Archive for the ‘Software’ Category
Monday, June 29th, 2009
Recently I found something rather irritating with regards to Windows Server 2003 and 2008. I noticed that FTP connections didn’t work properly when the FTP client is behind a firewall that is really restrictive. Now typically this wouldn’t be an issue for most people but I like to keep my ...
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Monday, March 23rd, 2009
I’ve found great joy running a Shorewall firewall on a Linux box but I came across the problem that when the PPP interface for an ADSL, WiMAX or VPN link goes up or down, Shorewall needs to be restarted to take the new IP address assignments into account. To this ...
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Sunday, August 24th, 2008
Recently a local SA Developer .NET community member reported an issue installing SQL Server 2008 Express as it required the as yet unreleased .NET Framework 2.0 SP2. Well yes, SQL Server 2008 does rely on the .NET Framework 2.0 SP2. According to MSDN SQL Server 2008 requires .NET Framework ...
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
If you are a developer using Visual Studio 2008 and have tried to install SQL Server 2008 on top of it, you might have noticed that it doesn’t want to install. According to KB956139 Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 is a required if you intend to use certain ...
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Friday, August 8th, 2008
The other day during the Tech-Ed South Africa 2008 closing keynote it was announced that SQL Server 2008, formerly code-named Katmai, had gone gold and would release onto MSDN the same day. This is awesome news and the team has worked hard on this release. The most important ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
I happened to stumble upon the new Windows Live Writer SDK post and the example of announcing the post on Twitter and I realised I finally had a simple and effective way of publishing my blog posts to Community Credit. I’d previously looked at the Community Server plug-in ...
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
After months of beta testing, the Power Pack 1 update to Microsoft Windows Home Server has been released. This is awesome as it fixes the data corruption bug and finally introduces support for Windows Vista x64. You can download the update (build 1800) from here. I’ve personally been ...
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
The Silverlight SDK blog has an overview of what new features to expect from the Silverlight 2 beta 2 release coming this week. Highlights for me include: DataGrid improvements: Autosize, Reorder, Sort, Performance increase, and ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Some cool news coming out of Tech-Ed North America 2008 today from Bill Gates himself. Firstly Silverlight 2 beta 2 will be available this week including a commercial Go Live license and updated developer tools such as Microsoft Expression Blend 2.5 June 2008 Preview and Microsoft Silverlight Tools for Visual ...
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Saturday, May 31st, 2008
If you are like me and obsessed about security, then you might find that your PC is sitting behind a firewall with no direct outbound web access. That is other than through an proxy server of some sorts like the Linux based squid. What happens is the Window Live ...
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