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Welcome to ChrisThames.com
This blog is written by Chris Thames and is dedicated to the Web, Technology, IT Security, and other geeky things. I have specific interests in .Net 2.0, Web 2.0, and IT Security for the financial sector and other critical infrastructures. There will also be the occasional rant on other topics.
Welcome to ChrisThames.com
This blog is written by Chris Thames and is dedicated to the Web, Technology, IT Security, and other geeky things. I have specific interests in .Net 2.0, Web 2.0, and IT Security for the financial sector and other critical infrastructures. There will also be the occasional rant on other topics.
Friday, May 05, 2006 - Posts
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I came across this hilarious article and video from Improv Everywhere involving blue shirts and khakis. You can view it here. Read More
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This is a tip/reminder for me and anyone else that needs to know.
If you need to import a text file that doesn't have column names in the first row but you do already have a table created in a database, you can copy the database create script and remove...
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This is a followup post to my SubSonic & DotNetNuke post and will contain more details of what this module does and how it is setup.
Step 1. The first is to download the PA and then install it like any other DNN module.
Step 2. Modify...
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I created a project, source code not available yet, that will enable DotNetNuke portal hosts to install this PA and utilize SubSonic to administer 1 or more databases. The only caveat is that the SubSonic configuration section will have to be added, which...
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A couple of months ago I was watching It Takes a Thief. For those that do not know about the show, it is where a homeowner allows an ex-thief to try to break into their home. The ex-thief is filmed breaking in and stealing the homeowner’s stuff, later...
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I came across this hilarious article and video from Improv Everywhere involving blue shirts and khakis. You can view it here....
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If you are like me and get tired of mixing new play lists and hearing the same old songs from the same old artists. Well there is a new DJ in town and it is your own DJ that is just spectacular at picking out similar music by artist, like The Killers,...
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All of us at one point have played a game, whether it is a board game or a computer game. We all do it to get our minds off of things we should be focusing on, for the challenge, but mostly for fun. With the advent of the computer, games have become...
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The new draft of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is causing some concerns, especially in the realm of our first amendment rights. The new draft is backed by Rep. Lamar Smith, while a draft going in the opposite direction by Rep. Rick Boucher...
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This is Part 2 on email encryption for Outlook 2003. Part 1 can be read here. This part will talk about encryption and decryption buttons in an Outlook email.
An encryption button in a new email message would beneficial in that you wouldn’t have to...
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Another recent ideavation that I’ve recently had is one involving security. This ideavation could be submitted to SBIR for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and could supplement the National ID (a.k.a. Real ID). While it wouldn’t be considered...
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I just blogged about ideavations and I thought I would rant about my most recent ideavation. It happens to fall under the massive multiplayer online game (MMOG) genre of a game. Other than Diablo 2, Counter Strike and Freelancer, which aren’t considered...
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I’ve consider myself an idea rich person and I like to call these ideas ideavations by combining the words ideas and innovation together. I thought of this word a while back, probably 3 or so years ago, and just recently I noticed that in some Microsoft...
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I came across a great article by Josh Kaufman on the Personal MBA (PMBA) and I bet we are going to start seeing a bunch more of these Personal [fill in the blank here] degrees.
The PMBA was started by Kaufman and lists 42 books that one should read...
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I've heard through the grapevine about a new blog that Microsoft has started that is similar to Channel 9. Guess what it is called? 10. I wonder if they are going to name a show called 11 next??
Anyways, 10 did an interesting bit on Forest Ridge School...
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I just submitted a comment to Heather Leigh's blog on marketing for prospective employees at Microsoft. She wanted to know what "awesome" looks like on a resume. I've posted the comment below but after posting the comment I forgot to mention one point....
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I've read several blogs now that refer to "Entrepreneurial Proverbs" a piece by Marc Hedlund and it is just facinating and definately hits it right on the spot. I think everyone should print out a copy and hang it on the wall or at the very least print...
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I was in a bank today and some how I managed to get on the subject of encryption. While on this subject I found out that this particular bank's ATMs were just recently updated to triple DES (3DES) from DES. I thought someone hit me with a stun gun! First...
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I decided a couple weeks ago to create an e-mail encryption program for Outlook 2003. I know that Outlook 2003 already does this through Digital ID's but I wanted to learn more about e-mail encryption and this would give me a chance to test...
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