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Why do?

Why do HP's sound like a jet engine when they start up? I've been told it's the boot fan test they do. Why do servers attract dust "hippos"... not "bunnies" but "hippos" because there is downright dirt on the...

Posted to THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" by bradley on Fri, Jul 3 2009

Filed under: News

Evil code of the day

At a glance, this code doesn't look particularly evil. What does it do though? Compile it with the C# 4.0b1 compiler and run it... using System; class Base { public virtual void Foo( int x, int y) ...

Posted to Jon Skeet: Coding Blog by skeet on Fri, Jul 3 2009

Filed under: C#, C# 4

Up, down, up, down, up...

Today and yesterday the FSDeveloper website had a little bit of downtime. We are working on solving these issues by optimizing the server. Besides that we have also been working on the backups and some other technical issues. Hopefully so much downtime...

Posted to Arno Gerretsen by arno on Fri, Jul 3 2009

Filed under: FSDeveloper

China Testing Mac Version of Green Dam Web Filter

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology says the Green Dam mandate has only been delayed. Publisher Jinhui Computer System Engineering is reportedly testing a version of Green Dam for Apple's Mac computers, which have been exempt...

Posted to Donna's SecurityFlash by donna on Fri, Jul 3 2009

SMS Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in iPhone

Charlie Miller, a well-known security researcher who specializes in Mac and iPhone security, yesterday revealed information about a new vulnerability in iPhone that allows remote code execution via SMS. Not a lot is known about the vulnerability, which...

Posted to Donna's SecurityFlash by donna on Fri, Jul 3 2009

What does Windows Workflow Foundation 4 mean for existing workflow developers?

The question of what Windows Workflow Foundation version 4 means for developers currently developing using WF recently came up. As I mentioned before WF 4 is a complete rewrite and doesn’t use any of the existing WF 3 classes. The design of WF...

Posted to The Problem Solver by Maurice on Fri, Jul 3 2009

Filed under: .NET, NetFx3, Workflow, DevCenter, WF4

Waledac Independence Day Theme - New Campaign In The Wild

Websense Security Labs™ ThreatSeeker™ Network has detected yet another new Waledac campaign theme in the wild. The new variant uses an Independence Day theme as a social engineering mechanism. The United States of America celebrates Independence...

Posted to DP's Security Bits by Don on Fri, Jul 3 2009

Filed under: Alerts

Clean install part 2

Next step is to copy over everything that might blow up. While I do use the Easy transfer wizard, I also copy over things manually for that 1 out of 10 time that Easy transfer doesn't work and Krissy gets my bed for the evening. Grab an extra copy...

Posted to THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" by bradley on Fri, Jul 3 2009

Filed under: News

Before you do a clean install of the network

A little work needs to be done on the workstations. Long story short, I want to do a clean install on my home Server even though I had migrated it successfully. But before you do the "small network of users, clean install of SBS 2008, don't mess...

Posted to THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" by bradley on Fri, Jul 3 2009

Filed under: News

XML Literals: Simplifying Strings

You have probably heard that the next version of VB will no longer require line continuation characters in most situations. This is very good news for those of us that do not like typing underscore characters. But in the mean time, what do we do if we...