Date: 02/23/05 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux, microsoft

WGA stands for the Windows Genuine Advantage program. It's pitched as an anti-piracy initiative. Only paid-up customers get updates.It's also a highly sophisticated swipe at Linux.Jeremy White of CodeWeavers, which sells Wine-based products, told ZDNet it's nothing to worry about, that Microsoft would face legal action if it tied Office ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=163

Date: 02/23/05 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux, microsoft

John Dvorak hosted a roast for the launch of Microsoft Windows 1.0, nearly two decades ago, and has always had a soft spot in his heart for Big Green.This month, he tells Bill Gates "how to kill Linux." Lop off its head, he says. Ship Linux under Windows, separated from ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=162

Date: 02/23/05 (Application Development)    Keywords: microsoft

Q&A CEO Bruce Chizen faces Microsoft on one flank and open-source on the other one. But is he worried? Not a bit.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Adobe+versus+the+world/2100-9593_22-5587262.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 02/24/05 (Web Technology)    Keywords: microsoft

Customers report loss of new and saved messages, while Microsoft remains mum on the scope of the problem.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Hotmail+outage+peeves+some+e-mail+users/2100-9588_22-5587906.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 02/24/05 (Security)    Keywords: microsoft

Microsoft uses Windows Update to fix a problem that caused PCs to show the "blue screen of death."

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Patch+for+masses+swats+Windows+bug/2100-1009_22-5589248.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 02/24/05 (Security)    Keywords: software, web, spyware, microsoft

A Dutch Web site has accepted an apology from Microsoft after it was blacklisted by the software giant's anti-spyware tool.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Microsoft+says+sorry+for+AntiSpyware+error/2100-1009_22-5589000.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 02/25/05 (Web Technology)    Keywords: microsoft, google

Commentary--Google, once the bastion of all good will, is now being likened to Microsoft--as the brouhaha over a new search feature rages.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Deceptive+clicks%3F/2100-9588_22-5590568.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 02/26/05 (Open Source)    Keywords: microsoft

Well, at least the folks at Microsoft are admitting that their "Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA)" is designed to deny Wine users updates through Windows Update. (I love the Orwellian names that Microsoft comes up with. If there were truth in advertising, WGA would be named "Microsoft License Enforcement" or ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=167

Date: 02/28/05 (Application Development)    Keywords: microsoft

Commentary--Microsoft deciding to release ANY source code is good for developers and a product millions rely on for their business.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Why+Microsoft+should+reveal+SQL+Server+code/2100-9593_22-5593062.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 03/01/05 (Application Development)    Keywords: microsoft

Commentary--Microsoft deciding to release ANY source code is good for developers and a product millions rely on for their business.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Why+Microsoft+should+reveal+source+code/2100-9593_22-5593062.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 02/15/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: microsoft

I am amazed! Read the article for some reality check on Microsoft. If it can threaten governments where does little companies stand! GROKLAW If you have ever wondered what Bill Gates says when he flies to Europe to meet with heads of state, we now have clarity, as business dudes might put it. Here's an article in [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/mircosoft-co-founder-mr-gates-threatens-danish-government/

Date: 01/24/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: microsoft

Did you know that you can use Robot to control even native windows. Apparently the code finds the top window generated by the application. And so it can be a native application like Microsoft Word document which you have opened using System.exec. And if you open two such applications the events will go to the [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/controlling-native-applications-using-java/

Date: 02/10/05 (Asp Dot Net)    Keywords: microsoft

Hi,

I'm not a developer, so this question may sound stupid. Bare with me, I need the info for a project.

Question: If .Net is Microsoft's answer to J2EE, then what is .Net's version of an EJB (session bean)?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/aspdotnet/27606.html

Date: 02/07/05 (Asp Dot Net)    Keywords: database, sql, microsoft

My connection string keeps giving me the exception:
"SQL Server does not exist or access denied".

Here it is: "server=server;database=master;uid=sa;pwd=xxxx"
I am connecting to another server on the network. I know my uid and pwd are correct, and that sql server is installed and running on that server. My project is in VB.net, not sure if that makes a difference.

I saw this link: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/328306, but I don't think it should be this difficult. I know I've got it to work before without having to configure DSNs or something like that.
Any suggestions?

thanks.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/aspdotnet/26777.html

Date: 01/19/05 (Asp Dot Net)    Keywords: programming, web, spam, microsoft

I know this is spamming the group, but I really wanted to get the word out (as late as it is) about our great presentation tomorrow. Please accept my apologies.

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Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2004
Time: 6:15 - 9:00 PM

Asynchronous Programming

by: CARL FRANKLIN

Door prizes available!!

Location: Three City Place, aka The Microsoft Building. From 270, exit Olive, go east. Turn left onto City Place.

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We are moving. We will be meeting in the main meeting room on the 11th floor of Three CityPlace.

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Did you know that you can take advantage of multithreading in the Microsoft .NET Framework without having to explicitly create new Thread objects? You can call web services, print, and do other yawn-inducing tasks asynchronously using the Asynchronous Programming Model in the Framework. There are issues with synchronization, however, especially when calling async methods from a Windows Form. In this talk Carl will walk you through the issues and give you some really useful code that you can implement to make your components thread-safe for Windows Forms applications.

Some of you might know the name of Carl Franklin from his .Net Rocks internet radio show. You also might be familiar with his training services. No matter how you know the name, now's your chance to meet the man.

Visit www.stlvbug.org for more information.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/aspdotnet/24118.html

Date: 01/03/05 (Asp Dot Net)    Keywords: asp, web, microsoft

I've got a curious error with ASP.NET 2.0 but before I go reporting it to Microsoft, I thought I'd toss it around here:

I've been playing around with the new GridView control and so far it's been quite nice with the new gimmicks -- cuts about 90% of my code straight out. However... Inserting isn't implemented yet. It is, however, implemented in the DetailsView control.

So I decided to tackle the problem this way:

MyForm
|
-------> MyMultiView
|
-------------> View1 => MyGridView, MyInsertButton
|
-------------> View2 => MyDetailsView

I have a form with a multiview. The multiview has two views, one with a Gridview and a button entitled 'Insert', the other with a DetailsView. For viewing/editing/deleting, I use the GridView. For insertion, I switch views to the DetailsView and change mode to insert. So far so good.

Next, when the DetailsView changes modes (back to readonly), I have it switch back to the original view. Here's where the error occurs: any other action throws the following exception...

Description:
An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web
request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and
where it originated in the code.

Exception Details:
System.Web.HttpException: Failed to load viewstate. The control tree into
which viewstate is being loaded must match the control tree that was used to
save viewstate during the previous request. For example, when adding controls
dynamically, the controls added during a post-back must match the type and
position of the controls added during the initial request.

Source
Error:

An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.

Stack Trace:

[HttpException (0x80004005): Failed to load viewstate. The control tree into which viewstate is being loaded must match the control tree that was used to save viewstate during the previous request. For example, when adding controls dynamically, the controls added during a post-back must match the type and position of the controls added during the initial request.] System.Web.UI.Control.LoadViewStateRecursive(Object savedState) +589 System.Web.UI.Control.LoadViewStateRecursive(Object savedState) +404 System.Web.UI.Control.LoadViewStateRecursive(Object savedState) +404 System.Web.UI.Control.LoadViewStateRecursive(Object savedState) +404 System.Web.UI.Control.LoadViewStateRecursive(Object savedState) +404 System.Web.UI.Control.LoadViewStateRecursive(Object savedState) +404 System.Web.UI.Control.LoadViewStateRecursive(Object savedState) +404 System.Web.UI.Control.LoadViewStateRecursive(Object savedState) +404 System.Web.UI.Control.LoadViewStateRecursive(Object savedState) +404 System.Web.UI.Page.LoadAllState() +608 System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +1826

So -- where is the problem coming from? Am I getting the events screwed up? Is there something I'm forgetting? Or is there really something amiss..?

Just in case, here's the code:

Sub AddActivity_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
AdminMultiView.ActiveViewIndex = 4
DetailsView1.ChangeMode(DetailsViewMode.Insert)
End Sub

Sub DetailsView1_ModeChanged(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
If Not DetailsView1.CurrentMode = DetailsViewMode.Insert Then
AdminMultiView.ActiveViewIndex = 0
End If
End Sub

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/aspdotnet/22855.html

Date: 02/21/05 (Mozilla)    Keywords: microsoft

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Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/253073.html

Date: 02/07/05 (IT Professionals)    Keywords: microsoft

Hi, new to this forum, I hope some people here can help me, or provide some ideas.

I was just wondering how other companies deal with remote/traveling user's VPN access back into their company?

We have established a Cisco router with L2TP support, (with Mainly MS winXP clients). This works fine for the most part, but it seems users are having trouble getting connected when they travel.


The reasons we have trouble, if you care.
The main problem(s) seem to be that:
a) The ISP (usually a hotel or airport, cafe, etc) is blocking VPN traffic for L2TP tunnels.
b) The ISP (or whatever) has incorectally configured DNS servers which respond authoritatively for domains that don't exist on the internet (for example returning 10.11.12.13 for ANY DNS lookup that doesn't exist in the 'real' internet--like DomainControler1.inside.mycompany.com Thereby, the 'isp' dns server responds like it 'knows' ALL of our companies internal addresses, but simply returns a bogus address. The clients then never fall back to using the internal DNS servers, and thus fail to ever connect to anything internally.

To Solve a) we plan on adding support back into our strategy a fall-back to PPTP-style VPNs. This isn't prefered because they're less secure, and rely only on username/password for connection (and our users have HORRIBLE passwords), the L2TP one uses both Certificates AND user/pass making it much more secure--not to mention it's using 3DES/SHA1, rather than Microsofts proprietary encryption scheme (which I'm sure is not that good!) However, since it seems SO MANY hotels, cafes, airports, and other access-points block all traffic except http/https/PPTP/FTP we're pretty much stuck using the old crap.

To bypass problem b) above, I understand that the only good workarounds to this problem is to:
1) Change the 'binding order' of the VPN connection and the NIC--except a known, and never resolved bug in ALL versions of windows (2K SP0 right through XP SP2) prevents the changes to binding order of VPN connections to EVER actually change. Making this 'fix' completely useless.
2) Turn off split-tunneling on the clients. We didn't want to go this route because it would mean forwarding all internet traffic through our already busy T1 internet connections (twice), and the added encryption/decryption load! Also hindering this option is I frankly don't know yet how to set this up on a Cisco router--and I've had people on Cisco's forums tell me it can't be done--although I've read elsewhere it can.

THE REAL QUESTION if you're too busy to read the background info:
What do other companies do here? Do we just tell the users (the managers, salesmen, etc) that they "can't use it where it doesn't work"--management and the users HATE this option; and in my opinion as an IT Professional it's a cheap way out. What else can we do? We obviously can't 'fix' all the crappy ISP's broken DNS servers; or force cafes and things to learn about new style VPNs and open their firewalls out. What are we to do? What kind of things can I tell management? Are there other options I'm unaware of?

I'd appreciate any and all comments, discussions, and opinions!

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/itprofessionals/4762.html

Date: 02/26/05 (WebDesign)    Keywords: html, web, microsoft

hi guys!

before you all start shouting out: margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; let me surprise you. I'm not after the obvious solution. i'm after the microsoft solution. (pls, don't kill me)

i'm trying to get my website to validate through xhtml1.1 and i have it all nice and neat on firefox. but on IE the div won't center (unless i use the deprecated tag

).

since i believe all users should be able to see a correct (even if lacking some effects) view of the website, i have to try to center this damned div. :P

but i also want it to validate.

So if anyone could help me out, i'd be thankful.

edit
solved. thanks to geisha_doll

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/816361.html

Date: 01/25/05 (SQL Server)    Keywords: microsoft

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=888799

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/sqlserver/16216.html