I saw a post over on Bruce Schneier’s blog, titled “DRM in Windows Vista.” Basically, he talks about the fact that DRM has been firmly entrenched in Microsoft’s latest operating system and I have no beef with that – it certainly has! Many facets of Windo… more »

Why do so many people think the 260 character limit on path names is an operating system limitation? It’s not! The operating system can access paths up to 32,000 characters long (or a bit more). Individual components of a path are limited to 248 chara… more »

Am I the only one who thinks it’s totally lame that Windows Presentation Foundation (aka WPF) has static definitions for Windows XP themes? That means if you have a custom theme⁺ that WPF (and any custom controls you use) does not explicitly suppor… more »

Apparently, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (make sure you read that second-last word carefully) wants ISPs to disconnect people who are caught illegally downloading music. But there’s no way an ISP will agree to that. Here’s… more »

When I was a kid, I was told the reason for daylight savings time was “to help the farmers,” but that’s not the case at all (in fact, it doesn’t really affect farmers – their day revolves around the sun, so any artificial time we apply is totally irrelev… more »