WPA is an encryption algorithm that takes care of a lot of the vunerablities inherent in WEP. WEP is, by design, flawed. No matter how good or crappy, long or short, your WEP key is, it can be cracked. WPA is different. A WPA key can be made good enough to make cracking it unfeasible. WPA is also a little more cracker friendly. By capturing the right type of packets, you can do your cracking offline. This means you only have to be near the AP for a matter of seconds to get what you need. Advantages and disadvantages.

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A little theory first. WEP is a really crappy and old encryption techinque to secure a wireless connection. A 3-byte vector, called an Initalization Vector or IV, is prepended onto packets and its based on a pre-shared key that all the authenticated clients know… think of it as the network key you need to authenticate.
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Great Rap Video for code design

Apple posted an update to their iPhone SDK today. The new release can be found here.

The new package is a 1.4GB DMG file build 9A2151. This is the interface builder that was promised during the original SDK launch and should help will enable development efforts to progress full-steam ahead!

Recenlty, I was working with SQL Server 2005, when I opened up SQL Server 2005 Management Studio and tried to connect to my local database server, I got the error above: “Cannot Connect to XXXX”

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Recently I had to modify a library to use dynamic linking in order to cut down on its size. Originally a 8MB file, I was looking at reducing the size to 1.3MB. Pretty great right? So why not dynamically link every time? Well, there are certain times when static linking, though it increases the size of your library, might be preferable.

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Was getting this error:

Application Server job failed for service instance Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchServiceInstance (34c9a339-ef4a-454b-a288-812fd2fd1270).
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Nowadays dual core processors are all the rage, with quad core processors just now entering the market. Why not make use of all the extra computer power? It was just a few years ago that only powerful computing clusters in universities and the workplace had dual CPU machines (not to be confused with dual core where you have two CPUs on the same die rather than two CPUs on separate dies) that you could use this special gcc trick to speed up your compilation time.

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I just came up with an idea for our developers in my office. We currently have a small team of 9 under the same manager. What if one Friday out of every month, we selected 3 team captains, where they then picked teams and had a code off challenge? I think that this would help the slower coders get better faster. Read more »