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Securing Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
22 Nov 2005, 04:56:00 PM
Came across this pretty comprehensive white paper explaining how to secure mac OS X. It's a common misconception that macs are secure out of the box... they have vulnerabilities and are publicized more secure than Windows mostly because the majori ...
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How To Write Unmaintainable Code
21 Nov 2005, 04:58:00 PM
I came across an article on slashdot today referring to a really funny (or sad...) compilation of what to do to scare yourself of your own code... Some of my favorites...   When To Use Exceptions Use exceptions for non-exceptional condition ...
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Managing Windows 2003 Without Remote Desktop
14 Nov 2005, 04:59:00 PM
It's a classic scenario when developing web apps. Your app is on IIS 6, running on SQL server on a 2003 machine, maybe under its own domain, DNS, etc. Usually all of these are on different machines. So instead of having multiple remote desktop s ...
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ActiveX controls not loading as expected in Internet Explorer due to Security Update
10 Nov 2005, 04:59:00 PM
After installing BizTalk 2006 Beta 1, a few things stopped working on our XP boxes; script errors on various screens such as the GAC list of assemblies, and IE activex control was disabled... initially I thought it was due to the MMC betas we were ...
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