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Safely Remove Hardware, gets a facelift, almost

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There are quite a few design choices in Windows Vista that have me baffled, especially where an interface change to me seems quite logical but Microsoft have not implemented one. The Safely Remove Hardware feature is one such change. In Windows Vista there are two ways to prepare a device for removal before actually physically [...]

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Intel Graphics and the Dynamically Generated DLL

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I’ve recently noticed a DLL file from Intel that keep reappearing on my system drive and I’ve tracked this down to the display software on my laptop – I’ve recently moved to a Dell laptop that has an Intel 945GM display adapter. Here’s the DLL in question: C:\Intel\ExtremeGraphics\CUI\Resource\igfxres.dll The properties of the DLL show this [...]

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Software Quality? What’s that?

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I’ve seen some dumb software in my travels and Mercury Quality Center is no exception; however this one has got me scratching my head. Mercury Quality Center “provides a web-based system for automated software quality testing and management”. It uses a browser front-end with ActiveX controls connecting to a back-end process (I really don’t know [...]

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Objective 7 Error Logging: Access Denied

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Objective is an Enterprise Content Management system from Objective that uses a Win32 client that plugs into Office and can also be used as a stand-alone application for access to documents. I’m not a user of the application so I don’t really have an opinion on its effectiveness but organisations buy it so it must [...]

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Bentley Redline Requires Admin Privleges

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Bentley Redline is a viewer for DGN and DWG files that requires that users have write access to the application folder for the licensing component to work. Genius, pure genius: Here’s a quote from a discussion list I found on the Bentley web site: The sf.dat file is used by the licensing subsystem and needs [...]

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There’s a Hole in the Firewall, Dear Liza

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I think that this icon says a lot about the WatchGuard Firebox..

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Hey IBM, it’s 2006!

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If you’ve ever downloaded a SCSI or RAID driver for an IBM server from the IBM web site, you’ll have probably come across the DOS based executable (yes it’s a 16bit executable) that unpacks the driver to a floppy disk for you. This thing makes you wade through 15 screens of license agreement and then [...]

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Esker Tun PLUS Requires Administrative Access

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Today’s entrant into the Hall of Shame is Esker Tun PLUS which can be used to provide an ActiveX based terminal emulator via the web. This product downloads no less than 11 ActiveX controls and then wants the user to run an application named TRUST.EXE from a page that has the following text: You are [...]

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