non c'è logica nelle slide.
odio le slide per principio.
e quele della ditta in cui lavoro sono peggio.
voglio un manuale cartaceo, che proceda con un filo logico.
in cui posso scegliere se adottare un fast forward -o lettura diagonale- o una lettura lenta e approfondita.
caro autore delle slide, un pensiero per te:
se sei formatore per vocazione, rifletti su ciò che faresti, oltre che su ciò che spieghi.
se sei formatore per lavoro, cerca la tua vocazione, o cambia lavoro. poi, rifletti sulla logica delle tue affermazioni.

news at morning

Windows Virtual Server FAQ
Berlusconi indagato per corruzione
Une poupée gonflable pour chien
Six licéens blessés à Las Vegas (pour une fille)
TIR: Blocchi in tutta Italia
Il divieto di Stato al sesso tra adolescenti
Sette tesi contro l'uomo globale (non l'ho letto tutto, mi sono arreso dopo le prime linee)
Italian truckers to defy government order to end strike
Tristan et Alban, deux blogtrotters autour du monde
Rifiutava il velo, uccisa (Corriere Canadese)

.net updates are graying out your web site?

do you have updates since a few seconds/minutes/hours your .net platform?
or are you obtaining "page not found" error for a web site that you're sure it was working yesterday evening?
well, the first thing you've to try is to go to the IIS manager, and take a look at the Web Services extensions. Are they enabled? All the ones required by your web site?

be careful to enable ONLY the ones you need, otherwise you can open gates to malicious users!

news today

the highlighted news today:
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/12/10/breaking-voip-on-ipod-touch/
http://www.corriere.it/cinema/07_dicembre_10/protesta_sceneggiatori_holliwood_772cf4b2-a74d-11dc-a6a3-0003ba99c53b.shtml
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15738/1090/
http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3138
http://www.newshounds.us/2007/12/10/fox_friends_denigrate_al_gore_in_real_time_as_he_is_awarded_nobel_peace_prize.php

pause

I'm waiting for a Windows 2008 RC1. but all the people (IT pros) are out for lunch and I cannot get a blank DVD.

somebody (phil) has put on a slow and crying blues. it feels the emptiness of life (without a Windows 2008 RC1).

well, jokes apart, I'm now setting up a VMware image to start testing without a real DVD. they (producers) should start to imagine computers with emulated drives, starting form an ISO image.

and what about windows 2008 signature for drivers? if a driver signature is not good for you, it won't boot. well, in this case, a F8 at the boot of your computer will be a panacea (placebo) for your driver signature yelling feature.
source: "Installing the RC of WS2008" (available online, frequent updates à prevoir)

asp.net: __eventvalidation

a mechanism has been added in asp.net to avoid injection on sensible page contents: the event validation.
simple as registering, server side, all the possible values of all the variables in your web page.
something like:
HASH(DropDownList1.UniqueID) XOR HASH(Valeur de l'article)
the result is then serialized to the __eventvalidation hidden field.

more on VIEWSTATE, a strict friend to __EVENTVALIDATION [excerpt from a pdf published in the follow-up]
__VIEWSTATE is an application state container.

Maintain state between multiple postback requests.

"Holds all your variables"

Serialized base64 encoded data.

Viewstate contents can be encrypted.

to understand what this is used for, here are the following pages
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7kh55542.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/amitsh/archive/2007/07/31/why-i-get-invalid-postback-or-callback-argument-errors.aspx
http://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/archive/2006/03/21/3153.aspx
http://weblogs.asp.net/bleroy/archive/2004/08/18/216861.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/12/CuttingEdge/

now on more precise explications
http://www.security-assessment.com/files/presentations/Syscan%20-%20Next%20Generation%20.NET%20Vulnerabilities.pdf

tools
http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/SPIKE-BURP-real-world-computer-security-usage-Part4.html
http://www.portswigger.net/proxy/

all this is fun.

From the wireless e-ink book to GranParadiso

Coming back to the office after the lunch, I can read the following news:
Amazon is launching a wireless e-ink book, named kindle. Amazon currently allows all users to download an excerpt of the sold books (90000, according to A.). Well, I think this could be a great Christmas present. Sony's doing (or has done) the same thing.
Mozilla foundation is releasing Firefox 3 beta 1.
Some news, good news indeed!