Wikipedia goes dark for a day to protest against proposed US legislation

By tim, on January 18th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

All Wikipedia English requests today redirect to a page protesting against proposed US legislation, specifically the draft SOPA and PIPA legislation.

Other sites will also be protesting, including Reddit (a 12 hour protest) and Mozilla, the Firefox people.

Many web searchers will be discovering the value of the cached pages held by search

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Meet Resilient File System (ReFS), a new file system for Windows

By tim, on January 17th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft has announced the Resilient File System (ReFS), a replacement for the NTFS file system which has been used since the first release of Windows NT in 1993.

The new file system increases limits in NTFS as follows:

NTFS ReFS Max file size 2^64 -1 2^64-1 bytes Max volume size 2^40 bytes 2^78

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OEMs are still breaking Windows: can Microsoft fix this with Windows 8?

By tim, on January 16th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Mark Russinovich works for Microsoft and has deep knowledge of Windows internals; he created the original Sysinternals tools which are invaluable for troubleshooting.

His account of troubleshooting a new PC purchased by a member of his family is both amusing and depressing, though I admire his honesty:

My mom recently purchased a new PC,

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PHP Developer survey shows dominance of mobile, social media and cloud

By tim, on January 12th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Zend, a company which specialises in PHP frameworks and tools, has released the results of a developer survey from November 2011.

The survey attracted 3,335 respondents drawn, it says, from “enterprise, SMB and independent developers worldwide.” I have a quibble with this, since I believe the survey should state that these were PHP

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The mystery of unexpected expiring sessions in ASP.NET

By tim, on January 11th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

This is one of those posts that will not interest you unless you have a similar problem. That said, it does illustrate one general truth, that in software problems are often not what they first appear to be, and solving them can be like one of those adventure games where you think your quest

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Windows Phone, Windows 8, and Metro Metro Metro feature in Microsoft’s last keynote at CES

By tim, on January 10th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

I watched Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer give the last in a long series of Microsoft keynotes at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

There were three themes: Windows Phone, Windows 8, and Xbox with Kinect. It was a disappointing keynote though, mainly because of the lack of new news. Most of the

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Top languages on Github: JavaScript reigns, Ruby and Python next

By tim, on January 9th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

I cloned a github repository today, and while browsing the site noticed the language stats:

Git was originally developed for the Linux kernel and is mainly for the open source community. I was interested to see JavaScript, the language of HTML 5, riding so high. PHP, C and C++ are lower than I

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Trying out nide – a cloud IDE for Node.js

By tim, on January 6th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

I was intrigued by reports of nide, a web-based IDE for Node.js. It was one of the entries in the Node.js Knockout challenge last summer.

So how do you install it? One line on Linux; but I did not want to put it on my web server and I re-purposed my spare Linux machine

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Storage Spaces coming to Windows 8 client as well as server

By tim, on January 6th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Steven Sinofsky has posted on the Building Windows 8 blog, making it clear that this feature is coming to the Windows 8 client as well as to Windows Server 8.

I took a hands-on look at Storage Spaces back in October.

The feature lets you add and remove physical drives from a pool

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Asus Transformer Prime update: Google video rental or unlocked bootloader, you choose

By tim, on January 3rd, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Asus has responded to demands for an unlocked bootloader for its its latest Transformer Prime tablet.

It turns out that DRM is the culprit – at least, that is what Asus says on its Facebook page:

Regarding the bootloader, the reason we chose to lock it is due to content providers’ requirement for

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