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Take a look under the Kimono

Have you ever been curious how Microsoft protocols such as SMB, CIFS, BITS, IPSEC, or NTLM work behind the scenes? Perhaps you are a Computer Science student, and you want to see how thing work in a commercially available Operating System, or perhaps Read More...

Posted: Monday, February 25, 2008 10:31 AM by smearp | 0 Comments

Filed under: SQL, Windows, Exchange, Open Source, SharePoint, Interesting

Building bridges

I was taking a look at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention page (OSCON is underway this week), and noticed that Microsoft is a Diamond sponsor (apparently that is the level above Platinum, which is better than Gold. I suppose that Palladium comes next Read More...

Posted: Thursday, July 26, 2007 6:22 PM by smearp | 1 Comments

Filed under: Linux, Open Source

Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) in Virtual PC 2007

Another Saturday, another OS install... After having installed Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) in Virtual PC 2007 a few weeks ago here , I thought I would give the latest release a go. As you may recall, I ran into some problems with the last install, as Ubuntu Read More...

Posted: Saturday, April 28, 2007 11:15 PM by smearp | 6 Comments

Filed under: Virtualization, Virtual PC, Linux, Open Source

Running PostgreSQL and MySQL on Windows

Looking to run a database (maybe to learn SQL or to host your recipe collection)? SQL Server 2005 certainly fits the bill (and there is a free edition here ), but if you want to try some of the other options available on the interweb, the two following Read More...

Posted: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 7:05 AM by smearp | 0 Comments

Filed under: Open Source

Windows Media now works on Firefox!

The Windows media team has been hard at work on an updated plugin for FireFox that will enable you to watch Windows Media files within FireFox, which has now been released through Port 25 (the team at Microsoft that works on interoperability with Linux, Read More...

Posted: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 6:09 AM by smearp | 0 Comments

Filed under: Windows, Open Source