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Friday, March 21, 2008 9:15 PM

Retro-bundling - another suck of the Apple

I thought I was done blogging about Apple Software Update, having removed QuickTime from my system completely, and sworn never to install it again or watch another QT or MOV file. But nooo, someone had to spoil it by telling me what Apple Software Update...
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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, November 27, 2007 6:41 PM

I didn't want iTunes - now I've got iPod, too?

So, in my last post " Can the EU get me QuickTime N? ", I noted that my installation of QuickTime (because I had a .MOV file I want to see) led to Apple Software Update offering me "iTunes + QuickTime 7.5", despite my removing iTunes...
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007 5:52 PM

Can the EU get me QuickTime N?

So, a long time ago, in a continent not so far away, the European Union required Microsoft to ship a version of Windows without Media Player , called Windows XP N. Now, here's a follow-up to my previous articles: Programmer Hubris Part 1 - He's...
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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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Monday, May 14, 2007 9:20 PM

I'm still not that into Apple

Apple Updater showed me two new software updates the other day - "Quicktime" and "iTunes + QuickTime". Now, remember, I never installed iTunes , and went out of my way to install only QuickTime . I use QuickTime about once every six...
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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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Wednesday, March 21, 2007 5:19 PM

WIP: Principles of Secure Software Development

This is a work-in-progress, but I'd like your opinions on it: Principles of Secure Software Development You're not that good - someone will find a hole in your software. Find as many as you can, first. You're still not that good - you didn't find all...
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Monday, November 27, 2006 10:14 PM

Developers are users, too.

Jesper and Steve like to talk about "users just want to see the naked dancing pigs ". What they mean is that when users have selected an action that they want to do, whether it's looking at a purported picture of a naked celebrity, or getting rich by...
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Wednesday, November 01, 2006 8:31 PM

Don't surf from your dev box either

I've always scoffed some at reports of vulnerabilities in Visual Studio. After all, how many ways is a developer likely to get attacked through Visual Studio? Through loading and executing malicious code - don't fetch code from people you don't trust...
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Saturday, August 12, 2006 3:17 PM

I'm a developer - I don't do operations.

Okay, so there's a point that Larry has here, in referring to Dare's posts 1 and 2 - that operations and development are two separate skills. [ Joe refers to it , too] I've suggested for a long time that developers should spend some time on technical...
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