Jul 7, 2014
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Customing the standard color-picker dialog
A custom template, or possibly a custom hook function.
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Jul 4, 2014
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Communication between moving vehicles during the narrow window of the late 1990s
The long holiday weekend in the United States means that there are probably going to be a lot of people on road trips. Back in the old days before mobile phones, if you had multiple cars traveling together on a long trip, you had to stay within visible range of each other so that you didn't get separated. And if the car at the end of the convoy ne...
Jul 3, 2014
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It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway: Surreptitious file access by administrator
A security report was received that went something like this: A user can bypass file sharing locks by opening a read-only handle to the physical volume containing the file in question. This allows the user to extract the contents of protected files by reading the corresponding sectors directly from the disk. Since this operation requires administr...
Jul 2, 2014
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Redirecting the Favorites folder is technically legal, but you wouldn't like it
A customer liaison asked for assistance in debugging why Internet Explorer frequently stops responding at their customer's site. "We have tried a number of things like clearning the temporary Internet files, disabling add-ons, and resetting Internet Explorer settings. Please let me know if you can provide guidance based on the dump files provided ...
Jul 1, 2014
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What is the default size of the Recycle Bin, and how can an administrator control the size of the Recycle Bin?
A customer was setting up a file server to which they intended to redirect all their employees' documents. They were concerned about the amount of disk space used by all the Recycle Bins on that server. Is there a fixed default size for the Recycle Bin, or is it based on the size of the disk? Is there a way we can change the default size for the ...