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Tech notes for PC users
| 2008-Apr-12 Vista's UAC security prompt was designed to annoy you
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UAC's real purpose is quite simple: it's meant to trip whenever a routine attempts to elevate security privileges, and get in your face. As we have reported before, this has two goals: a) it give users a chance to approve of the elevation in the off chance that something wrong is happening,......
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| 2007-Dec-10 Emailed my state senator, Jack Barnes.
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Got an email back saying he's forwarded it to PUC Commissioner Clifton Below. |
| 2007-Dec-01 Comcast Digital Voicee has screwed up my broadband.
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(Corection: Comcast Digital Phone was what I had before. Comcast Digital Voice is what they forced me to switch to.)
I'm posting this from a Windows machine routed through a Linux box hooked to a spanking new Comcast digital Voice box, which just happens to replace my old cable modem. They didn't......
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| 2006-Oct-16 The XP security dilemma
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A properly designed operating system protects itself by having separate modes of operation for administration and ordinary use. When you're logged in as administrator, you can configure the entire system. When you're logged in as user you can't configure the system even by accident. When you're running......
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