November 2004 - Posts

Microsoft and the P2P distribution model

I was reading about BitTorrent 35% share of all Internet traffic and thougt if it would make sense for Microsoft to create a secure way to distribute its content on it. Just consider Visual Studio2005 (>5 GB),

Windows or SQL Server 2005 with all the resource kits, docs and tools. Consider all the beta stuff or evaluation editions of server software. Consider all the downloads when a patch arrives.

MS could just let it flow. Lesser bandwidth costs and wider distribution. More sales from more evaluations, better feedback from more beta testers.

 

posted Saturday, November 27, 2004 5:04 PM by stefandemetz with 1 Comments

Visual Studio 2005 Whidbey delayed?

just thinking about it, if Yukon is delayed will Whidbey also?

as posted

http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/donnymack/archive/2004/03/11/8890.aspx

http://weblogs.asp.net/fbouma/archive/2004/10/19/244654.aspx

http://thomasfreudenberg.com/blog/archive/2004/03/11/351.aspx

 

 

posted Saturday, November 27, 2004 4:46 PM by stefandemetz with 0 Comments

No SP5 for Windows 2000

official announcement at http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/server/evaluation/news/bulletins/rollupfaq.asp

posted Saturday, November 27, 2004 2:54 AM by stefandemetz with 0 Comments

BizTalk 64 bit announced

Biztalk 64 bit announced

http://www.harper.no/valery/PermaLink,guid,29932fbe-3d93-49f6-8773-fc81fe47574e.aspx

and don't forget to subscribe Valerys blog

 

some biztalk links:

http://blogs.msdn.com/Biztalk_Core_Engine

http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/darrell.norton/articles/9795.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/oallen/archive/2004/11/13/257060.aspx

http://blogs.sqlxml.org/bryantlikes/category/19.aspx

http://www.peterprovost.org/archive/2004/08/18/1802.aspx

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1141582,00.asp

http://thearchhacker.blogspot.com/

http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/RajChaniansBizTalkBlog/archive/2004/05/05/12822.aspx

http://geekswithblogs.net/nparker/archive/2004/10/16/12697.aspx

http://zerotrilogy.gotdns.com/jaysonblog/archive/2004/08/24/400.aspx

http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/archive/2004/10/04/237427.aspx

http://weblogs.asp.net/cschittko/archive/2004/07/04/172820.aspx

http://weblogs.asp.net/sylvainduford/archive/2004/03/05/84520.aspx

http://weblogs.asp.net/sylvainduford/archive/2004/04/02/106366.aspx

posted Saturday, November 27, 2004 12:51 AM by stefandemetz with 1 Comments

SQL Server 2005 Yukon delayed again?

http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/sahilmalik/archive/2004/11/25/33570.aspx

and Whidbey?

as posted

http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/donnymack/archive/2004/03/11/8890.aspx

http://weblogs.asp.net/fbouma/archive/2004/10/19/244654.aspx

http://thomasfreudenberg.com/blog/archive/2004/03/11/351.aspx

posted Friday, November 26, 2004 9:47 PM by stefandemetz with 1 Comments

The death of JET database engine

The death of JET database engine

I was reading some posts about the imminent death of JET database engine (JET is the database engine of Access).

http://benjaminm.net/PermaLink.aspx?guid=ea0c72a5-d7e2-4c74-bdcc-475beeba14fd

http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/kenbrubaker/archive/2004/10/27/sqlserverexpressvsaccess.aspx

http://ea.3leaf.com/2004/10/sql_express_the.html

One must wonder what will happen to Exchange which used a custom version of the JET database engine. Thinking about it, also Active Directory uses ESE, a version of the JET database.

posted Monday, November 22, 2004 9:01 PM by stefandemetz with 0 Comments

64 bit windows Itanium and SQL Server case studies

http://www.newratings.com/analyst_news/article_509310.html

http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=52601361

http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;565530928

 

Itanium + Windows 64 bit scalability post

posted Tuesday, November 16, 2004 12:40 AM by stefandemetz with 2 Comments

Another huge .NET + SQL Server casestudy

http://www.unisys.com/products/clients/featured__case__studies/ipsl.htm
posted Tuesday, November 09, 2004 12:39 AM by stefandemetz with 0 Comments

Yukon and the 64 bit story

Besides my personal interest in SQL Server 2005 , at work I am asked to plan ahead for deployment of Yukon. As the company itself is in the midst of a technology transition, including an investment and future proof database platform, I am was considering 64 bit Yukon. 

But from MS the 64 bit story is not very good in regards to Yukon (and Itanium in particlar). And I am a bit worried. With all the BI goodness in Yukon, without a good 64 bit story, how can one take THE right decision?   

I know that 64 bitness will be included in beta 3, but is it not a bit late?

 

some links:

http://www.microsoft.com/sql/64bit/default.asp
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=170820
http://www.ftponline.com/vsm/2004_en/magazine/features/rjennings/
http://weblogs.asp.net/tims/archive/2004/06/28/167675.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/seminar/events/series/msdn64bitwin.mspx
http://www.lemanix.com/nick/archive/2004/09/11/1261.aspx
http://blogs.sqlxml.org/vinodkumar/archive/2004/01/16/328.aspx
http://www.thespoke.net/MyBlog/Hirantha/MyBlog.aspx
http://www.bsdg.org/2004/09/get-ready-for-net-20-with-danny-thorpe.shtml

posted Sunday, November 07, 2004 4:51 PM by stefandemetz with 1 Comments

good worms/viruses

It's one of those controversial topics of computer security.

IMHO, a worm to switch on automatic updates on PCs would be good thing, if there was a way to download only the critical patches of vulnerabilities which can be attacked remotely.

 

some links:

http://vx.netlux.org/lib/vmn07.html
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/g/goodworms.htm
http://slate.msn.com/id/2104432/
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/alerts/id/150
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1638680,00.asp
http://discuss.fogcreek.com/joelonsoftware/default.asp?cmd=show&ixPost=65059
http://computercops.biz/article2771.html
http://www.f-secure.com/news/items/news_2003081900.shtml

posted Sunday, November 07, 2004 4:14 PM by stefandemetz with 1 Comments

Configure .TEXT users onto multiple domains

Is there a way to map a .TEXT user to a domain e.g. http://dotnetjunkies.com/weblog/stefandemetz/ --> http://www.stefandemetz.com on IIS?
posted Monday, November 01, 2004 9:59 PM by stefandemetz with 1 Comments

.NET 2.0 most prolific blogger award

One of my favorites bloggers, Fredrik Normen, ist definitely the most prolific .NET 2.0 blogger with 144 ASP.NET 2.0 posts.

posted Monday, November 01, 2004 9:35 PM by stefandemetz with 1 Comments

Netcraft TOP 50 uptimes feature is useless

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html displays the TOP 50 uptimes. In it's current state there is 1 server in the TOP 50 with excellent uptime and all the sites on it have the same uptime, not very informative. I've emailed the webmasters several times  to create a TOP50 foreach OS grouped by IP without getting a reply. Would be very interesting to be ables to compare different OSes on uptimes.

posted Monday, November 01, 2004 9:18 PM by stefandemetz with 0 Comments