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- Laszlo demo: The write once/run anywhere (Flash,DHTML,Java,Silverlight) RIA dev tool?
- If you're like a lot of Web developers who want to turn their static Web sites in to something more rich and interactive (these days, referred to as Rich Internet Applications or RIAs), one of the challenges is in choosing a platform to target. The main choices are Adobe's...
- Tags: Desktop, Application, Platform, Rich Internet Application, Laszlo Systems Inc., Tool, Flash, OpenLaszlo, CPL, Laszlo Webtop, Open Source, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-11-08
- Google says no to license proliferation
- In August, Google launched a free project hosting service on Google Code. One of the unique features of this service is that it only supports 7 licenses (compared to over 50 listed at opensource.org). The stated intent of this restriction was to cut down on the proliferation of open source...
- Tags: CPL, EPL, Greg Stein
- Blog posts 2006-11-02
- Viewability of SQL Server code is far cry from open source
- It wasn't long after the news surfaced that Microsoft might make the source code behind SQL Server available to customers that ZDNet's TalkBack was buzzing with analysis of the details. As Microsoft, on a very selective basis, makes certain pockets of the gazillions of lines of copyrighted code behind all of...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., open source
- Blog posts 2005-02-23
- Amidst restructuring, Open Source Initiative founder Eric Raymond makes room for new regime
- Under a great deal of stress from all corners of the technology industry due to a structure and process that more closely resembles that of a club rather than an organization that can professionally lead and represent the interets of such a rapidly growing community, the Open Source Initiative has...
- Tags: open source, OSI
- Blog posts 2005-01-31
- Microsoft shares Windows tools via open source
- Microsoft shares Windows tools via open sourcePay CLOSE attention to the LICENSE.Not exactlly what you may expect...This just shows the ultimate superiority and wisdom of MicrosoftBy releasing their software under the CPL, Microsoft is showing once again that they rule the world - even the open source world. This could...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Windows, Java, Microsoft Corp., CPL, open source, tool
- Discussion threads 2004-05-13
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- Free UPX (zip)
- Free UPX is an advanced graphical interface for the UPX Ultimate Packer for eXecutables. It allows you to compress and decompress files produced according to Microsoft Portable Executable and COFF Specification (EXE, DLL, OCX, BPL, and CPL). Free UPX offers easy access to all documented and undocumented UPX parameters without...
- Tags: Jacek Pazera, UPX, Broadband Over Power Line, Telecommunications, Broadband Internet
- Software downloads 2008-07-17
- 10 top Vista tweaks, part 2
- 10 top Vista tweaks, part 2There's a registry fixIt's an architectural problem, unfortunately. XP sees the new restore points, but can't read them and assumes they're damaged.There's a workaround here:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926185I prefer to run XP in a VM on a Vista machine rather than dual boot.RE: 10 top Vista tweaks, part...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Home Premium
- Discussion threads 2008-06-17
- Skype patches security policy bypassing vulnerability
- In a security bulletin issued two days ago, Skype's latest version fixes a File URI Security Bypass Code Execution Vulnerability originally reported by Ismael Briones : Remote exploitation of a security policy bypass in Skype could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the...
- Tags: Vulnerability, Patch Management, Malware, Skype Technologies S.A., Security Warning, Extension, Malware Author, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And Worms, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-06-06
- pserv.cpl (exe)
- pserv.cpl is a Windows NT/2000 Control Panel Applet that allows you to control all NT services and devices, allows you to uninstall applications (new in 2.6), allows you to at least partially replace eventviewer (new in 2.4), allows you to at least partially replace task manager (new in 2.4), allows...
- Tags: Gerson Kurz, Pserv.cpl, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows NT, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2008-01-08
- ABK Alarm Artist (bin)
- ABK Alarm Artist is a freeware software that allow you to set your clock alarm. ABK Alarm Artist plays the media file selected by user, don't have a built-in sound so its necessary to select a media file before setting alarm. Shows Current Time 'n Date in Artistic Format. To...
- Tags: Freeware, Media, Abhishek Kumar, ABK Alarm Artist, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- Software downloads 2007-11-27
- BeCyIconGrabber (exe)
- BeCyIconGrabber is a very small app that extracts icons contained in resource files (DLL, ICL, OCX, CPL, SRC, ICO and CUR). It also enables saving them singly in ICO, CUR, BMP, or PNG files, or collectively within resource libraries DLL icon libraries or ICL cursor libraries. This version is the...
- Tags: Library, BeCyIconGrabber
- Software downloads 2007-11-13
- More information from Microsoft on stealth update
- More information from Microsoft on stealth updateWow... you really got your questions answered. Well done and thanks for the update, what a wealth of information.Mike Cox......Thoughts?RE: More information from Microsoft on stealth update"We realize we weren't as transparent as we should have been, and are working to do better in...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Piracy, Patches, stealth update, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-09-15
- Confirmation of stealth Windows Update
- Breaking news - Latest from Microsoft I can now confirm that the stealth Windows Update that I blogged about yesterday actually exists - because I've detected its presence on a machine at the PC Doc HQ. At the PC Doc HQ we have several systems set not...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Update, Information Technology, Update, Stealth, Microsoft Windows, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2007-09-13
- Confirmed: Microsoft is fiddling with system files without permission
- Breaking news - Latest from Microsoft [Updated: Sept 13, 2007 @ 6.50 am - After checking a system set not to automatically update I can confirm that this stealth update is real.] If this turns out to be true, it has some very serious and disturbing implications:...
- Tags: Permission, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2007-09-12
- Your license, or mine?
- Your license, or mine?Not negative, no.[b][i]In effect what he’s saying. and I think he’s right whether he meant to say this or not, is that the GPL asserts intellectual property rights in a negative way: explicitly trying to prevent the commercial exploitation of community effort[/i][/b]One doesn't describe a license as...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, OPEN SOURCE, BSD License, Free Software Foundation, software, GPL, operating system, intellectual property
- Discussion threads 2007-06-01
- Icon Searcher (exe)
- Icon Searcher performs fast scan of all local hard disks for icon images. The program handles lots of different file formats, like DLL, EXE, ICO, ICL, OCX, SCR, CPL, BPL, VBX, DRV, and extracts all available icons from files to the user-friendly visual image list. Icons can be saved as...
- Tags: Language, Icon Searcher, Broadband Over Power Line, Microsoft Windows, Telecommunications, Broadband Internet, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2007-05-29
- Website, email system pinpoints offenders' locations
- Indiana Attorney General Steve Carter is promoting the states Criminal Alert Network to citizens. The program features a website and an email alert system that lets residents know when a registered sex offender has moved to their neighborhoods, the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette reports. Since its inception, the Criminal...
- Tags: Web site development, Web technology, e-mail, offender, sex offender, Web site
- Blog posts 2007-03-16
- Symantec: Vista's UAC prompts can't always be trusted
- Microsofts implementation of the UAC user account control mechanism in Windows Vista continues to take a beating from security researchers. Less than a week after Polish hacker Joanna Rutkowska raised an alert for design -- and implementation -- bugs in the default no-admin component, a member of Symantecs Advanced...
- Tags: Black Hat, Data theft, Exploit code, Hackers, Microsoft, Pen testing, Punditocracy, Responsible disclosure, Uncategorized, Vulnerability research, Windows Vista
- Blog posts 2007-02-20
- Greg Stein: Three is enough
- This is part 2 of a 3 part interview with Greg Stein, one of the visionaries behind project hosting on Google Code. Part 1 covered how Google Code limits the number of licenses allowed in order to help the community battle open source license proliferation. In this part we'll discuss...
- Tags: Greg Stein, Google Code
- Blog posts 2006-11-03
- Nasser Resource Viewer (zip)
- This program can be used to view and save resources of EXE, OCX, DLL, CPL, and many other formats. This is a very good program to extract images and resources out of programs.
- Tags: Program
- Software downloads 2006-10-23
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