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The Daily Grind 377

By Mike Gunderloy
Thursday, May 20, 2004

I had the great fun of setting up networking for some Win98 boxes this afternoon. Felt like I was speaking Sanskrit.

Software

XML Comments for Managed C++ Applications - If you like the C# style of documenting with XML, you can use it with C++ too.
WinFS StoreSpy v0.8 for the WinHEC 2004 Longhorn Build - If you're testing Longhorn, you might find this to be interesting.
Security Guidance Kit v1.0 - Not entirely clear what's in this, and I don't happen to have the bandwidth to download 150MB at the moment. But at least Microsoft is still trying to find ways to distribute security info.
NUnit 2.2 Beta 1 - The new release of this .NET unit testing tool includes Mono support, a lightweight mock object facility, and other good things. (via Sam Gentile)

Reading and Publishing Performance Counters in .NET - Another one of my introductory articles at Developer.com.
Gmail's Terabyte Glitch Heightens Storage Race - Some people saw a terabyte of storage on their Gmail accounts and the word spread that Google was determined to give away more space than anyone else. It was a bug, of course.
Blind XPath Injection - A reminder that the state of the hacking art does not stand still. If you're using XPath to query things out of an XML database, your application will potentially reveal the entire database to a determined attacker (PDF document).
XKey - USB Exchange client. Were I still a work-on-the-road type of guy, I'd want one. These days, I'd prefer a new herbicide sprayer.
Some Notes on the "Who wrote Linux" Kerfuffle, Release 1.4 - You're going to hear a fair amount in the coming months about a new "study" showing that Linus Torvalds ripped off Unix to build Linux. Andy Tanenbaum, who was there at the time, says rather convincingly that this is nonsense.

Conspiracy theorists just won't die... - Ted Neward weighs in on the perennial question of whether Microsoft is conspiring to kill open source.

Mike Gunderloy is the lead developer for Larkware and author of numerous books and articles on programming topics.