Art Review - 'Light of the Sufis' - Enlightened Disorder in New Islamic Galleries of the Brooklyn Museum - NYTimes.com:

“Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam” remains on view through Sept. 6 in the newly reinstalled Islamic galleries at the Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, at Prospect Park, (718) 638-5000, brooklynmuseum.org.

'cause we all know how hard it is to find something to do in NYC...

Axantum Software AB | AxCrypt | Frequently Asked Questions:

Does AxCrypt run on XP/Vista/2008 x64? Yes, it does. However, the Shell Extension (the right-click menu) is a 32-bit component and requires that it run under the 32-bit shell that is available in Windows x64. You need to run the following command: DriveLetter:\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe /separate

I was just saying this:

Memo to Obama: Cairo Was a Mistake—UPDATE - Page 1 - The Daily Beast:

Obama should have chosen Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, a moderate, pluralistic, wildly successful democratic country whose citizens just last month overwhelming voted for secular and moderate Muslim parties over the country’s more radical Islamist groups. Instead, by choosing Cairo as the backdrop to his speech, Obama has in effect rewarded Egypt’s president for life, Hosni Mubarak, for his bloody, blatantly anti-democratic, and dictatorial rule.

And if not rewarding, he's sending a subtle message to the rest of the Muslims of the world that the US expects them to be ruled by dictators that were helped into power, or remain in power, due to US influence.

Integrate the New Hulu Desktop into Media Center | Sarah In Tampa | Channel 10:

the folks over at Missing Remote have put together a guide on how to add Hulu Desktop to Media Center as a shortcut from the main screen. This isn’t the only way to get this done, but at least it’s well-documented!

Though I'm still not sure what this is really going to do for me. I guess if it's in Media Center it's a bit easier to find. I don't have a media center remote, perhaps it's time to pick one up. And I don't know if adding this will allow my PS3 to then pull Hulu from the other computer, or my TiVo either...

SSL Certificate Generator, SSL Certificate, Self Signed Certificate, Test Certificate:

The Xenos Certificate Generator will create SSL certificates you can use for testing secure applications and web sites.

These certificates should not be used in a production environemnt because they are not signed by a trusted certificate authority.

The Xenos Certificate Generator can create self-signed certificates as well as ones signed with the certificate you specify.

Requires Windows 2000/XP/2003.

What a great tool.

Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption Step-by-Step Guide:

1. Click Start, type gpedit.msc in the Start Search box, and then press ENTER.

2. If the User Account Control dialog box appears, verify that the proposed action is what you requested, and then click Continue. For more information, see Additional Resources later in this document.

3. In the Group Policy Object Editor console tree, click Local Computer Policy, click Administrative Templates, click Windows Components, and then double-click BitLocker Drive Encryption.

4. Double-click the setting Control Panel Setup: Enable Advanced Startup Options. The Control Panel Setup: Enable Advanced Startup Options dialog box appears.

5. Select the Enabled option, select the Allow BitLocker without a compatible TPM check box, and then click OK.

   You have changed the policy setting so that you can use a startup key instead of a TPM.

6. Close the Group Policy Object Editor.

CF5 under Vista:

Re IIS7 not running ASAPI[sic] filters. Sure it does, its just not in the default installation. (At least on Vista, which I've been running for 3 days now, you have to go into: Control Panel/Programs and Features/Turn Windows Features on or off/ Internet Information Services/ World Wide Web Services/ Application Development Features and choose ISAPI Extensions and ISAPI features.

I really have to get out from behind this CF5 Eight Ball. We have a plan in place to migrate everything to ASP.NET, but even once the new site is done it will be years before we turn the old CF5 system off...

Configuring Server Bindings for SSL Host Headers (IIS 6.0):

In addition to installing a wildcard server certificate on SSL-enabled Web sites, you must also configure the SecureBindings metabase property on each site so it contains the host header name of the site. All SSL-enabled sites that use the same IP/port binding and are distinguished only by host header name must use the same wildcard server certificate.

I guess it's nice that even though this property isn't editable via the GUI that there is a way to set it with what is required, but it just seems like such an odd thing to have to do. Especially since I'd expect to be able to set the hostname in my WCF code and/or configuration and not have to touch IIS, perhaps this is "fixed" in IIS 7...

FBI — Most Wanted Terrorists - Press Room - Headline Archives 04-21-09:

An animal rights extremist wanted for allegedly bombing two San Francisco-area office buildings in 2003 has been added to our Most Wanted Terrorists list—the first domestic terrorist to be included with international terrorists such as Usama Bin Laden.

Daniel Andreas San Diego, 31, should be considered armed and dangerous. His domestic acts of terror were planned to destroy property, to cause economic hardship for the companies he targeted, and possibly to take lives—one of his bombs was laced with nails to create potentially deadly shrapnel. We are offering a reward of up to $250,000 for information directly leading to his arrest.

Note: not a foreigner, not Muslim.