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We had a blizzard on Tuesday in Denver. Apr 24 and we got nearly a foot of snow out at...

Keeping Skills Up-to-Date and Discoverability

One thing is always certain about information technology: there is always change. This past week I was pitching in on...

Book: Brute Force: Cracking the Data Encryption Standard

I just finished the book Brute
Force: Cracking the Data Encryption Standard by Matt Curtin. It covers the work of...

Midlands PASS - April 5, 2007 Presentation posted

The presentation How to Be a Consultant has been posted to the Midlands PASS Chapter website. The presentation was given...

Not 4GB

Windows doesn't see 4GB. If you have a 32bit OS with 4GB of RAM, Windows can't see it all.

I saw...

Post SP2 Fixes

    I saw Brian's post on Microsoft's post on post sp2-fixes. Say that 10 times quickly.

They do a good job explaining...

New Tool: ApexSQL Audit Viewer

ApexSQL has announced a new viewer tool for ApexSQL Audit. ApexSQL Audit does a lot of the dirty work of...

The Final Word on SQL Server 2005 SP2?

Bob Ward posted on the PSS SQL Server Engineers blog a fairly long post on SP2 and the hotfixes thereafter:...

Thoughts from Never Eat Alone

Watching a Chefograpy on Giada De Laurentiis, I learned that she was considered very much an introvert and had a...

Help Johnny, Help Kids

I had heard of Johnny Long before I attended his briefing at Black Hat 2004. Well known for his research...