Attention last minute shoppers: Samsung SPH-I700 is available in Canada

Friday, December 19, 2003 8:59:05 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

Samsung SPH-I700 Windows Power Pocket PC phone is now available in Canada.

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Tablet PC Wireless Connection Problems

Friday, December 19, 2003 4:21:26 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

I thought this was worthy of placing here in hopes that it might be of use. A while ago we deployed an Acer TabletPC with built in wireless and had nothing but problems connecting to the network. We seemed to browse fine, but when it came to sending any data (such as printing) it would fail. The soultion turned out to be creating an MTU entry for the wireless interface with a value of 1472. Info on adding this entry can be found at microsoft.com

Hopefully this helps somebody solve the problem more quickly than we did.

UPDATE: Originally I had thought this problem we encountered seemed to be limited to the Acer product but it would seem that others have it as well. My Toshiba M200 just wasn't right when running wireless. Even some web pages, especially Microsoft.com had real problems trying to load. The above fix of the MTU setting has made a huge difference. I hope to do some more testing, but if you have problems, create and MTU entry for the interface as described equalling 1472.

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December Triangle .Net User Group General Meeting (TRINUG)

Thursday, December 11, 2003 5:42:11 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

The December TRINUG user group general meeting included an ASP.Net Security presentation by Travis Murray.

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Microsoft Visual Basic .Net 2003 Kick Start by Duncan Mackenzie

Wednesday, December 10, 2003 12:39:40 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

I have finally been able to pick up his new book “Microsoft Visual Basic .Net 2003 Kick Start” written with contributors Andy Baron, Erik Porter, and Joel Semeniuk. I congratulate all of them on work well done.

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ASP.NET Directory Security

Wednesday, December 10, 2003 1:23:17 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

Today at an MSDN event I ended up talking with a number of people about an issue relating to security in ASP.NET. The problem was presented where the authentication would only restrict access top .aspx files and not other files such as Word (.doc) or Excel (.xls) files that might also need to be secured. I recently had a similar problem which I was able to resolve by registering the appropriate extensions in the Application Mappings within the Application Configuration within Internet Services manager. By mapping the .doc and .xls file extensions to the same executable as the .aspx pages (aspnet_isapi.dll) they will have their access restricted as well by the application security. 

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The Things I Learned Today

Wednesday, December 03, 2003 7:40:46 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

Windows 98 system the OS does not care about the case sensitvity of your password

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