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Monday, December 17, 2007 5:38 PM

Removing Apple Mobile Device Support

As mentioned before, I'm not a fan of Appple 's, particularly because they tend to impose crap on me that I'm not interested in having. I've been trying to figure out how to remove iTunes , iPod and Aple Mobile Device Support on and off...
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Tuesday, October 02, 2007 9:35 PM

DRM should always be a choice

Jesper's recent frustration with a bug in the DRM support on his Windows Media Center Edition (MCE) system demonstrates a couple of basic truths in system reliability: Complexity negatively impacts reliability. DRM contributes to complexity. Clearly...
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Monday, September 03, 2007 8:51 PM

Why complain about UAC prompts?

Jesper's article in TechNet Magazine on the purpose and future of UAC in Windows Vista and beyond reminded me that there's a whole slew of behaviours more annoying than UAC's prompting (which, as Jesper points out, is only the most visible...
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Tuesday, August 28, 2007 2:38 PM

Windows Script 5.6 - making me less nervous.

Remember my posting " How to make me nervous ", where I talked about Microsoft's release of Windows Script 5.7 , and their rather sudden removal of Windows Script 5.6 and before? My concern was that this removes our ability to fix broken...
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Monday, August 13, 2007 3:04 PM

How to make me nervous

How to make Alun nervous in 3 easy steps: Release a new version of a tool that Alun uses throughout his home and work life. For bonus points, make it a back-port from a later version of the operating system. Back-port it to operating systems as far back...
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Monday, June 04, 2007 12:00 PM

Catch me at Tech-Ed

For those of you who want to catch me at Tech-Ed, if it's only to let me know that real people (rather than spammers) read this blog, you can find me in the yellow section of the Technical Learning Center, in the Security sub-section, at the Solution...
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Thursday, April 26, 2007 9:50 PM

Alternate Data Streams in Windows Vista

Windows NT 3.1 was released ... oh, back in the early to mid '90s. Ever since then, I've been aware that it supported Alternate Data Streams, also known as ADS, or in some technical documents that didn't make it to final review, Alternative...
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Saturday, December 30, 2006 8:48 AM

ReadyBoost - swap space on a stick.

So, I've finally upgraded my laptop from Windows XP SP2 to Windows Vista. The upgrade process itself took over three hours - the first fifteen minutes of which was basically me uninstalling the applications that the Vista installation told me would interfere...
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Wednesday, October 18, 2006 9:57 PM

IE7 - the security update that isn't

First, the big news - IE7 is now available for direct download . I cannot recommend this update strongly enough. Go and get it. My wife's not into the security stuff as much as I am, so she recommends it purely on the basis that it's a far improved user...
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Wednesday, October 11, 2006 9:36 AM

Way to "not remain silent", George!

“ We won’t remain silent as Microsoft imposes unnecessary security risks ,” wrote George Samenuk, just days before resigning from McAfee , apparently because of a back-dated stock-options scandal that started in 1996, lasting through...
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Monday, July 31, 2006 6:09 PM

Ten reasons Dr J wants to go to Amazon.

Ten reasons Dr J wants to go to Amazon . 10. Tired of working at a desk, wants to work at a door on breeze blocks instead. 9. Commute to Downtown Seattle is better than commute to London, New Zealand, Japan, Barcelona, Amazon Basin, Tsurinam, Atlantis...
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