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Sunday, October 28, 2007 9:30 PM

Pictures at a VMWare Exhibition

Not really pictures but few notes from recent VMWare Virtualisation Forum - the regional mini-VMWorld. It started with a lot of pictures - trees, water, animals and I think smiling babies.When an event starts with those, expect a lot of marketing dung...
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Saturday, August 25, 2007 2:18 AM

How to stop Skype using ISA server, and why

Skype is a good example of how defying open standards can result in a better product. H.323, the first attempt at VoIP standard, failed miserably. SIP stands much better chance but there are numerous issues with SIP operator interconnections and crossing...
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Sunday, August 05, 2007 4:26 AM

VoIP Scaremongers

DEF CON , an "underground" information security conference (appropriately held in an upscale hotel in the entertainment capital of the US) is on, together with sister Black Hat Briefings, and the fresh crop of FUD is already making it to the...
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Saturday, July 14, 2007 6:42 PM

Virtual infrastructure v Terminal servers

Virtual infrastructure based on products like Microsoft Virtual Server , VMWare and Xen is the flavour of the month. People are talking about reduced cost of ownership, energy consumption and increased security risks resulting from use of virtualisation...
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Tuesday, June 05, 2007 4:09 AM

Integrating Java, JDBC and Kerberos

This notes are to help integrating Java applications into Kerberos environments (most likely Active Directory-based). It's not a cookbook but gives few pointers that I find useful. Background I have integrated Windows Kerberos environment with alien...
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Saturday, June 02, 2007 8:25 PM

Smart card logon error 0xC00000BB

When you implement smart card logon on a Windows domain, sometimes you may receive the following error message: The system could not log you on. The server authenticating you reported an error (0xC00000BB). You can find further details in the event log...
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Sunday, March 25, 2007 1:15 AM

SPF and Sender ID won't help fighting email abuse

Email abuse - spam and phishing - is a big problem. There are different methods of fighting those. SPF and Sender ID propose standard of authenticating emails using DNS records: owners of certain email domain will publish information about legitimate...
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Monday, March 19, 2007 11:31 PM

Update on SSL VPN standards

I recently wrote that adopting PPP over SSL as common standard would be the best apporoach to standardasing SSL VPN . I must have been living on Mars: no other than Microsoft is already putting effort right into that! They call it SSTP - the Secure Socket...
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Saturday, March 17, 2007 10:44 PM

Architecting enterprise for federated identity

InfoCard is the way to go. The concept is very well engineered. It is commonly accepted by various influentials of the IT industry, and some other industries (think of showbiz); it has a number of open-source implementations, as well as Microsoft one...
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Monday, March 12, 2007 5:44 PM

Release Windows Vista Service Pack 2 now!

I'm surrounded by Microsofties right now. While at it, I have a serious thing to ask: Microsoft, please, release Vista Service Pack 2 ASAP! Too many people are waiting for it - even to start looking at Vista. So give them what they want: A 500MB+ download;...
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Wednesday, March 07, 2007 3:29 AM

The most secure modern OS, Part II

Part I was about the OS with zero known vulnerabilities and no real trend towards worse situation. Mind you, source code for that OS's kernel is available , so it must be really hard target indeed. My next favourite provides the best platform for security...
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