Rick Barber's Blog

“Help, Dick, Help!” exclaimed Sally.  “I lost my password” “Look, Jane, Look,” said Dick.  “I emailed you your password.” Jane sees her password. Everybody sees her password. Jane is sad.  Dick is sad. Transmitting secret information, such as a password, to a user across the Internet is often mishandled.  One common way is to send the password through email.  While

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ASP.Net Membership was first introduced in ASP.Net 2.0 and is relatively easy to implement in your web application.  As it has evolved there have been changes that add more features and extensibility but have obscured some of the basic tools needed to easily manage it.  The ability to easily add users and roles to an initial implementation is one task I recently encountered that is difficult

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In the current technology segment, there is no buzzword used more than ‘the cloud.’  This mystical term conjures up all kinds of thoughts, many of which are most likely inaccurate.

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Are you struggling to identify the IP traffic source on your servers? When using a F5 NLB at the edge of your network, you won’t be able to identify on your servers where the traffic is coming from. That is unless the protocol can support adding the proper headers to leave a trace of the original IP address. Any traffic received by the server appears to be coming from one of the load balancer IP addresses, which makes it impossible for you to identify the real source of traffic.

Everyone can agree, storage quotas for cloud services are increasing very quickly. And this means only one thing: cloud storage is getting dirt-cheap. This is nothing new, as organizations have been getting more and more gigabyte (GB) for their buck in the past months. Some of the industry’s biggest cloud players, like Amazon, Google and Microsoft have been engaging in a war on storage. Who will include the biggest quota at the lowest price? And who will cut down prices to low prices we’ve never seen before?

Mozilla just released version 36 of its popular web browser Firefox. This new release introduces an important change. Some weak security certificates are no longer trusted by the browser. Why is this of interest? Well it’ll change web browsing for over 20% of web users. That’s one in five!

Disaster recovery. The IT industry’s latest buzz words. Although a popular subject, many of the articles out there are not providing accurate or enough information to demystify the concept. How does one explain disaster recovery to a SMB owner or an organization’s President without confusing them more than clarifying? Or without boring the hell out of them? Here’s my attempt.

Fasten your seatbelt and make sure your seat is in the upright position. Trade show season is about to take off. Isn’t this exciting? Networking opportunities, cross country trips, new IT trends — you name it. Great investment for organizations. And a great opportunity to make big money. But, this is only true if you make the most of the time you’ll be spending at the shows.