There is a simple way to see network connections on a windows workstation, no extra software is needed to install on the remote machine. You can use a PsExec tool from SysInternals to exec a command line on the remote workstation and the use a standard windows utility netstat. If …
When you need to check whereabouts of an IP address or who is a network administrator (for example to report an abuse) use a WhoIs database on American Registry for Internet Numbers http://ws.arin.net/whois
Everybody who is programming professionally knows that Exceptions carry information that can save you a lot of trouble, beginners and lamers ignore that simple fact. Counter productive exception hiding or re-throwing original exception while clearing the stack is very, very frustrating.
A while ago I watched a documentary film „Loose Change” proving that WTC collapse was not caused by the planes alone. Although some part’s of the film are just curious, there are few things that did convince me, eg. that WTC collapse took the same amount of time that free …
Wczoraj byłem na cyklicznym spotkaniu Stowarzyszenia Jakości Systemów Informatycznych (SJSI) dotyczącym zasad wynagradzania testerów, spotkanie prowadził Jan Sabak. Spotkanie miało charakter dyskusji, wymiany doświadczeń i pomysłów. Przedstawiono kilka różnych podejść do tematu, niestety każde z nich miało takie czy inne wady. Wniosek był taki że do pytania „za co?” trzeba …
… and the one thing you did is install latest security updates for Windows 2003 Server? WTF?! Someone did forget to mention you that one of the tcp ports used while Active Directory user is logging in have changed from 1025 to 1026 🙁 . Hey MS people! There should …
Załóżmy że praca twoich pracowników pasuje do poniższej definicji informatyka: <0utsideR> pracuje tam jako informatyk <Tomek> czyli dokladnie co robisz? <0utsideR> glownie to patrze na pasek postępu… Czy nie warto wywalić więcej kasy na lepszy sprzęt tylko po to by skrócić czas bezczynności pracowników? Pomyślcie ile kosztuje godzina pracy waszego …
Now I remember why, I do not have RealPlayer on my computers, by default. It’s the most obtrusive, pain-in-the-ass piece of software. I understand that many companies policy is to „catch” you click Yes so that their software can take control of your computer (or even don’t bother asking), so …
The easiest way to do authorization and role based security testing in web applications, was to switch on basic authentication in IIS and embed user/password in the URL. I have not for a couple years ago, but I have never though about that as a bad functionality. If an user/admin …
Every now and then, someone requests that a html table with should somehow be customised based on data shown, for eg. each row should have different background color for each „Status” column in data-item. In my knowledge there is no easy way of doing it declarative in ASP.NET using standard …
