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  • The night of the ad eaters

    I’m getting old. I know this because last night we attended The Night of the Ad Eaters and after sleeping for 8 ours I still can barely keep my eyes open :). My impressions: Coca Cola is better than Pepsi (I can’t understand how Pepsi can put that much money in their ads and still…

  • 10 Immutable Laws of Security

    From Microsoft: 10 Immutable Laws of Security. A very nice and correct writeup.

  • What is HIPS and what isn’t?

    I support Microsoft’s attempt to introduce kernel patch protection whole heartedly and I don’t have a too high opinion about HIPSs either, but this interview can only be characterized as: Microsoft trying to say: look, HIPS products can work with KPP Sophos saying: we have HIPS too To make it even clearer: running an executable…

  • Microsoft, pantents and rant

    One of the blogs I monitor Security Garden. It is a nice blog, which although it doesn’t contain any original content, is a nice gathering place of interesting and useful pieces of information from around the Internet. However I must take issue with two recent posts. What irks me is that these people who steal…

  • The IE7 team replies – sort of

    As you might remember Martin McKey very generously offered his readers the chance to post questions which he will ask at the IE7 release party. Well, he went he asked and as I’ve predicted he got a canned response. I felt that this was partially he didn’t insist on it – and I can’t blame…

  • Microsoft did it again!

    I usually try to avoid being fanboy or MS basher, but there are some moments when you can’t stand it anymore! What triggert this post was Paul Thurrott’s post on Vista’s new license, however this was just the last drop. Some stuff that irritates me: At home I dual boot between Ubuntu and Windows 2k3…

  • WAP

    Yesterday I’ve participated in the local Windows Academic Program pitch. The main content was delivered by Adrian Marinescu. I can sum it up as a short version of the book Windows Internals. For the one of us who actually have read the book it was a little boring (although in the breaks I’ve managed to…