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Category Archives: Hall of Shame

Intel Graphics and the Dynamically Generated DLL

22-Feb-07

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 as [...]

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Software Quality? What’s that?

13-Feb-07

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 much [...]

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Objective 7 Error Logging: Access Denied

05-Feb-07

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

22-Jan-07

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 to be [...]

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