October 2006 - Posts

• IE 7 RTM, First Vulnerability Discovered

  Well, for those that didn't know, IE 7 has went RTM. You can get it at http://microsoft.com/ie . After you install it, look for the patch that isn't out yet, since Secunia says they have a working sample of the first exploit. Check and see if you are vulnerable, I *can* say IE 7 on Vista is not, I don't have IE 7 RTM on an XP machine yet. Update: Interestingly, I thought that this did not affect Windows 2003 server running IE 7, but I noticed the version I had on that machine was Beta 2. I upgraded to the RTM version and was suddenly vulnerable. So...this is something that was introduced between beta 2 and RTM.   Posted Oct 20 2006, 07:47 AM by Bob with 1 comment(s)

• New Singularity Videos

  For those who have been waiting, as have I, there are 2 new Singularity videos up on Channel 9. Singularity III: Revenge of the SIP and Singularity IV: Return of the UI Its been a while, but well worth the wait! For those not familiar with Singularity, you can read about it here. Posted Oct 16 2006, 07:15 AM by Bob with no comments

• Modifying UAC in Vista

  Though I dont recommend that you disable UAC, you *can* greatly modify its behavior in many ways, from determining when it prompts you, to marking certain apps as always elevating without prompting. Check out the Microsoft article here. Posted Oct 05 2006, 08:18 AM by Bob with no comments

• More Examples of my Inefficiency

  A coworker of mine saw my magically cool connection string parsing routine the other day and quickly pointed me here. I don't know how I missed it all this time, but the SqlConnectionStringBuilder is the greatest thing ever. Well, at least for today... Posted Oct 03 2006, 09:20 PM by Bob with no comments