I moved an SSD drive with Windows 10 from one machine to another machine with completely different hardware, and to my surprise it booted successfully! Older versions of Windows would […]

Over the Thanksgiving week-end I have moved the blog to an Ubuntu virtual machine and have also changed the WordPress theme. The URL is still the same: http://www.ikriv.com/, but the […]

nUnit has a great feature of running multiple similar test cases via data-driven approach: [TestCase(“”, “”)] [TestCase(“q”, “q”)] [TestCase(“xyz”, “zyx”)] public void TestStringReverse(string s, string expectedResult) { var result = […]

Amusing fact #1: .NET framework does not have built-in class to load RSA private key from PKCS#1 (PEM) representation. I borrowed this: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/162194/Certificates-to-DB-and-Back Amusing fact #2: creating an RSA key […]

A couple of hours ago my Outlook at work stopped working getting stuck on “trying to connect”. The Exchange Server appeared to be alive. Restarting and rebooting did not help. […]

I have created a VM from an image with a very clamp down security setup. In particular, it had a very limited set of trusted root CAs. It would not […]

As part of creating self-signed certificate, we use the following code: var enroll = new CX509Enrollment(); enroll.InitializeFromRequest(cert); enroll.CertificateFriendlyName = friendlyName; string csr = enroll.CreateRequest(); // may fail with ACCESS DENIED […]