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New Website - kdmurray.net

At long last the move has finally happened.  The blog has moved to its new home at: http://kdmurray.net/

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Visual Studio 2005 on Vista Requires Admin Rights

I finally got the chance today to get back to working on PowerTray, this time with my Visual Studio 2005 installation on my Virtualized Windows Vista setup.  The first thing I ran into was this warning dialog:

To me, this is the kind of issue that shows immaturity in the OS.  Though it is possible […]

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AntiVirus software lacking effectiveness

At the recent AusCERT 2006 Conference, a survey was published by Graham Ingram general manager of the Australian Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCERT) which discussed the effectiveness of several leading anti-virus products.  The survey states that an average of 8 in 10 threats are getting through the protection that these products provide.
Some research done […]

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Google Webmaster Tools

Well I just found these a few days ago, and thought it might be interesting to keep track of… If you have a website that you manage, you can set up an account with Google where you can track the status of your pages and see how “easily findable” you are. Google’s set […]

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Security vs. Functionality

I’ve been trying to decide whether or not to implement some “security” measures in Chromium Blog Project. The three that are causing me the most grief in terms of a decision are:

Allowing HTML in Posts
Allowing Anonymous comments/responses
Putting some sort of image in to restrict automated account creation & logins

Right now, I’m coming down […]

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