I had a couple of cups of coffee with dinner last night, and ended up perched in front of my PC, unable to sleep, and unable to solve a problem involving XMLHTTP and (as it turns out) cookies. As a long-time Bigpond Cable user at home, I was interested...

All I can say about Rob is that he's in the PSS Security team got a lot of security-related troubleshooting experience got some crazy theories about passwords an engaging and sincere speaker I had the privilege of meeting Rob on his...

I'm often faced with the somewhat daunting task of wading through a 500MB log file to try to identify a problem with one user of a proxy server. I find the simplest way to even the odds a bit - using out-of-the-box tools - is to use the humble FIND...

So - does the Namespace operator (and IPV6 address separator) have a specific phonetic pronunciation? Something onomatopeic? “Colon colon” suffers from having too many syllables. If there's no generally accepted practice, I submit that...

http://www.microsoft.com/communities/blogs/PortalHome.mspx Coolest feature: the ability to fashion a keyword/category query into an RSS feed across all Microsoft blogs. If you're only interested in certain things (and personalities be damned!),...

Yep, Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2004 information is now becoming available on Microsoft.com . ISA 2004 incorporates much of the feedback that the ISA community had about ISA 2000, and - so far for me at least - is just as reliable...

[Updated 23/07/04 with public Lookout download] A couple of people internally and externally asked about a couple of aspects of the array of software I use to do my job, so I thought I'd expand on it. As a Support Professional, my key tasks involve...

Finally, one of the banes of my existence is going away. No, "Favorites" aren't disappearing from Internet Explorer (er, not that I know of, anyway), but I just noticed that my browsing experience had been greatly streamlined. By using Favourites...

I've officially declared Friday to be Browser Fiddling day. Overnight, I tried out Slim Browser and Maxthon (MyIE2) - thanks to Brad C's comments, they both: allow middle-click-open-in-new-window-in-background have tabs that can be closed...

The details are in the bulletin MS04-025 . If you're an IT Pro and not already signed up for the Security Bulletin Notification Email service, or the RSS Feed if you'd prefer to use an aggregator.

I downloaded Visual C# 2005 Express (beta) and installed it yesterday, but didn't have much time to fiddle, until today. I've spent about 20 minutes with it so far. Before I get to the good, the ordinary: The “has it hung? What's wrong”...