Tag Archives | Microsoft
Post dated 2002-04-04 00:00:00
Thursday, 04 April, 2002
Last night was the Windows 2000 User Group. Joe Stagner, Technical Evangelist for the Waltham Office presented an unofficial, sometimes irreverant “sneak peek” at the next version of Windows Server, tentatively named NET Server. Interesting stuff. Some of the links he mentioned:http://uddi.microsoft.com
http://www.gotdotnet.com
Post dated 2002-03-28 00:00:00
Thursday, 28 March, 2002
Last night was the March meeting of the Greater Boston FoxPro Users Group. Excellent meeting! Barb Bowman is a Windows XP MVP with a gret interest in wireless. Check out her column at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/columns/bowman/december03.asp. Spent a few self-indulgent moments listening to my favorite radio station — WBUR — playing through RealPlayer on my laptop. The only thing was, the laptop wasn’t wired. It’s using an 802.11 radio signal to receive the streaming signal from my wired LAN, which in turn is using TCP/IP over my cable TV cable. Thousands of dollars of equipment and technology to listen to a radio station 30 miles outside its broadcast zone. You gotta wonder.Post dated 2002-03-23 00:00:00
Saturday, 23 March, 2002
Bill Gate’s comments on NT: “In a weak sense, it [NT] is a form of UNIX.” http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/speeches/industry&tech/uexpo.asp And, from a completely different angle, some interesting insights into the development of Windows 2000 and the effects of their source control programs, old and new: http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix-win2000/invitedtalks/lucovsky_html/Tuesday, 19 March, 2002
The private MVP newsgroups have had some fascinating discussions on wireless, although I’m a little concerned with setting something up on the home office LAN. A high school is 100 yards away, through the backyard. Reports of 802.11b cracking of WEP-protected WLANs makes me concerned. Until today, I thought my choices were limited to 802.11 flavors a and b, with a faster, more expensive, but just as insecure. Today, I ran into HomeRF (link broken), which apparently has been around for a couple of years, and HiperLAN/2 (link broken), a European import, and power-line based home lans from Linksys. TMI – too much information!
Another item of interest today is http://www.books24x7.com, a place to read books online, for a fee. The annual fee, $299 for an individual, may sound stiff, but that’s only 6 books at $50 a year. I easily go through that many. Worth considering.
Another CoolLink for those with too much time on their hands: “The Sad Parable of OS/2” – some very good PC History, not too much Microsoft-bashing. Interesting stuff.