Wolframalpha the so called computational knowledge engine, is finally available to the public 🙂 Why and when would you want to switch from Google, Yahoo or Live? The answer is quite simple: Wolfram will give you an answer while other search engines will gives you a (too huge) set of related pages where you can go… Read More »
Sometimes it happens that you need to manually delete files and windows kindly inform you that you don’t have enough privileges to do so, even as an administrator of your own machine… To fix this problem you will have to use cmd.exe (as an administrator): > cd /d c:thepathwhereYouWantControl Now you want to take ownership… Read More »
Just found a free eBook on PowerShell, I have downloaded it here: Effective PowerShell. PowerShell is a new recent command line shell and scripting language from Microsoft, the V2 CTP3 is available to download. Have fun 🙂 Ahmet 0 Kudos Don'tmove!
Since I started my new job I have been so much involved in discovering new technologies that I quite forgot to post any significant and regular update to this website. Google’s ranking algorithm did not pardon this move: my page rank fall from 7 to 4 !!! With a page rank of 7 I had… Read More »
A few weeks ago, I followed a presentation at Digicomp called “From Ethical Hacking to IT-Forensic” presented by Juerg Fischer. The most interesting part I kept from the presentation (that was in German so may explain the little I remember from it 🙂 ) was about the tools and resources useful for the differents phases of the penetration… Read More »
An agreement has been found by expert regarding the top 25 most dangerous programming errors. Very interesting list indeed, nice point is that we can find a lot of details on how to avoid these security errors. Obviously the dangerous part of these errors is that they can be exploited… Insecure Interaction Between Components Improper… Read More »
While trying to download Windows7 today (like a lot of other people it seems as the server are too busy), I saw this postpone message from the Windows blog, I share it here as it is so slow to access: Due to very heavy traffic we’re seeing as a result of interest in the Windows… Read More »
I’m a bit late for propagating the news, so you may have already heard that Microsoft has opened the Zurich Development Center (December 2008).   We are working on bits for Office Communication Server. The work enviromement is really great, we got very confortable offices with a fitness room and a game room (ping-pong,… Read More »
I wish you all the best for 2009!!! Good health, happiness and success : ) Ahmet 0 Kudos Don'tmove!
In the two previous posts (Enumerate all classes from a namespace and Enumerate all Namespaces from Root) we gather enough information to enumerate namespaces and classes. In this post we are going to see how to enumerate all the instances from a class via WQL. Below is a screenshot of what I get after executing… Read More »
Now that we know how to enumerate all the namespace from root, let’s have a look on how to enumerate all the classes from a namespace. You should see this: Next step is to enumerate all the instances from a class. Ahmet 0 Kudos Don'tmove!
I like to understand WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) as a database, main concepts are: Namespaces: Databases Classes: Tables Properties: Columns Instances: Lines Values: Fields With this in mind, we can start enumerating all the namespaces we can access locally. Running this program will display: Next step is to enumerate all classes from a Namespace. This… Read More »
I’ll post some tips about testing during the time I learn. So if you have any comments or tips to add, feel free to comment! Here a 10 values I submit to test a textfield: An empty value () Zero (0) A string made of whitespace (  ) String containing spaces (foo bar) Name containing… Read More »
Just a quick post about my first weeks at Microsoft… I have now been at Microsoft Unified Communication for two weeks and my first impression is really positive. The team spririt is great, people are always open to help, respectful and very friendly. Most important they love to party and they party hard 🙂 Microsoft… Read More »
It tooks me more than six month to create a fresh new tutorial, but finally here it is! This tutorial shows how to automatically update an AIR application when a more recent AIR file is on Internet. I hope it is easy to follow and clear 🙂 You can watch it here. You can see… Read More »