When an asp:Imagebutton control is used with a client-side event, for instance to show a popup window, and the control is not in an asp:UpdatePanel, the client-side event does not complete because the ImageButton initiates a full post-back. In the browser, for instance with a ShadowBox popping up, it appears that the event fired and [...]

I frequently run into this very annoying bug in IE. I configured the browser to ask before writing cookies of unknown sites. When I hit a site that has both a Javascript error and a cookie warning popping up, there is a deadlock situation, since neither of the dialog boxes responds to input. The only [...]

A couple of days ago I received a phishing email involving two Russian sites that asked me to reactivate my Paypal account. Dutyfully I went to the Paypal website and found a link labeled “Security Center”. I clicked on it, and the page that was served contained what I was looking for – in a [...]

Sonett77.com – Electronic music radio (Germany) Play.fm – DJ sessions (Austria) Hitradio.de (Germany) – Web radio with special interest streams Rautemusik.fm – Web radio (Germany) Quu.fm (Germany) Byte.fm (Germany) – Online radio with a journalistic touch Musicovery.com (France) - ”Interactive” web readio One.fm (USA) – The music starts here Di.fm (USA) – Digitally imported Last.fm (USA) – Largest [...]

The effectiveness of black-listing mail servers is questionable. The overall spam volume does not appear to be impacted and keeps going up. The argument that the amount of spam would rise faster without blacklisting is nonsense. Blacklisting affects a very small percentage of emails that are in a gray zone between spam and ham, such as [...]

The Business Intelligence Showcase demonstrates our expertise with Microsoft’s business intelligence application suite. These technologies include the SQL Server database, Analysis Services, and Reporting Services. Recently added to the stack was the .Net chart control, a very powerful component that greatly improves productivity for producing visually appealing charts and diagrams on web sites and Windows [...]

Major web sites like Yahoo.com and Boston.com are infecting thousands, if not hundred thousands of computers with trojans, back doors, and other viruses, through some of their ad service providers. When will the people in charge of these web sites wake up and start screening the ads that they are serving?   For the 2nd [...]

Due to a sudden spike in traffic on my blog, I spent more time than usual with Web Analytics tools lately. There is quite  a discrepancy between the numbers that Awstats reports and what Google Analytics and Woopra think. Awstats is a tool that most low-cost hosting providers include in their service offering. This post is meant [...]

I host this blog and a few other personal sites at WebHostingBuzz (WHB), all on Linux. I host the site for the Austrian-American club at Godaddy.com (ASP). Unfortunately, I host the mailing list for the Austrian-American club at WHB as well, requiring frequent emails sent from one domain to the other. We are paying Godaddy for [...]

I am pretty sure I caught the Mebroot root kit last night, or some variant, and potentially some other things, too. I was working when all of a sudden the machine rebooted, without a blue screen. It did an orderly shut-down and reboot (XP Pro SP III). I did not allow XP to boot back [...]