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  • “ASPNET” vs. “NETWORK SERVICE”

    Well, this just wasted the better part of 2 hours.  I’m trying to lock down an ASP.NET app that i’m writing to “least privalege”.  I’ve got the ASPNET and IUSR_ permissions set to “read”, “execute” and “list”.  I kept getting “Server cannot access application directory ‘c:inetpubblahblahblahblah’.  The directory does not exist or is not accessible…

  • Whuh? No strong name for MSFT Patterns and Practices Enterprise Library?

    Usually, when I find something this weird it means that I’m doing something wrong.  If anyone has any suggestions on this, let ’em rip. I’ve been working with the Microsoft Patterns and Practices Enterprise Library lately.  I’ve been writing new code with it and gradually re-working some old stuff.  Well, today I went to put the…

  • SecurityException using the MSFT Patterns & Practicecs Data Access Library

    I’ve started using the (relatively new) Microsoft Enterprise Library for data access.  It’s nice.  I like it.  I’m using it on my current projects and migrating some of my existing applications over to it.  Maybe this is me or maybe this is a deficiency in the documentation…I got it working on my dev workstation pretty…

  • SecurityException using the MSFT Patterns & Practicecs Data Access Library

    I’ve started using the (relatively new) Microsoft Enterprise Library for data access.  It’s nice.  I like it.  I’m using it on my current projects and migrating some of my existing applications over to it.  Maybe this is me or maybe this is a deficiency in the documentation…I got it working on my dev workstation pretty…

  • NHibernate, Part 3 of xxx: NHibernate Session Management

    Continuing my rant about NHibernate being a whole lot of stuff to learn, it’s also somewhat difficult to know how to actually do things the “right way”.  A big one for me was trying to figure out the best way to manage NHibernate sessions from an ASP.NET application.  If you were doing a Windows Forms application…

  • NHibernate, Part 2 of xxx: Is it worth it?

    Ok.  So.  I’ve been playing with the object relational mapping framework called NHibernate for a while now.  I’m pretty conflicted about it.  It’s definitely cool and it has a lot of great features (most of them I’m probably not even aware of yet).  If you’re doing .NET development, it’s pretty much a given that you know ADO.NET…

  • Puppy Linux.

    FYI, this has nothing to do with dogs. These guys/dudes/people are working on a super small version of Linux.  They claim that they’ve got it down to a size that they can easily boot off of a USB flash drive.  If I get 2 seconds, I’d really like to try that out. http://www.goosee.com/puppy/ I’ve downloaded…

  • DVD-R Drive Hosed MS Virtual Server 2005? Whuh?

    I’ve got MS Virtual Server 2005 installed and I use it to test various server configurations.  I tried to turn on the virtual machines tonight and kept getting the following error:“SERVERNAME” could not be started because there is not enough physical memory or system resources available. This seemed unusual because there was about 150GB of…

  • NHibernate, Part 1 (of X)

    It’s about time for the first technology related post.  Since .NET came out, I’ve been a big fan of having a data access tier that fills and returns typed datasets using stored procedures .  It’s worked out well.  Easy enough to write and maintain.  It gives you a nice layer of abstraction off of the physical data store…