I Saw this article today on slashdot and everywhere else on the internet, about Windows 128 bit. It seemed a bit odd to me. We barely switched to x64. Not everyone seemed to make that distinction. Then my friend on IM asked me to look up the guy who leaked it. Microsoft Research employee Robert Morgan. So I looked him up on the internet. And it turned out that he is a v- or veedash, a vendor, working for Commercial Ops. I looked up what that means: "Commercial Operations Management (COM) unifies marketing and sales within organisations."

I think that is all we need to know about the 128 bit Windows version.

 On 9/12 while reading an article by Paul Krugman on NYTimes.com, I came across a strange Virus alert pop up. Normally I would consider this a indication of running a not up to date version of IE and/or a lack of virus scanning software (previous malware infection). However, I was fully protected at the time, running Firefox with Adblock Plus and an up to date subscription to easylist and a having a virus scanner installed (Microsoft Forefront - No jokes please, it's a good virus scanner).  While reading the article it redirected me to the scareware site twice. The first time it happened I made a screen shot.Today (9/13) Slashdot reported about this issue.

I was not able to close the page and the only way to get rid of the pop ups was to kill Firefox in the task manager.

Here's the link to NYTimes about the malware attempts:  NYTimes.

I searched for the website malware site and found it on Site Advisor.

Here's a link to the screenshot I made when it happened the first time.

When I resized a HTA with the following code:

 Sub Window_onLoad
     window.resizeTo 500,200
End Sub

I came across the following error:

Access Denied
Code: 0
Do you want to continue running scripts on this page?

This was due to a timing issue when loading the file. The Window_onLoad tries to change a property of the HTA, while the HTA is not completely loaded yet. You can solve this problem by adding a short timeout like this:

Sub Window_onLoad
Window.SetTimeout "Window.ResizeTo 500, 200", 500
End Sub

The last "500" here is the time it waits before executing the code.

Image of the error message:

How to add a loopback adapter to Windows 2008 server Core:

Find a 2003 server installation disk, x86 or x64 depending on the version you need and navigate to: \SUPPORT\TOOLS\SUPPORT.CAB and extract Devcon.exe.

For a 32 bit version you might be able to simply use the downloadable version of devcon, for 2008 x64, you definitely need to use devcon from support.cab on a 64 bit Windows 2003 server installation disk (I only tested this for the x64 version).

Then on the command line type:

C:\temp>devcon.exe install c:\windows\inf\netloop.inf *MSLOOP

 If you did  it right, you will see this:

Device node created. Install is complete when drivers are updated...
Updating drivers for *MSLOOP from c:\windows\inf\netloop.inf.
Drivers updated successfully.

And ipconfig /all will show this:

 Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 4:

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
   Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft Loopback Adapter
   Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 02-00-4C-4F-4F-50
   DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
   Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
   Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::590d:2eb0:55c9:3959%20(Preferred)
   Autoconfiguration IPv4 Address. . : 169.254.57.89(Preferred)
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0
   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
   DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : fec0:0:0:ffff::1%1
                                       fec0:0:0:ffff::2%1
                                       fec0:0:0:ffff::3%1
   NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled

 If you used the wrong version of devcon you will get the following error:

 devcon.exe failed.