Oh! The Australians will have the chance to see - and touch - the Microsoft Surface table according to the TechNet Australia blog.Lucky folks...... (more in the full post)
Mindscape at Microsoft Tech Ed New Zealand 2008
If you follow the folks at Mindscape, then here is a list of sessions they will be running at this year's Microsoft Tech Ed New Zealand:[quote]Overview of SQL Server 2008 (DAT302) - Monday 2:15pm What's New in WPF 3.5 and 3.5 SP1 (DEV... (more in the full post)
Using Fedora Red Hat Enterprise? Check the security announcements
From the Fedora announce list comes the information about unauthorised access to Fedora servers and the news that the unknown intruder was able to sign some packages related to Red Har Enterprise Linux 4.
"Last week we discovered that some Fedora servers were illegally accessed. The intrusion into the servers was quickly discovered, and the servers were taken offline.
Security specialists and administrators have been working since then to analyze the intrusion and the extent of the compromise as well as reinstall Fedora systems. We are using the requisite outages as an
opportunity to do other upgrades for the sake of functionality as well as security. Work is ongoing, so please be patient. Anyone with pertinent information relating to this event is asked to contact fedora-legal redhat com
One of the compromised Fedora servers was a system used for signing Fedora packages. However, based on our efforts, we have high confidence that the intruder was not able to capture the passphrase used to secure the Fedora package signing key. Based on our review to date, the passphrase was not used during the time of the intrusion on the system and the passphrase is not stored on any of the Fedora servers.
But then came an errata:
"In connection with the incident, the intruder was able to sign a small number of OpenSSH packages relating only to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (i386 and x86_64 architectures only) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (x86_64 architecture only). As a precautionary measure, we are releasing an updated version of these packages, and have published a list of the tampered packages and how to detect them at http://www.redhat.com/security/data/openssh-blacklist.html
To reiterate, our processes and efforts to date indicate that packages obtained by Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscribers via Red Hat Network are not at risk. "
More information here and a commentary from the other side here.
If you are using Red Hat Enterprise Linux you should be reading through those notices. Now go and update your systems.
How to validate length of input into a multi-line textbox
You can validate the length of input of an ordinary TextBox using the MaxLength attribute. However, this doesn't work if the TextBox has a TextMode of Multi-line. In those instances, use this piece of code.
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
function MaxLength()
{
var txt = $get("<%=ResponseNote_TextBox.clientid %>");
var msg = $get("<%=Message_Label.clientid %>");
if (txt.value.length > 500)
{
SelectText();
msg.className = "Failure";
msg.innerHTML = "* Response has more than 500 characters";
}
else
{
if (msg.innerHTML == "* Response has more than 500 characters")
{
msg.innerHTML = "";
}
}
}
function SelectText()
{
var txt = $get("<%=ResponseNote_TextBox.clientid %>");
var rng = txt.createTextRange();
rng.moveStart("character", 501);
rng.moveEnd("character", 0);
rng.select();
}
function RemoveCRLFs()
{
// debugger;
var txt = $get("<%=ResponseNote_TextBox.clientid %>");
var str = window.clipboardData.getData("Text");
str = str.replace(/(\s*(\r?\n|\r))+$/, '');
txt.value = str ;
}
</script>
Page_load:
ResponseNote_TextBox.Attributes.Add("onblur", "javascript:MaxLength()")
ResponseNote_TextBox.Attributes.Add("onpaste", "javascript:RemoveCRLFs()")
The TelecomONE unconference
After attending this year's Kiwi FOO (1, 2) a few of the Telecom folks there decided to work and put together an internal unconference event.TelecomONE Innovation '08 is running for three days of October in Warkworth, in the same venue used for the Kiwi FOO events before. About 80 Telecom people, both technical and business types, will get together plus a number of invited external participants - including myself. Like the FOO camp attendance is by invitation only.
Invitees are all doing interesting work and are invited to network, share their works in progress, show off the latest tech toys, and tackle challenging problems together.
I am told Telecom CEO Dr Paul Reynolds is directly supporting this initiative.
Also like the FOO camp discussions you will find there's a rule - what happens there stays there. You might find some reports about the topics, but won't see many direct quotes or references. This is the norm, to encourage an open debate, even when it involves proprietary or confidential information brought in by participants - some sessions have very interesting topics and the openess brings a lot of proprietary and private information to the room.
I think this is a great initiative and I am really looking forward to be present and contributing to the discussion.
Finally: Persistent storage for Amazon EC2
Amazon has finally announced the general availability of persistent storage for EC2! This is long awaited news. Here is a also a writeup from Werner Vogels, the Amazon CTO.Some background...Amazon has offered a very nice cloud-com... (more in the full post)
Spread the world with the Unofficial Tech Ed blog widget
You can help us spread the world about the things happening at the Microsoft Tech Ed New Zealand by using this widget:You can just click in "Options" and use the code to insert it in your page or blog.... (more in the full post)
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