A Long Overdue Database Security Rant
I've been dealing with a security product from a security company in recent days that breaks best practices with respect...
2008-01-30
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Part II of Troubleshooting Memory Issues
The Windows Server Performance Team has published part 2 of troubleshooting memory issues.
This one covers excessive paging and memory...
2008-01-29
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First Heroes Happen Here (HHH) Comic
Microsoft and Seagate have partnered togethered to put together an IT Heroes comic (daily even). The first one is here:
...
2008-01-29
1,570 reads
Ken Henderson has passed away
I know I'm not the first in the SQL Server community to post this, but Ken Henderson has passed away...
2008-01-29
1,927 reads
Metasploit 3.1 is out
The new version of Metasploit is out. Included is a GUI interface. It's a complete re-write in Ruby (note to...
2008-01-28
1,523 reads
Vendor Neutral Database Certification
First saw this off of Planet MySQL:
New Vendor Neutral Database Certification (Dave's Stuff)
Following the link to the CIW site, there...
2008-01-28
2,879 reads
Citrix Presentation Server Becomes XenApp
Citrix is changing the name of its flagship product from Citrix Presentation Server (CPS) to XenApp. More from the blogosphere:
Citrix...
2008-01-28
2,012 reads
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Deployment Guides available
Saw this first on Aaron Stebner's blog:
.NET Framework 3.5 deployment guides have been published on MSDN
Guidance information for both...
2008-01-28
1,576 reads
Microsoft Security Webcast
This one is geared towards IT management:
IT Manager Webcast: Dynamic IT and Security (Part 4 of 5): Identity and Access...
2008-01-28
1,661 reads
SQL Server 2008 RTM looks to be 3rd Quarter
On the Microsoft Data Platform Insider blog, there is a post indicating new roadmap dates:
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Roadmap...
2008-01-25
1,658 reads
Blogs
Installing and Configuring containerd as a Kubernetes Container Runtime
This post shows you how to install containerd as the container runtime for Kubernetes...
It’s 2026 and I’m retired, so lets get Visual Basic 6.0 to run on Windows 11
In 1999 I released my first commercial software product. ShutOff 2000 was a Windows...
Car Update October 2026
By Steve Jones
This month I want to look at a few of the things I’ve seen...
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