<a target="_new" href="http://weblogs.asp.net/wallym/archive/2004/10/19/244766.aspx">http://weblogs.asp.net/wallym/archive/2004/10/19/244766.aspx</a>
Great post.
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<br>Please feel free to let me know if there's anything unclear you're particularly peeved about in the ISA 2004 docs, and I'll send it on to the documentation folk.
i suspect the next vulnerablity will be simply booting up windows...oh wait, that already happens. _sigh_. i keep psyching myself up for the release of firefox 1.0 (the momentum is gaining), but i'm resigned to the fact that as it gains popularity, no doubt bugs will be found in it as well. it's a moot point on windows though as so many subsystems depend on IE ... (.chm mainly), there needs to be a way to specify different browser engines system-wide.
some comments:
<br>Before Google, AltaVista reigned king of internet search portals. I don't know how they made their money back then, but their service rapidly declined after Google took over (by decline, I mean they attempted to be a one stop shop for search, email, news, etc (similar to how MSN is now) along w/ a TON of adverts on their page). I haven't been to their page in years, but upon visiting it now, it's strikingly similar to Google. They also appear to have been bought out by Overture. Google set the bar pretty high for web search, and everyone appears to be following rank and file.
<br>Ask Jeeves was great back in the day for the masses as it allowed natural english expression searching. Google raised the bar in net saviness such that we were willing to learn the Google search syntax. I'm surprised Ask Jeeves is still around, apparently they've made quite a few 3rd party deals w/ sponsors on their site. That being said, I absolutely LOVED askjeeves upon its inception.
<br>MSN search on the desktop? Ummm, why can't MS just build a decent search tool into the OS (NOT WinFS...obviously if MSN can do it, MS can do it)? Sure, from tying desktop search into the MSN portal there are more $$$ to be made for the MSN group, however this instills FUD into the more tech savvy crowd; let an internet portal build a desktop search tool? come on, gag me w/ a spoon.
<br>Hotmail had Hotmail first...MS bought it, no doubt feeling huge market pressure from (the then big players) compuserver and AOL. They've been playing catch up the entire time, and never thought to use advertising in emails as a source of revenue. Additional storage? I'm still showing the same measly 2mb's I've had for quite a while. That being said, I'd like to see any company be able to offer 1 gig like google, and have it make sense from a business perspective. IMO, gmail is one of the killer apps (business-sense wise) of this year. Google is an advertising revenue driven business; the other players (using that term loosely) are not, so it doesn't make sense for them to make offerings like this.
<br>MS may be spreading themselves too thin; they are on the verge of a multi-pronged attack from all sides...Linux on the OS level, Mozilla in the browser world, and Google left to pick over whatever is left. I feel they are safe on the OS front (and will be for quite a while), but the rest could be a matter of too little too late.
oh, and if you want the ultimate in desktop search, check out Copernic (google it)...this product is light years ahead of anyone else.
Sure, sign us up to beta the MSPress ISA 2004 book ;)
Hmm.... documentation would be grand.
Why ISA 2004 Blows
The book "Writing Secure Code" will be an overkill for this exam, but it's a good read nonetheless. While this exam is long overdue, I'm surprised it hasn't made it's debut earlier.
<br>OK, this is totally OT from this post, but I just realized that typing an apostrophe ['] in Firefox in the comments section here brings up the "Find" toolbar at the bottom of the Firefox window. Wierd. But, speaking of security, I recommend dl'ing Firefox at your earliest convenience. It blows IE out of the water feature wise as well.
I like Firefox, but I have this irritation at the idea of installing a piece of software that replicates the behavior of a piece of software that comes for free with the OS. I dont *want* a new browser, I want MS to fix the damn browser that came with the OS...
It is a cool tool but I think the free version is too limiting (last 100 visitors analyzed by the free version is only a few hours of traffic) and the pay service is too high ($9/month is about what I pay for hosting [which includes traffic monitoring tools that are just as useful]) for those of us in that "too small to matter but still getting a few hundred hits a day" group.
were you going to mention any of the advantages of being a certified partner? ;-)
No, absolutely not. We will continue to put the missing documentation spin to everything. All other subject matter must be ignored. :)
Sorry if the inherent sarcasm in my comment didn't shine through ;)
A better not Desktop OS
Yes, the inevitable has happened. Christmas carols are being pumped into the building common areas and my "holiday spirit" is plummeting like an aerodynamic rock. Now, I like Christmas just like the next person but forcing me to constant repetitions to Jingle Bells and Frosty the Snowman just aren’t doing it for me. My wife’s office building put up their decorations two weeks before HALLOWEEN. I’ve seen trucks full of trees barrowing down the interstate – just in time to be all dried out for the lights to spontaneously combust in people’s living rooms. Can we at least wait until December before the force feeding begins?
Don't shoot the Beta Messenger...
My high score so far is 558...what's yours?
My highscore is below 0, I always seem to have a tendency to treat it like a FPS and fire as many shots as I can before the game makes me stop. It takes points from you for every shot you fire over the third shot...I think my most negative score was -2200 or so...
Phew! Thought you might have been about to go into a PKI deployment!
<br>/me wipes brow and resumes normal blog reading.
Hello, I was looking for some info on troubleshooting laptops and was directed towards this page. I didn't find anything like what I was looking for but it was interesting so I continued reading. This post was very interesting in as much as it was one of the most offensive and bigoted I've seen outside one of those wacked white supremist loony rants.
<br>First off, for most of what people use the internet for that computer would be enough except for the memory. Most of the uses that would require more power are stupid or silly, (why watch the trailers for a movie on your computer when they are crammed down your throat on TV?). Second, telling someone to throw away something that still has value, (check ebay) because it was manufactured in the '90s is ageist and the fascism of the wealthy. Third, since a new laptop costs a lot more than thirty-five dollars I can only infer you ment thirty-five hundred dollars. This is another indication of the bigotry of the wealthy. Fourth, what is so hard about installing XP on this old machine? Fifth, I can only assume that you have had access to and likely utilized the benefits of a higher education, why the spelling problems and confusing grammar? If someone with as little education can note them, you should not make these mistakes.
<br>The world did not start in the '70s. Ancient times are thousands of years ago not decades. People less well off financially did not choose to be so with the exception of refusing to compromise their ethical values to attain wealth. Neither wealth or education are indicators of superiority.
<br>b0b0af@yahoo.com
Well, I dont have any defense for the grammatic and spelling errors, some days I am just lazy. As for silly reasons to buy a laptop, suffice it to say I replace my 'old' laptop (Pentium 4 2.0ghz, 768 megs of RAM) because it wouldn't play Far Cry smooth and I kept getting beat at our lan parties at work. Maybe that will add some insight into my perspective when I wrote the article, even if you dont agree with said perspective.
@ Bob Stahl:
<br>While you're on the topic of spelling (from your post): 'wacked' == 'whacked', 'supremist' == 'supremacist', 'ment' == 'meant'. Grammer as well? 'If someone with as little education can note them' <- is that supposed to resemble a complete sentence?, 'Neither wealth or education' == 'Neither wealth nor education', not to mention most of your commas need to be replaced with semicolons.
<br>Point is, it's his blog; he can write about whatever he wants in whatever style he wants to. If you're going to troll, go start your own blog.
I ever have to even think about PKI, I am going to be looking up your extension ;)
I've been laying around the house today adorning my *white robes of opression* and got a rather nice chuckle out of your post Mr. Stahl. As Mr. Knight has pointed out, this is Bob's blog and he can speak of anything he wants and while I didn't notice any glaring or "confusing" grammer, he may butcher the English language in any way he sees fit.
<br>Thank you, sir, for bringing some comic relief to my rather boring Saturday at home - in the robes, naturally.
<br>Mike
Modal she wrote...
Uh, I did!? Noooo, that was probably my good twin - he promises stuff to people all the time. I'm the real, evil one, and I don't do book deals.
IE Rewrite revisited
I read about this thing 2 days ago. My microwave has that same chip in it.
Interesting to note as well, Longhorn shows up vulnerable to this as well...so much for the 'total rewrite secure OS'...
Microsoft Denies Ever Mentioning WinFS...
don't be a hater; nobody likes a discarded and disgruntled"a-"
Argh, g/d popups...
<br>check out www.soople.com, GUI frontend for complex googling. cheers mate. and happy new year.
IE stopped the popup, I would assume that your glorious Firefox would too..
touche ;)
yes it did...but any search engine that gives me a pop-up is guaranteed to never get another visit from me.
Nobody can touch google. By far it is the best thing to ever hit the web. Looks like Indians stole a logo design and threw together a stupid directory. I doubt they are in the US...anybody can start a Delware Corp.
Why did you say ick to using client-side scripting?
<br>BTW : Did you also check out this article : <a target="_new" href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q285176/">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q285176/</a>
That is a nice article, but would require a hole in the firewall to get to the SQLServer if I am reading it right "any database to which you can make an ADO connection".
Hence why you put your database connection stuff in a Web Service which sits behind the firewall....
@Ray
<br>How does that help? It adds another layer of complexity to a (relatively) simple project...but that doesn't matter as it won't work; the DB is still behind the firewall...and even then the only way to pass data from the DB to the client would be via XM (port 80 is probably open), doesn't matter though; word won't acceptan XML doc as a viable datasource parameter.
I wish for a day where my incoming spam is 80%. I've been closely monitoring an influx of mail hitting my Exchange 2003 server over the past month. Since mid-October of last year, I've seen 3.7 million messages (in a relatively small environment) where I'm averaging 96% spam. Luckily I've spent quite a bit of time installing anti-spam solutions and modifying rules and such so that most users only recieve a few a week. You're right though, something needs to be done...
I seem to have a handle on the blog spam for the moment, implemented a solution on on Friday and haven't had one spam since. We'll see how it holds up though...
A Bit of Browser Irony
Interesting...it appears that IE's lack of "keeping current" actually helped it out on this one.
<br>The actual flaw doesn't lie in the browsers themselves, it lies with IDN itself, so the powers that be at Verisign should be taken out back and shot (don't kill the messenger).
Interesting perspective, but maybe there is a reason IDN isnt supported by IE? You open a whole big ugly can of worms when you suddenly have 5 different unicode values for the letter 'p' that all are visually identical but mean something different. You dont suddenly need to support something without thinking about the ramification. MS has blindly done enough of that that I am glad they didnt with IDN.
System.Drawing.Printing Oh My!
Way cool...we've been blogged! :)
I still have my A1000 and a boatload of amiga software :) An emulator is interesting. I am building my own 1U rack mounted system. This could be fun. Call it an Amiga, but run it it a 1ghz celeron.
<br>let me know what you need and I will dig through boxes.
Mail by Bob...
I am still a proud fellow lone gunmen!
This person quickly learned that most on-line help for VB is VB.NET and they are not the same language.
<br>Having spent many years coding in pascal, fortran, c, c++, and various assembly languages; I have worked my way back to basic (Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instructional Code) and find even after all these years, there is no simple basic way to shift left/right a byte...
<br>basic (non.net) is the layman programming tool
<br>(ms rules?)
<br>turbo pascal became delphi
Bitchin' - I'm well jealous.
<br>Wonder where my old beige-and-brown C64 is now...
Phew, I was hoping the first comment wouldn't be 'What the hell is that'...
You're too kind.
<br>I also respond to "Special" K.
<br>*.
What about g-love and *special* sauce?
bring it on man. and bring mike back while you're at it.
Microsoft and Longhorn...
Lack of respect for SAS
Having used SAS a little here and there I must say that I've never run into this problem. I've even sorted/merged datasets that were a bit larger from time to time. I'm thinking this may be a user error.
Wouldnt surprised me one bit, considering how much time I spend in SAS, but SAS support had no ideas except to break the 73 million records into smaller datasets.
Oh snap! he pulled out the user error card on you.
@CM
<br>So basically what you're saying is that the explanation from SAS support is wrong? I'm not disagreeing w/ you as the explanation given by SAS seems like a bit of an overkill for something as rudimentary as a sort operation...that is a *ton* of overhead.
OMG Hax! How can you have Longhorn before me!? :)
<br>I'm sticking with x64 at home until at least Beta 2 comes out, then we'll see...
I ran Windows 2003 Server x64 for awhile, the last time I installed it, the only real issue I had was writing 32 bit ASP.NET apps, since they wouldn't run in IIS. I couldnt solve the problem since VPC wouldnt install on it, not to mention I assume x32 systems may not be able to be installed in a x64 environment, and I need to be able to write my apps ;) *Supposedly* there is a hack to get 32 bit ASP.NET working in x64, but I havent tried it yet. For the time being, I am basking in all that is Longhorn :P
You try replacing batteries? Mine has done some whacked out stuff when the batteries get low.
Glutton!
<br>What I found from my brief x64 server foray so far was:
<br> - you'll need to install .Net 2.0 Beta 2 (well, Beta 1 would probably work, but 2 is sexier) to get the .Net Framework and related ASP stuff onto it
<br> - there's no VPC for x64 yet (that I know of) - but VS2005 SP1 Beta 1 should work
<br>Good luck, enjoy the extra bits. Keep the change.
There is supposed to be a hack to get VS 2003 working for ASP.NET, in 32 bits. Either I get it to work, or it gets flattened and back to the old 2003 Server I go. I have to be able to code for work...:sigh:
Someone (sorry, can't credit it as I can't remember who) posted The Answer to .Text code formatting a while back, which worked for me:
<br> - Create code in VS.Net, whatever version
<br> - Open a new email in Outlook, using Word as the email editor (this part is important - just pasting into Word won't work), and paste into the new message.
<br> - Copy and paste from Word/Outlook into .Text's edit window.
<br>And voila, it usually works. Breaks with Community Server, I'm told...
Erm, and apologies for a lack of direct relevance to the SQL part :)
Awesome, I might actually start posting some more code, especially since I have no intention of moving to CS any time soon.
@Tristan
<br>It breaks on a default install of CS; you have to edit the HTML tags allowed in the communityserver.config file, which for most people isn't accessible (i.e. msdnBlogs, where modifying that file would introduce global changes). This will change in a future release though. I was slightly peeved by this as well.
Ta Jayson. Might be time to strike out on my own, get away from this hosting mentality :)
Alright I'll bite. Just picked up 100 shares.
I'm all over this one; the *improved readme files * are a great selling point.
Longhorn Revisited
No doubt, that's the best feature IMHO.
Games on X64 Update
I am confused, but reading more about it.
<br>No, wait, I'm still confused. But I linked you, so you owe me B$ now.
uh...the check is in the mail?
SQL Server SP4
I still use Firefox, tabbed browsing is what does it for me. It's enough to keep me going strong with it. I actually cringe when I have to open up IE now.
My comment is worth a buck fifty, at least.
As if you'll read it.
Happy Hundred! (aka Useful Post Twelve, if your ratio is anything like mine)
the fact that you need to mention your hundredth post speaks volumes...that being said, happy hundredth post.
@Jayson
<br>Does this mean I should quote from your 100th post?
<br>'Oh, and if either of my 2 readers are counting, this is my hundredth post :-). '
<br>So I am not alone...
Good point, but at least I found a cool utility to blog about for my hundredth :-). Keep 'em comin'!!!
<br>This whole ribbing each other via blogs doesn't quite come off the way it's intended does it...
It's all good ;)
That second dialog is just obnoxious...at least give us the option to turn it off (the whole "check this box to not be warned again" thingie). Maybe it's time to tackle that whole OSQL tool for DDL. Ummm, well...maybe not :-).
I agree, I started to write an Enterprise Manager replacement back when MSDE didnt have one (actually it still wont until sql 2005 express) but it was all hard and stuff...made me realize just how much Enterprise Manager can actually do...
for some reason, everything looks like crap in IE on my laptop (running at 1920x1200), lotsa jaggies on fonts/images. That being said, I think that firefox is probably the best piece of OSS software out there...50 million downloads can't be wrong (though I've accounted for about 5 of those, so that's indicative that most of those folks have probably downloaded more than one copy). For a v1.0 product it's actually doing pretty well track-record wise IMO; IE is in it's (n)th incarnation and still has a horrendous security record.
<br>@Ray
<br>Tabbed browsing is no longer a compelling reason to stay; there are plenty of 3rd party browsers that use the IE engine w/ tabbed browsing (ala avant, maxthon, ad nauseam). What does it for me is mouse gestures, and the fact that it was designed to be extensible w/ 3rd party add-ons...the developer ones are pretty sweet and have already saved me tons of time when I was redesigning my site.
Gotta love those heated debates of 8 comments!
I agree with the IE is in its (n)th iteration, but 5.5 and later are the only ones I think were really aimed at being secure, they still have a ways to go, but it is looking up...I think I might even try avast of maxthon and play with the mouse gestures...mouse gestures always remind me how fun Black and White was...
Two projects I've worked on used this tool instead of EM: <a target="_new" href="http://www.embarcadero.com/products/rapidsql/">http://www.embarcadero.com/products/rapidsql/</a>. It's pricey and most definitely aimed at larger development teams, but it's probably the best frontend I've seen for SQL Server (plus it supports pretty much anything ODBC related), built in versioning of sprocs, etc. They may have a demo, check it out.
I've been using FireFox for about 8 months now (Since IE6 was vaporized by a trojan)
<br>I have found that, so far, FireFox is not "as" targeted for destruction as IE. All the malicious hackers out there are really gunning for IE explicitly it seems.
<br>Anyway, I just don't have any plans on even trying to revive IE. I haven't had any problems with Firefox.
<br>P.S. OK, maybe a little trouble with some plugins, but nothing insurmountable..
<br>Well tabbed browsing of course isn't my ONLY reason for keeping Firefox. I also have a large set of extensions for several sites I go to, like the SomethingAwful forms. I like the built in RSS feed support for bookmarks and I also use a little mouse gesturing at work every now and again.
haha, black and white. I used to love making my monkey all evil by abusing him and making him eat the villagers. for it's time, that was probably one of the greatest strategy games ever, i could play it for days on end.
I always did the oposite, I made my creature good and me evil...though he would occasionally get mad and heave a villager out into the ocean. They are actually working on a new Black and White, but I dont expect anything concrete to come of it...
Damn spammer ;)
<br>Hey, BTW, SAS still SUCKS! Wouldn't believe the silly crap from "Sucky A** Software" I have to fight doing installs for clients, like I've been doing this whole week in NYC for Citi Card....
<br>Van
I still like Firefox more than IE. On the other hand, as one of a Sys Admin type of background, you know the mantra: "All hardware sucks. All software sucks." ;)
Hey Bob,
<br>Just an update: SAS still sucks. ;)
Bow to the IE!!!! Your resistance is futile!!!! Just ask Netscape!!!!
BlogShares -- Very Addictive
I couldn't agree more.
I'm sure he'll get right on that for you. Just after he reads the other 30,000 emails he receives in a day.