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Microsoft Codename Max

Microsoft Codename Max: "Microsoft Codename Max is not like any other product. That's because it's not a product, it's your opportunity to try an exciting new user experience from Microsoft." That's the marketing message on Microsoft's Max web site. Max is built on the next generation of Microsoft's WinFX Runtime Components. WinFX is Windows Vista's managed-code programming model, something I am not at all familiar with. I was never into Windows programming although I do like C# a lot. Probably…

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Internal IP address - NAT addresses, Private IP, NATed Addy

I am discovering just how challenging it is to be secure and anonymous while using the web. Aparently Java code embedded in a web site can read various configuration settings of your computer while you are browsing that site. This happens without prompting the user. In my case I was browsing the Audit My PC web site using Firefox, a browser most consider to be more secure than Internet Explorer. The only option available to the user is to disable…

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LAMP Web development

Programming, Code, Coding, Programmer, Javascript

Red Hat article promoting LAMP Web development. The "P" in the LAMP is one of either Perl, PHP, or Python. I cut my teeth on web development with Perl 5 back in 1997 and stuck with Perl for most of my consulting career after that. I tried to switch to Python but decided that I did not like Python reliance on white space. I did some small PHP projects back in 2002 but forgot about it until quite recently. I…

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