Terminal Services / Remote Desktop Extra Backdoor Connection

If you use Remote Desktop (aka Terminal Services) to connect to Windows servers, you probably know that by default ony two people can be connected via RDC at a time. […]

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Written By Ben Strackany

Programmer Productivity: Gunslingers vs A Structured Development Culture

SADeveloper has an interesting article on programmer productivity, basically along the lines that a good programmer can be 5-20 times as productive as a poor one. My first boss drilled […]

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Written By Ben Strackany

Blog Comment Spam

Bah, got some blog comment spam the other day. Or at least I think it was spam. Even though dasBlog has a CAPTCHA control on the comment field (to prevent […]

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Written By Ben Strackany

Abstract Classes vs Interfaces, plus OOP in a Microsoft world

Found a great writeup on abstract classes versus interfaces at the code project. While not every developer or project makes use of those OOP constructs, it’s important to be familiar […]

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Written By Ben Strackany

dasBlog referral links from blog posts

My Yahoo referrals went WAY down last week, and I realized that dasBlog doesn’t direct-link to URLs in posts. Which normally is good. However, it means that when I linked […]

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Written By Ben Strackany

Running Windows 2000 on old hardware

Slashdot has an interesting blurb on running Windows 2000 on old, crappy machines. The original information is very helpful for getting rid of any performance-draining services & effects. BlackViper is also a […]

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Written By Ben Strackany

Database Projects in Visual Studio .NET

Scott Mitchell has a good post on database projects in Visual Studio. Helpful for those people still using Query Analyzer or SQL Server Enterprise Manager for all their database development. […]

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Written By Ben Strackany