Year: 2005

  • Microsoft Delivers the ‘Other’ Longhorn Beta 1

    Microsoft Delivers the ‘Other’ Longhorn Beta 1

    Channel Insider Staff

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    While Vista Beta 1 is stealing most of the headlines this week, Microsoft also is delivering simultaneously on Wednesday to a select group of private testers the first beta of its Longhorn Server product. Microsoft has not yet decided on a final name for the next version of its Windows Server operating system (other than… Read more

  • At First Glance, Vista Looks Like a Winner

    At First Glance, Vista Looks Like a Winner

    David Coursey

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    Click here to view a slideshow of Windows Vista Beta 1. In the Windows world right now there are two types of people: Beta Ones and Beta Twos. Each group will have a different reaction to the Wednesday beta release of Microsoft’s next-generation operating system, formerly known as Longhorn. Developers and need-to-know IT professionals are… Read more

  • Cisco Tries to Quash Vulnerability Talk at Black Hat

    Cisco Tries to Quash Vulnerability Talk at Black Hat

    Paul F. Roberts

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    A discussion of vulnerability in Cisco Systems Inc.’s IOS provoked controversy at this year’s Black Hat Briefings conference in Las Vegas, after the San Jose, Calif., networking vendor forced conference organizers to physically remove notes on the strategy for remotely exploiting IOS systems from conference proceedings. The researcher, Michael Lynn, ultimately presented information on the… Read more

  • Cisco Files Suit to Gag Researcher, Security Conference

    Cisco Files Suit to Gag Researcher, Security Conference

    Paul F. Roberts

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    Cisco Systems and Internet Security Systems have asked a U.S. District Court to issue a restraining order against a former ISS researcher and Black Hat over the leak of information about security holes in Cisco’s Internetwork Operating System. The two companies jointly filed an injunction and temporary restraining order Wednesday against researcher Michael Lynn and… Read more

  • Vista Beta Presents Clearer View of Data

    Vista Beta Presents Clearer View of Data

    Jason Brooks

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    Earlier today, Microsoft uncloaked the first beta release of Windows Vista, the next-generation version of its Windows client previously known as Longhorn. eWEEK Labs has been conducting early testing on a pre-beta 1 version of Vista, build 5098, and although a good deal of roughness remains to be smoothed out, the Vista release we’re running… Read more

  • Saving User Settings in .Net

    Peter Aitken

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    Almost every application program has to save some information between sessions. No, I am not talking about a program’s data files, although that’s essential too. Rather, in this article, I am referring to application settings that affect the way the application runs. The term application settings really encompasses two different kinds of settings: Application settings,… Read more