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Microsoft offers to just 'Fix it'

News Users looking through Microsoft's help forums, instead of being offered numerous steps to fix technical issues, now get a single button to solve the problem.

Friday, February 06 2009 07:01 AM

Tags: Software, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, online support, Microsoft Windows Media Center, Media Center PC, Microsoft Windows, general manager, reporting tool

NComputing L230

Reviews NComputing's L230 thin client is an option if you need to add a group of low-impact users to an existing Ethernet LAN. However, you'll need to ensure that the host PC is adequately specified to deliver acceptable performance to the terminals attached to it.

Tuesday, March 11 2008 03:45 PM

Passport flaw diverts Hotmail users

News A glitch in Microsoft's Passport ID system logs people onto a bogus Hotmail account when they try to reach their own Hotmail e-mail via links on the Zone gaming site.

Wednesday, January 30 2002 12:25 PM

Secure ASP.NET sites with Membership API

Techguide Beginning with ASP.NET 2.0, the Membership API was added to simplify adding security to a Web application. Find out how to use the Membership API with a SQL Server backend.

Thursday, August 28 2008 07:24 PM

Tags: Servers, Protocols and platforms, Web servers, Authentication, Microsoft SQL Server, Membership API, Security, Database, Password, Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0

Hungry fail whale eats up Twitter lists

News In response to a high level of error messages, Twitter temporarily disabled its fledgling "Lists" feature.

Tuesday, December 01 2009 10:52 AM

Tags: Web 2.0, E-business, Lists Feature, Twitter Inc., Web 2.0, retail company, blog

Phished or not, leaked passwords show lazy habits

News While researchers debate how passwords were stolen, analysis of the exposed passwords reveals some interesting trends.

Friday, October 09 2009 11:07 AM

Tags: E-mail servers, Spam and phishing, Data security, E-mail clients, Yahoo! Inc., Phishing, Google Inc., ScanSafe, Malware, Password

Chink in encryption armor discovered

News An underlying flaw in the OpenSSH encryption protocol has been revealed by academics.

Wednesday, May 20 2009 10:39 AM

Tags: Authentication and encryption, OpenSSH, SSH, IT Professional, Encryption, Information Security, Flaw, Server, Attacker, RFC

PC sales slump to bite even Microsoft

News The software maker is expected to cut financial outlook, jobs when it reports earnings after the markets close on Thursday.

Thursday, January 22 2009 11:58 PM

Tags: Sales/revenue, Forecasting, Microsoft Corp., Sales, layoff, Forecasting, Earnings, Worker, financial, job

Prevent duplicates when entering data into Excel

Techguide Duplicate values, when not valid entries, return erroneous summaries and totals. Here's what to do to prevent duplicates in a specific range using Excel's Validation feature.

Thursday, July 09 2009 09:58 AM

Tags: Microsoft Office, MsgBox, Entry, Microsoft Excel 2007, Microsoft Excel, job, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, HTML

Adobe to fix critical Flash hole next week

News Company expects to have updates late next week for Flash, Reader to fix critical hole being reportedly exploited in attacks.

Friday, July 24 2009 10:54 AM

Tags: Business applications, Adobe Systems Inc., Macromedia Flash Player, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Shockwave Flash, Plug-in, Web Browser, Vulnerability, Apple Macintosh, Adobe Acrobat

Code Contracts makes validation easy and accurate

Techguide Code Contracts allows developers to create validation logic within their methods and classes without needing to write a lot of if/then statements.

Monday, June 22 2009 01:43 PM

Tags: Protocols and platforms, Code, C, Method, XML file, Justin James, Microsoft Developer Network, network management, business logic, blogging