oktober 2005 - Posts

31 oktober 2005
Visual Studio 2005 has arrived!
Kind of late, because I seemed to have missed it on last Friday (fun company trip at Class-A ): after the PDC bits, beta 1, beta 2, RC1, RC2 and lots of Community Technology Previews the RTM version of Visual Studio 2005 is now available from the MSDN Subscriptions site. Same goes for SQL Server 2005... Read More...
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26 oktober 2005
LDAP anonymous operations on Active Directory
In a Windows 2000 Active Directory you are allowed to perform LDAP anonymous operations against AD. However, a Windows Server 2003 domain/forest does not allow this by default, except for the RootDSE object. But, it is a configurable option. For a complete description you can check here , but a quick... Read More...
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21 oktober 2005
Volume Shadow Copy: your way to copying locked files
And you thought it couldn't be done: copying locked files, such as your .pst file from Outlook, while Outlook has a lock on it. Enter the Volume Shadow Copy Provider. On Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 a new service is available for your comfort: the Volume Shadow Copy Service. The idea is that you... Read More...
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21 oktober 2005
Microsoft shares your pain
Microsoft has invented a special chair for their developers. It called the WSYP project: Leverage customer feedback for software reliability. This movie does a product demonstration. Read More...
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19 oktober 2005
Avian carries for IP packets
Read these two specs: RFC 1149 - Standard for the transmission of IP datagrams on avian carriers RFC 2549 - IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service These are serious specifications, until you get what they are about. The latter of the two is an amendment. Read and laugh. Read More...
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13 oktober 2005
Materials from MSDN/TechNet Briefing ASP.NET 2.0 sessions
In case you visited the MSDN/TechNet briefings October 2005 , the slides and demos will be available for download from the MSDN website shortly. If you can't wait to have a look at it before that time, here are the links to them: ASP.NET 2.0 deel 1: Page Framework ASP.NET 2.0 deel 2: Services en Providers... Read More...
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12 oktober 2005
Class on SODA
When your application needs to grow, you can start scaling up (bigger, better hardware) and out. For scaling-out you have several choices, and one of the latest trends is to also partition the databases and the data processing. A possible approach is using a Service Oriented Database Architecture (SODA... Read More...
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09 oktober 2005
Password recovery deluxe
You should check out the website of Oxid for their freeware tool called " Cain & Abel ". It is a password recovery tool that does a variety of hacking (brute force, dictionary, and others) plus decoding/decrypting, sniffing and loads more. It really makes you think about security from the perspective... Read More...
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01 oktober 2005
Hacking SQL Server 2005
Just went to the talk by Brian Knight ( SQLServerCentral.com ) and Bayer White on hacking SQL Server 2005 (although most of it is not 2005 specific). It was a really nice talk on SQL injection and cookie manipulation. I assume you know what both of these are, otherwise Google for it or drop me a comment... Read More...
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