Yesterday my Italian colleagues in Developer Support and I officially inaugurated our new team blog: if you can read Italian then join us at http://blogs.msdn.com/itasupport ? Carlo Quote of the day: Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. – Carl Jung
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Channel9 speaks Italian
A few weeks after the Italian MS bloggers have joint in a (for the moment) small community and started promote their content, today I’ve been told that Channel9 started hosting non-English content, and guess what…? The first video of this series (in the home page ?) is in Italian! ? They’ll interview Italian people working in Redmond, of course talking about technology; in this first video Vittorio Bertocci interviews Mauro Ottaviani and they talk about WCF and performance. So, if you can read Italian keep an eye on https://channel9.msdn.com/tags/Italia? Carlo
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Security bug in Vista recovery console? Well… not quite…
My colleague Feliciano Intini (Chief Security Advisor here at Microsoft Italy) just pointed me to his post were he comments about a news which is (re)spreading across the web about a security hole in the recovery console in Windows Vista: if you can read Italian here is the post, otherwise go on an ready my translation. Third episode of my anti-FUD column. True story (unfortunately): a few days ago someone has stolen the motorbike of a colleague of mine whom was working at a customer’s site.How was the bike protected? With that special padlock which locks the front wheel, without any sort of chain to fasten to a physical stand. How did they stole the bike? They arrived with a truck, a few guys got off it and they loaded the bike by sheer force in less than 5 minutes! What do I want to say? Here is a fundamental concept in security field: physical security is the basis for all security. False fact: I’m reading in various posts which quote an article by Finnish Kimmo Rousku, which Windows Vista apparently has a security hole which “allows to gain unlimited access to anyone who has physical access to the pc, even if…
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Italian MS bloggers, a new community is born
Last Wednesday I took part to the first (non) meeting of the new-born Italian bloggers community: we were a bunch of people united by the passion for technology, who happen woking in the same company and whom share an interest (if not a passion, in some cases) for sharing their experiences and knowledge in their blogs. We are just at the beginning of the jurney, so if you can read Italian and what to know more, start having a look at the Italian MS bloggers list😊 Carlo