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Take Outs: The Digital Doggy Bag of Blog Bits for 16 February 2004

During our monthly security patch meeting, a rather chilling topic came up: what is the recent leak of the Windows source code was intentional? I mean, think about it: what's been leaked isn't exactly the current cash cow. Personally, I have a hard time with either of this arguments. If MS was going to try a stunt like this, I'd certainly expect it much closer to a product launch where it would make "impulse upgrading" easier. Or, what if the leak was help find errors in the code basis that Microsoft itself wasn't finding? That would be admitting that "Open Source" -- in the sense of public code inspections -- really is a better model for developing secured products. While I think Microsoft being more willing to allow this kind of inspection to occur would be a good thing in total, I wouldn't want just anybody doing it either. So no, I really don't believe that "Leakgate" is anything more than somebody taking illegal and immoral advantage of an opportunity.

I've been having what, for me anyway, its a good thread running on the "Wisdom from Rod" posting. I'd really like to thank Luke and Fred for their contributions to it. I'd also like to thank Fred for asking questions about my WILY presentation and specifically about the ASMX vs. Remoting direction in Indigo. I'll make sure to post whatever new threads I find about in Take Outs. I also need to thank Julia Lerhman for pointing out that I didn't completely read her posting about the Whidbey beta dates. DOH!

The final thought for tonight is that I'm basically pretty darned pleased with .Text as a Blogging engine. With a little Zenslap from Donny Mack, I got it up and going today. One thing I'd like to see more of, of course, is documentation for the Wiki impaired. I'll publicly state that I think .Text handbook on my bookshelf would be a very welcomed addition.

Let's Roll...

Item Category RSS Comments
Create a Site Search Engine in ASP.NET .Net RSS That's one way to do it. I still prefer using the Indexing Service though. I believe the "how to highlight hits" document is out in my del.icio.us links pile.
Don't Index Your .Net Temporary Directory .Net RSS Yes, absolutely. One of the first things I do after installing the OS is clear the indexing bit on all files and folders anyway. It's easy to add back later on just the content where you need it. I hope WinFS won't present similar problems.
Happy 2nd Birthday, .NET! .Net RSS Well, correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't the 1.0 framework release over four years ago now? My how things have changed since that Wrox Conference in Las Vegas in 1999.
J# Browser Control v1.1b (Beta) .Net RSS Since I know a couple of folks are interested in J#.
Managed C++ resources I consider very useful .Net RSS I read something else today about Managed C++ being somewhat of a sputter out of the gate. I don't know if that's so much true as it just got eclipsed by C# in terms of marketing effort.
New .NET Architecture Center on MSDN .Net RSS Yet another oh... ahhh... isn't that pretty link. Real architects design hospitals, courthouses and wafer fab plants.
Projects, Solutions, Assemblies...Oh my! .Net RSS Yes, please, write this! Maybe talk about SourceVault too.
Small note on Indigo and ASMX interoperability .Net RSS That's worth noting if you're working with Indigo now.
Understanding event wire-ups in ASP.NET and Visual Studio .Net RSS Good article.
How ESM discovers domain controllers Admin RSS Ok, that's helpful to know, but I really want to know what they chose not use DSAccess. Why not just make a DNS call?
During a recent airplane voyage a fellow passenger asked me... Blogging RSS Alton's classic Mac&Cheese looks great. "For whom the cheese melts" runs again on the 21st.
Grab Bag Blogging RSS Follow the teach yourself programming in years link and you'll understand why my boss probably thinks the way he does sometimes.
Different Ways of Using Web Queries in Microsoft Office Excel 2003 Dev RSS Anybody not a non-VSTO demo of consuming a Web Service with Excel?
Don likes his tablet apparently Dev RSS It's okay for Don to like his Tablet, but I'll save my amorous for Lonestar, thank you.
Introduction to XEN Dev RSS Does anybody have the rest of this post? Or know where Mr. Tigner's blog is?
Kathleen Dollard's Code Generation book gets rave review from Mr. Code Generation, himself Dev RSS I've gone back and forth on getting this. Maybe in 2Q-04.
The arms race between programs and users Dev RSS It is an interesting thought.
The database is your BLL Dev RSS I like this train of thinking. A lot. "A bucket of shit at 1000 mph is still a bucket of shit."
Useful Color tools Dev RSS Oh, yikes... I think I'll stick to silver and black then.
Perl Tutorials Perl RSS Here's a clue for you... there really is more than one way to do it.
Companies: Stop idendity raping your customers Rant RSS Agreed!
De Treasuring Rant RSS Thankfully none of my books were on the list.
How Wireless broke my HVAC Rant RSS This is precisely why I let Janell and Janell only play with the powertools in our little family.
If all else fails...read the instructions Rant RSS Its easier to be senseless than sensible, I guess. We have only ourselves to blame, though.
Physics Prof. Doesn't Even Pretend to Be Normal Rant RSS There's a shocker! Geesh!
Leaked Windows code shows similarity to UNIX Security RSS Uh... I hope that's a joke. Right.
4 Developers and a DBA or "Just a couple of tables" SQL RSS Oh, I can't wait to bust this one out... "Take your pick gentlemen, expensive truth or cheap lies?"
A Vote: 10 Things Developers Currently Do w/ SQL That They Shouldn't SQL RSS It's a very good list.
FIX: Delayed Domain Authentication May Cause SQL Server to Stop Responding SQL RSS There always has to be at least one troublemaker, doesn't there.
New release for Open Office for Windows Tools RSS "...It works really good (totally compatible with Microsoft Office)..." Hum, that's an interesting standard to aspire to. (grin)
SpamBayes 1.0a9 Tools RSS Just do it. Now.
Does writing make you more literate? Writing RSS Ryan Lowe's comment killed me. "(apparently it does not improve proofreading skills)"
Starting Work on a New Book Writing RSS Hopefully it's an ISA 2004 book.
A Microsoft certificate at eight WTF? RSS Ha! Let's see the Linux people top that! Oh wait...
Indigo and Performance WILY RSS Fred: this links for you.
Indigo for XP... Cool... WILY RSS Yep, a very good thing indeed.
Yukon UDT - Case Sensitive WILY RSS Yeah, that's really going to annoy the VB.NET programmers. I'm hoping this will be "fixed" by RTM.
Ask the expert; REST benefits XML RSS And also universal abuse, no?
ForwardXPathNavigator vs XSE XML RSS Good read.
XmlDocument/XmlElement and the xml:space="preserve" Attribute XML RSS Interesting responses here.
XPath-Based Filtering With Pull-Based XML Parsing XML RSS Okay, so thanks to Kirk, this is starting to make sense to me.
XSL/T and IntelliSense in VS.NET XML RSS Oh, good pointers, thanks!

As always: your feedback is welcome below. Thanks, and Enjoy Every Sandwich.

posted on Monday, February 16, 2004 5:58 PM by ktegels




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