The Battle For Basra

In a decade or so, we'll have enough information to analyze important events in Iraq, like the recent battle for Basra.  In the meantime, there's this article, which gives a quick summary.  This kind of reporting doesn't give the entire story (but rather just part of the declassified story), but it's a start.  Mix it…

Proxy Problems And FtpWebRequest

Last week, our networking team gave us a web proxy.  Naturally, this has caused a couple of problems with our applications.  The first problem that we saw was that MSDN help (especially for SQL Server) was getting blocked with a 407 Proxy authentication error.  The solution to this is to add a section to the…