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How A Criminal Might Infiltrate Your Network

Posted Thursday, October 28, 2004 11:10 AM by Brianjo
Jesper Johanson's Technet Magazine article, How A Criminal Might Infiltrate Your Network , made the Microsoft.com Home Page today. Here's a link to the article. Very good stuff: How A Criminal Might Infiltrate Your Network One of the great mysteries in Read More...
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Watching the Eclipse Tonight

Posted Wednesday, October 27, 2004 8:06 by Brianjo
We took the kids out tonight to look at the eclipse through the telescope. It looked great there, not so good through my camera. Here's a picture of the kids watching and a picture I took of the eclipse itself. It was also fun watching the eclipse pictures Read More...
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Hands-on Lab Drives JNetDirect to 64 Bits

Posted Tuesday, October 26, 2004 8:56 AM by Brianjo
Interesting case study about how a company was able to port their application to 64-bits fairly quickly through the Microsoft Hands-on Lab here at campus. Hands-on Lab Drives JNetDirect to 64 Bits JNetDirect is an expert software component company that Read More...
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High Performance Computing for Windows Server 2003

Posted Friday, October 22, 2004 8:59 AM by Brianjo
This is one of those notes to myself for a newly discovered page. High Performance Computing for Windows Server 2003 Some of the toughest computing challenges in the world are tackled and often solved by using high performance computing (HPC) clusters. Read More...
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Mobile Application Developer Toolkit

Posted Thursday, October 21, 2004 7:29 by Brianjo
I'm working on a little Pocket PC project and I found a cool page called the Mobile Application Development Toolkit. This has all sort of links to samples, labs, and tools. Very nice resource. Mobile Application Development Toolkit The Mobile Application Read More...
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Privacy

Posted Wednesday, October 20, 2004 8:42 by Brianjo
With news of recent hacks, the subject of privacy is one that everyone should take some added interest in. JC Cannon has written what promises to be the reference work on the subject for developers and IT pros. Check it out here: Privacy: What Developers Read More...
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The Security Risk Management Guide

Posted Wednesday, October 20, 2004 9:57 AM by Brianjo
Microsoft released a new set of security guidance today called The Security Risk Management Guide. This guide contains a lot of good information around security risk. You can find the guide online here: The Security Risk Management Guide Customers can Read More...
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Developer Division Leadership Blogs

Posted Monday, October 18, 2004 2:48 by Brianjo
Today, Kent posted a new page to the Visual Studio Developer Center that links to the blogs maintained by the leaders of Microsoft's Developer Division. This page is a great way to find out what some of the top people at Microsoft have to say about the Read More...
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NewsGator Online is Free

Posted Monday, October 18, 2004 8:42 AM by Brianjo
Newsgator is now offering a free version of their online service. I've been a subscriber for quite a while now and I'm just as happy as can be with this service. Check it out: NewsGator Online Edition FREE to Consumers DENVER, CO — October 18, 2004 Read More...
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Welcome Visual C++ MVPs!

Posted Friday, October 15, 2004 11:20 AM by Brianjo
Well, it's not like they weren't always here, but now we've got a place of honor for them on the Visual C++ Developer Center Home Page . Be sure to check out the full list of Visual C++ MVPs here . John Boylan has taken over as site manger for this developer Read More...
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Security in Microsoft Products Chat

Posted Wednesday, October 13, 2004 10:33 AM by Brianjo
Update: Chat is over, thanks everyone for coming. That was fun. Next chat is November 18th. Update: This chat is happeing now. Click here to enter. (I'll pull this post off the security feed when the chat is finished.) There's a chat tomorrow (Thursday) Read More...
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Microsoft Security Bulletin MS04-028 Updated

Posted Tuesday, October 12, 2004 1:56 by Brianjo
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS04-028 was updated today. We also published a new piece titled GDI+ 1.0 Security Update Overview . To help track the new and upcoming content around this issue, we created a new page on the Security Developer Center . This Read More...
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Wow: 'New' giant ape found in DR Congo

Posted Saturday, October 09, 2004 9:51 by Brianjo
From the BBC: 'New' giant ape found in DR Congo Scientists believe they have discovered a new group of giant apes in the jungles of central Africa. Can't wait to see some pictures. I don't think the picture on the page is one of the new animal. Read More...
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October 2004 DirectX 9.0 SDK Available

Posted Friday, October 08, 2004 8:20 AM by Brianjo
The DirectX 9.0 SDK Update (October 2004) is now available for download. DirectX 9.0 SDK Update - (October 2004) Download the complete DirectX 9.0 SDK - (October 2004), which contains the DirectX 9.0c Runtime and all DirectX software required to create Read More...
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Schneier on Security

Posted Thursday, October 07, 2004 7:45 by Brianjo
I just found a post on Larry Osterman's blog that mentions that Bruce Schneier has a new weblog. I'll have to agree with Larry, these posts are a goldmine of security information. Schneier on Security A weblog covering security and security technology. Read More...
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ASP.NET Incident Page Updated

Posted Thursday, October 07, 2004 7:28 by Brianjo
The incident page detailing the reported ASP.NET vulnerability has been updated to include information about a new mitigation option for this issue. Check it out here: What You Should Know About a Reported Vulnerability in Microsoft ASP.NET This page Read More...
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SPOT Development

Posted Thursday, October 07, 2004 4:00 by Brianjo
Sorry, this is short notice, but I just found this on the Mobility Developer Center : Calling all Developers! The Microsoft Smart Personal Objects Technology (SPOT) group is looking for talented developers to create 'Channel' applications for the Smart Read More...
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ASP.NET Security Issue Posted

Posted Tuesday, October 05, 2004 9:43 by Brianjo
Tonight we posted some information and guidance around a reported security vulnerability in ASP.NET. The heart of the problem is a canonicalization issue in dealing with certain URLs. Check out the page here , and be sure to take a look at KB article Read More...
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Way cool concept...

Posted Tuesday, October 05, 2004 9:04 by Brianjo
Check this out. It's called Yourself Fitness. It's an exercise game with a personal trainer. This is something I might actually use. :) Yourself!Fitness brings the expertise of a personal trainer to your home with the first health and fitness game for Read More...
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Antivirus Defense in Depth Guide Updated for XPSP2

Posted Sunday, October 03, 2004 1:31 AM by Brianjo
On Friday, Microsoft posted version 2.0 of the Antivirus Defense in Depth Guide. You can find out more and download it from here: The Antivirus Defense-in-Depth Guide The information presented in the Antivirus Defense-in-Depth guide has been updated to Read More...
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MSN Direct Site Updated

Posted Friday, October 01, 2004 8:44 by Brianjo
I see that the MSN Direct site was updated. It's a good looking redesign and there's some new information for developers: Check out the developer info here: Calling all Developers Our request for proposal (RFP) is soliciting bids for the design, development, Read More...
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