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Wow! Lots of comments/emails from that last post. Seems others have been trolled on Live too. So there's a positive too: there are a host of decent, very nice people playing Halo 2 on Live. People who have the courtesy to say "good game" even after they Read More...

DUDE! What is up with the troglodyte faction playing Halo 2 some nights? Recently me and three of my friends were verbally assaulted by two separate groups. One group kept referring to us as "n******" (rude slang for African-American). I was flattered, Read More...

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So I'm looking at the feedback on my and J's MSDN mag article: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/11/CryptoUtility/default.aspx I noticed that there are many "9" ratings, and many "1" ratings. Love or hate, I guess. There are only a few text Read More...

Backgrounder: please see http://blogs.msdn.com/methylamine/archive/2004/11/15/257864.aspx for my original adventures with ISA Server and XBox Live/Halo 2. Latest news: I have given up. Though it was working, the number of open ports required huge resources Read More...

OK, I'm NOT a networking expert...after all I'm a developer, so I can spell TCP/IP and have some vague notion that it helps my applications do stuff like talk to other computers. But necessity is the mother of invention; and what greater necessity than Read More...