, and although I’ll spare you the story of the replacement process, I thought it might be interesting to document the process of rebuilding my dev box, and provide color commentary while I’m at it. Install Windows Vista (Business) Get domain admin (my boss) to log [...]
PoshConsole – a Smart, Fashionable PowerShell Console
So, I’ve been practically invisible for a few weeks here, and liable to be invisible for at least one more week … this is my vacation time, so it’s hard to motivate myself to blog about anything. However, I have been spending some time working on a side project: a PowerShell Host. Now, there are [...]
Mac users more secure?
So David Morgenstern over at eWeek has an opinion piece claiming that “PC users should forget their outrage and come to understand that life isn’t fair. The Mac platform is more secure than Windows and will continue to be so.” Just for fun, I’m not going to try to debate that. It’s absolutely true (as [...]
Silverlight Streaming, Silverlight CLR, Data Services, Ozzie, and IE 8
Microsoft made several big announcements today at MIX07… CLR in Silverlight The most exciting announcement I’ve today is that Silverlight will include the Common Language Runtime (CLR) on both Windows and Mac … which means that it will allow development using any .NET-supported languages. They’re even including the open source Dynamic Language Runtime and thus [...]
Why Doesn’t My Computer Work? (Part 1: Instant Communication)
Today I’m going to write about some “use cases” for computers that should be common place, but aren’t, because they don’t work. Sometimes it seems that nobody is thinking about how people want to use their computers … or at least, nobody is taking that into account when they design their applications. Hopefully this will [...]
Blogging Press Releases and Apologies
One of my myriad email newsletters had a link this week to this Techworld article, entitled: Microsoft admits OneCare flaws … which is basically an article about a couple of blog posts by the AntiMalware Team and the OneCare Team Corporate communications on spaces.live.com? Really? My company has the whole domain blocked off as being [...]
Run only one copy of an application
As I’ve said before, the Windows Vista system automatically reserves the Windows’ Logo + Number key combinations for the shortcuts on your Quick Launch bar, so that you can easily launch your Quick Launch applications. That is, to start the first shortcut on your Quick Launch bar, you just press Win+1, and to start the [...]
RunOnlyOne – Run a single copy of an application – as administrator?
On Windows Vista, the system automatically reserves the Windows’ Logo key + Number key combinations for Quick Launch, which means that you can easily launch any of your Quick Launch applications. That is, to start the first shortcut on your Quick Launch bar, you just press Win+1, and to start the second, you press Win+2 [...]