I was just writing a utility assembly for the startup handling of my applications. That thing is called ...Startup.dll, which kind of made sense to me and resides within a folder called Startup in my source code hierarchy. No problem that far. Things started to behave weirdly when I created a small test app, a separate project in a subfolder of the Startup folder. Suddenly I got an error from Visual Studio: CS0016, … can’t write to file ...\test.startup.exe: access denied.
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Following up on my Keying the top off posting, I just had to tell you about this other keyboard I found. Let the image speak for itself:
The original page is a little difficult to read (for me at least), but here’s the link: http://www.tanomi.com/limited/html/00040.html
Quite an unbelievable bit of poetry, paired with a really useful warning. Funny! I Ate iPod Shuffle
atsec information security says they have completed an evaluation of Novell/SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 (SLES 9) for IBM eServer based on the Common Criteria ISO standard (ISO15408), which will result in a certification for Evaluation Assurance Level 4+ (EAL4+). Read the original announcement here.
Bruce Schneier tells us that SHA-1 has been broken. Apparently this is judged to be a believable claim, although the paper explaining details of the attack is not yet generally available. Read Bruce’s blog entry here.
In David Cumps’ blog there’s a nice article on boxing/unboxing. Nothing really new about that topic, but it’s well explained, so read it if you don’t know what he’s talking about. Another thing worth mentionable is that using Generics for collections is of course the easiest way to work around boxing problems, assuming .NET 2.0 is an option to you. See the C# Language specification 2.0 here for more information on that. …
The Microsoft Security Response Center Blog: http://spaces.msn.com/members/msrc/
Now this is a fantastic idea: PFU offer a variant of their Happy hacking keyboard that has blank key tops! The Happy hacking keyboard Professional is only for the elite few who never have to look at keys.
Nevertheless, I’m not going to use it. I’ve been a great fan of the Kinesis Classic for some years now, using the Dvorak layout (also see here), of course. Similar to the HHKB Professional, nobody wants to borrow it very often :-)
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