I was setting up SQL Server 2005 client tools (which are in parts .NET based) and notced that as part of the installation process, the installer generates native images from the the .NET MSIL code. The benefits are obvious, but…
As you might know, Sun is shutting down their operations during the 4th of July week, so my bloggin will be fairly light over the next couple of days. A few thinks that I intend to spend some thoughts on…
This is a interesting research project at Microsoft: Phoenix is the framework for all upcoming compiler and JITer optimizations for the Microsofts platforms. Their goal is to unify opmizations and execuction imrpovements for both managed (i.e. .NET) and unmanaged (i.e.…
Here is a way to ruin your day: watch this movie about a simulation of a 500km rock hitting earth (most unfortunately only in Japanese, but the pictures are excellent). NEO Asteroid
Well – it seems that WinFS returned to the undead for at least another 1-2 operating system releases: Quentin Clark writes in the WinFS group blog, that WinFS is canceled for Vista and XP. They are now moving those parts…
Since last Thursday, I am a happy owner of a Cingular 2125 (HTC Farady) with Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone Edition. I have to admit that since my first step with Windows CE (Pocket PC 2002 on an iPaq 3850) they…
SAML could be used for performing anonymous (more precisely pseudonymous) authorization in the following way: A user contacts a relying party for a particular service. The RP returns a request for a set of attributes that it requires to allow…
One of the issues (it seems) around identity is that there is a lack of highly trusted digital identity sources. Do I trust a (fairly anonymous) Yahoo ID or don’t I? I would like to argue that if we had…
The Bandit Project is the latest in a wave of Identity Metasystems (components?) to attract the interest of the community. It is deeply tied into the Higgins Identity API system, and could (will?) use Liberty and Windows CardSpace as providers.…
The DIX identity protocol in its latest draft form now uses parts of the SAML 2.0 token format. Ah, interesting times… Identity DIX SAML