Father of "Ctrl + Alt + Del"

I'm sure that every users of Microsoft Windows operating system should have used "CTRL + ALT + DEL" many times. But how many of us know the inventor of this?

It's David Bradley, an engineer from IBM, spent only 1 minute and 23 seconds to write the code which rescue the world of PC users for decades. After microsoft had included this in its windows os, it had become well known. The author commented his relationship to Bill Gates by saying "I win whenever he looses (windows crash)".

More information can be found in wiki pages.

Windows Integrated Authentication

This week I spent sometime on learning a system administration stuff. "Its really worth to know about everything and master in something"; I remember this statement. Actually I felt very much knowledgeful and my talks were senseful when I talked to our project system admin regarding the above topic.

It was about setting up the application/web server to use IIS server authentication. We wanted to setup the 'Windows Integrated Authentication' but there was an error raised by the application server. As usual, I was interested in investigating the problem. But I was not aware of IIS and its authentication mechanisms. So, I did some research and now, I want to share with you the resources, I used.
IIS USER AUTHENTICATION TUTORIAL

And also, my further investigations showed that this authentication can be done using the most popular apache server also. This is done using a new apache module (mod_auth_sspi). This module is now hosted as a sourceforge.net project. Still I haven't tested this. But, this week I'm planning to setup the apache with the windows integerated authentication to see how the open source competitor performs. Here are some useful links:

Integrated Authentication | Apache

Sourceforge.net project site

Murali goes online?

Posting after a verrrrrrrry long time. Hmm..its really an un-tolerable gap. I should not allow this to happen again.

Today I have registered a new domain MuraliOnline.NET and it's pointing to my existing blogging site. So, the domain means this blog title :-).