It is official now!
Windows XP Service Pack (SP) 3 will be releasing soon, just before
Microsoft discontinues the sales of Windows XP to the public in June 2008.
Features in SP3
- Previously released Windows XP updates, including security updates and hotfixes.
- Out-of-band releases.
- New OS enhancements.
ZDNet has provided some insights on the upcoming XP 3 features in detail. Microsoft has also provided Release Notes to serve as a guideline for users who intend to install Windows XP SP 3.
Users should be able to get their hands on Windows XP SP 3 on April 29th, 2008.
After weeks of researching for answer, I finally came up with the solution of how to validate objects within a FormView using ASP.NET 2.0 programming language.
Assuming you have a FormView, and you require users to update information to the SQL database. There is a RadioButtonList and a TextBox. The entry within the textbox is optional, but it will be mandatory if one of the option is chosen. Take for example, the screen-shot below.
(find out how to solve the validation issue...)
valentine.exe is a variation of the
Storm trojan that has been going around the Internet for quite some time. As Valentine's Day has just passed, reports
(from unknown source) have found several users falling victim to this virus.
The trojan is propagated via email with subjects like "My Heart For You", "You're My Valetine!" and "Poem About Us". The infected file will contain a link to a website or a file named "valentine.exe".
(read more about valentine.exe...)
While Microsoft has already launched Office 2007, the complete revision of how a traditional Office Suite would look like, I am hesitating to make that change. Microsoft Outlook 2003, one of the most useful applications in Microsoft Office, stores its email in a file with .pst extension. There is a special feature within Outlook 2003 (and also previous versions of Outlook) that allows user to select the compression or encryption level.
Basically, there are three level of encryption:
- none
- compressible
- high encryption
(find out more about the encryption or compression feature in Outlook 2003)
These pictures make really cool wallpaper for your desktop, irregardless if you are running Windows Vista, XP or even Linux. There is one that is particularly cool, and I have used it on my Windows XP system - and that is the one you see right above!
There are more of these lovely wallpapers, follow this link to get them ...
Join
Pownce, one of the latest net communication tool available. Unlike some social networking sites such as
Friendster,
MySpace or
Hi5, Pownce is a very simplified version, yet contains all the necessary tools and functions for users to communicate with peers and friends. I was informed of this sweet little tool from
Alexia, an Irish friend of mine, who knew exactly that I would love this tool.
Besides accessing the tool using your favourite web browser, there is also a software tool that users can download and send files, events, links and messages to contacts instantly, without having to use the browser.
The screenshot of the software is shown above, and it is available for both Windows and Macintosh users. Unfortunately, Linux users may have to wait a little longer, but it is currently under development. The software takes advantage of a new technology from Adobe called AIR, which is known to be rather powerful and useful.
As of the moment, I have a few invites to give away. If you are interested, feel free to let me know. To do that, simply
- register with this site, and
- login and leave your comment below this post.
That way, I will be able to send you the Pownce invitation as soon as I have your email address.
Vbootkit, a rootkit that is able to load from Windows Vista boot-sectors and gain access to the systems' file without requiring the need of authorised admin's authentication. Nitin Kumar and Vipin Kumar were discussing on the possibility of placing this feature on various versions of Vista, or even inside the
BIOS, with an interview with
Federico Biancuzzi, a securityfocus.com columnist.
Both Nitin and Vipin are graduates from India. In the interview, they gave a short definition of Vbootkit:
...Vbootkit is much like a door or a shortcut to access vista's kernel.
A bootkit is a rootkit that is able to load from a boot-sectors (master boot record, CD , PXE , floppies etc) and persist in memory all the way through the transition to protected mode and the startup of the OS. It's a very interesting type of rootkit. All rootkits install when the OS is running because they use the OS' features to load (and also they use the Administrator privileges to install), but bootkits are different, they use the boot media to attack the OS , and thus survive. Vbootkit is a bootkit specific for Windows Vista.
It's a total in-Ram concept. So, it doesn't touch the hard-disk under any condition and thus leaves no proofs. Just give a reboot to a vbootkit running system, and it vanishes just as it was never here...
(continue reading...)
No matter what you do on the web, or what site you are accessing using your preferred web browser, all of us will always want a lightning fast access. Although you might think by connecting directly to your Internet Service Provider's (ISP) DNS server, you are achieving an optimum access; unfortunately, that is not true. According to
ComputerWorld,
...No matter how big the broadband pipe you use to surf the Web, it's not big enough. Everyone, whether they use a slowpoke dial-up modem or the fastest FiOS line, wants to surf faster...
Nonetheless, there is a quick and simple way to hack (or modify) the system configuration to change the Domain Name System (DNS) that is default on your PC (as provided by the ISP or yourself) to gain faster access to web sites. The simplest way to modify the DNS configuration to speed up web browsing experience, is to use the blazing-fast, free DNS servers run by the OpenDNS service.
The main reason of why OpenDNS service is highly recommended instead of your ISP's DNS servers is because OpenDNS has a extremely large pool of DNS cache, with several DNS servers situated all around the world. Hence, retrieving Internet Protocol (IP) addresses from these DNS servers is much quicker than retrieving them directly from your ISP's server.
(How to configure DNS settings?...)
