Michael SladeCommenting on trends in the software industry(Untitled)- August 29, 2003 While I have been helping a number of customers, a number of Microsoft employees volunteered to help Microsoft PSS support customers who had the MSBlast virus. I would like to thank Robert Scoble, Steven Makofsky, Chris Anderson and the other Microsoft employees who took the time to help. From their posts, it definitely was not in their job requirements to do this type of work. I know that they learned a lot. I know that they will take the lessons that they...http://www.mslade.com/2003/08/28.html#a33 (Untitled)- August 29, 2003 One of the reasons that I have not been posting was that I was tied up doing a lot of customer support for several electric utilities. These support cases started well before the blackout. I do know that out Tech Support was called to help a number of power plants dump their respective data and logs as part of the investigation. My test system in the office can log nearly 2 million events and 10 million sensors readings per day. It will take some time to...http://www.mslade.com/2003/08/28.html#a32 (Untitled)- August 29, 2003 I have not posted in while. I have been very busy doing a lot of customer support. Well it is time to start putting up some posts.http://www.mslade.com/2003/08/28.html#a31 (Untitled)- August 13, 2003 It was a busy day today. This morning, I attended the Technet Briefing put on by Marc Malotke from Microsoft. Marc always puts on a great session. The first half covered Debugging Active Directory and the second half covered Group Policy Management. It was tough for all of us to get going, since the briefing started at 8:00 AM, but Marc made the presentations fun, by demonstrating Group Policy management with sample users Good User, and Evil User. As a developer,..http://www.mslade.com/2003/08/12.html#a30 (Untitled)- August 13, 2003 I have not posted in a while. The last few weeks have been busy. Two weekends ago (Aug. 2-3) was Twins Days festival in Twinsburg. Nearly 3000 sets of twins descend on Twinsburg for a festival. It is the world largest gathering of twins. Nearly 40,000 people attend the festival, which triples the population of Twinsburg. It is a lot of fun as you go through your typical weekend activities like shopping and church, and see twins everywhere. A...http://www.mslade.com/2003/08/12.html#a29 (Untitled)- August 1, 2003 I have been thinking of another software project. I have so many articles, code, pictures, etc. that I need to organize. I have been following the Microsoft Research project MyLifeBits for the last few months. I am thinking of doing the same. I have 12 file drawers, and many boxes of white papers, pictures, code snippets, and magazine articles. I do not know how long it is going take, but I am looking at cutting down on all the clutter in the home...http://www.mslade.com/2003/07/31.html#a27 (Untitled)- August 1, 2003 When we drove back from my parents, we drove the last 60 miles in a torrential downpour. When we got back to Twinsburg, it looked like a thunderstorm had come through, but it did not look like alot of rain had fallen. Only some twigs and leaves were scattered all over the roads. We got home and started unpacking the car. I then took a quick look out the back, and saw that were not as lucky. A number of trees were heavily damaged from the...http://www.mslade.com/2003/07/31.html#a26 (Untitled)- August 1, 2003 This past weekend, my wife Beth and I headed down to Beavercreek, Ohio to spend the weekend with my parents. Beavercreek is an eastern suburb of Dayton, Ohio, and just west of Xenia, Ohio. Saturday morning, I worked on my mom&146;s computer, which was a very old Pentium running Windows 98. I quickly diagnosed that both the floppy and hard disk controllers were failing. My mom decided to get a new computer. Best Buy was having its usual sale, and my mom got an...http://www.mslade.com/2003/07/31.html#a25 |