by MichaelF on September 14, 2006
In addition to technical tips, blogs and video interviews, the Open Source Software Lab at Microsoft conducts a number of technical analysis and research projects throughout the year to help inform and solve key interoperability challenges between Microsoft and open source technologies. This paper is part two of three.... more
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by MichaelF on September 01, 2006
Have you ever stood in front of a server you are building, feeding it install cds, and thought to yourself “it just doesn’t get any better than this…?” Me Neither.... more
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by MichaelF on August 04, 2006
Processes running under UML will have no access to the hosting system, accept where explicitly allowed. Because of this UML is an ideal candidate for operating a honeypot. While processes running in UML have no outside access to the host operating system memory or filesystem; hypothetically, if an attacker managed to break out of userspace into some section of the host filesystem, they could do further... more
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by jcannon on July 26, 2006
The Microsoft Open Source Software Lab is a key advocate within Microsoft for interoperability with Open Source technologies. In order to drive discussions and engineering plans around interoperability, we need to initially build a core knowledge base in the particular technology which we can share with product and field teams. This paper is the first in a four part series on Linux networking technologies... more
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by jcannon on July 23, 2006
In technical terms, a honeypot performs a function very similar to that of a “honeypot” in the outside world: a sweet lure. A “honeypot” is a system designed with the purpose of attracting the attention of prospective attackers, to assess how they are attempting to infiltrate the machine and what they doing once they gain access. There are literally thousands of honeypot networks and systems setup... more
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by admin on June 28, 2006
Spam is a well-known problem for many on the Internet. If you have an email account anywhere, chances are you’ve gotten something you didn’t ask for; a “stock tip”, an adult entertainment solicitation, or possibly a plea from an altruistic member of the “[Random Nation] Royal Family” to assist in some friendly money-laundering...... more
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by admin on May 24, 2006
From Alexandre Ferrieux: I'd like to describe what is my highest frustration at the unix-Windows boundary: the lack of 'file descriptor abstraction' in Windows...... more
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by admin on May 18, 2006
I am using my wife's XP machine a lot after work and hope to compile kdissert (a mindmap tool) for cygwin. It works on coLinux for me already (which you should also discuss) but I felt like not booting something extra. My effort ended before it really started...... more
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by admin on April 27, 2006
Another question from the Port 25 community answered by OSSL staff...... more
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by admin on April 27, 2006
Ok Bill, I have a real suggestion here that is hopefully within the scope of what you are doing (and hopefully you're still reading the comments here). I'd also like to voice it to someone else at Microsoft since the MS rep I spoke to tonight blew me off...... more
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by admin on April 19, 2006
Question: "Can you recommend anything for running command line applications on a Windows XP/2000 box from within a program that runs on Linux?" A tip from the lab...... more
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by admin on March 31, 2006
Fifty Linux distributions, Check. Fifteen versions of UNIX, Check. Now, how do we manage all of this? Learn how we leverage Systems Management Server and Vintela to manage the lab.... more
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