Update on Encryption

Ok, I just read my post on Windows XP Encryption and .Net. You can get it to work. I discovered this when I was using SQL Server and I placed my data in an encrypted folder. The trick is to change the service login from 'LocalSystem' to whatever login you were using when you encrytped the folder. There are some security concerns doing this, but it does demonstrate that you can use Windows XP encryption and still get your work done.

Virtual Machines

We've been using virtual machines quite a bit in the office for our development work. They come in really handy when we need to host an application that is under development and we don't have spare server around.

Here's a great article that shows how to create a Windows XP VM using QEMU and VMWare player, which both happen to be free.

Been a while ...

It has been a while since Russ or I posted anything to this blog. We were completely tickled when we saw that Scott Hanselman had commented on one of our posts. Afterwards, we were motivated to blog more often.