Ry's Blog

So I don’t lose the link again, here is a tool from Microsoft that will turn any running, modern Windows system into a .vhd for virtualization. One could also use this as a backup tool; however, I run Windows Home Server, and if you have even one windows machine at home, I think you should run WHS, too.

I am frustrated that IE8 appears to ignore the auto-complete settings; I have disabled auto-complete for a set of test VMs, but my tests are still prompted to enable auto-complete. I cannot find a setting which disables asking if I want to enable auto-complete; serverfault et al have had no love.

Compare and contrast Seattle Traffic: Bing, Google. Bing shows the traffic maps; Google has a link to a page which has a link to the map as the first result.

Seattle weather: Bing, Google. Bing shows three competing forecasts in a nice table; Google has links to these forecasts.

I saw these guys while I was riding the bus in to work today. Three or four protesters and two cops; police had the NB right turn lane blocked.

Ballsy to park your minivan on the sidewalk; +1 for style!

(this is outside building 25, on the northwest corner of campus)

The concept of the Registry has been in existence only since Windows 95, the first GUI OS from Microsoft.

Registry Access in .net

Microsoft’s Chrome was the code name for a set of APIs that allowed DirectX to be easily accessed from user-space software, including HTML. Launched with some fanfare in early 1998, Chrome, and the related Chromeffects, was re-positioned several times before being canceled only a few months later in a corporate reorganization.

Microsoft Chrome, Wikipedia

Microsoft is focusing on speedy graphics rendering for its next version of Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer 9 will take advantage of a computer’s graphics hardware to better render online images, videos, animations and other graphics, said Steven Sinofsky, president of Microsoft’s Windows and Windows Live division.

IE9 to support hardware-accelerated rendering, Seattle PI

Verizon and Google announce Android phones. I’ve been using WiMo since 2003SE; I’ll be glad to leave it behind.

I’ve been about 50/50 on finding stuff I want on Google versus Bing; last weekend, for the first time, I thought “I should try this on Bing first”. Although I can recall a similar process with Altavista, I don’t remember the process being so sudden; I only really started using Bing when it was the default for IE8.

If you need any more evidence of the reckless manner in which Microsoft treats OEMs, read this:

We listened carefully to our partners on every continent, except maybe Antarctica, and overhauled our online content and tools for Windows 7.

You see that? Crushing OEMS left and right. When will the DOJ step in and speak for Antarctic OEMs? There must be a market of dozens of systems per year being ignored, crushed, frozen out by these antics.