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Why changing passwords should be done regularly | Windows 2008 Security

Why changing passwords should be done regularly | Windows 2008 Security — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:03:35 GMT

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FTP and SSL | IIS & Exchange Digest

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Video | Enjolt.com | Innovate for Success

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re: DELAY or NODELAY - Riffing on Larry, who's riffing on Raymond...

Brad — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:54:34 GMT

ok here is the thing guys

for most everyday situations you guys are right

but!!!!!

for any mmpog players out there know with nagle and tcp ack/delay diasabled games run faster.. that depend on literly half sec loading time of skills you can not wait for more packet,s to accumlate befor sending information and that bandwidth hogging consant sendign and recviening of packets befor checking them is needed to have that split second reaction....

for anything other then split second reaction times on games then no its not something ppl should just use to think it will speed up there net.. for bowsing and some otherthings and can make it slower and allow bad packets to be sent

Mmpog major fix for reaction time with server

other then that leave it alone

re: Still not a good argument

Sorry to tell you this, but the only thing you've demonstrated is that many MMORPGs are written poorly as far as network performance is concerned.

Once again, remember that you have a choice - data is either time-sensitive, in which case it can be discarded, lost, ignored and updated later, or it is sequence-sensitive, in which case the data must get through even if it takes longer.

The data you are talking about is clearly time-sensitive, not sequence-sensitive. As such, it should be communicated using UDP, not TCP. And UDP has no Nagle or delayed-ACK interactions.

You have simply made an argument that MMORPG writers should employ experienced and skilled network developers, rather than the hacks they currently employ.

Saturday, October 24, 2009 09:27 AM by Alun Jones

re: Windows 7 – what it’s missing

bradley — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 06:20:35 GMT

sbs.seandaniel.com/.../how-to-get-live-messenger-back-in.html

Check that out.

SAL-like code annotations for Java | Windows 2008 Security

SAL-like code annotations for Java | Windows 2008 Security — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:52:28 GMT

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re: SAL-like code annotations for Java

Fred — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:00:32 GMT

So are they coming to C#?

I want as many runtime errors as possible to be compile time errors.

re: Annotations for C#

Peculiarly enough, I received the following email from Michael Howard:

"Cool! The concept is not new – have you seen the contract stuff in .NET 4.0?

So I went looking - here's what I've found: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd264808(VS.100).aspx

Wednesday, October 29, 2009 06:27 PM by Alun Jones

SAL-like code annotations for Java

Tales from the Crypto — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:44:43 GMT

types.cs.washington.edu/jsr308 seems to be talking about a set of type annotations for Java that

SAL-like code annotations for Java

Tales from the Crypto — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:44:41 GMT

types.cs.washington.edu/jsr308 seems to be talking about a set of type annotations for Java that

SAL-like code annotations for Java

Tales from the Crypto — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:44:38 GMT

types.cs.washington.edu/jsr308 seems to be talking about a set of type annotations for Java that

re: Error 0x80005000 and DirectoryEntry in .NET

Greg — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:20:46 GMT

I just spent about an hour trying to figure this out myself. This was what my problem was. Case sensitivity...meh!

re: Removing Apple Mobile Device Support

wendell Clark — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:53:48 GMT

Allen HI im a 25 Year Hardware Tech. I can tell you ALL how to Absolutly uninstall AND remove ALL traces og left over Registry keys and any other files associated with the program. Just download a FREE program call "<name deleted>", I think at <name deleted>. and it will get rid of it in about 2 Minutes. Thanks, Clark

re: Registry cleaners: generally bad news

I am really not going to recommend any registry cleaners up here, sorry. There are so many bogus registry cleaners that install malware, I'm not going to take that risk. Even the bona-fide registry cleaners are so often associated with killing systems that I'm going to recommend that instead of using registry cleaners, you should always work with the application support team for whatever application you're trying to clean up.

Wednesday, October 29, 2009 06:27 AM by Alun Jones

re: Wireless PC Lock - part 2

hamish — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:57:22 GMT

heya. Brilliant software! Any chance you can distribute an compiled copy that does auto un-lock upon return? (even with the risks)

re: GUI lets me disable it, how do I enable it?

berillio — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:28:57 GMT

last thursday night I had few hours to try to remove vista to intall XP on a friend's laptop. When shrinking the Vista partition I found that there was a a large lump of "unmovable files" (as described by defrag in XP), whihc limited the amount of shrinking I could do, as they were placed between the 70Gb and 75Gb. I thought that it may be the hibernation file, I googled and found a page which refers to this page.

NOW, BEAR IN MIND that I had never seen vista until that night, I have two W2K pro and one XP system.

I think that I did start/Run "powercfg /hibernate off", which gave me an istantaneous flash (too quick to see anything but the flash) of a cmd box. Note that I did not use Ctrl+Shift+Enter at any time: that laptop has ONLY one user, so (if it works like XP), that user IS the administrator.

After this operation, the "unmovable files" where still in the same place, but given that many manufacturers place all sort of recovery data half hidden sometimes in invisble partitions (DELL cetrtainly was used to do that), I thought that maybe it could be some of those. I also shrunk the pagefile to 256Mb (the laptop has 3Gb of RAM), which also had no effect on that large block of "unmovable files".

I now ask myself if I really succeeded in removing the hibernation setting or if Vista has this "administrator mode" which needs to be invoked even if the user is the administrator (i.e. however many user there are, the administrator can only carry out "administrator operations" if the "administration mode" is invoked first); and considering that the laptop is still using Vista, if it is required to "re-enable" hybernation or not.

BTW I don't have direct access to the laptop anymore (my friend is gone back), so I cannot just search for HIBERFIL.SYS, but we communicate by YM and maybe we can still check and change few things.

Thanks for shedding some light on the matter and thank you in advance for the help you may provide.

re: Removing Apple Mobile Device Support

fat stanley — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:20:58 GMT

MUCHO GRACIAS on the effective solution for that pesky AMDS app. This post deserves its high placement in Google search results! Too bad such merit is so rare . I abstain from the Bill G. v Steve J. debate.

re: Google bans MVP

Doddie — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:37:21 GMT

Alun, you wrote...

"Google absolutely have the right to tell their employees "from this point forwards, don't waste time on volunteerism"..."

Maybe in the US, but absolutely NOT in the UK!

Should Google follow through with that threat they will be wide open to an unfair dismissal claim in an industrial tribunal!

I find it hard to believe that any company operating in the UK would have the audacity to claim 'absolute right' to an employees spare time, let alone what awards they can accept in recognition of that 'volunteerism'.

I'm even more amazed that Google haven't thought of the potential negative press fallout should a quiet 'news day' occur and the main stream media latch onto this!

[Disclaimer: I have no legal background, this is my personal opinion.]

re: Good point...

That's a good point, perhaps - I have no legal training either, so it's possible that even in the US, Google shouldn't say "don't do volunteering on your own time supporting our competitor's (non-competing) products".

Of course, this is coloured by the fact that Jon works for Google in the UK.

A manager could be more subtle than I've suggested, saying things like "I notice your work has been suffering lately, has it crossed your mind that this could be because of your outside commitments?" - but it doesn't appear that anything so subtle happened here, simply a "hey, I wouldn't suggest accepting that award".

Monday, October 5, 2009 1:54 PM by Alun Jones

re: Google bans MVP

Bernard Cheah — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 02:29:19 GMT

Ohhh.. what can I say? after all it is Google :p

re: Google bans MVP

Wilson Kutegeka — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 08:46:43 GMT

This is so sad, Unless he was using company time to help the C# community, but even then, Google should only have monitored his activities at work.

Well I Guess Google might have her own reason(s) for doing that but i think Jon is working in a wrong place!

www.wilsonkutegeka.com

re: What's Google's objection?

The thing to remember is that this award is for past behaviour in volunteering to help the community of users of one or more Microsoft products.

Google absolutely have the right to tell their employees "from this point forwards, don't waste time on volunteerism", but it seems rather bizarre to tell your employees "we want you not to accept an award for your volunteer work to date".

Again, I'll emphasise that accepting the award does not require the MVP sign an NDA, and it does not require any further commitment from the MVP.

Saturday, October 3, 2009 9:27 PM by Alun Jones

[OPINION] Un MVP que no es más MVP por trabajar en la empresa del buscador (ahi te dejo para que lo pienses … )

El Bruno — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:33:56 GMT

Buenas, y yo que pensaba que estaba teniendo una semana dura, resulta que Jon Skeet ( si no has leido