We all by now have probably heard about the increase in SQL injection attacks to popular (and unpopular) web sites. A SQL Injection attack is where an external party passes potentially harmful or exploitive data in the form of raw, formatted or encoded T-SQL in a way in which it […]
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Finally, sick of running low end machines incapable of handling the latest and greatest, on the weekend I bought and built a new machine; a workstation. It’s been some time since I last built a machine by hand (aside from years of reworking old Dell parts into working laptops), so […]
Mitch Denny presents: codename ‘Rosario’ a.k.a Team Foundation Server 3.0. Edit: Rosario is the code name for the next edition of Team Foundation Server. The next release of Visual Studio Team Suite and various other denominations of Visual Studio will contain large feature improvements for Developers, Software Testers, Build Managers, […]
Here’s an interesting article. Apparently in the .Net 3.5 Service Pack 1 world, strong name verification for .Net assemblies will be bypassed by the Common Language Runtime if the following criteria is met: Fully signed (delay signed assemblies still require a skip verification entry) Fully trusted (without considering its strong […]
Our (Australian) Government has recently called for submissions regarding the regulatory oversight of a national broadband initiative "National Broadband Network (NBN)". From an ISOC-AU mail recently, the previously released request for proposals (RFPs) defined the scope of the network as follows: * deliver minimum download speeds of 12 megabits per […]
So I was just flying around maps.google.com when I had the novel idea of seeing how good the resolution was. For some unknown reason, I thought about SimCity (a game in which you build a city from a top down view, similar to looking at Google maps). In SimCity, when […]
Strong naming. Net assemblies isn’t new. Prepping dependency assemblies (specifically, those not in the Global Address Cache) is also non-trivial but necessary. Here’s a quick way to apply strong naming to an existing (non-signed) assembly. From a Visual Studio.NET command prompt, enter the following: 1. To Generate a Strong Name […]
…and I lived to tell the tale. Hi gamers. If you’re like me (and you obviously are, as 4,000+ unique hits to this blog will attest!) you like to play Madden NFL on, most likely, the Xbox 360. If you bought (or threw away) money on Madden NFL 2008 last […]
Hi All, On Monday I finally went out and bought a new handset. The choice: a HTC Touch (not the one with the keyboard though). There is a link to the official site here. Now, of course, this means Windows Mobile 6. The possibilities seem endless! </mad laughter> Let me […]
But don’t get your hopes up just yet! It’ll still be a little while until it’s released to a wider community. Partners and OEM manufacturers will get first shot at the Service Pack while end users can easily expect to wait until (Northern Hemisphere) summer time to get their hands […]
Well, this weekend I finally gave in a rebuilt my Dell XPS into a Windows 2003 Server box. The more ‘modern’ OSes were simply too burdensome for my ‘antiquated’ hardware. It’s beyond a joke when a 3.4GHz, 2GB memory box (ok, laptop) with 256 MB of graphics memory (ATI Radeon […]
Well, over here you can have a read through this blog post on how to use the new Windows Server 2008 as a workstation. I’ve been successfully using WS2K8 as my primary Operating System since just after Christmas last year (the RC1) and I’ve only had some expected issues to […]
Game Review Time Title: Lost: Via Domus (‘via home’ in latin) Maker: Ubisoft Platform: Xbox 360 Display: True HD 40" LCD (Samsung) @ 1080p Audio: Sony 7.1 amp Overview: Well, unless you’ve been sticking to government owned TV stations or otherwise avoiding mass media it’s doubtful you haven’t […]
We moved into a new house on Wednesday and, as usual, we have boxes galore spread throughout the house. The consequence of this is pretty obvious: no (decent) internet, no phone line, no desk and no office. For someone who predominantly works from home, this is as close to […]
Just a quick post to point out that the folks at Network World have published a review of the GM (Gold Master) edition of Windows Server 2008. You can find the article here: http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/2008/022108-windows-2008-server-test.html I’ve been using WS2K8 as my primary OS since late December, 2007 and it has […]