I was recently reading an article about a phishing site which was uncovered recently. The site in question – "Bank of Switzerland" – bankofswissltd[DOT]com was undone by some suspicious discrepancies in their site’s WHOIS record. If you’re uncertain what a WHOIS record is, a decent analogy might be to compare […]
Author: John Hilvert Mar 23, 2012 http://www.itnews.com.au/News/294749,acta-treaty-mauled-in-hearings.aspx Power to rights holders is a reason not to ratify agreement, say critics. Academics have savaged the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) treaty over the power it affords intellectual property rights holders during a second round of joint committee hearings in Canberra. […]
Hi All, 31st March 2012 AUSTRALIAN NATIONWIDE MOBILE PHOTOGRAPHY PHOTO WALK & SYDNEY PHOTO WALK There’s a Google Australia photo walk 2012 this weekend, Saturday March 31st 2012 in most major cities. It’s a great opportunity to gather with fellow camera/photography enthusiasts and explore your city. There’s a good chance […]
Recently I bought a brand new Network Attached Storage (NAS) device, as I’ve wanted (for a while) to redo my approach to storage capacity and – more specifically – add some fault tolerance (by way of redundant disks). I did some research and looked in to a number of NAS […]
When we moved into our new residence last year, we were not quite prepared for the long, painful learning process which was coming our way. This was the first time we had lived in a property featuring a back-to-base alarm system; and therefore the first time to experience pain with […]
Came across this recently: “ExecutionEngineException occurs during Garbage Collection“ and the subsequent KB article on support.microsoft.com. Last year I was finding some random crashes in a couple of .Net 4.0 Windows Service Applications, and this might have been part of the problem. Right, so what does this mean? Basically there’s […]
Overshadowed, possibly, by the release of the new iPad? Not in the world of databases. Yesterday Microsoft officially released SQL Server 2012 “release to manufacturing” (RTM) which means we’re officially out of pre-release editions! Previously codenamed ‘Denali’, the new version brings to the table some serious changes, some of which […]
Recently Microsoft released a ‘Consumer Preview’ of their upcoming Windows 8 operating system. Today I downloaded a copy of the release and installed it into a virtual machine. What follows are screenshots of the installation process, and some notes about the OS once it has finished installation. Installation The setup […]
Not long ago, I posed a question to the Stack Overflow community – (is there a) “Good Visio Template (or alternative) for SOA/Distributed Systems?”. Surprisingly, there was only one response! Since then, I have been recently introduced to, of all things, a Java based tool called the ‘Quick Sequence Diagram […]
This weekend I discovered a pretty massive security fail on the iPhone 4S. As you might know, you can set a security pin code to prevent unauthorized use of an iPhone handset. You might also be aware of the new Siri feature built into the iPhone 4S. Assuming you have […]
Earlier in the week I spent some time trying to accomplish what I thought was going to be a trivial task – mapping from a sequence structure to a flat file structure using BizTalk Development Tools. The main idea is to take a looping structure on the left hand side […]
Ever wondered how to configure when you get prompted for user credentials when logging onto a remote system via Remote Desktop (Terminal Services)? Well, chances are that this might come in handy – especially fi you encounter issues which stem from an expired password (hence, the title of this article). […]
Today I received an e-mail which made it past Google’s Junk E-mail protection. It was sent from “Gmail Team” and titled “Google Verification”. As I’ve had to do site verifications for Analytics and Webmaster tools, I took a look at the e-mail. Within half a microsecond, I decided to compose […]
Introduction From time to time, it is natural for us to deploy BizTalk solutions with Assembly dependencies. Usually this is because we have created helper classes (for mapping, or querying) or perhaps it reuses some common logic shared between application suites. Whatever the reason, it can be very handy to […]