My Heart Bleeds over OpenVPN security hole
Unless you’ve been under a rock you will have heard something about the Heartbleed security flaw in OpenSSL.
Heartbleed is arguably the most serious publicised security flaw in the history of the internet, because so many servers have been affected. Even if you have nothing to do with computer admin you could be affected if any of the sites you visit have been exploited. All internet users need to seriously consider changing all their passwords thanks to some negligent coding practices in an open source project… Read more…
Microsoft HTML help gotcha
I stumbled upon a “gotcha” today that could really perplex the average PC user.
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Chasing Your Tail
This Dyslexic Dog spends more time chasing his tail than he'd like. I imagine other software developers share my frustrations. For me it's usually around trying to get dependencies to cooperate. You know - the situation for native code generation known in the Windows world as ".dll hell".
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Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2010 is a dog
I’ve been using various incarnations of Microsoft Visual Studio for years now. MSVC 2003 was a vast improvement over VC6, when Microsoft standardised their C++ compiler compliance, and its debugger has always been second to none. In fact, it has always been a pleasure to work with such a wonderful piece of software. That is, until now.
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Categories: Development, Microsoft Tags: 2010, C++, Express, Microsoft, Performance, Slow, Upgrade, Visual Studio