Seeing as this used to be my big topic, I would be remiss if I didn't mention that it's now possible to remove Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, and other components from Windows 2000 and XP using software from litepc.com.

There seems to be a competition to see how small one can make Windows 9x and have it still boot into a GUI. The latest salvo in this war reduces Win98SE to under 5 megs.

I've worked 26 hours so far this week. I'd say I hope there's an end in sight, but then again I hoped to leave work at 3:30 this afternoon and that didn't happen. I'm gonna go read a book and try not to think about work or much of anything else.

I got a question today in a roundabout way asking about ramdisks in Windows, specifically, where to find my instructions for loading Win98 into a ramdisk, and how to do the same in XP.

O'Reilly wants to release my 1999 book, Optimizing Windows for Games, Graphics, and Multimedia , under an open content-style license. I'd love to see the thing released so it can gain widespread distribution, which it never really had.

Here's an interesting article, written in 1997 in France, that goes all over the anti-Microsoft map, talking about technical problems, legal problems, bundling, and other issues. The interesting thing about this is that in 1997, there weren't a lot of people willing to listen.

Every once in a while I get a question like this one, which showed up Thursday night on this page:

Now that most of the fun of SQL Slammer has died down, let me present you a tool that might have prevented it: Update Expert.

In Windows 2000, the usual method of viewing a file--double clicking on it--doesn't work for BLG files and I couldn't find any information on the 'Net telling you how to open one. Here's how.

Houston had a problem. Now it's Microsoft's problem.