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What is a start date?
I interviewed somewhere on 26 JAN; they said they wanted to bring me on that evening. I’ve had two start dates cancelled since then and currently have no set start date. The opportunity cost? I passed...
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Well, bye
I didn’t so much switch as Windows 8 is not something I want to participate in. That and multiple recent hardware failures caused me to re-evaluate spending time and money fixing my PC or moving on. I...
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Endings
I was pretty much the only test resource dedicated to the SMS gateway for the MSN Mobile team for the time I worked at Microsoft; today, I got a notice that soon, it will be kaput.
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In which I completely agree with Forbes
#1 worst CEO: Steve Ballmer. Some years ago I heard the gap between Microsoft’s market cap and what it would be had MSFT kept pace with the tech segment expressed in Enrons of destroyed shareholder...
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Come on, Bing
winternals, sysinternals, process explorer, and this explicit query all came up empty: Google didn’t have that problem: Switching my default search engine back to Google.
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I need to talk to the Bobs
At its most cynical—though it is also a logically inescapable conclusion—this is best expressed by the Peter Principle: people are inevitably promoted to a position that is just beyond their level of...
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The best thing about Microsoft Surface
I hate on screen keyboards (OSKs) with a passion; a real, slide-out keyboard is why I own a Droid 2, not an iPhone. The Type Cover, and to a lesser extent the Touch Cover, is the best detail about the...
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Multi-time-zone clock on Windows
I did not know this feature was built in since Vista. Excellent! Now to find an OS X equivalent…
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Side-stepping Windows secure-by-default configuration for Powershell
If download and try to run a Powershell script (or type one up and try to run it), you’ll get an error about unsigned scripts. The usual solution is to set a default policy of “do any damn thing”....
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On metadata
I worked in ITG, Microsoft’s internal technology group (AKA operations) in the mid-late 90s, as well as Microsoft’s internal security group. ITG owned the internal USENET server; it was run on a...
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