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by Peter G Provost.
Original Post: Geek Notes 2005-08-06
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Today was the Remond - Sammamish Mothers & More Summer Picnic at Farrel McWhirter Park in Redmond. This is a really cool park with a fully functional farm on site. Hadley has loved going there to see the animals since we moved here. I was responsible for the barbeque today and was kept busy feeding the 50+ people who came out. My wife Emily was responsible for organizing the event... congrats to her for making it a success.
Enterprise Library 2.0 Cometh - I assume all .NET people saw this, but Scott Densmore has started talking about EntLib 2.0. (Six smileys, Scott? Are you kidding me?)
The Wall of Sheep - At the hacker conference DEFCON, anyone foolish enough to login to something in plaintext gets their username and passwords shown up on "the big board". Nice.
Cool Ruby Collection Stuff - Martin Fowler shows off a number of cool ruby things and compares them to Smalltalk.
I/ON - This is a cool browser, viewer, whatever for finding online videos. Auspiciously for reading videoblogs (think podcast with video), you can apparently find all kinds of interesting stuff with it.
Uninstalling GAT If It Refuses To - I've run into this myself. You install GAT to play with it, create a package or two and then suddenly you can't uninstall the damn thing. Kzu explains why and tells you how to fix it.
Gartner Talks About MS Recent Security Efforts - Michael Howard talks a bit about an article Information Week magazine about the Blackhat/Cisco issue where a Gartner researcher says some nice things about Microsoft's recent work on security. Cool. I can tell you from personal experience, security is taken very seriously in Redmond. Don't believe the FUD.
CVS Camcorder Hacked - The "disposable" digital cameras have already been hacked and apparently it only took a few days for the new single-use digital camcorders from CVS to get hacked. No CVS near you? No problem. Get one on Ebay. I'm seriously considering ordering one and giving it a shot.
Download Manager in Monad - Very cool... Lee Holmes wrote a cool little download manager in MSH. Lots of interesting MSH techniques to mine in there.
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