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I had a dilemma, I wanted to keep my AT&T service but did not want to pay that much. So I thought it would be clever to find out who offers service using the AT&T towers at a more reasonable price. I'm very happy to report that my research turned up Pure TalkUSA. They use the same towers that AT&T does but their unlimited text and talk with 1 GB of data is only $43.95 a month. So with no need for a contract on a month-to-month basis for less than half the price I was able to get the same service as I would have with AT&T.
So the first step was to go to the Pure TalkUSA website and order a SIM card. The micro-SIM card was only $4.95. In just a few days the SIM card arrived, I opened the back of my Galaxy, took out the micro-SIM card that was there, put in the new SIM card and was off to the races.
Pure TalkUSA is a nationwide provider. Their no-contract phone plans are designed to fit today's budgets. Their plans start at only $10 a month for the occasional talker. The unlimited talk and text packages are available at rates less than half of the big national brands, with "no sacrifice in quality." Their Flex Plan enables consumers to adjust calling plans on a monthly basis, and unlike many no-contract providers, Pure Talk customers may use their existing phones.
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BEVERLY, Mass. – For the second year in-a-row, the Endicott football team capped off their season with an ECAC North Atlantic Bowl victory as the Gulls defeated Norwich 34-14 at Endicott Stadium on Saturday afternoon to end their 2012 campaign with a 9-2 overall record.
The Most Outstanding Player in the game, Gull sophomore quarterback Drew Frenette (New Bedford, Mass.), threw for 248 yards and two touchdowns without an interception to lead the offense while 11 tackles, including five solo takedowns, by junior nose guard Marcell Cooper (Dorchester, Mass.) were integral in halting a relentless Cadets rushing attack that carried the ball 50 times.
Norwich, Endicott's second straight ECFC opponent in the ECAC North Atlantic Bowl, dropped to 7-3 on the season after making its fifth bowl appearance in program history. The Cadets were led offensively by 174 rushing yards including 64 by sophomore wide receiver Derrick Pitts (Schenectady, N.Y.) who finished with 101 all-purpose yards, adding 37 yards on four receptions. Senior quarterback Kris Sabourin (Georgia, Vt.) threw for 143 yards and a touchdown and ran for 56 yards, but an interception by Gulls senior defensive back Mike Lago (Newtown, Conn.) late in the fourth quarter ended Norwich's second-half comeback bid.
Playing in their last game in a Gulls uniform, running back Mike Wheeler (Hanover, Mass.) and wide receiver Mike Murphy (Chelmsford, Mass.) each eclipsed 100 yards on the ground and through the air, respectively, to pace Endicott's no huddle offense. Wheeler's four yard touchdown run gave Endicott a 20-0 halftime lead and his 17-yard dash over the pylon with 2:59 remaining in the game put the Gulls ahead by two scores.
Murphy hauled in six Frenette passes for 101 yards with two touchdowns, including a 55-yard scamper down the sideline that put Endicott up 26-14 early in the fourth quarter. Murphy wrapped up his record-breaking senior year as Endicott's all-time leading receiver and broke season records for receptions (61), receiving yards (880), and touchdown catches (15).
Endicott senior tailback Jared DiBiase (Cranston, R.I.) added 54 rushing and a one-yard touchdown run to put the Blue and Green on top 7-0 following a blocked punt by junior Andrew Lawson (Framingham, Mass.). Lawson's punt block set the Gulls up on the Norwich two yard line as DiBiase punched it in for his 10th touchdown of the season.
Down 20-0 early in the second half, Norwich got their first points of the game after a seven-play, 51-yard drive ended with a Al Georgio (West Greenwich, R.I.) touchdown run. The ensuing kickoff was fumbled by the Gulls and recovered by the Cadets deep in Endicott territory. Sabourin got Norwich down the Endicott nine, but facing 4th-and-4, the Gulls defense forced a turnover on downs to maintain a 13-point advantage.
Later in the game, Norwich held the ball at the start of the fourth quarter and looked to pull within a score. A 22-yard completion to senior Joshua Menge (Hagaman, N.Y.) kept the Cadets drive alive on 4th-and-2 and five plays later, Sabourin found sophomore wide receiver Adam Fraser (Lowell, Mass.) for a 14-yard touchdown to make it 20-14 with 12:01 remaining in the game.
Wheeler return the Norwich kickoff 27 yards to the Endicott 45-yard line and on the first play of the drive, Frenette connected with Murphy for the 55-yard score. The two-point conversation attempt failed but the Gulls went ahead 26-14.
Norwich's next drive lasted nearly four minutes, but a fourth down conversion attempt by the Cadets failed when Lago broke up a Sabourin pass to give Endicott back the ball. The Gulls would orchestrate a 70-yard drive capped off by Wheeler's second touchdown of the game to seal the victory with 2:59 remaining and Endicott leading by 20.
Senior linebackers Peter Kallas (Beverly, Mass.), PJ Bandini (Waltham, Mass.), and Craig Lussier (Dracut, Mass.) ended their careers with solid tackling efforts, finishing with 11, nine, and nine tackles, respectively. Junior Andrew Holfinger (Sterling, Mass.) had 12 tackles while junior Davas Wright (Fall River, Mass.) led all players with two tackles for a loss and a forced fumble. Sophomore lineman recorded the only sack of the game for a loss of nine yards.
Norwich freshman Dominique Davis (Kissimmee, Fla.) had a team-high 11 tackles, including nine solo takedowns, with sophomore linebacker Andy Mangin (Concord, Mass.) added nine in the loss. Four Cadet defenders contributed with eight tackles each.


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tea Party and other conservative groups on Tuesday accused the U.S. Internal Revenue Service of trampling on their rights, telling lawmakers in an often emotional hearing that they faced a barrage of paperwork and intrusive questions when they sought tax-exempt status.
"This was not an accident. This is a willful act of intimidation intended to discourage a point of view," Becky Gerritson, president of a Tea Party group in Wetumpka, Alabama, tearfully told a House of Representatives panel during Congress' fifth hearing on the IRS scandal since May 17.
Gerritson, one of several representatives of conservative groups who were asked to recount their experiences to lawmakers, described how she and her husband had to seek legal counsel when confronted with questionnaires about their group's donors, communications with legislators and their voter education activities.
"I'm not interested in scoring political points. I want to protect and preserve the America I grew up in," Gerritson said in a shaky voice.
Her testimony, and the stories of several others whose groups were targeted by IRS agents for extra scrutiny, showed a more personal side of a scandal that has been marked largely by tense hearings in which current and former IRS officials' reluctance to assess blame has frustrated lawmakers.
There still are many questions about how and why IRS officials in a Cincinnati, Ohio, field office began targeting conservative groups, and whether they did so at the direction of anyone in Washington, as a few Republican lawmakers have suggested.
During their appearances on Tuesday before the House Ways and Means Committee, the conservative group leaders described their dealings with the U.S. tax agency as a bureaucratic nightmare filled with endless delays that they said appeared to have been motivated by a distaste for the groups' beliefs.
Coalition for Life of Iowa president Sue Martinek recounted how an IRS employee asked that her group, which opposes abortion rights, agree in writing not to picket Planned Parenthood, an abortion provider.
"We had done nothing wrong. We had not indicated that we would do anything but peaceably assemble and hold up signs like, 'Stop abortion' and 'Pray to end abortion,'" said Martinek, joining other speakers in casting the IRS's actions as a violation of her group's constitutional right to speech.
Republican and Democratic lawmakers condemned the IRS for bungling the review process.
However, some Democrats questioned why the conservative groups believed they had a right to tax-exempt status, noting that federal law limits the political activities of tax-exempt groups.
"None of your organizations (was) kept from organizing or silenced. We are talking about whether or not the American public will subsidize your work" through tax breaks, said Representative Jim McDermott, a Democrat from Illinois. "Each of your groups is highly political."
Representative Paul Ryan, a Republican from Wisconsin and a favorite of the conservative Tea Party movement, received applause from the audience when he accused McDermott of blaming the conservative groups for the abuse they received.
"People were singled out because of their beliefs," Ryan said.
Several congressional committees and the Department of Justice have opened probes into the extra scrutiny given to conservative groups, which got headlines when IRS official Lois Lerner first apologized for the activity last month.
Lerner's comments came just before the release of a Treasury watchdog report that described how employees in the Cincinnati office in 2010 developed partisan criteria - including searching for words such as "Tea Party" and "Patriots" in group names - to flag certain tax-exempt applications for extra review.
The Treasury inspector general said he did not find evidence of outside political motivation, but said his office's reviews are ongoing.
Lawmakers are holding a series of hearings to determine whether the IRS had a political agenda in subjecting such groups to extra scrutiny, or if workers in the tax-exempt division used the partisan criteria simply as a way to cope with a flood of applications.
Current and former officials have defended IRS employees by saying they were given the challenging task of determining the level and nature of political activity among groups applying for tax-exempt status.
The IRS, which is undergoing a broad review under new acting commissioner Danny Werfel, is also facing allegations that it spent excessively on training conferences. A Treasury watchdog report released Tuesday singled out a $4.1 million conference in Anaheim, California, in 2010 that included a spoof "Star Trek" video and lavish hotel suites.
In response, the IRS released a statement calling many of the expenses inappropriate, and noting that expenses for travel and training are down 80 percent since 2010.
House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa, a California Republican, has called a hearing on the report for Thursday. Issa has been among the most aggressive critics of the IRS, saying on Sunday that the agency's scrutiny of conservative groups was "directly being ordered from Washington" - a conclusion that Democrats have called premature.
Asked about the impact of the IRS's extensive questioning of their applications, the groups described different experiences.
Kevin Kookogey, president of a group called Linchpins of Liberty, which says it aims to mentor students in conservative political philosophy, said he lost a $30,000 grant while waiting years for a decision for the IRS.
But Dianne Belsom of the Laurens County (South Carolina) Tea Party said the prolonged delays have not affected her group's activities. She said the group has been operating as a tax-exempt organization even as the IRS continues to review its application.
"I can't say this investigation has really impeded us," Belsom said.
After Tuesday's hearing, IRS chief Werfel issued a statement calling the groups' stories "troubling," and saying that he had directed an IRS team to review their cases.
Reporting By Kim Dixon and Kevin Drawbaugh, writing by Karey Van Hall; Editing by David Lindsey and Claudia Parsons


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Architect and artist Dennis Maher has transformed his Buffalo home, called Fargo House, into a fantastical mini museum of tableaus, all made from recycled materials and found objects. For the past three years, Maher has been collecting props, ephemera, cast off toys, old furniture and other disused materials from thrift stores, garage sales and trash sites, and used these elements to create imaginary landscapes in each of his rooms.
Maher is the current artist-in-residence at Buffalo's Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the city's main art museum. Also an assistant professor of architecture, Maher has dedicated his artistic side to salvaging lost treasures, and giving them new life. The artist has spent countless hours scavenging thrift stores, flea markets and estate sales for forgotten cultural valuables to add to his ever growing installations.
His home resembles one giant cabinet of curiosities, lines are blurred between form and function, with furniture, walls and objects melded together in one cohesive category. With a focus on model shelters, like old doll houses, bird cages, jewelry boxes and the like, Maher creates dioramas that when built up, become the fabric of the house, moving from item on display to part of the interior architecture. The living and ever changing home-cum-art installation is a commentary on both consumer and throw away culture, as the artist feels the need to accumulate more and more, from second hand outlets that thrive on selling cultural cast offs.
Opening this past weekend, Maher's conglomerations were extended to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. In an exhibition called "House of Collective Repair," the artist puts his fascination with accumulation on display, inviting visitors to revisit familiar objects from their past, held together and presented in a new way.


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I'll say this now — Fall 2013 will go down as one of the worst in recent memory for television. The caliber of entries is so utterly mediocre, so devoid of any fresh or truly outstanding ideas that one has to wonder just what exactly is happening at the various networks. Comedy is the main culprit here, but drama fares little better. Even with outstanding actors such as Robin Williams, Allison Janney, Anna Faris, James Spader, Toni Colette, Bradley Whitford, Sean Hayes and Margo Martindale, this year's crop of shows can't seem to rise above middling. Thankfully, there are a few diamonds in the rough, so let's sift through and find the series you should be watching this fall.
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Almost Human — J.J. Abrams brings us a buddy cop drama with a difference. Set in 2048, we follow Karl Urban as a police detective in an LAPD where every detective is paired with a lifelike android — and, naturally, Urban's character hates them. Forced to work with an experimental android, one with human emotions, it's here that Almost Human gets interesting. The future-yet-familiar setting, the action-packed gunfights, the buddy-cop dynamic we've so often seen, but with a fresh coat of paint — it all points to a very watchable show. Whether anyone will, and whether Fox will continue to foot what must be a substantial bill, remains to be seen. (Fox, 11/4)
American Horror Story: Coven — Technically new, given the regenerative nature of the American Horror Story franchise, this season follows the descendants of the Salem Witch Trials in modern day New Orleans. Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, Sarah Paulson, Patti LuPone and Emma Roberts should be sufficient reason for your viewership — who doesn't want to see Lange and Bates going head-to-head? (FX, 10/9)
Atlantis — The British are coming. BBC America is co-producing this supernatural drama with the BBC across the pond, and if rumors are true, a massive budget and even bigger scope are being liberally applied to it. Using a broad range of mythological creatures and characters, and likely copious amounts of CGI, Atlantis is aiming to draw inspiration from Doctor Who and Merlin in providing accessible drama for all ages. If the Beeb can pull it off, we could be looking at another smash for the Brits. (BBC America, 11/23)
Back In The Game — I have to ask: Did anyone proofread the scripts at ABC? Set in the dizzyingly glamorous world of Little League Baseball, Maggie Lawson stars as a mom whose son is rejected from the local team, so starts her own comprised of rejects and outcasts. Cue comedy. No? Okay, what about James Caan starring as her aggressive, asshole dad, who berates anyone and everyone. Cue comedy now? Really? Emmm…. Oh! Ben Koldyke is the chauvinist pig who laughs at every woman who tries to oppose him, and whose character is named Dick, allowing our heroine to call him Dick, with an emphasis, for comedic effect. When does this sitcom actually become funny? That would be never. (ABC, 9/25)
Brooklyn Nine-Nine — As funny a show as one from a Parks and Rec co-creator can potentially be, please, no more Andy Samberg. (Fox, 9/17)
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg recently gave a speech on behalf of her late husband--his words, his witty and wry language, much of it recounting stories from their shared past. It has to be among the toughest--and most moving--speaking challenges. Slate notes:
Martin Ginsburg had been invited to deliver his remarks at the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' conference in Colorado Springs, Colo., but he died in late June of metastatic cancer. As Ginsburg explained Friday evening, "He had his speech all written out." And so she read it—with a handful of interpolations—in its entirety to several hundred rapt listeners.This article explains the talk, which focused on a pro bono case the Ginsburgs took on. It led to a Supreme Court appearance for now Justice Ginsburg, and to many more related gender discrimination cases. Slate notes that, following the reading of her late husband's speech, Ginsburg took part in a roundtable discussion. When work-life balance came up, she shared this story, as reported by Slate:
In response to a question about work-life balance, Ginsburg explained that in the early '70s, her son, "what I called a lively child but school psychologists called hyperactive," was forever in trouble and that she was constantly called in to his school, even though she and her husband both had full-time jobs.Have you ever had to give a speech in this type of situation? Share the experience in the comments.
"One day, I was particularly weary," she explained, and so when the school called, she said, "This child has two parents. I suggest you alternate calls, and it's his father's turn." She said calls from the school came much less frequently after that, because the school was "much less inclined to take a man away from his job."
Vital Speeches of the Day named this Ginsburg speech its "vital speech of the week."
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Ausmus well suited to follow tough act in Detroit
The best advice for someone following a legend in any line of work is generally this:
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The best advice for someone following a legend in any line of work is generally this:
"Don't even bother."
It is difficult work, especially in a situation in which success has been the norm. Constant comparisons. Constantly coming out second-best in the constant comparisons. People constantly saying, "That's not the way the other guy would have done it."
But there can be exceptions. Can we make one of those exceptions in the case of Brad Ausmus, who is replacing the retired and widely admired Jim Leyland as manager of the Detroit Tigers?
It is always dicey to predict these sorts of things before the first game has been played under the new administration. But I'm going to say "yes," for two essential reasons.
One is Ausmus himself, known as an intelligent fellow who has considerable standing of his own in the game. The rookie manager getting a winning team in his first job used to be a real rarity. Then Mike Matheny -- like Ausmus, a former catcher with lots of character references -- took the Cardinals to within one game of the World Series in his first season and to the World Series in his second.
This offseason three new managers landed with clubs that could be expected to win: Matt Williams with the Nationals, Bryan Price with the Reds and Ausmus with the Tigers.
Of those three clubs, the most proven commodity is the Tigers. And that is the second component that makes managerial success likely for Ausmus.
The Tigers have won three American League Central titles in a row. Even with the departure of Prince Fielder, they will have a powerful lineup. And they will have a lineup with more speed. Even with the loss of Doug Fister, they will still have one of the best rotations in the game. And their bullpen has received some needed upgrades, with added depth and with the addition of one of baseball's finest closers, Joe Nathan.
There is no reason to expect the Tigers will become a second-tier operation no matter who manages them. But success here would have to be measured in terms of a fourth straight division championship and then a deep postseason run.
Is Ausmus a candidate for that sort of success? Let us answer that question with another question: Why not?
He knows who he is. He knows who he isn't. He made this extremely clear in his recent remarks at a Winter Meetings media session after a question about what a tough act Leyland is to follow.
"Jim was one of the best managers of his time," Ausmus said. "And we're talking about the time where there were some pretty darned good managers; three just got elected to the Hall of Fame. But I don't go in trying to be Jim Leyland. I'm not Jim Leyland. I wouldn't expect anybody to want me to be Jim Leyland.
"In talking to a few managers that I know here, Mike Scioscia [of the Angels] I was talking to about this, he said the most important thing is to be yourself. If I try to emulate Jim Leyland or be Jim Leyland, I think people would look at me as being kind of fake. It doesn't carry a lot of weight. Certainly wouldn't gain any respect. The most important thing is being myself."
On the flip side, Leyland went out as manager on his own terms and will remain with the Detroit organization. Leyland has been generous with assistance for the new manager.
"Jim has been fantastic with me, starting with the organizational meetings we had the day after I was announced as manager," Ausmus said. "I've talked to Jim a number of times. Every time I have a meeting, Jim is basically sitting next to me or two seats over. I've talked to him a lot.
"He's been great in two ways. One, he'll give me any information I ask for or any information that he thinks I might need. And also makes it clear, 'I'm not the manager, you are. You need to do this. Just because I'm telling you I did it this way or I like this, doesn't mean you have to say that.' He's been fantastic."
Ausmus had the good fortune to play for a diverse but capable cross section of managers during his catching career. He also had the good sense to learn something from each manager who was worth learning from.
"I played for Joe Torre," Ausmus said, "and two things I took away; one is temperament. He was always calm. He never had to yell. And, two, he was never outmanaged. He was always prepared. You didn't necessarily always agree with what he did, but you always understood why he did it.
"Phil Garner I enjoyed playing for. He was more fiery. Looking back, I played for Larry Dierker in Houston for three years, and I was a young player. And he actually handed me the reins as a catcher. I was fourth-year in the big leagues, handed me the reins to control the running game, the first-and-thirds, I would call whether we threw to second or pump-faked, and at the time I thought he was throwing a lot on my plate. I was only 28 years old.
"But looking back, that taught me a lot about the game of baseball, because I had to figure out when to pitch out, who we were supposed to throw to. It was fortunate for me. A lot of catchers don't get that option at 28, they don't get that opportunity. Larry Dierker has had an impact."
Next up, Brad Ausmus will be having an impact with the Tigers. The team's talent is not in dispute. And even as a first-year manager following one of the managerial giants, Ausmus comes to this moment with considerable knowledge on his side.
Mike Bauman is a national columnist for MLB.com.


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GSA's Interagency Resources Management Conference
Gallaudet University
Washington, DC
March 15, 2011
Thanks for that kind introduction, and thank you President T. Alan Hurwitz and the rest of the Gallaudet community for hosting us this week for IRMCO's golden anniversary.
Your facilities are gorgeous, and I know that you are leading the way in sustainability within the higher education community. Bravo, and thank you.
This isn't just a golden anniversary for IRMCO; this is a pivotal moment for government.
We – the nation, the government and the resource managers in this room – face some significant challenges.
As President Barack Obama said in the State of the Union Address: We need to out-educate, out-build, and out-innovate our competitors to maintain our global leadership.
It is our heritage and our obligation to continue as the world leader in innovation, inclusiveness, openness, and creativity.
And we have to do all this in a budgetary climate that is uncertain yet certainly diminished.
We have to do more with less. We have to boost our efficiencies, shrink our waste, and build our collaborative capacities.
In other words, we have to create and foster a high-performance government.
We need a government that efficiently and effectively uses its resources; collaborates with the public; is nimble, agile, and responsive.
What are the best strategies for creating and fostering such a government?
The first strategy is to have a good strategic partner.
Allow me to suggest GSA for that role.
The Obama administration sees us as a strategic asset.
We are the membrane between government and industry. We touch many markets, a lot of the supply chain. We have important levers of policy change.
Our mission is to use our expertise to provide innovative solutions for our customers in support of their missions, and by so doing, foster an effective, sustainable, and transparent government.
For customers, we offer unparalleled expertise and best value in everything from IT to travel to buildings to disposal of property.
To industry, we provide clear business opportunities, encourage innovation, and support and invite good ideas.
To do this, we deliberately play a broad array of roles.
We transact business: buy, sell, post, reconcile, maintain, measure.
We convene and facilitate: We bring people together and solve problems.
We are a laboratory, a test bed, an ideas forum for what works and what doesn't.
In short, you couldn't have a better strategic partner.
The second strategy for a high-performance government is efficient and effective use of resources.
GSA is tackling this by embracing an aggressive sustainability agenda, zero environmental footprint. Z-E-F. ZEF.
ZEF means "no waste." This is an environmental philosophy, a management philosophy, taxpayer dollar stewardship, and a budget directive.
Sustainability is about being smart and efficient stewards of our resources.
That means all of our resources. And you are the people in government charged with the stewardship of our resources.
The private sector gets this.
To many private firms, sustainability is about more than blue skies and clear water; it's about productivity, efficiency, and the bottom line.
We should never waste, squander, or duplicate.
GSA's strategic sourcing initiatives and other heavy-lift procurement vehicles aim to provide efficient value for customers.
For example, last year alone, we saved agencies $128 million in package delivery service fees through strategic sourcing – in other words, co-operative buying – of delivery services.
ZEF is GSA's "pull metric." It pulls us to excellence.
It sets up a discipline similar to the transformational disciplines of total quality, zero defect products, perfect safety records.
ZEF is our change agent. It incites creativity and innovation.
By pursuing clean technologies for our building portfolio, we are investing in American-made solar panels.
By moving toward fuel-efficient and hybrid vehicles, we are encouraging new, home-grown markets like revolutionary car battery recycling facilities.
By embracing virtual work, we are discovering that commuting time can be used for exercising, that instant messaging and cloud documents can link teams in new ways, that entire floors of office space need not be heated and cooled.
Elsewhere, we're helping small businesses tackle the challenge of greenhouse gas emissions tracking and accounting, which will help trim waste from their supply chains.
And, ZEF is our talent machine.
It galvanizes people. It electrifies creativity. It touches every organization, every agency, and everyone. It holds deep meaning that motivates and engages people.
A third attribute of a high-performance government is that it does not hide; it does not close in on itself.
Instead, it reaches out to and collaborates with the public.
This is about open – in other words, "good" – government.
Transparency promotes accountability.
Participation enhances the government's effectiveness.
Collaboration actively engages Americans in the work of their government.
Together, they produce greater satisfaction and higher trust in a better-performing government.
At GSA, we're strengthening our ties to the public.
We're opening unprecedented amounts of information to the public on Data.gov for their consumption and analysis.
We're assisting citizens on the go by partnering with agencies to support mobile applications that stream information ranging from product recalls to Transportation Security Administration security checkpoint wait times directly into the palms of millions of Americans.
And, we're making use of collaborative tools to help improve the Federal Citizen Information Center, which receives more than 180 million requests for information each year from the public.
A fourth attribute of a high-performance government is that it is nimble, agile, responsive, and adaptive
For this, we have the Office of Governmentwide Policy.
OGP is helping to make your lives easier by slashing redundant regulations, revisiting the travel, fleet, and information technology policies, and bringing the government into the next decade.
Recently, we hosted an incredibly productive slam – a daylong brainstorming and action session – on the Federal Acquisition Regulation. I anticipate some terrific outputs from that session in the near future.
OGP also recognizes the need to revisit our regulations around office space and the increasingly mobile work force.
Today's workplaces increasingly rely on horizontal, team-based communication rather than the vertical, hierarchical communication of the past. We've moved from organizational ladders to organizational lattices.
We need new ways to work together and with citizens.
GSA, therefore, is testing and practicing with our own workspace. We are executing judo moves to immerse ourselves in futuristic workspaces so as to learn for our customers.
The lift around this is huge. Such as new server accessibility, new mobile connectivity, new policies for setting and organizing the mobile field, new protocols on teams, and new forms of leadership.
And that brings me to my final point – the final attribute of a high-performance government is that it learns.
GSA facilitates communication between and amongst the federal community.
We experiment, shoulder risks, learn, and share success and failures with you.
We're eager to convene the important players and foster dialogue – as we're doing here at IRMCO.
We are, at a moment, a pivotal moment in which government is being tested.
We gather here for two days to learn, share, collaborate, and to solve our problems.
Our individual missions vary greatly, but our purpose is the same: to provide the American people with the finest government possible.
I want you to know that GSA stands ready to help; we've got your back.
Thank you.


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The Black Eyed Peas are riding high after breaking the Billboard record for longest act on the top 100 with their successful singles, "I Gotta Feeling" and "Boom Boom Pow." Unfortunately for the chart topping group, someone's stepped up to shoot them down. A former employee on the Peas' concert tour is suing the band for an undisclosed amount of damages. Winter Sumpter claims that she was severely injured during band's 2007 "Black Blue & You" Tour. During the band's Burbank, California performance, Sumpter says she fell through a flight of stairs when "one of the treads became detached."
In her court claim she says she suffered "severe and permanent injuries" and was left with "mental, physical, nervous pain and suffering." Of course she's pointing the finger at the Peas for her clumsiness but she's not stopping there. She is also asking for a handout from their tour manager, and other concert officials. You know what they say; more money, more problems.
Despite the shady lawsuit, the Peas can crown themselves victorious overseas after a ban on one of their concerts was lifted. The band made headlines after Malaysian officials banned Muslim citizens from attending their upcoming concert in the country. Now however, that ban has been lifted and all citizens of Malaysia are free to attend at their will. The ban was put in place because the concert is sponsored by the Irish beer company, Guinness. Muslims are denounced from using alcohol as part of their Islamic law. Muslim officials have yet to provide a reason why the ban was lifted but they are imposing strict rules. Guinness will not be allowed to sell their product at the concert or use its logo for publicity. The concert is part of the beer company's 250th anniversary.


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The mission of the Boy Scouts of America is to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and Law.
|Scout Oath
|Scout Law
On my honor I will do my best
To do my duty to God and my country
and to obey the Scout Law;
To help other people at all times;
To keep myself physically strong,
mentally awake, and morally straight.
|A Scout is:
The Boy Scouts of America is the nation's foremost youth program of character development and values-based leadership training.
In the future Scouting will continue to
The Boy Scouts of America was incorporated to provide a program for community organizations that offers effective character, citizenship, and personal fitness training for youth.
Specifically, the BSA endeavors to develop American citizens who are physically, mentally, and emotionally fit; have a high degree of self-reliance as evidenced in such qualities as initiative, courage, and resourcefulness; have personal values based on religious concepts; have the desire and skills to help others; understand the principles of the American social, economic, and governmental systems; are knowledgeable about and take pride in their American heritage and understand our nation's role in the world; have a keen respect for the basic rights of all people; and are prepared to participate in and give leadership to American society.
Boy Scouting, one of the traditional membership divisions of the BSA, is available to boys who have earned the Arrow of Light Award or have completed the fifth grade, or who are 11 through 17 years old . The program achieves the BSA's objectives of developing character, citizenship, and personal fitness qualities among youth by focusing on a vigorous program of outdoor activities.
Boy Scout program membership, as of December 31, 2001, is
|Boy Scouts/Varsity Scouts
|adult volunteers
Thousands of volunteer leaders, both men and women, are involved in the Boy Scouting program. They serve in a variety of jobs—everything from unit leaders to chairmen of troop committees, committee members, merit badge counselors, and chartered organization representatives.
Like other phases of the program, Boy Scouting is made available to community organizations having similar interests and goals. Chartered organizations include professional organizations; governmental bodies; and religious, educational, civic, fraternal, business, labor, and citizens' groups. Each organization appoints one of its members as the chartered organization representative. The organization is responsible for leadership, the meeting place, and support for troop activities.
Several groups are responsible for supporting Boy Scouting: the boy and his parents, the troop, the chartered organization, and the community. Boys are encouraged to earn money whenever possible to pay their own expenses, and they also contribute dues to their troop treasuries to pay for budgeted items. Troops obtain additional income by working on approved money-earning projects. The community, including parents, supports Scouting through the United Way, Friends of Scouting campaigns, bequests, and special contributions to the BSA local council. This income provides leadership training, outdoor programs, council service centers and other facilities, and professional service for units.
The Scouting program has three specific objectives, commonly referred to as the "Aims of Scouting." They are character development, citizenship training, and personal fitness.
The methods by which the aims are achieved are listed below in random order to emphasize the equal importance of each.
Local councils operate and maintain Scout camps. The National Council operates high-adventure areas at Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico, the Northern Tier National High Adventure Program in Minnesota and Canada, and the Florida National High Adventure Sea Base in the Florida Keys . About 70 councils also operate high-adventure programs.
The BSA conducts a national Scout jamboree every four years and participates in world Scout jamborees (also held at four-year intervals). Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia, was the site of the 2001 National Scout Jamboree.
Scouting, as known to millions of youth and adults, evolved during the early 1900s through the efforts of several men dedicated to bettering youth. These pioneers of the program conceived outdoor activities that developed skills in young boys and gave them a sense of enjoyment, fellowship, and a code of conduct for everyday living.
In this country and abroad at the turn of the century, it was thought that children needed certain kinds of education that the schools couldn't or didn't provide. This led to the formation of a variety of youth groups, many with the word "Scout" in their names. For example, Ernest Thompson Seton, an American naturalist, artist, writer, and lecturer, originated a group called the Woodcraft Indians and in 1902 wrote a guidebook for boys in his organization called the Birch Bark Roll. Meanwhile in Britain, Robert Baden-Powell, after returning to his country a hero following military service in Africa, found boys reading the manual he had written for his regiment on stalking and survival in the wild. Gathering ideas from Seton, America 's Daniel Carter Beard, and other Scoutcraft experts, Baden-Powell rewrote his manual as a nonmilitary skill book, which he titled Scouting for Boys. The book rapidly gained a wide readership in England and soon became popular in the United States . In 1907, when Baden-Powell held the first campout for Scouts on Brownsea Island off the coast of England, troops were spontaneously springing up in America .
William D. Boyce, a Chicago publisher, incorporated the Boy Scouts of America in 1910 after meeting with Baden-Powell. (Boyce was inspired to meet with the British founder by an unknown Scout who led him out of a dense London fog and refused to take a tip for doing a Good Turn.) Immediately after its incorporation, the BSA was assisted by officers of the YMCA in organizing a task force to help community organizations start and maintain a high-quality Scouting program. Those efforts climaxed in the organization of the nation's first Scout camp at Lake George, New York, directed by Ernest Thompson Seton. Beard, who had established another youth group, the Sons of Daniel Boone (which he later merged with the BSA), provided assistance. Also on hand for this historic event was James E. West, a lawyer and an advocate of children's rights, who later would become the first professional Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America. Seton became the first volunteer national Chief Scout, and Beard, the first national Scout Commissioner.
The BSA publishes the Boy Scout Handbook (more than 37 million copies of which have been printed); the Patrol Leader Handbook, which offers information relevant to boy leadership; the Scoutmaster Handbook; more than 100 merit badge pamphlets dealing with hobbies, vocations, and advanced Scoutcraft; and program features and various kinds of training, administrative, and organizational manuals for adult volunteer leaders and Boy Scouts. In addition, the BSA publishes Boys' Life magazine, the national magazine for all boys (magazine circulation is more than 1.3 million) and Scouting magazine for volunteers, which has a circulation of 900,000.
Conservation activities supplement the program of Boy Scout advancement, summer camp, and outdoor activities and teaches young people to better understand their interdependence with the environment.
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OCEAN CITY – Phillips Foods President and CEO Steve Phillips has been awarded Maryland's 2011 Governor's International Leadership Award.
The award is the highest honor given in the Maryland business community, according to a press release. Those honored with this award demonstrate creativity and innovative strategies to drive industry leadership and world-class results while positively impacting Maryland's place on the global stage.
Phillips earned a bachelor's degree in business from the University of Miami. Besides his thriving business, he also serves on the board for the National Fisheries Institute, World Trade Center Institute and the University of Maryland Medical Systems Hospital.
According to Governor Martin O'Malley, "For more than 50 years, the name Phillips has meant something quite special here in Maryland. Today with Phillips' impressive global footprint, it is an honor to award Steve Phillips with the 2011 Governor's International Leadership Award. Long before international trade was the norm, Steve was a pioneer in Asia developing crab facilities to supplement the U.S. supply, providing jobs for thousands of Marylanders in manufacturing, hospitality/restaurants, and headquarter operations."
AE Phillips and Son seafood processing plant was established on the Chesapeake Bay in 1914. Phillips' parents founded the family's first restaurant here in Ocean City in 1956. He expanded the company by opening the waterfront location in Baltimore's Inner Harbor over 30 years ago. The Phillips brand is now recognized nationwide for its Maryland style cuisine.
Phillips led the formation of Phillips Foods, Inc. in 1990. He established the blue crab swimming industry across Southeast Asia as the supply of blue crabs faded away in the Chesapeake Bay. The facilities in Asia ensure a year-round source for the family's restaurants and retail, as well as thousands of other restaurants and grocery stores across the country.
Philips initiatives of sustainability and aquaculture have become part of the family's company mission. The company has begun a global program to reduce energy, water use, minimize processing waste, and pressed for the formation of "Seafood Sustainability Directors", a program to coordinate broader industry efforts in the United States.
"I am honored and humbled to be recognized for my work in the global seafood industry, which is truly my passion," said Phillips.


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Bart De Smet's on-line blog (0x2B | ~0x2B, that's the question)
RSS is the abbreviation for many things. I personnally like Really Simple Syndication, but technically it stands close to RDF. I guess this is why you chose this description.
Managing file permissions is possible in v1.1 too without resorting to PInvoke.
Whitbey will add this to the BCL, but as of today you can use the System.Management namespace classes that wraps WMI functionality to do that, on XP and higher it's also possible to use the DirectoryServices namespace classes to manage ACL's on Filesystem objects and AD objects.
If you need a sample of both methods just drop me a mail.
Another point I forgot in my previous feedback is that the same namespaces can be used to create Fileshares Printershares etc.
Here is a sample using the DirectoryServices with some COM interop with the activeds.dll.
using System;
using System.DirectoryServices;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using activedsnet;
class Tester {
public static void Main() {
// DirectoryEntry container = new DirectoryEntry("WinNT://yourcomputernamehere, computer", null, null, AuthenticationTypes.ServerBind);
using (DirectoryEntry container = new DirectoryEntry("WinNT://scenic/LanmanServer", "administrator", "kevin", AuthenticationTypes.ServerBind))
IADsContainer cont = container.NativeObject as IADsContainer;
if (cont != null) {
// Share the path as PublicDocs
IADsFileShare FileShare = cont.Create("FileShare", "PublicDocs") as IADsFileShare;
FileShare.Path = @"c:\pipo";
FileShare.Description = "MyPipo";
FileShare.MaxUserCount = 2;
// K:\NetV1.1\Management>csc /r:activedsnet.dll fileshares.cs
To run the sample you need to create a Interop Assembly by running tlbimp on the activeds.tlb (found in the system32 dir)
fi .
tlbimp c:\windows\system32\activeds.tlb out:activedsnet.dll
will create a IA called activedsnet.dll containing a namespace activedsnet
Adapt the path to your own needs, compile the program and run
Héhé, nice to bring to attention. I'll take a look when I watch Koppen next week :)
Windows PE? Never heard of it. Can you give a link to some more info
Windows PE stands for Pre-installation Environment. It's a small Windows release of Windows XP which can run completely from a CD-ROM (compare it with running DOS from a diskette). I'm using this tool for my SchoolServer project at Microsoft Belux but unfortunately it's only available for volume license customers of Microsoft. However, there's a free alternative on http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/.
When will your article on SQL Server Notification Services be published? Will it be available in English? Sorry, I just have an email address - email@example.com
Nice vision, but right? Then, where would you place Windows 3.0 ^^ in your vision?
I agree there is some overlap between all those "versions". DOS still existed when Windows was built. The Windows technology will live further in the .NET timeframe.
So, to answer your question: in my opinion all the pre-Windows 95 products can be placed in the DOS timeframe; it's just a graphicall shell on top of DOS, not a real OS itself (while Windows 95 was a stand-alone OS that contained a lot of DOS underneath the covers).
It was (almost) all about clients or little networks. In the v2.0 timeframe the client-server model became more and more important, while today in v3.0 there's the new magic word of "services".
Hi Bart
I played with generics and it's really cool, if your intresed check out my blog (http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/posts/40139.aspx, http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/posts/38949.aspx). Another great feature of .NET 2.0 is ObjectSpaces (in my opinion). I'm just getting started with it, but it looks very cool.
One word: pathetic.
And a happy 2004 to you too Bart!
Is your application doing all of the low level calls to AD to perform your actions, or do you export those tasks to another execution engine?
Perhaps you may want to think about the Microsoft Provisioning System to do the low level work for you. Take a look a the community site that I run:
Feel free to send me an email to discuss further: firstname.lastname@example.com
Conrad Agramont
Nice work Bart!
It seems to be fine... But i think there a problem.
I had to work with shares in vb.net and i get an error the path in my shares is higher than 260 characters...
In fact, i had to browse all the folders in my shares and for each files of my folders, i had to output to a file the ACE.
Did you get such errors with the length of your path ?
Just read your article about http handlers on ASP.NET. Great great work!
Oh, nice step you have on your new website ;-)
I've got it...
Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE) 1.2
Readme Document
April 15, 2003
Informative. Inspiring. Thanks for all your hard work!
I am new to the internet and I am web surfing and I did a search in the search engines on "real estate company blog" and I found your web blog.
I am a Halifax Real Estate Agent in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and I heard blogs were specialized discussions on topics, thus my interest in searching for a real estate blog on the WWW.
I just wanted to see how the rest of the world thinks and see what trends and technology are happening in the real estate market. I also am interested in a blog for myself, that is if I can understand the technology of operating a blog and from what I see I am somewhat hesitant right now even though it was interesting reading.
Respectfully yours
James B. ,
A Halifax Real Estate Agent
Thank you for the RSS
XP Reloaded; I like that!
btw: good to cu blogging again
Good luck with your demo Bart!
It all went perfect! Congratulations to the best team ever!
Or use the google toolbar - also *very* effective :)
Hey Bart. Just wanted to say thanks for mentioning CassiniEx.
I just posted a new version of CassiniEx v0.94.402.
This is configured more like IIS, and you can also see a screen shot of the new Management Console I'm working on.
Check this out for a great WinPE replacement
Indeed, I know of this as well, but I'm involved in a project of Microsoft Belux where we need to deploy Windows PE itself. Thanks for the feedback!
I get an error that the <cache> section is an unrecognized configuration section. Any ideas?
It should work if you're using the PDC build of ASP.NET version 2.0 (a.k.a. "Whidbey").
i also get
"Unrecognized configuration section cache"
when ASP.NET tries to parse web.config.
we've got the Community Tech Preview installed here. Tried it on 2 machines, same error. Interestingly no error with the <connectionStrings/> node with i believe is a ASP.NET 2.0 feature.
XP SP2 RC1 issues
@BartPE Nice Tools Bart !, I start to disassemble ERD Commander 2003 to a new OS Based on XP,2000 & 2003 called SatanOS, a Network, Cra**** & Disa******** related OS, the Idea Is to give people all over the world the might to hack what they want to...even chinese poeople a "not controlled" Net ! We are very surprised to find Barts Tools wich are very helpfull for the "little" Project. If anyone in this Blog have any Good Idea what we can embedd in Satan OS, you are welcome to post it here: -faz
Try using 'caching' instead of cache.
...Good Idea a VNC Client if course, where do I get satanOS ?
Care to share the ISO file (LH-4074)
Cheers...You're a life saver.
"Gacutil will definitely be your friend "
Acutally I find the shell extension you mentioned to be much more convienent. Just open explorer to c:\windows\assembly, drag your dll into it, and you are done. Also can delete with it.
Of course GACutil is scriptable...
It's secure because nothing works :D (everything is disabled by default)
Well, they didn't make the same fault as with IIS5.0, and that's an improvement. Windows 2003 Web edition is the most secure web server ... of all IIS. Apache and others are more stable and secure though...
Hi Geert,
Thanks for your comment and reading my blog. However, can you give us some arguments why Apache would be more secure and stable than IIS? :-) I've various reasons to say the same about IIS 6.0.
Just read this and I'm sure you'll make your own customized one.
IIS6 is a major step forward, but it's main problem is Windows :). My personal experience: i installed the Windows 2003 web edition, i brought a server to the data center and I connected to the Internet. After 1 minute, a famous virus (already forgot it's name, it was a virus targetting sql server servers) had infected the server (I didn't had the time to do windows update and install patches/updates - I can't do magic in 1 minute :) The virus was constantly rebooting the server, but gave me every time 30 seconds to do some stuff... So I clicked as hell to install the patch :D
Talking about webservers, IIS6 could be as stable as Apache (which has proven itself over the years). Now it's up to IIS. Oh, and never let debugger users on your IIS, they can bring down your application pool...
Hi Geert,
That's exactly why I have this post on my blog: http://community.bartdesmet.net/blogs/bart/archive/2004/05/07/262.aspx#FeedBack
I should have known this earlier ;)
The command line is a vewwy powerful Windows tool :)
On the last security summit Jürgen van Dievel (?) talked about a SP which would be very strict about security, and he was sure it would give a lot of application problems (because the security will be véry thight).
looking forward to it :-)
I think you mean Jurgen Van Duvel. Sounds that we were there both that day (but I was attending the developers track). The point is in fact that certain points will be disabled by default indeed (thing that have to do with DCOM etc). Furthermore there is of course the built-in firewall that will be enabled by default as well, therefore blocking all "crucial ports".
Yes, Jurgen Van Duvel (although I rather like Palm or Kriek). Blocking all crucial ports... sounds like helpdesk people will be going through hell shortly :-)
hmm sounds focking cool :-)
These are hard links, not symbolic links!
Wanneer komt de schoolserver uit? Ik kan echt niet meer wachten om ons netwerk eindelijk op schoolniveau te kunnen beheren...
Kristof Boeckx
ICT-Coördinator VTI Kontich
When will the schoolserver be released? I can't wait to manage our schoolnetwork on a school-based level.
can someone post a link that works please
Solving the spam problem with Caller ID technology would be great.
But according to experts, this technology has both strong points and weaknesses. It requires mail servers to download the entire content of spam messages, then it only checks for it for the sender IP address before rejecting them.
The Microsoft Outlook 2003 spam filter wasn't good enough for me too, so I installed a plug-in for Outlook - Spambully. It's a Bayesian spam filter and works almost perfect for me.
Solving the spam problem with Caller ID technology would be great.
But according to experts, this technology has both strong points and weaknesses. It requires mail servers to download the entire content of spam messages, then it only checks for it for the sender IP address before rejecting them.
The Microsoft Outlook 2003 spam filter wasn't good enough for me too, so I installed a plug-in for Outlook - Spambully (http://www.spambully.com). It's a Bayesian spam filter and works almost perfect for me.
Yep, that was me speaking on that event ;)
Microsoft is trying to find the right balance currently between tight security by default and not breaking (too) many end user experiences / functionality.
However this does not mean that there won't be any issues. As I stressed over the last couple of months: test Windows XP SP-2 as soon as possible. That is the only way to make sure you're not in for a big surprise ;)
Hello Bart,
my comment on: "...learned to know some nice guys."
It's time to look for a nice girl now you're in 'Holland'. ;-)
Have fun and enjoy the 'holidays'.
Koen D'Haese aka K#
for Italian fans i've find one, the best site with all arguments is http:www.pda-phones.net they have also some links where to buy the other Qtek, 8080 that is smaller, is not big like a pda but is like a normal phone, the same windows ce but smaller
for me it's ok here i've founded more instruction in italian
excuse me for the error i made, i repost the link here
can you post detailed informations about what is said about VSMT during Wednesday?
Thx for your example, can you please provide me the different documents.
Because I don't understand everything.
Thank you
Take a look at http://bink.nu/DesktopModules/ArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=2103 for more information (a post of fellow-MVP "Bink").
I posted that informations from myself on my blog. I wanted to have some more informations not published till now about what you asked and what Microsoft answered at Q&A session time.
I installed the VBExpress but finally after the download and install/setup no icons are displayed.. it looks like it is completely vanished from my machine.
Tried this on 2 different machine and both had the exact same outcome.
Anything special that needs to be done after installation?
do you know how to setup a ISA server 2004 with Exchange 2003 using RPC over HTTPS?
Love to hear more.
I'm not really an ISA expert, that is, I know how to setup the server and how to do the basic configuration and I'm currently investigating the SDK to develop solutions based on ISA 2004. However, I don't know all kinds of scenarios. I know there is a kind of task in ISA 2004 to publish an Exchange 2003 server with OWA, POP3, IMAP4, etc and I think you can publish RPC for Exchange 2003 that way as well. For more information, you can take a look at www.isaserver.org which is a 3rd party (community) site that focuses on ISA Server 2000 and ISA Server 2004. If you don't find the answer, post your question on the forums over there.
Regarding "bugs" - no, not on your machine only - I too get the "The service principal name for the VMRC server..." issue as well, and I cannot connect to my Virtual Servers :(
Did you get any joy sorting this out?
how do i get this fantastic longhorn file and program
How do you sign up to MSDN, I can find my .NET passport ID but it's to big.
GreetZ Barto!!!
Welcome back to your blog ;)
I´ve missed you..
I've been off for a short holiday.
Hey Bart,
"Onderkast" is a valid dutch word and means exactly the same as the word "lowercase" in English. So there's nothing wrong with that translation...
See http://www.vandale.be/opzoeken/woordenboek/?zoekwoord=onderkast
mailMSG.Fields["http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver"] = txServidor.Text;
mailMSG.Fields["http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpauthenticate"] = 0;
mailMSG.Fields["http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusing"] = 2;
Msg.Fields("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserverport") = 25;
Msg.Fields("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusername") = "username";
Msg.Fields("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendpassword") = "password";
Is there anybody do this work in C++?
Take note that in W2k AD you need to extend the AD schema first, for W2k3, the extended fields are already there.
Nice, read the complete series and discovered some interesting things!
as i remember the aspnet_setreg tool can only be used for pre-defined sections
so encrypting the dsn key in the appSettings want work if i'm correct
the only sections you can use it for are
<identity userName= password= />
<processModel userName= password= />
<sessionState stateConnectionString= sqlConnectionString= />
so basically you can not use if for the appSettings
please correct me if i'm wrong over here!!
Indeed, this is right and (since my post was done rather late that day) it might not be completely clear in my initial post. The sections you mention are the only ones which are supported (although this will change towards the Whidbey release of ASP.NET).
For storing secrets in <appSettings> in an encrypted way, use DPAPI as well (as ASP.NET is doing itself using aspnet_setreg). More information can be found on http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnnetsec/html/SecNetHT08.asp.
nice! I would have never thought of that!
Hi. I'm just learning but, when I run this line:
tlbimp c:\windows\system32\activeds.tlb out:activedsnet.dll
it gives me activeds.dll not activedsnet.dll as you have indicated here. What am I doing wrong>
Have a look at this mate:
it's quite easy and really cool stuff!
I too get that service principal name error. What the he!! is that about?! I found this forum purely because I am trying to find someone who has fixed this issue. Help!
What if the shutdown -a will not execute on a windows 2000 machine
Nice post!
Keep up the good work.
Just to illustrate how popular the question is actually. The next question I was answering was basically the same (but now for PDF file protection) :-): http://www.asp.net/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?tabindex=1&PostID=692594#692617
According to the 2.0 guided tour, you need not do the web.config work for Yukon:
Yukon doesn't do table-level locking, it detects changes at the row-level.
(However, I still can't get it to work!)
shouldn't the result of
type text.cpy be Hello for true symbolic linking ?
oops sorry, didn't read far enough :)
but (as already stated) this is not a symbolic link at all!
try to do this:
echo joker>joker.txt
fsutil hardlink create hoho.txt joker.txt
del joker.txt
type hoho.txt still works..
wheras in unix a file not found alike message would occur..
Omg.. I hope the names will be confgurable..
video divx
Do you know if there is a way to somehow scan a non-sparse file for zero data, set the file sparse, and then flag those ranges in the sparse file? In other words, would it be possible to "convert" a non-sparse file to a sparse one automatically?
Bart! Please say it ain't so! Power User is *not* running with least privilege! It's sometimes called admin-lite because it has most of the dangerous privileges that the Administrators group has. You're not protecting yourself from anything by running as a Power User.
Indeed Don, thanks for the correction. In fact I have two accounts, one power user (non-admin) for installation tasks etc and a normal developer user account but I was a little confused since I just finished my Active Directory setup. That time, I was still running under the context of my 'install' account (which is a Power User) since normal users don't have the right to reboot/shut down the machine by default (W2K3 in a domain setup). Now, my normal user account has the right to shut down the machine and now I'm indeed running as a normal user on the system.
Thx for the remark; I've added some little remark in the initial post, pointing to this comment.
System Event Log keyed me to the answer of this one:
The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server application with CLSID {DA3111BC-1BD7-4884-A535-8470D36028F7} to the user... This security permission can be modified using the Component Services administrative tool.
Opened up the properties for the Virtual Server component and noticed the Everyone was on the Deny list for COM+ Activation in the Security properties. I added the user I'm hitting the page as with Local Activation permissions and all is well. Good luck J & C, sorry to hijack yer comments B#.
I'm considering ISA 2004 as a firewall/IDS for our LAN, which includes an Exchange 2003 server. Any addtional comments on ISA 2004 would be welcome, particularly about its intrusion detection/prevention features.
Thanks in advance.
Monad links
am getting the following error in web.config where the connection string is read from the registry.
Format of the initialization string does not conform to specification starting at index 0
Could you please let me know what the problem is
Would be nice if it wouldn't be restricted to MVP's only...
i wont dowanlod winpe
The Satanic Boot CD is done:
Check this out
and tell me what do think about it !
@ eval thx for the link, but...
If anyone know how to publish without getting trouble
Anybody with P2P server out there, please contact me
Screenshots

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The FileSystemWatcher also isn't that accurate: if you create a lot of files in a short time, the filesystemwatcher will skip some (I believe because of a in-memory buffer which is too small).
good thinking :-)
Hi Geert,
Thanks for your feedback. The remark about the accuracy of the FileSystemWatcher is true indeed. This has to do with the underlying Win32 API (*ChangeNotification functions; ReadDirectoryChangesW) being called by the framework and the use of an internal buffer with a default size of 4K (which can hold about 70-80 changes). Each event takes a series of bytes (16 to start with and additional ones for the Unicode-formatted filename). It's possible to modify the buffer size (with caution!) using the InternalBufferSize property. Since the contents of the buffer are non-paged in memory, you should avoid doing this as much as possible (swapping to disk will be denied) since this can imply a performance drop.
Hello sir,
i am really get confused that what is ASP.NET v2.0 - About Whidbey ?
is it New version of ASP.Net of Microsoft or It is different from Microsoft. so why its Whidbey..
request to lh 4074 link
Please send me link
generall it is used in the application of linking between one system to another but specially in the case of some web application.xml is the very good example of this thing.
When I upgraded my Dell hard drive, I didn't even look to see if it had a different connector. When I went to replace the hard drive I was a little worried, but then realized that there was a small detachable connector on the Dell hard drive that I just took off from the Dell hard drive and voila, it worked fine. Could yours have the same detachable connector?
Just use safe coding practices and do not (exclusively) rely on the returned file name. For example: for files that are created, check all file names to find the new files. Maybe less performant, but very lickely to be more accurate.
No he won't. Ever seen an ass looking at .NET sites?
They also could use the .WaitAny() or WaitAll() methods to tackle the 'non-deterministic' behaviour...
I get the same error
Format of the initialization string does not conform to specification starting at index 0
Any joy?
I'm having trouble actually creating the BMP file. I'm a professional graphic designer, so it's not for lack of ability : )
It's the technical spec for the image you outlined. On another site [http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/info/bootini.shtml] the image requirements are listed as: "a 16-color (any 16 colors) 640x480 bitmap".
The listed image sizes are different, also 4bit = 16 colours, where as 16bit = 32 million colours.
I'm not sure which are the correct specs, but I'm going to try both.
Hm, I love it too!!! (especially because I wrote an IIS6 web control panel using the old .NET 1.1 techniques...)
Do you know of any samples or articles about this? If not, maybe a good idea for you to write something more in-depth (with sourcecode) about it! :-)
Not being funny, but wouldn't it be easier to add a shortcut to seach.msn.com to your links toolbar, rather than disabling google access completely from your machine?
Alternatively, you could install MS Powertoys and then add msn as a search keyword (as well as gg for google). That way you can type "gg my test phrase" or "msn my test phrase" in your address bar and save even more time.
If you fancy hacking around in the registry to do the same thing then take a look at:-
Your way is hardcore, I'll give you that ;-)
hi friend, it seems that i am in different site,
oh no its the same site where I wanna go but no comments
are appearing here related to the topic. May be I am wrong
but friend got your site while searching blog in search
engine and it is nice to say that i visited ur site
in my friend's house who is layout controller
of website's. He told me that this particular
site contain reasnable layouts and good contents
which is relevant to this site. Rarely we get this
type of site. Really appreciates your blog page. Thnks.
Mmmmm, Reflection; I love it! Nice example!
One year ago I did a POC project that was a framework for sort of plug-ins. We used a lot of custom attributes to "glue" everything together.
Hehe, you wrote "Force yourself to go to Google instead of MSN as follows" :-D
Coincidence or not? :p
Thanks for sharing this example. For an application that I'm currently writing, I was looking for a way to accomplish this "plugin" functionality without spending a lot of development time (deadlines, you know...), and this is indeed an easy but nevertheless powerfull way.
Nice! I just tried it and it works like a charm. However, I don't like the fact that you have to click in the white rectangle (the activex control) first to establish the connection (and it looks bad too). It would be much prettier if the server's screen would be right there when showing the slide.
Can't you use a Slide_Load event or something like that? I guess I could google, euhm, MSN for it, but maybe you can tell me? :)
You should upload your pictures of IT Forum 2004 to your MSN space! :-)
Did you already write some code using these new classes?
Do you mind sharing it? (or maybe writing a new blog entry about it ;-))
Damn, thanx dotnetjunkie for the comment; of course I applied a change :-)
If you really feel that strong about it... submit the feedback to: https://www.windowsserverfeedback.com/
But I'd say you do not need to install it by default, unless you are setting up a new server. Or you are installing the SP in 'interactive mode'. I'd even launch it straight after the install, so the admin knows about it and can test it on the 'test SP1 deployment server'.
If I'm not mistaken, this tool can be run against remote servers, and I believe that is how you would eventually run this on a production server, after doing a remote SP1 install.
The reason for not doing the default install, I would assume, is because production servers (hosted in some datacenter) need to be up and running as soon as possible. Minimizing down-time and minimizing the risk of the SP breaking some apps/services on a production server. So just patching what is there and not adding to much new stuff.
But then again, it has been ages since I installed a server on my own ;-)
Thanks for the comment Rudi. A series of comments were already sent to the website you mentioned (which should be pretty wellknown right now since we've been distributing light-bulb stressballs at IT Forum: "Share your ideas! WindowsServerFeedback.com").
I agree that the patching procedure for a production server is indeed more crucial than patching a desktop OS so downtime should be reduced as much as possible. The tool can run against remote machines indeed.
So, basically, what I'm missing is the "notification" for the people that this new tool is indeed available since the Service Pack installation itself does not point people to this brand new (very useful) feature at all. Maybe the concept of a "Security Center" in W2K3 would make sense as well, maybe in the format of an MMC instead of a Configuration Panel plug-in (these comments will be submitted soon when I have a "feedback batch" ready).
How did you resolve this issue, cause I'm having the same problem. Also relay was open on this server I just turned it off.
Check the ACL on the registry keys. You'll get this if it can't access the encrypted values.
I believe there is a workaround for the theme issue
see section "What's Missing From This Release?"
Indeed, there is a workaround (adding a few lines for the theme), but for this experimental phase "net stop themes" is sufficient for me.
Correction concerning the <location> tag:
<location path="/admin">
<allow roles="admin" />
<deny users="*" />
should be
<location path="/admin">
<allow roles="admin" />
<deny users="*" />
please send me a direct download link for windows longhorn 4074
i've been trying to get it since 4 month but i couldn't. So can someone help?
Plz e-mail the link to my e-mail add:
Be careful when using roles such as BUILTIN\Administrators. In localized versions of Windows, this name can be different (e.g. BUILTIN\Administradores or BUILTIN\Administrateurs). Make this configurable!
use WindowsBuiltInRole enum....
also consider using PasswordDeriveBytes - this takes a salt and a number of iterations to generate the hash...
Thanks for the comment Dominick. I'll be blogging about these enums soon (as well as enhancements in the v2.0 space concerning ACLs, SIDs etc without direct Win32 calls), the pitfall was just some last thing I had in my mind for that particular (looooong) post.
However, the major problem I came across some time ago was to make web.config <authorization> sections flexible enough to work with Administrators only access but still make it configurable. BUILTIN\Administrators is allowed in the <allow roles=""> tag, but that is fixed for a certain locale. SIDs don't work over there...
Hi I would really like to do this on our server, but a newbie with AD. How can I extend the ad in W2k?
please send me a direct download link for windows longhorn 4074.
This seems to be a very popular post on my blog. To make it clear: currently, there are only two technology preview releases (build 4051 aka PDC build and build 4074 aka WinHEC build) available. The latter one is available through MSDN Subscriptions. So, in order to get it you *must* be an MSDN subscriber (msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions). A beta of Longhorn is likely expected somewhere this year, but dates are not officially announced yet.
On Windows Server 2003 you can just add the server to the "domain controller" role using the "Configure Your Server Wizard". Alternatively, you can run the dcpromo command using Start, Run which will guide you through the process of setting up Active Directory on your machine. Please note that the installation and configuration of DNS is also required (but this will be done automatically if not present already). But it's still important to be aware of the why and how of the DNS requirement.
I have nothing inthe "Deny" list, and this software was working on my system. The trial expired, I've installed a purchased copy, but same error no matter what.
Tried changing the "Virtial Server", as well as the "VMRC components. Also, tried adding SERVICE.
The service that the Virtual Server runs under in via "NT Authority" and the account name is not available to add within apps or the DCOM+ components.
-- Rob --
Regarding my previous comments, here's the error:
The service principal name for the VMRC server could not be registered. Automatic authentication will always use NTLM authentication. Error 0x8007200b - The attribute syntax specified to the directory service is invalid.
The event ID 1029 doesn't exist anywhere.
The user is "NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE" which you can't add to anything.
The service is running, but it isn't working, and it cannot be administered.
I am running Windows XP SP2 with the latest available patches and updates.
When I originally installed Virtual Server on XP with SP1, it was great. Then, installing SP2 broke it. I fixed the DCOM+ component, and then it worked again. For 180 days or so.
I'm stuck!!
-- Rob --
As a followup, I gave excessive permissions, and added SYSTEM, and then rebooted, and now my system is working. No errors. I just posted a message requesting the appropriate permission settings on the Microsoft forum for Virtual Server, and I'll post any helpful responses here.
Thanks to Bart for letting me post this stuff!
-- Rob "I" --
It's 2005 now, and still no C# 2.0
The C# 2.0 language specification is already complete for quite some time now, just like the compiler and the basic framework. The majority of the work is now focused on the tools, which you can except in mid-2005 together with the SQL Server 2005 product. I agree it takes time, but it's definitely worth the wait and quality, security are the primary focuses, not time schedules.
I would love to find a solution to this also I am having the same problem exept mine has become more sporatic.
ant suggestions
You helped me out! Thanks. Same problem, but I was seeing it on Serialize, not Deserialize. Why? Because my Getter was causing the loop, not the setter. Yucky. The reason I had the set/get in the first place was to make the public property not serialize. I guess I'll have to find another way. :-)
Make sure you have a recepient policy for the domain you're trying to send mail on. Without it, your server thinks it's relaying for foreign domains.
This is really very cool. I was giving some demos to big audiences today, and I only wish I had have known about this keystroke sequence _before_ the demos. Live and learn though!
I'm curious if there is another approach to try..catch..finally for cleaning up SQL connections.
From the blog entry....
try {
//use conn
catch (SqlException ex) {
//catch it; don't attempt to close over here
finally {
conn.Close(); //or better, check connection state first using conn.State
I'm actually using a "using" block to ensure that the SQL Connection is always disposed of correctly.:
using( SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(...)
// do sql calls
catch (SqlException ex)
//catch it; don't attempt to close over here
Hi Boris,
The using pattern (which I blogged about before) is definitely a good choice as well. You could actually discuss about the order of a try and using block however when used together. If you're really curious about this, I'd invite you to take a look at the IL-code being generated when you use the using pattern and try...catch pattern to see what's really happening behind the scenes. If I find some time, I'll post some info on that too.
Do you have more detailed code of rendering the file as Binary? We're having to use this protection scheme for files now, but I haven't had much experieince with ouputting to the binary stream in ASP.NET, and I've having a bear of a time getting this to wrok.
Last year I had the chance to work with BITS as an application building block. It has many advantages over implementing error tolerant downloading yourself. The downloading occurs in an NT service, which is great for multi-user machines. And it usually handles network faults well. But it does have some issues that can make it hard to use correctly.
It supports authentication, but auth failures are treated as transient errors so BITS keeps trying until the error limit is reached. The user/pass should be verified before creating the job. The transient vs hard error states caused me some other problems that I don't fully recall. Note that after a hard error the job and downloaded data is lost.
When downloading large sets of individual files you must decide to have 1 file per job or all files in 1. The files of a job are only available when the entire job completes. But 1 file per job also can be bad because creating a new job gets really slow as the number of existing jobs grows. I am talking about thousands of files here.
The HTTP server must support partial download ranges. No problem, they all do, except for when ASP/PHP pages serve the files. Fortunately it is easy to implement the "Range" request header and "Content-Range" response header in your ASP page. See sections 14.35 and 14.16 of the spec (RFC2616).
As a side note, BITS also is very useful for uploading. Just install the IIS extension, enable a vdir and everything will work in reverse (but only one file per upload job).
On the whole I would warn people to be careful when using BITS as an API. It could save you some time, but you also may spend an unexpected amount of time fighting with little oddities of BITS itself.
please send me a direct download link for windows longhorn 4074.
please send me a direct download link for windows longhorn 4074
SwitchBL8's gebazel - BITS
I hope to get a reply. I am trying to delay sign 3 different components using the public key portion of 3 different key pairs that i have created. Lets say the components are 1,2 and 3 where 3 contains references of 1 and 2 and all the components are COMVisible (they will be deployed on COM+ in future). Now i have a test.exe which initialises the component 3 and calls a function on it.
It throws the error "An Unhandled Exception of type 'System.IO.FileLoadException' occured in Unknown module. Strong name validation failed for assembly 3''
Can you suggest a solution or workaround for this??
Very good info. Made some modifications to set a specified users properties.
using System;
using System.DirectoryServices;
class FtpAd
public static void Main(string[] args)
if (args.Length == 0)
Console.WriteLine("Usage: aduserset.exe path [user [root] [home]]");
string ldap = args[0];
string user = (args.Length >= 2 ? args[1] : "*");
string root = (args.Length >= 3 ? args[2] : null);
string home = (args.Length >= 4 ? args[3] : null);
DirectoryEntry e = new DirectoryEntry(ldap);
DirectorySearcher src = new DirectorySearcher(e, "(&(objectClass=user)(sAMAccountName=" + user + "))");
SearchResultCollection res = src.FindAll();
foreach (SearchResult r in res)
DirectoryEntry f = r.GetDirectoryEntry();
if (root != null)
f.Properties["msIIS-FTPRoot"].Value = root;
if(home != null)
f.Properties["msIIS-FTPDir"].Value = home;
Any news on this? I have the same problem...
Regarding TIP #4 I want the entire site under HTTP except I want the logon page to be under HTTPS. How does this affect the cookie?
Can I dare to present a little implemenation at
Btw, very nice effort.
I manage a hole host of systems running both linux and windows , i must say i would choose linux over windows any day. I never seem to have to touch the linux box's, they never need rebooting and they never seem to crash, sure it took a while longer to get them setup but that extra amount of time during the install and planning sure payed of in the long run, i can only speak from experience however i have to employ two other people to help on the windows side and only myself on the linux and thats approx 30 linux and 30 windows. So sorry in my many years of network management i would choose Linux over windows for stability and security.
Well, I would do exctly the opposite. Take a look at the uptime stats of my machine (Netcraft for example) and you'll see that I have exactly the same feeling about Windows as you seem to have about those penguin boxes. Currently we're up and running for 47 days without reboot. See post http://community.bartdesmet.net/blogs/bart/archive/2004/08/09/366.aspx for the uptime I had on Windows 2000 Server in the past. Please note that the 47 day uptime now was interrupted by a power failure in the hosting infrastructure, not by software problems or so.
So, they never seem to crash, never need reboting and the setup time was very little. But in my case for Windows :-). I think you should have forgotten a comma in your reasoning somewhere; so check the proof of your statement again :-).
hey this comment was made 'in my experience' and was my own opinion. I have many uptimes of well over a year as i guess you do to. I dont want to start a windows linux flame here. Each server admin to his own.
linux is better though :-)
and that cv is old!
yeah seriously has anyone figured out how to resolve this?
This halts the entire exchange org. i dont kow how to get it so incoming mail willget to the mail boxes this is weak sauce.
I want to try this thing, but I don't want to install SP2. What can I do?
Its cool but Open Office does that for years.
Check XAML in 3 years.. You'll say "its cool" but Firefox/mozilla has this since 2002 (Xul).
Microsoft is not innovating.. but that's a good move :) Usefull for my online mail merge software.
A C# download manager using BITS can be found here http://bits.language.nu/
A Download Manager using BITS can be found here: http://bits.language.nu/
i tried to do this thing calling bitsadmin from C# program but I get this output
BITSADMIN version 2.0 [ 6.6.2600.2180 ]
BITS administration utility.
(C) Copyright 2000-2004 Microsoft Corp.
Unable to get console input mode - 0x80070006
The handle is invalid.
Exit Code : -2147024890
open up the IIS admin utility and configure the virtual SMTP server. You need to set relay and connection restrictions.
1.) Goto your Exchange administrator MMC.
2.) Under your administrative group and %YourServerName% open the Protocols folder and under SMTP, goto the properties of your Default SMTP Virtual server.
3.) Click on "Delievery" tab and then the "Advanced" button.
4.) under Fully-qualified domain name. Put in... "%YourServerName%.company.com"
5.) Press OK and test.
Or make sure this should be done as well.
Try this....open you System Manager...Click on servers...then your server...Then expand your Protocols, and click on your SMTP folder....right click on your
Default SMTP Virtual Server and go to properties...Click on the Access Tab and then relay and make sure that your "Allow all computers that successfully
authenticate to relay, reguardless of the list above. That should fix it...
or you can go here for more info
Where is the HTM file?
It drives me crazy that most manufacturers and so called REVIEWERS are not currently listing the rpm speed of the hard drive.
I'm looking for a 7200 rpm hard drive stock in a 15.4" notebook.
Almost impossibleto find!
Nowadays, Dell does a pretty good job to list the harddisk speeds on the configuration web pages (see www.dell.com). On the Latitude series for example, the 60 GB disks come in a 7200 RPM version.
Excelent info
i get a error.. saying..
Error message...
Source files wrong version.
File version "e:\i386\ntdll.dll" is 5.1.2600.0 should be 5.1.2600.1045 or higher.
You must use Windows XP Service Pack 1 or Server 2003 version of windows!
where the hell do i get xp service pack 1?
You'll need to perform a slipstream SP update. Take a look on the internet to find more information on this topic ("Windows XP SP slipstream"). Basically, you copy the i386 folder to the harddisk, download the service pack, and run the service pack executable with a flag (/integrate) to indicate that you want to slipstream to the given location (of the i386 folder). This way, you create a Windows installation source folder with the SP integrated.
thx for sharing this ! It is a great example!
I'm running Virtual Server 2005 on server 2003. After updates I was also locked out of server administration. I had to update security on the IIS user that was used to run the web portal. I eventually made the portal run using admin credentials. All was well. Hope this helps.
Adding the destination address (the address you're using to contact Virtual Server) to the Local Intranet zone in the Internet Options/Security allowed NTLM to work correctly for me, so my Virtual Server install is working again. I don't know that this solves all problems...it seems rather fragile so far...but I'm able to get some work done, anyway.
Hi Bart,I was at the event. Congratulations with your demo's. Nice job.
cerny sloup
I am trying to debug a problem with FileSystemWatcher. I have two methods in my application that monitor a folder (on different server) for any new files being created. When it finds it, it takes those .doc files and creates PDF files. There is another process that generates these doc files and puts it into this folder. Usually the files are somewhere beween 80 to 1500. I noticed that when the process drops these files into the folder, my application executes Renamed event and not Created events. Also, lot of the times it will stop in the middle with files still left in the folder. Sometimes it will process 80 out of 100 or 140 out of 145 etc. The numbers are always different.
So the two issues are:
1). Why does it execute renamed method and not created method.
2). Why does it stop with files still left in the folder?
I have set internal buffer to 16K since i can get couple of hundreds of files at once. Please advise. I been trying to solve this problem for few months now without any success. Below are the two methods...
Private WithEvents objWatcher As New System.IO.FileSystemWatcher()
objWatcher.NotifyFilter = IO.NotifyFilters.FileName
objWatcher.IncludeSubdirectories = False
objWatcher.InternalBufferSize = 16384
objWatcher.EnableRaisingEvents = True
Private Sub objWatcher_Renamed(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.IO.RenamedEventArgs) Handles objWatcher.Renamed
'Do Stuff
End sub
Private Sub objWatcher_Created(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.IO.FileSystemEventArgs) Handles objWatcher.Created
'DO Stuff
End Sub
"Today, I took a little pause"
What's wrong here?
Hi Bart,
I was also there. Thx for the code it was realy interesting but a bit frustrating i have to admit.
I spend a week or more on programming a good login control with a random salt and everything. And now it comes as an standard control. All the work for nothing.
But i got still a question left. When i want to save extra information of the member like his homeaddress. Can i still use the standard controls? I must admit i don't like the profile control for this purpose.
I would use this control for save data like how many posts he did or what theme he likes. But not for storing personal info.
What do you think about this?
Hi Carlo,
Of course you can still use the default controls. To store the data itself, I'd recommend you to use the Profile service however since it makes life much easier. But the way to edit the profile doesn't matter at all, even when you're using Profile. So, you need to distinguish between the service and possible controls that are using the underlying service.
yeah, same here. its probably because faster hard drives drain the battery quicker. but still, i want a 7200, or even 10000 rpm
Very nice piece of information. Shared with all my knowns.
Manish Shrivastava

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I've found another solution, if you follow the URL.
Also, you could create a batch file, and drop it (or a short cut/link to it) in the SendTo directory. Here's the contents of my batch file:
fsutil hardlink create %1.link %1
I'm using FormsAuthentication.HashPasswordForStoringInConfigFile (using SHA1) to encrypt passwords before storing in the database. How do you decrypt a password stored this way?
- Sue
The answer is pretty simple, you can't. And in fact, this is just the reason why you should use hashing. Hashing is a one-way function that is irreversible, so you can't go back to the original password (in computationally reasonable time). If you need password reset functionality, you'll need to generate a random password for the user and send it via e-mail to the user, or you can work with secret question/secret answer techniques too.
Very Nice!Need more!
wow, thanks man I've been searching the internet trying to figure out how to do this =)
Hi Bart,
Splendid presentation at the event!!!
And thanks for the demo files.
I wonder if you know where I can find the electronic version of the other speakers on the convent?
Thanks upfront,
Walter Ruts
Is there some way to make connections encrypted with IIS without using VPN.
Do you mean HTTP connections? In that case you should take a look at HTTPS (SSL/TLS) which is supported in IIS (you need to obtain a certificate for public/private key encryption and so on in order to do this). If you're talking about FTP, you have to go over IPsec or so to have encryption (which is IP-to-IP encryption, thus not on the application level of the "network stack", which SSL is on the topmost level). As an alternative you can use HTTP for editing (FrontPage Extensions, WebDAV) over SSL.
How did you get the screenshot? VMWare?
get all the nasty web site off my address box the page is about fulled
get all nasty web site off my address box
Hehe, no, it was made using Microsoft Virtual PC 2004.
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