A couple of hours ago, sepago started the Community Tools blog as a publishing platform for freely available tools. So far it contains the tools which I and my colleague Helge Klein have published in the past. New tools by other co-workers will be made available there. Continue reading ’sepago Community Tools’
Monthly Archive for December, 2008
After writing and publishing the XmlServiceExplorer, I was asked several times just how much information is disclosed by the XML service. There were also comments (to one of my articles and in Brian’s forums) about a possible security breach caused by offering the access lists of all published applications which I described in a tutorial to the XmlServiceExplorer. Although it is possible to suppress the access lists being disclosed by the XML service, the switch is not documented. Continue reading ‘Reading Farm Information from the XML Service’
When working with several virtual machines on my laptop, I often run into situations when system resources become scare. The most obvious bottleneck is physical memory. And despite the efforts of the desktop virtualization vendors to reduce the amount of physical memory required, this happens very frequently and results in heavy swapping while Windows attempts to resolve the issue. This causes a lot of stress on the local hard drive causing Windows to perform even worse. Continue reading ‘Pausing (not Suspending) Virtual Machines to Preserve Resources’
