Archive for March, 2008
Monday, March 24th, 2008
The Windows Console is an abomination. In this modern word of mice, cut and paste, and fast video output, it's slow, painful to use, and ugly.
As it turns out, there's an Open Source project called, appropriately enough, Console. This project aims to address these long-standing shortcomings of the ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Windows Vista UAC is not always a predictable beast.
Today I found out that if an executable doesn't set level="asInvoker" in its manifest, UAC confirmation will kick in if any of the following substrings appear in the filename:
setup
install
update
A digital signature does not affect this behavior.
Besides adding "asInvoker" to the manifest, another ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
The Buffalo TeraStation Live is a NAS device which uses an embedded, ARM-based computer running a variant of Linux. Originally, I wanted to enable NFS, though later I stuck with CIFS/Samba. However, enabling SSH access proved invaluable for performing backups without having to worry about whether or not ...
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
In an attempt to create some easily customizable Kanji flashcards, I put all the class handouts into an XML file and wrote an XSLT file to transform it into HTML.
Internet Explorer was able to render the resultant HTML table, but Firefox would simply show me unformatted text. Ultimately, the ...
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