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Re: Jeffrey Snover: Windows Server 2012, ReFS, Modern Storage and More

deedubb — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 20:00:02 GMT

As somone that sits more on the server administrator side I would love to see more videos with Jeffrey Snover -- I would like to know more about this powershell/messaging task system system; what was its code name? Where can I find some example scripts?

I would like to see powershell support 2 features that have been in SSH (primarily found on *nix based devices) - port forwarding & file transfers within the managment connection (keeps the network boys happier too)

It's a small link at the top but http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Speakers/jeffrey+snover might help others that are interested

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Re: Defrag: Mem Cleaners, Syncing Favorites, Batch Image Resize

deedubb — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 05:24:08 GMT

For the network problem: he said he walked away for a while, which leads me to believe its power settings. and when he restarts he says that it doesn't work unless he powers off the machine for 10 minutes -- sounds like he might be hibernating. My first suggestion would be device manager (devmgmt.msc) > Network Adapters > *select your network card* > Right click > Properties > Power Management Tab > Uncheck all options ("Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power"). If that doesn't work I would try disabling hibernate temporarily... Always try the free software things before buying a new router -- unless you work at M$ and have money to burn.

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Re: Defrag 005 - Sound card malfunction, App restrictions, Remote Access

deedubb — Thu, 12 May 2011 07:47:02 GMT

I thought that you need a 64-bit driver if you were running a 64-bit kernel/version of windows. You suggest that you can run 32-bit drivers on 64-bit machines. Is this limited to only drivers that run as a user-mode driver?

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Re: Defrag 003 - Win7 Shutdown Slowdowns, Prob Step Recorder, MSI Failures

deedubb — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 02:40:31 GMT

I like where this show is going. Keep up the good work

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Re: Defrag 001: Startup Slow Downs, Can't Boot, Blue Screens, Homegroup, IE Logins

deedubb — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 06:17:46 GMT

I would like to know what are some of the most complex problems Gov has encountered... So far I would consider these tips good but 'common knowledge'. I'm looking for 'Case of the Unexplained' type stuff. I would like to hear real enterprise customer issues and resolutions...

One thing I ran into this week: I started a new job; first thing I installed IE9 RC on the machine and found that when say 'open link in new tab' the full URL wouldn't get copied to the new tab and it would say 'Connecting...' but wouldn't actually load. It turns out that the problem actually pre-existed in IE8 and was related to a dll not being registered in the correct order. - Once I solved that I couldn't figure out why I couldn't do searches from the address bar. In the Mange Addons > Search providers section the "search from address bar" for was greyed out for all search engines. It turns out this was coming from a group policy which was originally designed for previous releases of IE; it would be nice if a tooltip would atleast say why it was greyed out ("Administrator has disabled this option"?)...

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Re: Inside IE 9’s High Performance JavaScript Engine

deedubb — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 03:17:52 GMT

"For example, the ability to change execution strategies based on power state (if a PC is on battery power, for example, then limit the amount of codegen)." ... I believe this is mentioned in the video as well...

And then you guys talked about how it's bad to let the developer give 'hints' how to run the code [generally I agree], so I'll assume there is no "disregard power state flag"... I can just imagine someday, somewhere, people are going to hit a bug where someone complains "the website seems slow on my browser but only on my laptop and only on my commute to work".

Honestly, I dislike the idea of VM logic changes based on state (such as current load or power state) for anything but garbage collection

Just get it right

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Re: Anders Hejlsberg and Gilad Bracha: Perspectives on Programming Language Design

deedubb — Mon, 04 May 2009 08:14:41 GMT

I believe in that PDC talk Anders also implied that he was a strong supporter of statically typed languages. I wonder, is that still the case?

If so, kudos to him be such a good interviewee and superb language designer... I admit I stopped looking when I found C#. It covers my needs -- 99.8% anyway.

(Adding HTTP headers in WCF could've been a little easier )

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Re: Bill Hill: The Future of Reading on the Web, Part 2

deedubb — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 23:32:35 GMT

Right on Bill. I thought about this specific issue when I wrote the sample script but I assumed the editors back in the day would check for the matching end quote. I didn't know the full history of the works.

I find it interesting your approach. I'm sure in the past the method of choice would be to save in a publisher-friendly format (word exported pdf). I suppose the point is the developer/designer/publisher should have options of how to format things easily.

There is no reason you can't give the script more advanced logic; maybe even put the display logic in JavaScript so it can best adapt to changing displays. For example if you had some function that would calculate the ideal character width of the page or column for a given client then you could change the works to auto justify, and get optimal page breaks.

I'm a very lazy person -- I would have wrapped this in an ASP master page and written a few scripts because chances are you're going to do all this work and 2 years from now someone will have the bright idea to change
to mean 1.5 line-spacing or something and you'll have to re-do all your efforts.

Anyway Bill, good luck on your project...

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Re: Bill Hill: The Future of Reading on the Web, Part 2

deedubb — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 17:25:08 GMT

Bill, I can't remember if you requested something like this on part 1 or part2; but it's a script to replace " with correct typography quotes in HTML... It reads a file called testcontent.txt and does the replacement and puts the new content in testcontent.html. If you combine this with a directory reader you could make quick work of it. I might the 900th person to send you this but atleast I can sleep knowing I tried to help.

Enjoyed the post as always...

var fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");

// Read a file containing our quoted content
var file = fso.OpenTextFile("testcontent.txt", 1, true, 0);
var content = file.ReadAll();
file.close();

// This line says find everything between " and ", record that as $1, then. We return the output as “ + $1 + ”
var content = content.replace(/\"([^"]+)\"/g, "“" + "$1" + "”");

// Save the new content to an html file
var file = fso.OpenTextFile("testcontent.html", 2, true, 0);
file.writeLine(content);
file.close();

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Re: Jacqueline Russell: Microsoft at Maker Faire

deedubb — Wed, 10 May 2006 02:19:47 GMT

I like the coding4fun articles a lot, I liked the Puck the pirate howto series too; I need more - and more step by step lessons that take ~40 minutes would be very nice.

... I think I speak for the majority of the channel9 visitors when I say please make Jacqueline a member of the channel9 video team...

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Re: Oughtness, Isness and the world of systems management

deedubb — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 05:25:34 GMT

First, I've been waiting ever since http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=148820 to hear about some of the advancements in system management & I would like to thank Charles for getting this together...

On to the main topic: It sounds as if the windows event log system is going to be an improved version of the syslog - monitoring system, collections, generalization and standardization - will the windows event log system be able to receive syslog messages even tho they're not in XML? Will the encryption mechanism be made available so other organizations can send events? In monitoring hetro-phobic system won't work for a lot of organizations; it's why I think monitoring for a lot of companies is based on UNIX scripts and open source solutions...

I must admit I'm a little surprised by the virtualization movement, I get that resources are not being utilized so putting unalike processes on a system can be a cost savings - and a layer of separation between that is important for a number of reasons but are the hyper-visors really such a small perf hit to make this worth it when we (sysadmins) are paying so much more for the server hardware over a workstation chassis - for the small perf gains of using a special motherboard or 10k drives? Or is that the point - lowering the hardware cost - moving to a distributed virtual customer level hardware? For years I've been a supporter of fewer systems - ever since I was the tape jockey for a small company that had too many servers...

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Re: MIX06: IIS7

deedubb — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 07:54:17 GMT

Cut them off too soon...[C] What was the last comment about XP?

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Re: Rebecca Norlander: Security and Success at Microsoft

deedubb — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:53:23 GMT

dantheman82 wrote:

So please don't try to downplay the seriousness of Security, especially at Microsoft!!!

I don't believe she downplayed security at all. I believe what you're referring to is when she was talking about employees making mistakes and planning for worst case scenarios which she said was about motivating her team.

As someone that has also had experience with a manager that doesn’t value leadership I can relate completely.

In addition I’ve also suffered from some insecurity about making constant choices while developing and system administration. Specifically when looking at security it seems there’s always new best practices coming out & with clichés like ‘the more lines of code, the more bugs’ you must start to think ‘do I really want to risk writing/exposing a new webapp?’

If you’re so sure of yourself, your coding & your computing skills I’d say either you haven’t read enough or you should teach others because you’re very talented.

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Re: Rebecca Norlander: Security and Success at Microsoft

deedubb — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:31:47 GMT

I must say this is the best WM_IN video I've seen; I can't believe people are complaining! I realise its more about the number of them then this one specific... Yes its not very technical but I enjoyed it and got some motivation from it. I'm a white guy tho so no brownie points...

Edit: that last sentence is suppose to be funny in case people missed the smiley.

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Re: Ken Levy - In the field in Switzerland

deedubb — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 23:02:59 GMT

I was going to say shouldn't the title be who you're interviewing? But then I realized it is Ken going after the ladies... Go Ken!

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Re: Rob Short (and kernel team) - Going deep inside Windows Vista's kernel architecture

deedubb — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 10:52:38 GMT

n4cer wrote:

VDDM display drivers run in user mode in Vista. There is a kernel mode miniport as well, but the main driver runs in user mode.

I was reviewing the topic and found http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=62083 which seems to say that actually the video card driver can't be moved out of the kernel address space yet... I'd like some clarification but maybe a forum thread would be a better place to persue it.

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Re: Rob Short (and kernel team) - Going deep inside Windows Vista's kernel architecture

deedubb — Sat, 24 Dec 2005 12:19:28 GMT

Enjoyed the movie a lot.

Anyone that has had a problem with the registry knows it can be a beast but overall the registry is a great system and with a transactional filesystem for it to sit on I'm sure we're going to see improved MTBF. As for cleaning up the registry I'd say thats an excellent idea - I hope the registry wasn't missed in the LUA guidelines; natrually that should facilitate a large portion of the cleanup.

From the singularity video and this one I'm left with one question: Has the WHQL coming up with more strict criteria for kernel space drivers, specifically video cards? It seems video card and motherboard drivers are going to be the only drivers that will never be able to touch user space due to latency concerns.

PS: I look forward to hearing from Anders Vinberg about aoughtness and isness.

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Re: Concurrency and Coordination Runtime

deedubb — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 21:49:07 GMT

CCR, I thought I was going to hear some good music...

I like this setup of an interviewer & seperate camera guy; keep up the good work.

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Re: Channel 9 Behind the Scenes

deedubb — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 12:40:14 GMT

I liked Ken's camera work - distance, steady camera & the volume levels were all fine with me. I find sometimes the foreheads dominate interviews and more recently I alt-tab to other applications while listening to channel9 videos and switch back for demos.

I'm glad to see the site is working out. Now that it has established itself as doable I'd like to see a quality levels a little higher so viewers continue to watch - the novelity of the idea is wearing off for me - now we need good interviews [keep launch interviews to a absolute minimal].

I'd like to add that I love screencasts and hope this becomes a large library of howto videos for Visual Studio 2005... maybe we can get some videos about the 'web express' edition since its free for download, seems like a good place for people to start... Charles asking questions & Ken on camera seems a perfect combo for me.

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Re: Peter McKiernan/Jamey Tisdale - Neutrino demonstrated (new tool to help marketers work with develope

deedubb — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 04:28:16 GMT

Whats the deal with the Halo poster? can we get a clear picture of that? a little music & chinese together?

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