Time for the semi-annual link clearance. <\/p>\n
![people have been using this type of control for decades<\/a>. <\/li>\n Fakes and Phonies<\/a>: The shadowy world of art forgery. A long New York Times<\/i> article<\/a> also goes into the document forgery that makes the art forgery seem legitimate. <\/li>\n Andy Warhol was a pack rat, and his junk pile is an archivist’s gold mine<\/a>. <\/li>\n I suspect there aren’t quite so many listings on these types of sites<\/a> nowadays. <\/li>\n A working Difference Engine<\/a> is on display at the Computer History Museum<\/a> in Mountain View, California for a limited time, after which it will go into the private collection of Nathan Myhrvold, who paid for its construction<\/a>. <\/li>\n Peter J. Morris<\/a> shares with us the source code to the infinitely profitable program<\/a>. By an amazing coincidence, I wrote this exact same program too! (I called mine \/.COM<\/code>.) <\/li>\n If the roles had been reversed, this would’ve made Slashdot<\/a>, “Microsoft intentionally crashes competitors to prevent them from implementing the same feature.” Instead, it’s just another day in compatibility land. (Related: Google Apps Sync intentionally disables Windows Desktop Search<\/a>. In both cases, the problems were ironed out<\/a>.) <\/li>\n There’s still time for eligible nonprofit organizations to request copies of Windows 7 Professional Upgrade and Windows 7 Enterprise Upgrade<\/a>. <\/li>\n You can once again drag and drop into console windows in Windows 7 thanks to some nontrivial retooling of how console windows are hosted<\/a>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n And, as always, the obligatory plug for my column in TechNet Magazine<\/a>: <\/p>\n\n When Windows Audio Goes Haywire<\/a>. <\/li>\n Cached Credentials<\/a>. <\/li>\n Windows ‘Prettified’ Filenames<\/a>. <\/li>\n Encoding Is Not Encrypting<\/a>. <\/li>\n Tracking Shortcuts<\/a>. <\/li>\n What’s in a Filename<\/a>? <\/li>\n Junction Dysfunction<\/a>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Time for the semi-annual link clearance. The decade according to 9-year-olds. (Technically the decade doesn’t end until next year, but try convincing anybody to care.) The online Dilbert strip finder does a full-text search on Dilbert comics, for those times when you want to find a particular comic. For example, a search for minivan quickly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-15453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"Time for the semi-annual link clearance. The decade according to 9-year-olds. (Technically the decade doesn’t end until next year, but try convincing anybody to care.) The online Dilbert strip finder does a full-text search on Dilbert comics, for those times when you want to find a particular comic. For example, a search for minivan quickly […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/i.msdn.microsoft.com\/Aa511278.Sound08.png\"){kind=link}
\/.COM<\/code>.) <\/li>\n- If the roles had been reversed, this would’ve made Slashdot<\/a>, “Microsoft intentionally crashes competitors to prevent them from implementing the same feature.” Instead, it’s just another day in compatibility land. (Related: Google Apps Sync intentionally disables Windows Desktop Search<\/a>. In both cases, the problems were ironed out<\/a>.) <\/li>\n
- There’s still time for eligible nonprofit organizations to request copies of Windows 7 Professional Upgrade and Windows 7 Enterprise Upgrade<\/a>. <\/li>\n
- You can once again drag and drop into console windows in Windows 7 thanks to some nontrivial retooling of how console windows are hosted<\/a>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
And, as always, the obligatory plug for my column in TechNet Magazine<\/a>: <\/p>\n\n- When Windows Audio Goes Haywire<\/a>. <\/li>\n
- Cached Credentials<\/a>. <\/li>\n
- Windows ‘Prettified’ Filenames<\/a>. <\/li>\n
- Encoding Is Not Encrypting<\/a>. <\/li>\n
- Tracking Shortcuts<\/a>. <\/li>\n
- What’s in a Filename<\/a>? <\/li>\n
- Junction Dysfunction<\/a>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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