How to pick a combination lock in 30 seconds

This is just frightening. A piece of a beer can, a pair of pliers, and the combo lock pops open.

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SQL Server Samples on CodePlex

Like many other SQL Server focus area, SQL Server Samples has its own blog. A recent post there indicates that...

Thoughts from The Cuckoo's Egg

The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll has been around for a while, having been published in 1989. It details how...

Whitepaper on ESX Server 3.0 and SAN-attached Storage

First saw this at Blade Watch. VMWare has released a white paper on using SANs with VMWare ESX Server 3.0....

Updated Website

I've taken some time to update my website. In particular I have updated:
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Nothing fancy or special, but...

Windows PowerShell and Windows Server 2003 SP2

Saw this on the Windows PowerShell blog:

Since W2K3 SP2 is an update to W2K3 SP1, if you install Powershell on...

SQL Server 2005 Security Best Practices Whitepaper Released

Saw this first here: SQL Server 2005 Security Best Practices. It's on the blog for Microsoft UK's SQL Server Premier...

"Wet" Pet Food Recall

Animals are near and dear to my heart, to the point where I have a cat even though I am...

Windows Mobile Security

I'm working on a new article for SQL Server Central talking about physical security and SQL Server and I was...

SQL Server 2005 SP2 and Maintenance Plans - Still not fixed yet

SQL Server MVP Aaron Bertrand has posted that there is still a bug with maintenance plans for SQL Server 2005...