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Yet again a VST did not load in my Ableton Live DAW. This time it is the Amplitube 2 VST by IK Multimedia. It did work if I launched Ableton with administrator priviledge but we al know that we shouldn't do that if it is not necessary and running as administrator to load a VST sure is not very useful...
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A few days ago I was reading a blog (And I forgot what blog!!) with information that the ApplicationPool password was stored as plain text. If you don't believe me: check the screenshot below: The password is as well accessible via the objectmodel, when runnin under elevatedPrivilges.. Lessons learned...
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Rockford Lhotka has writen about permission-based authorization versus role-based authorization . He describes how he is abusing the principal IsInRole(..) method. This is definitely wrong and should never be implemented that way! Besides that it could result in serious performance issues! Image a system...
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Anyone will get this message sooner or later so the normal steps I usually do are: Check if I have read/execute permissions on the file Check if it is blocked because it is an internet download and then unblock it Check if I'm the owner Well today I did this on a file that I downloaden on server...
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When you want to create a new application pool you probably want to do this to create an application pool with least privileges for the application that you are going to run with it. This article describes how to create a user account for use in an IIS application pool. This article is useful when you...
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When looking to the Stored Proscedures debate, there is always those three factors you should measure by. Productivity - Span code base over multiple staging environments is a pain and harder to maintain. - Versioning sp code is way harder than versioning application code. - Minor change to the design...
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In projects that span over multiple teams and for other very reasonable architecture reasons you end up with multiple assembles for your current project or even if you want to reuse a library one of the other teams wrote you will find yourself using code from other assembly, now you have couple of choices...
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Everytime I go over to friends or family to fix some kind of "computer problem" that they experience, I start telling the same tips 'n tricks over and over again about how to avoid spyware, how to keep your PC as tidy as possible, how to clean up your internet history, etc. Ofcourse many...
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Hi folks, When you design your sophisticated "Change Password" feature in your next application make sure to retain the old password so the user can't re-choose them anymore.. You can keep a history of passwords and don't allow to use them again. [UPDATE] The reason you may wanted to...
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Viruses and Spyware are annoying to deal with that’s why the following is a bit of a guide to make sure you don’t have to deal with them and if you do need to battle them what the right way to do so is. A bit of advice to help out with not having to deal with this in the first place. When...
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Till now I normally used the cacls command on the commandline for modifying ntfs file permissions. I always used the /E /T /G switches but soon found out that this does a recursive change on all folders/files and doesn't use the inheritance flag. Normally not really a big problem but updating the...
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If you are using OpenID i strongly recommend that you use this little feature which is allow you to upload an icon or personal picture to display it in the verification site (myopenid.com) title bar so if you didn't see this picture theres a chance that someone trying to phish you. The idea is that if...
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Hi Mates, i'm really exited with this identity model which was around since 2005 but maybe the commercial suppory by ViriSign and others what brings it to the surface anyway.. i'm not in the place of comparing OpenID to CardSpace or any other existed paradim just hinting on how to create your own OpenID...
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Couple of days ago i have received this mail from one of my former colleagues the email goes like "This is a love calculator that you will supply it with three of your secret lovers and your name and it will tell you which one is THE ONE". So as we approaching Valentine day i thought it's good to know...
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Hours ago i had a chance to attend for one of my favorites speakers who always speak at Middle East Developer Conference, my list of great speaker include more world first class speaker.. which is a subject i will talk about more later. The speaker for today was Patric Haynds the CTO of CriticalSites...