Posted on Monday, 12th May 2008 by admin
I installed WIndows XP SP3 onto a PC over the weekend through Windows Updates. Everything went smoothly with no problems. That has not been the case for every one, but you come to expect that with service packs. I’ll be testing the redistributable and ISO installs soon to see how they work. Although the release [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, 23rd January 2008 by admin
I got my first taste of virtualized Operating Systems.
I am running Windows XP Pro SP2 as a host environment. I wanted to be able to run IE7 as we are going to need to support it soon, while still having access to IE6. Other environments like Ubuntu were needed also. I stumbled upon VirtualBox from [...]
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Posted on Friday, 19th October 2007 by admin
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The conference
Sarah and I have returned safely from the West Wind Web Connection conference. It was really awesome to finally meet so many of the people that I hang out with on the Web Connect forums in person. Web Connection 5.30 is awesome. The wwBusiness Objects and JSON handling is very powerful and something that [...]
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Posted on Monday, 15th October 2007 by admin
This is mostly knee jerk, sarcasm, and my pessimism with Windows showing through. Take it with a grain of salt.
I don’t like Vista. That system has been a headache for me since day one. I normally build my own systems, but a local reseller had a really good deal on a system that came with [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 12th June 2007 by admin
I received an email today inviting me to share my thoughts on Microsoft Vista. I recently called them and tried to move my Vista install over to another machine and they wouldn’t let me. Fine, I’ll fill out your damn survey while I seeth about your EULA.
The survey took forever to load, but once it [...]
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Posted on Monday, 21st May 2007 by admin
So if UAC is not a security boundry, then its purpose is to annoy the hell out of me, right?
It should be clear then, that neither UAC elevations nor Protected Mode IE define new Windows security boundaries. -Mark Russinovich on his blog.
I grew immune to the UAC prompt after only a few hours. I didn’t [...]
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