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May 2005 - Posts

Sunday, May 29, 2005 10:22 PM

Moving Tomorrow -- Feedmap Changing

Tomorrow, my wife and I are moving from Charlotte, NC to Greenville, SC.  I'll be relocating my feedmap as well.  As such, I want to wish my fellow Charlotte bloggers a fond fairwell, but not a goodbye. I may be moving, but I'll be watching
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Saturday, May 28, 2005 9:19 PM

Mike Downen has started blogging!!!

YES! Another good resource for security information has just started blogging. Mike Downen is the program manager for security in the CLR. Man, I really wish he had come with the other CLR team members to Atlanta. In any case, point your aggregators to
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Friday, May 27, 2005 9:17 PM

Code Access Security? What about Message Access Security

I've been thinking about this for some time. The implimentation of Code Access Security in the .NET framework matches something very similar to what I had in mind to restore some order to email.  As many of you know, email has become overrun with
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Monday, May 23, 2005 1:07 PM

Thread Switching Overhead

I was reading a post by Sue Loh today.  It gives a very cool insight into some threading problems with an expedited thread quantum on CE.  Essentially, since threads have half the time to do their actual work, the thread context switching overhead
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Sunday, May 22, 2005 12:41 AM

Beating the dead horse - Wireless networks again

I hate to keep beating a dead horse here, but I want to get my point across concerning wireless networking.  Sans has now issued a paper about the basic insecurities of wireless.  Check it out and at least use this paper as input for threat
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Saturday, May 21, 2005 11:51 PM

Singularity

Here's another quick post.  Microsoft Research is writing an operating system in C#! I've been talking about wanting to do this for a while.  There was even some mention of this from JasonZ when the CLR team came to Atalanta a while ago.  Definitely
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Saturday, May 21, 2005 11:42 PM

XBOX 360

I don't know if anyone has seen the specs on the new XBOX 360 or not, but holy cow! Check them out if you get a chance. This is going to be one huge gaming experience!
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Wednesday, May 18, 2005 3:03 PM

Who's reading my blog??? Wall Street Journal reporters?

A few days ago, I blogged about wireless communications and the fact that  "Friends don't let friends use wireless".  Not two days after my post, the wall street journal posted an article about the very same thing (requires WSJ.com subscription). 
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Wednesday, May 18, 2005 1:43 AM

Fun with default compilation: VB.NET vs C#

I'm not a language elitist by any means. I came from a Visual Basic background and avoided C++ when I could. These days, however, I'm more of a C# guy.   I feel like there is sufficient gain in using the language without much, if any development-time
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Wednesday, May 18, 2005 1:43 AM

.NET Code Access Security - The fast version

I spoke at this months GSP Developers Guild meeting as the "short presenter".  We typically have two presentations each month -- one is a short presentation and one is a long presentation.  I had to cut my Code Camp slides in half, but I managed
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Monday, May 16, 2005 10:10 PM

South Carolina Business One Stop (SCBOS) In the News!

A project my company designed, managed, and mostly developed was in the news over the weekend.  The article doesn't mention TiBA Solutions at all, but in fairness, they don't mention the other players that participated in design review or some components
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Friday, May 13, 2005 11:48 AM

Pro .NET 1.1 Remoting, Reflection and Threading is now available!

I received 10 shiny copies of my new book that is now available at BarnesAndNoble.com (or amazon.com if you really must buy through them).  Its a pretty interesting mix of technologies from .NET that helps bring a novice programmer up to date. While
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Wednesday, May 11, 2005 2:48 PM

Friends Don't Let Friends Use Wireless

It will never cease to amaze me how much people implicitly trust wireless connections. I see businesses from coffee shops to book stores offering free wireless connectivity in the hopes that people will stick around and spend money. This is a great idea
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Wednesday, May 11, 2005 11:20 AM

Adventures in Stupidity: Retail Edition

There are some things in life that I just can't understand.  How corporations determine prices for products is one of those. I was surfing a computer manufacturer's site today and I started to configure a system.  I had the following options
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Wednesday, May 11, 2005 12:01 AM

Delegates in C# vs VB.NET down to the IL

So I found a post on a blog the other day from one of my friends. He is a recent convert from VB.NET to C# and he asked where his event handlers were.  Anyone that has been coding in both VB.NET and C# knows exactly what the problem
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Tuesday, May 10, 2005 10:38 PM

Bluetooth Viruses Attacking Bluetooth-enabled cars?

I came across this post somehow that I think is extremely cool. It details an attempt to attack a Toyota Prius with bluetooth viruses and known exploits.  I'm happy to hear that nothing severely adverse was achievable, although there were some
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Monday, May 09, 2005 5:25 PM

Time Warner's (un)Security

I wanted to make people fully aware of a problem I encountered today with Time Warner Telecom because it flies in the face of good privacy and security practices. So here's the background. I paid my cable bill online through Time Warner
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Wednesday, May 04, 2005 1:20 AM

Dinner with the CLR team

Words really cannot describe the events that started a few weeks ago with a private invite to dinner with a few cool guys from the CLR team and ended just a few hours ago with a life changing experience for me.  In your lifetime, there have probably
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Sunday, May 01, 2005 2:01 PM

This is too funny

In the realm of security,  professional developers and admins have to watch for every possible threat.  Sometimes, however, the threat just doesn't need any immediate action on your part. This has to be the funniest post I've read in a long
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