In the wizard the step where you can upload files comes last. After that step the article is switched live immediately. The preview button is on the page before. From my perspective it would make sense to put a preview as the last step. This would enable the author to check all file links and images. Alternatively some sort of "article posted but not live" feature would be ok as well. Then you could check everything and switch it live after that. Just my 2c Chris

I don't like it either. To stisfy both sides, IMO this would be a nice option for the personal preferences ? Default is off, but those who like it can switch it on. Just my 2c -Chris

Christian Graus wrote: Ratings also seem to be an indication of sexiness rather than usefulness. Very true. The Woah!-effect influences the majority of the votes (grade and the action to vote in the first place). Chris

You could also check the for the existence of the path: %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.0.3705 Ragards Chris

Well with multithreaded I meant: I can handle multiple requests at the same time. Not that it creates multiple threads itself. Think of 50 users hitting your page concurrently. It would be bad if all had to queue up to be authenticated one after another.

I guess the "proper" .NET way of doing this is to write a class that takes the credentials and performs the authentication against the server. You create this object then once and store it in the Application context. But beware you better build this object with sound multithreading capabilities, otherwise this might become a severe performance bottleneck. --Chris

It's a local proxy with very nice filtering options to kill ads, banners, HTTP headers, cookies and whatever you like. The official homepage used to be http://Proxomitron.cjb.net but that's dead now. Use Google to find some alternate sites. It's definitely worth a try ! -Chris

Quote from MSDN: Features The Shared Source CLI archive contains the following technologies in source code form: An implementation of the runtime for the Common Language Infrastructure (ECMA-335) that builds and runs on Windows XP and FreeBSD Compilers that work with the Shared Source CLI for C# (ECMA-334) and JScript Development tools for working with the Shared Source CLI such as assembler/ disassemblers (ilasm, ildasm), a debugger (cordbg), metadata introspection (metainfo), and other utilities The Platform Adaptation Layer (PAL) used to port the Shared Source CLI from Windows XP to FreeBSD Build environment tools (nmake, build, and others) Documentation for the implementation Test suites used to verify the implementation Download Page
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I guess it depends on what you want to do it for. For educational purposes, I would say go and buy a good book rather than spending time on MCSE certification preparation. But a certification is maybe a good idea for your CV. Before getting flamed: I know that a certification does not say anything about actual skills. But HR people usually don't. :-D

As far as I heard on a local MSDN conference, VS6will besupported for quitea while. The obvious reason (that might not be that obvious to MS though..): VS6 is the last IDE that supports building VB apps that do not need the .NET runtime. As there are quite some apps that have to be supported out there it should live for a while. :cool: -Chris

That doesn't work over here. Bummer... It seems to that it could probably be some sort of traffic limiter, as the site is generally veeeery slow at the moment. :( :mad:

Hi all, rumours say that this is the current schedule of VS.NET: QA signoff 1/15/02 Release to web 1/16/02 RTM 1/17/02 So something could happen soon on that front ;) Chris

The AT&T report is quite old (in Internet terms). However recently there was a *real* passport security breach. More details here: http://alive.znep.com/~marcs/passport/ That's scary stuff if you have your credit card info in the Passport wallet. It has been fixed partially though. -Chris

I wouln't install VS6 and VS.NET on the same OS. If you hav Win2K go for a dual boot installation.

What about a "the most creative way" of coding, or code a defined algorithm with the least amount of code? My inspiration for this are the various ways the DeCSS code was distributed. The most impressive way was to express this as a prime number.

Ok. I missed your exaggeration a little bit. My fault. However, as I see from your post, you are already aware of the basic principles of a web farm configuration (some cheap, i.e. not too redundant, boxes as web front-end, DB-cluster in the back-end). The sizing/number/configuration of these boxes is then more or less solely dependent on your application and its envronment. How to give an estimate without any details on that? If you're looking for examples of the hardware of some sites, try Microsoft HP/MSDN. I can remember that they have some papers of real-life sites (on their tech, of course). Other platforms certainly have sth similar. -Chris

Hi, I wouldn't say that the price difference is just kinda "pay more for the same" type of thing. When you take a closer look at the spec you'll see that there are usually a lot of things in the more expensive models that are required in an professional environment (redundancy, hot-plug ability, remote monitoring hardware, and so on), without giving you an extra performance boost. Especially those things that keep your uptime high are usually not cheap. -Chris:)

>Sounds like a combo move from street fighter or mortal kombat. Didn' you know that Windows is just Minesweeper with some added tools...?;) "If you are not living on the edge, you are wasting too much space !"

There's another way to end explorer.exe - without being restarted automatically: Select Start->Shutdown in the dialog hold down Ctrl-Alt-Shift and press Cancel -> The Explorer Shell is gone and doesn't restart. Pretty handy for debugging shell extensions and the like. -Chris

I found the most interesting part the comment of The Register on this: Of course what the ad doesn't show you is that the man finds a hole in the bra, presses it and every other bit of clothing falls off, pants an all. Full article ----------------------------------------------------------------- If all you've got is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail.