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Nov 27, 2004 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Three of the main codenames for Team System: Hatteras (version control), Currituck (work item tracking), and Ocracoke (web testing), are actually lighthouses off the coast North Carolina. …

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VS 2005 Team System presentations from VS Connections available

Nov 17, 2004 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Microsoft has posted the five presentations they gave last week at Visual Studio Connections last week in Vegas. Download the decks here.

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Intel Processors Combat Buffer Overflow attacks ... at the CPU level

Nov 13, 2004 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Certain Intel processors implement the Execute Disable Bit functionality, thus preventing certain classes of malicious “buffer overflow“ attacks -- when combined with a supported operating …

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Another good quote ...

Nov 13, 2004 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

”One throat to choke” - Albert Ho, California Meaning a consultant or company who takes on all tasks of a project!

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Microsoft codenames

Nov 2, 2004 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Recently, I've been seeing my students' eyes glazing over as I mention: Whidbey, Yukon, Orcas, Longhorn, and Blackcomb in one breath of air. Here's a good Web site that consolidates all of these …

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Check your HTTP traffic with Fiddler

Oct 31, 2004 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Fiddler is a HTTP Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP traffic between your computer and the Internet. Fiddler allows you to inspect all HTTP Traffic, set breakpoints, and "fiddle" with incoming or …

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Sharepoint Web Part for hosting ASP.NET user controls

Oct 31, 2004 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I've been doing more and more Sharepoint these days, and I'm on a quest to find all the cool parts that I can find. One thing struct me right away was that you had to use Sharepoints framework, and …

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Largest WiFi hotspot in the world -- Hermiston, Oregon

Oct 27, 2004 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Read this in Mobile PC magazine, then did my own research. Turns out that Hermiston County, Oregon, recently installed 75 towers to transmit signals over a 600-square-mile area. This is even more …

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Big news while I was in Florida

Oct 26, 2004 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Ok, a rare non-technical blog entry here, but this was just hilarious. As I was leaving Tampa this morning, this was on the news programs. I guess they are lacking for a big story down there. Naked …

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