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Two-factor Authentication
Computer authentication is all about making sure that people are who they say they are. Authentication is usually the first step that you have to perform before being allowed to work on a computer. For most of us today authentication is synonymous with entering a username and password. Passwords are one form of authentication and…
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“Dare to Win” or “Why I love S.DS”
Note: “Dare to struggle. Dare to win!” was a slogan used in the 1960s by the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). This post has nothing to do with that. Imagine, for a moment, that you’re a software developer, it’s the year 1998 and you need to write a program that accesses an LDAP directory.…
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Is Sharepoint the NBT*?
*Next Big Thing I was at Microsoft’s TechEd about a year or so ago in Barcelona. I loved it. Not TechEd, no, Barcelona. My family and I had lived in Barcelona from 2000-2002 and it was great to go back to my favorite places in the city (mostly restaurants and bars). When I wasn’t drinking…