New WinDBG

There’s a new WinDBG release. Enjoy!

Blog spam redux

I’ve begun getting a ton of blog spam again, so I had to turn moderation back on. So, if you don’t see your comment for a few minutes (or days?), don’t despair, and as soon as comment spam is resolved again, I’ll turn it back off.
On the upside, it’s really very nice, flattering, complimentary spam. […]

New networking book

I just received my copy of Network Routing: Algorithms, Protocols, and Architectures a couple of days ago, and I’ve been making my way through it slowly but surely. This book covers computer networking theory and practice, with a strong bias toward IP-based networks. Lots of people in the network engineering world really only understand end […]

New DTM revision

There’s a new version of DTM available. It was released at the end of last week. Craig has the details..
This marks a change in the way Microsoft is distributing the logo tools. Whereas they were built into the Vista WDK for RTM, going forward, they will be released separately as the Windows Logo Kit (WLK). […]

DTM alternate-drive installation fails (Sometimes?)

Hopefully this stops someone out there from duplicating my recent mistake. DTM warns of needing 300GB to install (although that’s not true), and I didn’t have anything like that much space on the drive I had installed the OS onto. So, I chose to install on E: instead, which had more (but not quite 300GB!) […]

DTM doesn’t take 300GB to install (!)

The installation instructions for DTM state that the controller needs 300GB of disk in which to install. This has obviously caused consternation, as now not only do you need a Windows Server 2003 OS, but you need what is still a lot of hard drive space. New computers are OK, but if you hope to […]

DTM install has a button-whacker

I’ve been working much with DTM lately, and two interesting things have risen above the ambient difficulty level that seems to be associated with every DTM installation.
The first is this dialog box I received on adding a Vista client:

Setup has detected that Internet Connection Firewall is enabled on a network connection. Test Client will not […]