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So Long C9. [So Long C9.]

SecretSoftware — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 19:24:04 GMT

I am leaving C9.

Good-Bye Everyone. Its been fun to be here on C9. Time to move-on.

Live Long And Prosper C9ners! \\//_.

:)

PS: No hard feelings. If anyone was offended by me, I apologize. If any one offended me, they are forgiven.:D

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Most Interesting Application/Algorithm. [Most Interesting Application/Algorithm.]

SecretSoftware — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:50:04 GMT

What is the most interesting application, and/or algorithm you have ever seen in your life?

Please Share!:D

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What Does Freedom of Speech Mean? [What Does Freedom of Speech Mean?]

SecretSoftware — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:33:10 GMT

What does it mean?

:)

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LINQ TO SQL Method Return Type Is Incorrect for a SP [LINQ TO SQL Method Return Type Is Incorrect for a SP]

SecretSoftware — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 03:29:43 GMT

OKay,
    You have a stored procedure like this:
Input = @L As Bit, @G As Bit.
SELECT        X.*
FROM            Y AS X
WHERE        (X.D = @L AND @L IS NOT NULL) AND (X.T = @G AND
                         @G IS NOT NULL)
ORDER BY X.U DESC

Why does LINQ TO SQL make the return type int instead of ISingleResult?

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VS 2008: Saving Indicator SP from VS IDE bug [VS 2008: Saving Indicator SP from VS IDE bug]

SecretSoftware — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 03:26:30 GMT

Hi,
when you edit a stored procedure from the VS 2008 Server Explorer, and try to save it, the yellow bar on the left side (next to the line numbers) does not change from yellow to green indicating changes saved.

The only way to know if saved is if the * is disappeared from the tab title, or the saving indicator.;)

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VS2008: Linq to Sql Show stopper? [C#: Resolved] [VS2008: Linq to Sql Show stopper? [C#: Resolved]]

SecretSoftware — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 07:02:26 GMT

Hi,
I think there is something wrong with Linq to sql.

1) Try to drag and drop 50 + Stored procedure at the same time on the LINQ To SQL designer.

2) Say no to the prompt window that asks you to save sensitive data pertaining to the connection string to the sql db.

result.

All the stored procedures appear in the methods of the LINQ to SQL design surface, but in the DataContex cs , file that is auto generated, nothing is written in code that has to do with the dropped stored procedures.

Why?:|

PS: this works, only if I drag and drop them 1 at a time or 2 at a time. But not all to gether. Why?:@

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Redesign Internet Explorer. [Redesign Internet Explorer.]

SecretSoftware — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 05:23:37 GMT

Hi,
    Why not redesign IE, so that it employs Client/Server Archeticture.
Make an Internet Explorer Service, that runs in the background each time Windows Starts. This Service has the task of downloading stuff, from the internet, and checking it for security stuff, and then make it available for the display client.

    The client would only display what HTML that the service makes available, and it would be simple, and performant (more performant than FireFox).

    The client would only paint, and show the website. It will only connect to the port that the IE service is listening on. It will only be used to display stuff.

    The heavy lifting stuff is done by the IE service.

    Would this not help the performance of IE?

    I think it will make IE display stuff faster, and it will not be so heavy and sluggish as it is now.

Just an openion.:)

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Reverse engineering cracks Windows encryption [Reverse engineering cracks Windows encryption]

SecretSoftware — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 02:05:06 GMT

yeah, Windows is Doomed!

Why is reverse engineering a taboo subject in the computer world?

Why does MS always down play security risks to its flagship product?

maybe MS should just use Did NSA Put a Secret Backdoor in New Encryption Standard?

Why can't the NSA get a life?

MS has implemented ECC in Vista, with its CryptoNextGen libraries, even though it has a backdoor?

What do you guys think?:|

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Client/Server Authentication and Windows Sockets Class [Client/Server Authentication and Windows Sockets Class]

SecretSoftware — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:55:06 GMT

Hi,
How do you know for sure that your client is "really your client" when a client is trying to authenticate to your server? How do you detect Monkies-In the Middle?

Also, about windows sockets class, why is it not able to detect a disconnected client? When someone disconnects because their ISP went down or the cable was unpluged, the server keeps thinking that the socket is still connected, and the only way to determine if a client is still alive, is by actively trying to send data , like "Ping/Pong" or something like that.

Why cant the windows socket class be updated to compensate for this? So that I can know for sure if a client is disconnected or not. Why not implement the "Ping/Pong" in the socket class itself, and give it the ability to detect a lost connection.

:)

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Do you trust MS with your privacy? [Do you trust MS with your privacy?]

SecretSoftware — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 00:13:39 GMT

Hi,
I wanted to know what people think about the fact that Vista was the first MS OS that reports back to MS as to the status of its activation. Do you trust this MS OS with this back communication to MS servers?

I mean this is similar to Trojan programs that report back to their authors, and in it the author suspects that all users are thiefs, and they should be checked in a meticulous way programmatically.

Why was it acceptable to basically put "activation back-door", into vista?

How do I know that its only sending back activation data, and not other data, like browsing behaviors and others.

Its the first time since Win 98, and Xp, where a system would meticulously check and check and check , and report back periodically if vista is not stolen system.

Why Is Vista generating these Massive (I mean > Gbs) of data?

Is trust breaking between MS and its customers? Or what is the deal?

// I am sure people are going to say I am paranoid, but I just want to know views on the matter of software reporting back to its authors and not in a transparent way.

Thanks

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Hand Over Your Keys Or Else. [Hand Over Your Keys Or Else.]

SecretSoftware — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 01:32:07 GMT

So, on October 1 , a new law was passed in the UK that says this:

You can be jailed for 5 years if you fail to give the authorities (gestapo comes to mind), your encryption keys.

How does this affect BitLocker?

Story here:

UK can now demand data decryption on penalty of jail time

Link 2

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VS 2008 Beta 2 Recursive Method Evaluation Bug? [VS 2008 Beta 2 Recursive Method Evaluation Bug?]

SecretSoftware — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:40:20 GMT

Suppose you have soemthing like this

string a = this.SomeMethodA (this.SomeMethodB (this.SomeMethodC (this.SomeMethodD (this.SomeMethodE(this.SomeMethodF("someStringTo Process"))))));

Its supposed to be evaluated backwards , and each one is evaluated once.

However in VS 2008 Beta 2, you get this

First :

Eval Method: F();

Eval Method : F() then E(); ( Note: F() got evaluated again!!).

Eval Method F() then E() then D(); (Note: F() and E() got evaluated again wasting valuable CPU Cycles and ram).

Etc..

This is the same perfomrance bug that plauged the 2005 build of VS in terms of project building, where the building would rebuild projects that is already built again as it goes up the building order. The same similar bug exist here too?

This causes valuable CPU Cycles to be wasted and its really annoying. Its slows application performance. Why this recursive pattern? why not just evaluate each sub method in the execution plan once? why evaluate it over and over again as you jump up one function in the execution plan?

Thanks.

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Debugging The Next Generation Application. [Debugging The Next Generation Application.]

SecretSoftware — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 19:36:55 GMT

Hi,
    I do a lot of code debugging, and I am sure that most devs do the same. However, there are just very annoying types of bugs that I call behavior bugs, that are just simply hard to catch or localize.

    One case is where you have a large multi-threaded application, and you get sometimes race-conditions and other threading related behavior bugs that are frustrating because you do not know what is happening in the application in real-time in a sort of visual way. So you spend hours upon hours to try to recreate multi-threaded application behaviors in order to fix the race-condition or behavior bug that exists.

    Naturally I want to be able to locate these types of "Behavior bugs" very quickly, and hence I have an idea that I want to share. The idea is this:
    Give us a tool that allows us developers to visually know what my application is doing at any given instance during real-time execution. That is to say, represent class objects in a visual way and show me what code each thread is executing at the moment, and display this telemetry in a visual way, so that when I look at it I can say , aha, this is the bug there, and then I can dig into the code and fix the behavior bug. Basically , allow me to see an image of the application in real-time, that shows what its doing and what lines or groups of lines of code that are being executed real-time.

    This visual way would save me many hours chancing after a behavior bug, and would make me more productive as a developer.

    If I know what my application is doing, in a visual way, then I can understand during runtime, what is happening and what code gets executed at what point during the course of the execution. This puts me in control in more intimate way. In this case , its ok to make the application execution speed slower.

Just a suggestion.:)

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$20 US Currency is very Curious. [$20 US Currency is very Curious.]

SecretSoftware — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:04:29 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kv_yJdaG6Y

I am speechless, but maybe someone here has something to say?

What is in the $20 US Bill?:O

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AMD CEO heralds Quad-Core CPU datacenter age [AMD CEO heralds Quad-Core CPU datacenter age]

SecretSoftware — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 06:10:43 GMT

This is a very cool interview about QUAD CORE CPU's and the new computer revolution. Its a new inflection point in the industry.

Robert Scoble does it with a kick.

Here is for us developers:

Unlocking Concurrency: Multi-Core Programming with TFMem.

Is this cool or what?;)

PS: speaking of pLINK, when is is going to ship? VS2008, or VS Code name Rosairo?

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LINQ Question [LINQ Question]

SecretSoftware — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:25:10 GMT

Error   2   Property or indexer 'AnonymousType#1.MyAnnoymousP' cannot be assigned to -- it is read only

Why did this became like this as we go from Beta 1 to Beta 2?

This code generated the above error

var q = from x in y
             where x.d = 1
             select new {MyAnnoymousP = x.L, x.J};

q.MyAnnoymousP = Something;

in beta 1 this was valid, but in Beta 2 it became ReadOnly. Why? Will this change? Is this a bug in Beta 2?

Thnx:)

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Securing Wi-Fi Network. [Securing Wi-Fi Network.]

SecretSoftware — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 15:28:50 GMT

What protocol do you use to secure your wireless network? Why or why not?

What is the best one out there?

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It was all about the OIL. [It was all about the OIL.]

SecretSoftware — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 14:26:03 GMT

Why I lost respect for Australia's Government.

Shame! They went there to steal Iraqi Oil by force.

The mask of democracy and human values that was used to justify this war is being taken off. Now we see the true ugly face that was hiding behind the mask.

You know what they say: When a group of thiefs argue about what they steal, the truth comes out.

I guess Bush is not giving Howard enough share of the stolen Iraqi oil.

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Refreshing .. [Refreshing ..]

SecretSoftware — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 12:53:04 GMT

So , is there a way that the site would show me the latest updates automatically without having to refresh the page?

Instantly would update itself whenever someone replies to a given thread?

Not sure if its possible or if its easy to implement?.

Just a thought.

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Symantec Employees Are Using Kaspersky! [Symantec Employees Are Using Kaspersky!]

SecretSoftware — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 12:41:08 GMT

This one is a bit funny

You know that a company's product is not good when their own employees are not using it.

They should just join Kaspersky and be done with it.

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Where are all the GB going? [Where are all the GB going?]

SecretSoftware — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 19:29:43 GMT

Hi,
What does Vista do with all the GBs its eating from my hard drive? It seems that each day few MBs disappear, and I am not sure why?

When this pc was running XP Pro, I still had 60% of my had drive free. Now its reduced to 26%. So where is all the MB's going?

does it take vista that much GB's to run?

Very Strange.

Thanks

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CTP Madness [CTP Madness]

SecretSoftware — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:39:44 GMT

How come its not updated since the release of VS 2005?:|

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AMD's quad-core 'Barcelona' coming in August [AMD's quad-core 'Barcelona' coming in August]

SecretSoftware — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 22:56:28 GMT

link

When buying processors, which ones would you buy, A Quad core from AMD or one from Intel, why or why not?

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Japanese Developers & E=mc^2 [Japanese Developers & E=mc^2]

SecretSoftware — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:46:26 GMT

I was researching about biotech, and nano-tech, and came across this article, that explains how Japanese developers managed to program bacterial DNA to store "E=mc^2 1905", and read it back.

Source 1

Its very cool. Could this mean that we can store data in bacterial cultures and maintain that data for ever?

Is such tech viable? Its sure is cool.

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