This topic presents an interesting problem. A disk is made up of sectors which are arranged as clusters by the file system. Both NTFS and FAT use a cluster model to clump together sectors into bigger chunks. The cluster model has been around since the original DOS and still runs strong today. The boot sector [...]
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Blocks Versus Files
November 12, 2008Windows Disk Management
October 30, 2008It can be frustrating when the right information is not available. In Windows there are tools designed to help determining disk configuration but for whatever reason, they are fairly hidden. Perhaps this is intentional to protect the system from the user. It would not be hard to make a mistake that could potentially disrupt the [...]
Easy Sysinternals Tools
October 22, 2008This is a tip for those of you that have to figure out what is not working on a given system. It has been known for a number of years that Sysinternal tools are the best at determining problems. A couple of years ago Microsoft bought the company. There was some concern that Microsoft would [...]
Vista Snipping Tool
October 16, 2008Sometimes tools that come with the operating system pleasantly surprise you. Vista comes with a tool called the “Snipping Tool”. It basically makes the PrintScrn key obsolete in Windows. Typically people will use the PrintScrn key to capture the screen or window into the clipboard. Once there, it can be pasted into MSPAINT or similar [...]
Bill Gates - Looking Back, Moving Ahead
October 1, 2008
Just today I was looking for some Microsoft videos related to MMS 2008 when I located some video gems about Bill Gates and his history at Microsoft. The Microsoft web site is providing a collection of videos for use with the press. The primary video revolves around Bill Gates. It contains some very interesting new [...]
Virtual Hard Disk Specification
October 1, 2008The Virtual Hard Disk Image Format Specification (VHD Spec) has been available from Microsoft since October 2006. You can bypass registration and download straight from here.
The document is only seventeen pages long but manages to capture how it is set up.
The specification was originally created by Connectix and was gained by Microsoft from the acquisition [...]
Irresistible Forces and Movable Objects
June 2, 2008Pat Helland from Microsoft gave a presentation last year at TechEd in EMEA called “The Irresistable Forces Meet the Movable Objects“. I received a copy from Kala at work. Not long after reading it I wanted to find out more. This lead to finding the video version. Click on the link [...]
BitLocker Overview
May 22, 2008BitLocker gets mentioned more and more lately. I understood the concept but didn’t know the details. While looking for something else, I can across a great video about BitLocker technology from Microsoft. Also Wikipedia has a BitLocker page.
I didn’t know that BitLocker could use TPM. I also didn’t know that Microsoft had invested so much [...]
Bill and Steve Meeting History
April 8, 2008D5 video showing when Bill and Steve were together.
Steve and Bill have only been seen together around 5 times.
1983 Apple Mac discussion with Dating Game spoof
1991 Fortune magazine interview
1997 MacWorld
2005 D3
2007 D5
The referenced video documents what happened during the first four “meetings”. Actually, they were only together on stage for 1983 and 2007. [...]
Windows XP and June 30 2008
April 1, 2008Based on a previous post about Microsoft, it was mentioned in a comment that Microsoft was going to discontinue selling Windows XP on June 30, 2008. There was news before related to Microsoft postponing the end of sales date for Windows XP by five months. It does not take long for this to get very [...]
