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Thursday, April 24, 2008 4:47 PM

UAC - The Emperor's New Clothes

I heard a complaint the other day about UAC - User Account Control - that was new to me. Let's face it, as a Security MVP, I hear a lot of complaints about UAC - not least from my wife, who isn't happy with the idea that she can be logged on as...
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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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Thursday, January 31, 2008 10:46 PM

Get Well Scotty McLeod

I could have titled this "adversity shows how small our world truly is". I had no idea that so many of my friends, acquaintances, MVPs and Microsoft staff are also friends with Scotty McLeod - until he got hit by a train last week. He is recovering...
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Friday, January 11, 2008 9:03 PM

Why you don't run as root

[... or administrator, or whatever] I like Roger Grimes, he's a nice guy, and he generally makes me think about what he has to say. That's a good thing, because otherwise he'd either be part of the same choir as me, or he'd be the sort...
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Monday, January 07, 2008 9:22 PM

How broken is the banking system?

My kid and I love watching Top Gear - me, because it's nice to see him interested in a very traditional British TV programme (in the US, you can find it on BBC America), and him, because he just loves cars - particularly high-performance ones. So...
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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, November 26, 2007 8:29 PM

What I need for Christmas

At one point, I mentioned to my wife that I could do with a leaf blower. Then I figured out how I could take the shop vac and turn it into a leaf blower. Now I could do with a leaf blower and a shop vac.
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Thursday, November 22, 2007 10:44 PM

How many people do you represent?

In my earlier discussion on why 100% utilisation is not maximum efficiency , I alluded to the fact that a rejected customer, or a customer with a bad experience, will tell other potential customers that you never get to see. This reminded me that there...
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Thursday, November 22, 2007 12:32 AM

Autism Screening at 18 months and 2 years

I'm excited by the news that the American Academy of Pediatricians is recommending that all children be screened at their regular 18 month and 24 month checkups for autism . As regular readers will know, my son was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome...
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Sunday, November 18, 2007 10:47 PM

Thanksgiving - five years

Regular readers of my blog will know that Thanksgiving is a special time for me. Five years ago, I was giving thanks that a relatively routine surgery discovered and removed a cancerous growth - a tumor. Last week, I visited the doctor to find out the...
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