Here is a help page from Microsoft on BCDEDIT.EXE. Note that you must run COMMAND.EXE as administrator, otherwise BCDEDIT.EXE is not in your search path and will not execute. Here is a discussion on how to use BCDEDIT in some…
Here is a nice article on Windows PE 2.0 and its relation to Vista. Microsoft Vista Windows PE
Erwin Tenhumberg made some remarks on his blog that I would like to comment. Microsoft trying to support their legacy products with an open standard is not an oxymoron. It would certainly be a lofty goal and would find my…
Once more, I am trying if dasBlog and JRoller are finaly cooperating. This is the first entry to be cross posted. Let’s see if this works. Since I am using dasBlog as my Main blog, here are the settings for…
Windows Vista introduces a new ‘Network Level Authentication’ mechanism to RDP. It will be intereting to find out what they are doing there exactly, but meanwhile you might want to be able to use your legacy RDP clients to access…
Again through ConsortiumInfo: Minnesota is introducing a bill that will require the state CIO to chose products that support open standards over those that feature proprietary ones. This is definitvely good news, particularly when looking at the extensive definition of…
Since Vista features the new boot loader system, multi-boot is not quite so trivial. There are various guides and FAQs on how to do XP/Vista dual boot (see e.g. here or here), but getting a GRUB based OS (such as…
Marc is working on a nice and *clean* web application description language (WADL) that can be used for non-SOAP web services as well. For an introduction to RESTful web services with JAX-WS, please take a look at his recent post.…
Here is a nice little tool for Firefox that helps in creating tags for blogs entries. It allows you to create master lists to choose your frequently used tags from. While it has a somewhat odd interface, it is still…
There are a couple of quite interesting developments in the office document formats discussion. One if them being that the Australian National Archive is now moving their entire content to ODF. This can be considered a major victory for ODF…