Shorewall restart on PPP link change

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 ...

How to get Windows Live Installer to work behind a firewall and proxy

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 ...

How to switch Silverlight UserControls

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

One of the guys on the official Silverlight community forums posted an interesting question, namely how does one change the currently visible UserControl in a Silverlight 2.0 application. To put things in context the new Silverlight 2.0 project template creates two classes for you: a System.Windows.Application derived class named App ...

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