Date: 04/28/05 (Application Development)    Keywords: microsoft

Q&A At his new company, ex-Microsoft bigwig Nathan Myhrvold gathers well-known inventors for "invention sessions." Will the idea pan out?

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Building+a+new-idea+factory/2100-9593_22-5688722.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 04/23/05 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux, microsoft

Microsoft's Jim Allchin is out plugging "Longhorn," even though the OS isn't expected to be released for more than another year. Apparently, not content to copy features from the Mac OS and Linux, the new MS mantra ("It just works") is also borrowed from Apple's ad campaigns. In the Fortune piece, [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=249&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 05/03/05 (Open Source)    Keywords: microsoft

Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith says the company wants a sit-down with the open source community. That kind of talk brings out the Blofeld in me. (That's Donald Pleasence as the Bond villain from Jamesbond.com.) Maybe it's because the statement seems like an admission of weakness and unease coming from Redmond and a business culture [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=263&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 05/09/05 (HTML Help)    Keywords: css, html, microsoft

I'm trying to customize my journal a bit, and am having a bit of a strange problem with IE. It seems to randomly choose which tables it wants to display properly with my current style. Firefox always displays them correctly. My journal elf_inside has a dark background with a screened table background using advanced S2 editing.

I'm asking here because it doesn't seem to be an S2 problem, rather it is an HTML issue. I'm not sure why IE would apparently randomly treat tables differently on the same page!

The css options I have set are:

table, tr, td, .shadowed
{
background-color: transparent;
background-image: url("http://host/image.gif");
background-repeat: repeat;
background-attachment: fixed;
}


I also tried
filter:alpha(opacity=80);filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(opacity=80); -moz-opacity:0.8;
but this had 2 bad side effects: The text and images went transparent too (not desired), as well as it slowed firefox down hugely.

In firefox, the transparent gif seems to work perfectly as a table background. In IE, it works *sometimes*.. but not *all the time*... Anybody know how to get this to display correctly in IE?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/htmlhelp/1961276.html

Date: 05/10/05 (Web Development)    Keywords: asp, sql, microsoft

I'm looking for a good host that offers ALL of the following

Coldfusion
ASP.NET
Microsoft SQL Server

Does anyone have any good recommendations? Thanks :)

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdev/196877.html

Date: 05/11/05 (Web Development)    Keywords: php, mysql, asp, sql, security, linux, microsoft, apache

I have to do a report my class Technical Writing. I have chosen to do a report on the LAMP Architecture vs. Microsoft Line of products. LAMP being Linux, Apache Server, MySQL, and PHP. Microsoft being Microsoft Windows, IIS Server, MS SQL Server, and ASP.NEt. What do you guys think is best? Are there any security flaws in one or the other? Which is more efficient altogether?
If you could help me with this, I would be very appreciative.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdev/197774.html

Date: 05/10/05 (Security)    Keywords: security, microsoft

Microsoft patches "important" security hole in the OS and publishes two early alerts in its new advisory program.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Fix+in+for+Windows+flaw/2100-1009_22-5701804.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 05/11/05 (Web Technology)    Keywords: browser, microsoft

Open-source browser is up one more point and Microsoft IE down in renewed race for market share, but is Firefox losing traction?

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Firefox+growth+slows+again/2100-9588_22-5702247.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 05/12/05 (Open Source)    Keywords: security, linux, microsoft

Security may be one of the biggest challenges facing the open source enterprise.When I say enterprise, of course, I mean enterprise -- hundreds of servers, thousands of desktops, and truly heterogenous environments.Because of Microsoft's desktop dominance it has made important early moves. (And let's not get into how much more secure Linux is than Windows. Patches [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=269&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 05/13/05 (Application Development)    Keywords: software, microsoft

The official UK study, which said schools could save significant money by using open source software, was released--and Microsoft lost no time attacking it.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Microsoft+slams+UK+open-source+study/2100-9593_22-5706457.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 05/16/05 (Open Source)    Keywords: microsoft

CNET reported last week that Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer met for lunch in New York. That's something like Michael Moore and Rush Limbaugh chowing down together -- you just wouldn't expect it to happen. I wonder if the waiters were asked to sign NDAs? It doesn't look like [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=274&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 05/16/05 (Open Source)    Keywords: microsoft

When a politician wants to send a signal to a rival they can do it by "privately" meeting with an opponent in a way they're certain will become public. Thus Microsoft's flirtation with Red Hat is really aimed at sending a message to IBM. The message: you can't have it both ways.Open source gives IBM [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=276&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 05/17/05 (Web Technology)    Keywords: microsoft

Microsoft confirms next version of IE will include tabbed browsing, a feature made popular by Opera and Firefox users.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/IE+7+to+take+a+cue+from+Firefox/2100-9588_22-5710357.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 05/19/05 (Open Source)    Keywords: security, linux, microsoft

In his latest entry, Dana asks whether the Linux process is insecure, because it's not possible to warn the "vendor" before warning the general public about security flaws in Linux. He also notes that "Microsoft has theoretical control of this situation." There are several problems with this line of reasoning. I'm not [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=281&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 05/19/05 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux, microsoft

Contrary to the assumptions of many of us, a lot of people are going to find Microsoft's Eiger offer compelling. Eiger will be a version of Windows XP for "obsolete machines" -- obsolete in that they run operating systems Microsoft no longer supports.Yes, such machines can run Ubuntu Linux, which is free. There are a [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=283&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 05/19/05 (Data Management)    Keywords: software, microsoft

Gates opens Microsoft's CEO Summit with takes on information overload, data management and search software.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Gates%3A+%27Information+overload%27+is+overblown/2100-9592_22-5713665.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 05/20/05 (Web Technology)    Keywords: yahoo, microsoft

New feature lets people customize info--and is aimed squarely at rivals Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Google+introduces+personalized+home+pages/2100-9588_22-5714284.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 05/19/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: microsoft

My friend is making a large document in Microsoft Excel 20 or so columns. He found that he was forced to go back everytime to the top of the document to figure out what the column represents. In other words he wanted a way to freeze the header row so it is visible everytime. He [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-create-frozen-header-rows-in-microsoft-excel/

Date: 05/20/05 (C Sharp)    Keywords: database, asp, security, web, microsoft

Hello All!
I need to have access to certificate services database from the c# web application. Approach described in msdn lib(http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/seccrypto/security/viewing_the_certificate_services_database.asp) does not seem to work. Or maybe i can't understand what the realy mean...
certadm.dll doesn't provide class implementation for IEnumCERTVIEWROW, IEnumCERTVIEWATTRIBUTE and IEnumCERTVIEWEXTENTION. Interface is an abstract entity as far as i know. (Unfortunately i don't know much...) So, how can one (as "ICertView::OpenView creates a IEnumCERTVIEWROW object") create an instance of an interface object with no corresponding class?
One version of my code looks something like this:

CERTADMINLib.IEnumCERTVIEWROW cvr;
CERTADMINLib.IEnumCERTVIEWATTRIBUTE cva;
CERTADMINLib.CCertViewClass CertView = new CERTADMINLib.CCertViewClass();
CertView.OpenConnection("pcitis31.cert.cern\\CERTSubCA");
CertView.SetTable(0);
CertView.SetResultColumnCount(-2);
cvr = CertView.OpenView();
cva = cvr.EnumCertViewAttribute(0); //-here i get COMException with 0x8000ffff code (Catastrophic failure)

Am i missing something, or am i absolutely on the wrong way?

Examples shown in msdn are quite similar(but in vb):

ex.1
' Declare the IEnumCERTVIEWROW object variable.
Dim objRow As IEnumCERTVIEWROW

' Instantiate the row object.
Set objRow = objView.OpenView

' Use the object as needed.
' When done processing, free the object.
Set objRow = Nothing

ex.2
' Initialize an IEnumCERTVIEWCOLUMN object.
Dim objCol As IEnumCERTVIEWCOLUMN
Set objCol = objRow.EnumCertViewColumn()
' Use objCol as needed.
' ...
' Free objCol when done.
Set objCol = Nothing

Any help, ideas are very much appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/csharp/29256.html

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

Everyone knows that Microsoft has a new anti-Linux strategy. Everyone knows it's based on promises of security. What everyone doesn't know is how well it's working. And it's working better than open source advocates want to admit. Munir Kotadia of ZDNet Australia recently used interviews to diss Microsoft's latest effort in this area, a Wipro-produced survey [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=289&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog