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Sunday, August 27, 2006 11:13 AM

Password trouble: Need to be careful with long passwords

I am a fan of Steve Gibson and his weekly Security Now audio talks. His website has a password generation page which generates "long, high-quality random passwords" and in the spirit of self defense I copied about 30 characters [half of the
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Friday, June 09, 2006 5:42 PM

Rant: Microsoft Urls

For some strange reasons, Microsoft web site urls tend to be really long. Even the new ones. Today, I found out that IronPython was migrated to CodePlex.com and the url for that ? http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=IronPython
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Monday, November 22, 2004 1:40 PM

Sql Server Function: OBJECT_ID({object name},{object type})

In order to setup ASP.NET Session State in Sql Sever, we have to run the InstallSqlState.sql script. In the script I came across :- OBJECT_ID('tempdb..ASPStateTempSessions','U') here 'U' is for User table. I had used OBJECT_ID before but I wasn't
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Tuesday, October 05, 2004 3:02 PM

T-Sql: Join and 'Not In' vs Exists and 'Not Exists'

Jignesh Desai writes on our UG Forum :- Intersect you can achieve using joins also....Select Jignesh.Topic From Jignesh, NaveenWhere Jignesh.Topic = Naveen.Topic.[update: this would include repetitions of the topic] Minus query can be formed as :-Select
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Saturday, September 04, 2004 11:24 AM

Gmail Notifier

via Vasanth Dharmaraj "The Gmail Notifier is a downloadable Windows application that alerts you when you have new Gmail messages. It displays an icon in your system tray to let you know if you have unread Gmail messages, and shows you their subjects,
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Wednesday, August 18, 2004 10:22 PM

Arial Font has a bug

I noticed something strange the other day while trying to rename something in TextPad. That the letter l (as in love) in arial font is the same as the letter I (as in Indigo). The first thing that came to my mind was, its a design flaw, in arial font!
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Wednesday, July 28, 2004 11:35 AM

CodeSmith shows field description

Realised a really useful think about CodeSmith generated Store Procedures, the description that is set for the field in the database (Sql Server 2000) is automatically inserted into the Store Procedure parameters as a comment, CodeSmith is such a productivity
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Monday, July 26, 2004 7:45 PM

Getting Perl scripts to work

I was my helping my friend get a perl based message board system working on her site (watthailumbini). We were using Windows 98, notepad and WSFTP and her web server was Linux running Perl. The scripts were already working on her sister's site (watthaikusinara)
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Saturday, July 17, 2004 4:31 PM

My first MFC application!!!

Based on a chat with PalashB, I finally decided that I needed to get down and take my C++ to another level, I had to write a Windows GUI in C++, something that I have been wanting to do since I started using Win32 APIs in VB6(thats about few years back).
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Wednesday, February 04, 2004 2:39 PM

Property or Method ??

I needed a way to pass in a list of ids (that should be selected) to a control and also a way to retrieve the selected values only, so here is what I came up with Approach 1 public void SetSelectedAuthors(int[] authorsToBeSelected) {} public int[]
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Wednesday, November 19, 2003 7:46 PM

My first silly XML mistake

My first silly XML mistake, perhaps this is one of those things that are labeled as 'classic' (like '=='& '=' in C/C++)I needed to capture the data that I was sending to a web service and see what it looked like, so, the best way that seemed interesting
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Friday, November 14, 2003 5:38 PM

Knoppix distribution of GNU/Linux really cool!!

I have had Knoppix CD with me for sometime now, every now and then I insert it into the CD Drive and boot into the world of GNU/Linux. Don't get me wrong, I am still a total GNU/Linux newbie and am still learning to do basic editing in Emacs. What happened
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Thursday, November 13, 2003 1:40 PM

Why limit the password to <= 8 characters ?

We at Core use the services of Net4Domains for our website and emails. They have provided us with fairly good service so far. Enough for me to recommend it to others. But one thing about their system has been irking me sometime now and it has to do with
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Thursday, November 06, 2003 6:04 PM

"dynamic applications should be dynamic on the client" - Chris Anderson (MSFT)

Chris Anderson writes :- “My not-to-hidden agenda here is simple - dynamic applications should be dynamic on the client. The server should send data - either through web services, database access, or any other wire protocol - and the client should consume
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Sunday, November 02, 2003 9:28 AM

Code Generator, oh how I miss you!!

Over a period of time, I have totally become a 'component-oriented' programmer. Now, whenever I write any application, general purpose or database, I inevitably think in terms of classes and 'components' (since a control is more than just a class). Further,
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