Dave Bradshaw @2vcpu

This is the Corvette that Windows zip folders bought. Back in '93 or so, I was working at Microsoft on COM, and at home for fun I started writing a shell extension to browse zip folders in the new Win95 user interface, making them appear as if they were just folders. That grew into a shareware product call VisualZIP. Then one day just before heading into work, I got a call from a lady at Microsoft. She wanted to know if I was the Dave Plummer who wrote VisualZIP, and long story short, they wanted to buy it, and could I come in to talk about it at some point? I said "Sure, what's your office number, I'll stop by!" and it kinda freaked her out. She said "No, no, we'd have to coordinate with travel and legal..." but I was confused as to why I'd need to book travel to talk to someone where I already worked! And THEN I figured it out. She didn't know that I already worked for Microsoft, and I didn't know that she didn't know. So that was a bit awkward. But we worked it out. In the end, my choices were pretty limited - either quit my day job and compete with Microsoft, or do what I wound up doing instead: cheerfully accepting their first, best, and only offer. So that's what I did! I accpepted their offer, paid the taxes on it, and bought a lightly used red 1994 Corvette LT1. There wasn't much left over. So next time you open a zip file on Windows, think of my car :-) If you've ever wondered why the zip support is so slow today, there are two main reasons: first, being 25+ year old code, it's single threaded. It doesn't matter how many CPU cores you have, it only uses one. Second, because of the way the shell used to work, you couldn't just hand it the contents of a file, you had to give it a local file path as the source. So the code first extracts the file to a temporary location, hands that location to the shell, and the shell copies the file. In other words, there's an extra temp copy operation involved in every operation. That *could* be fixed, but I imagine the sense is that anyone who's hardcore about their zip performance or feature set will likely be using 7-Zip or WinRAR, etc. I don't see them improving it any time soon, but they have added more compression formats like RAR to the mix, so you never know. If you enjoy these random nostalgic looks back, follow me for more! And heck, if you made it this far, you might as well share it too :-)

@markrussinovich showing of the „super mega Godzilla beast“ machine in an azure data center. It has 29,7TB RAM and 1792 CPUs. Here you see them playing pong using task manager against GPT4 Thanks #Msignite! Until next time

Everyone needs to watch this video in its entirety, and then send it to your friends and family immediately

@CarlWebster Thanks for all your hard work Carl and good luck for the future.

Can’t wait for AI to take over the world

User reports indicate Virgin Media is having problems since 10:53 PM BST. downdetector.co.uk/status/virgin-… RT if you're also having problems #VirginMediadown

An open request to the @citrix leadership team to stand up and put people before profit - stop selling your products in Russia, turn off Citrix Cloud using the force majeure caveat in the licence agreement #timetoact #solidarityWithUkraine

BBC News (UK) @BBCNews

4 years ago

Microsoft stops selling products in Russia bit.ly/3HNlrgt

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@MicrosoftTeams Is there a release date for this please?

Starlink — here. Thanks, @elonmusk

Working on a quick Intune Proactive Remediation script to automatically detect devices with a recent BSOD (< 30days) and upload dump files to SharePoint/Teams for help-desk (blog post coming) #MEMPowered #MSIntune #Intune

Custom Admin Banner for #Citrix Workspace has reached GA. The Admin Banner will allow you to communicate to end users by configuring custom post-login banner messages.

If you have your #Citrix FAS servers connected to Citrix Cloud make sure to check your version today. If you are on 10.1.0.3 or below your FAS server will no longer be able to connect to Citrix Cloud after February 1st. Get the latest version here: citrix.com/downloads/fede…

Over the holidays I created an 8.5-hour, free AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals full certification course. Zero adverts, just learning. Good luck! 📽️ AZ-900 Full Course Playlist youtube.com/playlist?list=… 📖 AZ-900 Course Handout github.com/johnthebrit/AZ… ☁️🤙 #azure #az900

Teams desktop client forensics. How did I miss this? #DFIR alexbilz.com/post/2021-09-0…

For those who missed the communication. Non-native Citrix channels will need to be enabled from VDA 2109 on. Read the docs for more info: docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-v… SfB and WMP, even though Citrix channels, need to be enabled as well.

Captain Firmware 🌱Ⓥ ₿ @CaptainFirmware

5 years ago

Citrix VDA 2109 now blocks the HDX RealTime Media Engine for Microsoft Skype and Windows Media Player redirection channel by default. Here's the fix

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How to use #Microsoft #OneDrive in #VDI environments! koetzingit.de/index.php/en/b… koetzingit.de/index.php/en/b…

September 1, 2021 KB5005101 Preview update needs to be shouted from the mountain tops: Enables over 1400 new mobile device management (MDM) policies. #Windows10 #MEM support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/se…

25 years ago Microsoft released Internet Explorer 3.0, its first real salvo in the “Browser Wars”. This launch taught taught me how a giant corporation could move at the speed of a startup. Here’s the story:

Here it is folks! Filters for #MSIntune is here! This is huge! techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-e…