Phil Scott's WebLog

Dave Barry takes on outsourcing.

I just installed the WinHEC build of Longhorn in a Virtual PC, and everything is smoooooooooooooth. I actually left the computer, did some laundry, played some Splinter Cell, and came back to see if the thing had crashed remembering the ordeals of the PDC build with a VM. To my surprise, it was up and running. Granted, it was 640x480 w/ 16 colors, but a quick install of the Virtual Machine Addins took care of that. I really is running great on my machine. I should mention that I've been working on my machine tuning it for VMs so it probably runs better than a lot of people out there. Here's what I got:

Feel free to ignore everything posted here. Reflector has a switch, /fontsize:14 that would do the samething. The moral of the story, as always, is that I'm an idiot. I'll leave this posted so people can point and laugh at me.

I'm out of town again this week in the lovely city of Cincinatti.  The last time I was here I managed to watch exactly 19 episodes of Law & Order.  And two episodes of Law & Order: SVU.  Because that is probably not good for the mental health, I decided to stop by the book store and grab some reading materials.  My first thought was that I'd grab the Test Driven Development and Object Thinking book.  Unfortunately, my local bookstore is ran by clowns.  When it comes to computer books, you run into two barriers.  Barrier #1: Lack of new materials.  It seems this particular book store has been pretty lazy about getting the latest and greatest computer books in stock (and based on the fact that they still have a book on the .NET Building Blocks on the shelves, I'm not surprised). 

I promised a while back in my post about the 25% of MCSD / MCAD related tests post to write up some more stuff, and I've managed to not write a single thing.  The moral of the story, as usual, is I'm not to be trusted.  To correct that, without further ado, a little help on the dreaded 70-320 / 70-310 exam. 

I notice that the Visual Basic World Tour is coming to beautiful Louisville, KY.  Normally the 16th largest city in the US gets the shaft when it comes to Microsoft events so I usually miss out on these things while Cincinatti (aka the armpit of america) gets all the love.  But not this time baby!  Granted it is “only” the Visual Basic World Tour, but it's a step in the right direction, and not something cool like DevDays or even AdminNights (bow chica wa-wa).  But it's a step in the right direction.  The right direction being, as usual, me getting more free uglyass XL t-shirts. 

There's a pretty nasty vulnerbility in IE's ITS protocol.  CERN has a write up about it.  Here's a proof of concept that over writes your wmplayer.exe, and launches it.  Definitely not good times here.  Overwriting system files and basically launching whatever code you want.

Follow Adam's lead, here are some of the searches the frequently drop people at my site according to my referal log: