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February 2005 - Posts

What’s *your* browser’s default background color?

Chances are, it’s white. After all, that’s the standard default setting for every browser that I can recall having used. Why does it matter? Should it matter? Well, I’d guess that 99.9% of the time, it doesn’t matter. Because of that remaining one-tenth, Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 20, 2005 10:07 PM by xsherry | 2 Comments

Community Server 1.0 is out!

Rob Howard has announced the release of Community Server v1.0 . It's a very cool app for blogs , forums , photo galleries and more. If you haven't seen it yet, check it out. The really cool thing, is that it's going to be an open source app. Rob's said Read More...
Posted Friday, February 18, 2005 11:42 PM by xsherry | 0 Comments

SHA-1 has been broken.

Or at least that's what they're saying. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/02/sha1_broken.html Thank goodness that the .Net framework has CryptoServiceProviders for SHA-256 and SHA-512 as well as SHA-1. Personally, I don't have any applications Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 17, 2005 3:41 PM by xsherry | 0 Comments

Virtual PC 2004

I’ve recently re-paved my desktop, and one of the things that I’ve wanted to do was to install a virtual machine system. Before being re-built that machine had all sorts of issues, not the least of which was instability caused by my incessant penchant Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 15, 2005 9:52 PM by xsherry | 2 Comments

I believe I have seen it all.

A browser security vulnerabilty has come to light, one that affect nearly every current browser, *EXCEPT* for Internet Explorer. Firefox spoofing flaw goes international What is the world coming to? Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! Read More...
Posted Monday, February 07, 2005 8:29 PM by xsherry | 0 Comments

Community Server and Bug Tracking Ideas…

Rob Howard , of Telligent Systems gave a presentation last Thursday night at the Plano .Net User Group on their new project, Community Server . Community Server is the coming together of three of the premier .Net application available today…The ASP.Net Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 06, 2005 10:57 PM by xsherry | 0 Comments

Life changes and bug tracking.

So, last month I quit my job as opened up shop as a consultant. It’s been an enjoyable adventure so far, and I’ve been posed with a fair number of new challenges, one of which was that I needed a bug-tracking solution. Now I wanted an application with Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 06, 2005 8:42 PM by xsherry | 2 Comments