Archive for the ‘Software’ Category

Microsoft and Google

Monday, June 12th, 2006

I think the cultural difference between Microsoft and Google is wonderfully illustrated by the title of the MSDN search form: MSDN Enhanced Search I'm willing to bet that you will never see a 'Google Enhanced Search' page. Their search page title is simply 'your query - Google Search'. Google search is better than ...

Great software: Check Point vs. Info Express

Sunday, May 28th, 2006

I recently finished setting up two competing VPN products: Check Point’s VPN-1 with SecureClient, and Info Express’s VTCP/Secure. I’d like to share my views on both these products.

.NET: Monitor.Exit bug

Tuesday, May 16th, 2006

Despite its documentation, Monitor.Exit never throws an exception (.NET 1.1). So there's no way to tell whether a monitor you're holding is or isn't locked, and how many times. There go 30 minutes of my life.