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I have to say a great appology for anyone reading our site. It appears that over the last few days, we were h4x0r3d. What is most ironic, is this comes on the eve of me receiving my H4X0R3D license plates.

This attack comes as a result of not updating to the latest version of PHPnuke soon enough. In fact, this is same type of behavior that caused proliferation of the slammer virus against SQL Server 2000®.

Thanks to Jonathan Goodyear of www.angrycoder.com, I need to post a correction to my Sourceforge for Capitalists article. As it turns out, they also have a restriction on its use for commercial software. Jonathan pointed this out to me:

I thought that you would like to know that your article on CodeNoEvil.com about .NET Workspaces is incorrect. If you view the GotDotNet Workspace Use Agreement (http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/Workspaces/licenses/OwnerAgreement.aspx), Section 5 (3rd paragraph), it clearly states: "Second, You also agree that You will not use the Workspace for any commercial purposes whatsoever." So, the capitalist folk will have to keep looking for a source-code collaboration environment for commercial code.

So, this is a bit unfortunate. But, the spirit of capitalism is still lives on.

In response to many users of GotDotNet Workspaces, Microsoft has updated the language they used in the licensing agreement governing code uploaded to the site. You can read about it here.

Basically, they are not claiming rights to user's code, as it may have sounded in the past. Check it out for yourself.

.NET does not make the number of seconds since 12:00:00AM 1/1/1970 readily available. This date and time is refered to the Epoch in the *nix world. It's primary use is for fix point date references.

I have wipped up some sample code that you can use to get this value in C#.

DateTime dtThen = new DateTime(1970,1,1,0,0,0,0);
DateTime dtNow = DateTime.Now;
TimeSpan span = dtNow - dtThen;
int timestamp = (int)span.TotalSeconds;


This example is quite simple. What I'm doing is first creating a DateTime object that represents 12:00:00AM 1/1/1970. I then retrieve a DateTime object from the static property Now of the DateTime object. The next step is to cast the difference in the DateTime objects into a TimeSpan object. The TimeSpan object's Seconds property represents the total number of seconds between the two dates.

DateTime manipulation within .NET is very sophisticated, but sometimes, what seems so easy, isn't. I hope you find this helpful.