OT: My first impression of Serial ATA- October 25, 2003 Well, today I was out at CompUSA and I saw a pretty nice deal on a 120GB Maxtor SATA drive with the 8mb cache... Now I really don't need any more storage space on my machine (360GB is enough even for me), but I have recently been having some problems with my Promise ATA RAID card. The card is fine if you just want RAID to mirror or stripe and you are running Windows, but if you want to run Linux (mono anyone), or (and this was my biggie) if you want to make a nice image using Ghost or...http://weblogs.asp.net/dbright/archive/2003/10/25/33492.aspx Crypto Random Numbers- October 17, 2003 Note to self (and anyone else it will help): public static int GetCryptographicRandomNumber(int lBound, int uBound) RNGCryptoServiceProvider rng = new RNGCryptoServiceProvider(); Assumes lBound >= 0 && lBound < uBound returns an int >= lBound and < uBound uint urndnum; byte rndnum = new Byte4; if (lBound == uBound-1) test for degenerate case where only lBound can be returned return lBound; uint xcludeRndBase = (uint.MaxValue -...http://weblogs.asp.net/dbright/archive/2003/10/16/32305.aspx Transcending the MCAD exams- October 15, 2003 Well I finally got around to getting the C Transcender exams, and I just finished my first Web test. Much to my shock I did well. Much better than I thought I would in fact (I'm horrible at these darn tests). Since I have seen many posts in the past about my fellow ASPNETWebLoggers taking these exams I wanted to pose this question to the community: Has anyone used these tests as a study tool for the MCADMCSD tests If so how would you rate the practice questions compared.http://weblogs.asp.net/dbright/archive/2003/10/14/31989.aspx |