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Microsoft Big Brains: Brian Harry
This Week’s ‘Big Brain’: Brian Harry
Claim to Fame: Product Unit Manager running a 120-strong unit focused on Team Foundation Server
How Long You’ve Been With Microsoft: 14 years (since Microsoft bought his version-control-tool company One Tree Software)
More About You: Before joining Microsoft, worked on e-mail development at DaVinci Systems. Once Microsoft bought One Tree, worked on [...] -
I just CAN’T play !!!!!!!!!!!
Hi everyone,
sorry to bore you all but I am having great trouble playing HL2, CS or CSS. On HL2 I can’t even start a game, the screen goes bright blue & then re-boots my PC!!
I wrote down some of the stuff that was on the blue error screen.
It began by stating, on the top of [...] -
I just CAN’T play !!!!!!!!!!!
Hi everyone,
sorry to bore you all but I am having great trouble playing HL2, CS or CSS. On HL2 I can’t even start a game, the screen goes bright blue & then re-boots my PC!!
I wrote down some of the stuff that was on the blue error screen.
It began by stating, on the top of [...] -
Help! I’m stuck at “Applying Computer Settings” …
Perhaps one of the most frustrating issues to troubleshoot is a system that sits at the “Applying Computer Settings …” screen for what seems like forever before (eventually) getting to the point that you can log in. Interestingly, although several of these cases are routed to the Performance team as a perceived system hang, [...]
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Top Issues for Microsoft Support for Windows 2008 Failover Clusters
Ask the Core Team: So, now that we are well into the release for Windows 2008, I thought I’d take a minute to go over some of the top issues we’ve seen on our end.
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How to Determine Which Resource is Causing the Cluster Resource Monitor to Crash – Possible Deadlock
Hello, my name is John Marlin, and I am a Support Escalation Engineer on the Microsoft Platform Cluster Services Support team. I wanted to talk about the Windows 2003 Cluster Resource Monitor and with what happens when it crashes. In this blog I’ll show you how to look under the hood to determine why [...]
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Microsoft Blue Hat starts on Thursday
Microsoft’s eighth Blue Hat conference will take place on Thursday and Friday at the software giant’s Redmond, Wash., campus. Entitled "C3P0wned," the invitation-only conference features two full days of sessions.
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Day one features a select group of security researchers, with team members from Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) presenting on the second day. It is an [...] -
Non-Microsoft developers to get a peek at CHESS concurrency test tool
Microsoft’s CHESS, a two-year-in-the-making tool from Microsoft Research designed to help developers test for concurrency errors, is set to make its public debut in two weeks.
Microsoft researchers developed CHESS to help developers improve the reliability of concurrent, multi-threaded software programs. More than a few big-name groups at Microsoft have been using the tool, including the [...]