Handy Javascript Syntax Highlighter for Blog Posting

After sharing my struggles with trying to format .NET code on my blog, my co-worker and friend jeff pointed me to this excellent must-have tool for bloggers who post code.

It's a Syntax Highlighter/formatter implemented in javascript so you don't have to mess with the complexity of posting code to your blog anymore. Just wrap your code in a <textarea name="code" class="c#"> and wow! It supports about 12 different languages including, but not limited to C#, VB.Net, SQL, XML.

See examples on my site here on my blog, or see every language sample here on the Syntax Highlighter web site.

SQL Server 2000 Does What?!?!?!

After hardening a Production SQL Server Cluster, and reviewing the Secuirty Logs to make sure all was well, among many other strange things I saw SQL Server trying to do, I ran across this gem:

Event Type: Failure Audit
Event Source: Security
Event Category: Object Access 
Event ID: 560
Date:  2/16/2007
Time:  11:44:36 AM
User:  DOMAIN\SQLServiceAccountName
Computer: COMPUTERNAME
Description:
Object Open:
        Object Server: Security
  Object Type: File
  Object Name: C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT
  Handle ID: -
  Operation ID: {0,533511}
  Process ID: 872
  Image File Name: 
  Primary User Name: MACHINE$
  Primary Domain: DOMAIN
  Primary Logon ID: (0x0,0x3E7)
  Client User Name: SQLServiceAccountName
  Client Domain: DOMAIN
  Client Logon ID: (0x0,0x822BB)
  Accesses: READ_CONTROL 
   SYNCHRONIZE 
   ReadData (or ListDirectory) 
   ReadEA 
   ReadAttributes 
   
  Privileges: -
  Restricted Sid Count: 0
  Access Mask: 0x120089

Pretty cool, eh?