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Setting up Windows 2008 Server

The new Windows Server 2008 installation is pretty neat and tidy. Plus, it's even easier to install as compare to it's predecessor. The installation interface looks pretty nice and it looks just like Vista. Yet, in my opinion, there's 1 major problem. After the installation is completed, it will prompt to enter a new password for the administrator account. Unlike in the past that I could just ignore it or simply type a simple, non-complex password to proceed, this would actually disallow me to enter non-complex password. The kind of password complexity is something like "CoMpleXP0ss3w0rD". Yes, it's as complex as this. There is no way to bypass this page as from my experience.

Include JavaScript source file in ASP.NET 2.0 web page

I was trying to work on CustomValidator control for the past few days and I have finally able to use it without facing anymore major problem (IMHO). During the development, I found out that the <script> tag, which can be used to reference to a JavaScript source file (.js extension), could affect the post back event of the ASP.NET page. I have functions written within a JavaScript source file that would be referenced by CustomValidator.ClientValidationFunction properties. I included the source file within the <head>...</head> section with this line of code: <script type="text/javascript" src="formValidation.js"/> It is technically correct, isn't it? Since we are allowed to do <tag_name/> in the XML schema, so I would expect that this would work. Yes, indeed that my CustomValidator object is able to fire the client-side validation function, but yet the Submit button would not fire its OnClick event. So I tried to search for solut