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How to search Objects in SQL Server 2005/2008 9 Oct 2009 | 11:33 pm
Software evolves… new versions of major software are released once every few years, they contains improvements, bug fixes, but sometimes, some features disappear just like they appeared… without any s...
Autoruns: a tricky option to be wary of... 8 Jun 2009 | 09:55 am
This week, I had the occasion to work on a computer who had been infected by several malwares. Removing the malwares wasn’t much of a problem using my customized BartPE-based BootCD but the nasties le...
A new kind of search 22 May 2009 | 09:31 am
About one year ago was released Cuil, the self-proclaimed Google-killer. Although Cuil's search quality has significantly improved since the grand (and failed) opening, the site could only grab a negl...
The second browsers war 11 Apr 2009 | 06:19 am
Some days ago, a BetaNews article caught my attention with its sensational title “Can Mozilla escape a premature endgame for Firefox?”, which hypothesizes that the popular web browser can’t last long,...
More anti-virus fail... 10 Mar 2009 | 02:32 am
If you are a regular follower of this blog, you’ll probably remember my couple of rather recent entries regarding the current state of the anti-virus technology and whether this kind of products still...
FileZilla insecurities 3 Mar 2009 | 12:07 am
I have been using SmartFTP so far for my FTP needs but my current hosting company is having some compatibility problems with it (or rather, it is the other way around since all the clients are fine wi...
Application skinning and user-interface consistency 8 Feb 2009 | 04:25 am
To be remarked and distinguished, one's products must be clearly different from the others: it is a fact of marketing. When applied to software, there are two main kind of differentiation possible: th...
Are anti-viruses still really up to their job (Part 2 of 2) 6 Jan 2009 | 07:30 am
As we have seen earlier, the anti-virus current detection schemes are not bulletproof and tend to let threats get through for a number of days and sometimes weeks. From this bleak situation, we can le...
Are anti-viruses still really up to their job (Part 1 of 2) 23 Dec 2008 | 07:00 am
Anti-viruses, as everyone knows, are software that prevent intrusion of malware into the system where it is installed and active. But what happens when anti-viruses become less efficient in this missi...
The UI ribbon, more than just evolution 15 Dec 2008 | 04:35 am
The latest fashion in terms of user interface is the Office ribbon, this thick horizontal bar containing various visual icons grouped by general task. After getting through most of the applications of...
