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Sep 24, 2013
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Punctuation is becoming increasingly decorative and less functional

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks calls out abuse of the quotation mark. For some reason, quotation marks are being increasingly used as a form of emphasis (a usage which remains controversial), by people unaware that such use, when interpreted as scare quotes, serves to undermine their original point. Mind you, the emphasis theory do...

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Sep 24, 2013
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Wait, so does moving a file recalculate inherited permissions or doesn't it?

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

A customer had a question about whether moving a file recalculated inherited permissions. They found that on their Windows Server 2008 R2 machine, if they moved a file between directories with different inheritable ACEs, then the security descriptor is recalculated to match the destination folder, if they perform the move from the machine itse...

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