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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft blames users for Vista infections ZDNet UK, UK - 11 minutes ago "However, recent research conducted with statistics from over 1.4 million computers within the ThreatFire community has shown that Windows Vista is more ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

The internet is awash with information, and most people here voraciously ingest a daily diet of Channel 9, Scoble or whatever. Kevin Moore pointed me to a brilliant but rather old article entitled Why I Hate Frameworks. Seeing at I'm currently grappling with justification for using patterns and practices, this article had a particular resonance. Couple this with Rico Mariani's Cycles in Computer Science, or Am I Ancient? you really do start to see (for me at least) that software changes do not happen overnight. Have you an article, blog, thread that has rotated your thinking on a particular subject or technology that people may be unaware of? If you do please link it to this thread. The only rule I guess, is that it has to be at least a year old. This can include anything from design, security, beautiful code or whatever, just as long as it's impact on your thinking or understanding of a particular subject was rotational. Obviously it would be most welcome if you could decorate the link, or whatever with some personal comments as to why it is important (although this is not always a requirement). More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I'm not a*programmer (although I have had a bit of formal education in C++ and have done some programming on the job) and I'm trying to decide what to start with. My impression is that VB is easier to start with and that C# is more structured. I have no practical reasons (as in job opportunities) to pick a language, I'm free in that regard. So, as someone with past experience and very rusty skills, with a love for methodical and structured approach, would you say jump into C#, or think that's too much of a leap? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Someone using an IP registered to Sony Network Taiwan has been trying to spam my mail boxes. They've attempted to login to my mail server with faulty credentials a numerous amount of times. Here's the log file: Site in question: www.snsvacuums.com [05/13/08 13:00:27] ****************** LOG FILE STARTED ******************* *05/13/08 13:00:27 ME-I0069: (recv) socket [428] was gracefully closed 219.84.56.224 before any command received. Remote client closed the connection. 05/13/08 13:00:28 ME-I0074: [428] (Debug) End of conversation 05/13/08 22:34:51 ME-E0109: [360] Relay Denied: Failed to meet all relay criteria. Attempt to relay to [sMTP:ssmmttpp0509@yahoo.com.cn] was denied for requesting IP Address 219.84.176.209 05/13/08 22:34:51 ME-I0070: (recv) socket [360] was gracefully closed during [RCPT] command by the remote client 219.84.176.209. 05/13/08 22:34:51 ME-I0074: [360] (Debug) End of conversation [05/14/08 01:29:49] ****************** LOG FILE CLOSED ******************** IP is owned by APNIC, go here to search for the who is info. You've been blacklisted! Steve More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft hits out at Vista insecurity claims Techworld.com, UK - 16 hours ago XP came top for vulnerabilities, suffering 1021 over the last half year or so, with Windows 2000 on 586, and Vista on 639. According to a new blog by ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hi everyone, I'm trying to use the TFS 2008 API to discover test results from builds. I have an IBuildDetail instance which gives me some information, and I've scanned through the IBuildInformation nodes on it, but no information about tests. MSDN mentions an ITestSummary interface which sounds like exactly what I want: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.teamfoundation.build.client.itestsummary.aspx MSDN says to get an ITestSummary I need to use the InformationNodeConverters class: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.teamfoundation.build.client.informationnodeconverters.aspx If anyone could show me how, I'd be eternally grateful! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://www.slate.com/id/2191295/ I particularly like how he claims Solitaire taught us how to multitask. Althought personally, I prefer Mahjong in Vista. :) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> VBA Will Return To Mac Office Slashdot - 11 hours ago The blog post calls for feedback on what features of VBA and Windows interoperability are most important to people. slashdotwriter writes "Macworld features ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I'm starting to feel like Microsoft is my little brother and he needs me to run some defense. When are they going to fire back at these PC/Mac commercials?I am starting to really resent that deseilwearinghackeysackplayingvermontloving Mac (I need to watch my language). More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> The Industry Standard's Top 25 B-to-Z List Blogs Computerworld, Norway - 1 hour ago If you've ever wondered about how come a program written in 1992 can still run on Windows Vista, Raymond can probably tell you. -- One-line batch script to ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Moonlight, supporting the Silverlight 1.0 profile for Linux is released Windowless: Moonlight supports "windowless" mode More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> The Industry Standard's Top 25 B-to-Z List Blogs Computerworld, Norway - 15 minutes ago If you've ever wondered about how come a program written in 1992 can still run on Windows Vista, Raymond can probably tell you. -- One-line batch script to ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista Vulnerability Study Puts Microsoft on Defensive Redmondmag.com, CA - 1 hour ago Late last week, a study by Sydney, Australia-based anti-virus concern PC Tools suggested that although Vista was an improvement over Windows XP in respect ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista Vulnerability Study Puts Microsoft on Defensive Redmond Channel Partner, CA - 11 minutes ago Late last week, a study by Sydney, Australia-based anti-virus concern PC Tools suggested that although Vista was an improvement over Windows XP in respect ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I have some serious performance issues with Firefox, I was using 2.0.0.14 for some time (I think) but it didn't had any issues until recently, very strange, and a restart doesn't help also, and I didn't isntalled any plugins or anything recently, any ideas, does 2.0.0.14 works fine on your machine? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Wouldn't have it been a better solution to allow users to add threads to it? Yeah, I know it's still under "all forums".* The point remains. http://blog.damnednice.com/pics/poll.jpg More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Not sure if this is approapriate, but I think you guys would know this stuff in IT community. I am looking for backup options. Mostly I am looking for on-demand backup and failover solution. I have looked some solutions like Double Take and EVault. Double Take is almost the kind I want, but it is way too expensive. Anyone knows any other on-demand backup I can use? How quickly I can't recover from it and etc. Thank you for helping out. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Could you list your pros/cons opinions, suggestions regarding the use of visual form inheritance with VS2005 Windows.Forms, and VS2008 ? Thanks in advance. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> PC makers stockpile Windows XP PCWorld.co.nz, New Zealand - 58 minutes ago The more secure, stable and multimedia-friendly Vista remains our OS of choice at the NZ PC World Test Centre. But if you're one of the mob who wants the ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

We're storing app settings for a ASP.net web service in another .config file (not web.config) and linking to it via the syntax: So that the same MSI can be easily configure to multiple environments at intall time. Now, everything's working fine, except that editing the Environment.config file doesn't seem to trigger an app restart. Does anyone know how this can be setup so that editing Environment.config also trigger an app restart on the next request? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I'm putting together a domain for a French audience that will be hosted on a .FR domain.* It's not going to have super high volume traffic and there is no data-intensive media on the site. Will going with a hosting company who has their servers in the US cause much discomfort to a French audience? I suspect the answer is some form of "it depends," but I'd appreciate some pointers on areas that I may not have already considered. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

..because it might not be there in the morning.. ..unbelievable.. :| (* to any mancunians here :P) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows XP SP3 reboot hell (and how to get out of it) ITworld.com, MA - 13 minutes ago First it was a reboot ad infinitum in February, brought on by a flawed update to Windows Vista. Now the same thing's happening to some users who have ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ eFluxMedia <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> FAQ: Windows XP SP3 reboot hell (and how to get out of it) Computerworld, MA - 1 hour ago First it was a reboot ad infinitum in February, brought on by a flawed update to Windows Vista. Now the same thing's happening to some users who have ... Windows XP SP3: Problems, Performance Gains OS News XP SP3 Glitch So Far Limited To HP CRN Continuous Reboots Plague Windows XP SP3 Users PC Magazine DailyTech - Top Tech News all 85 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> The Choice command is back in Windows Vista TechRepublic, KY - 20 minutes ago This download is also available as an entry in the TechRepublic Microsoft Windows blog. (Is this item miscategorized? Does it need more tags? Let us know.) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds