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Monday, August 25, 2008 11:22 PM

My MP3 player demands to administer my system

Thanks to the excellent http://www.woot.com , I upgraded to a new MP3 player - this one, the Sansa e250 from SanDisk , has a little screen and shows video at an almost completely unacceptably small resolution. But I don't mind that, I didn't really...
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008 11:55 AM

CS-RCS Pro on Vista

I've been trying back and forth to get CS-RCS Pro , a version control suite, to work on Windows Vista. I like CS-RCS Pro for a number of reasons: Files stored in CS-RCS Pro are kept in a simple format, open and well-documented. As a result, if I ever...
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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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Thursday, June 28, 2007 9:13 PM

Wireless PC Lock - part 2

Over the last several days, I've been getting more and more requests for my updated Wireless PC Lock software that I described way back last year . Possibly, it's because of stories like this one : At New York-based Big Four accounting firm Ernst...
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Tuesday, May 01, 2007 10:00 AM

Vista incompatibility isn't always Vista

In fact, it is very rarely Vista, from the problems I've seen. Sure, there are some programs that rely on features and functionality that has been removed from Vista - but by and large, that functionality was already documented by Microsoft as being...
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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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Monday, April 02, 2007 12:01 PM

Don't catch exceptions

A long time ago, the developer of a competing product to my own WFTPD Pro decided that he was going to do something about GPFs in his software. He released a new version, and declared that you would never see another GPF from his software. How did he...
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Friday, January 19, 2007 9:02 PM

Visual Studio 2005 SP1 recommends /what/?

That's a great way to ruin a message that several of us have been trying to push for several years - the suggestion here is that you should be an administrator because some of the things that you may want to do might require administrative privilege....
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Monday, October 16, 2006 9:05 AM

Microsoft opens up kernel API. Maybe.

In an article " Microsoft Now Decides to Accept Outside Security for Vista ", the Washington Post says that Microsoft "did an about-face", "agreeing to make it easier for customers of its forthcoming Vista operating system to use outside security vendors...
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Thursday, October 05, 2006 8:06 PM

McAfee wants to modify your kernel

Much press has been made lately about the complaints by McAfee and Symantec that they have been locked out of modifying the Windows Vista x64 kernel through the closure of undocumented back-doors that they used to use. (Sadly, none of what either company...
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