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Sunday, June 24, 2007 6:01 PM

Austin Powers Free on Xbox Live

Interesting ad promotion on Xbox Live this week. From the article: Xbox Live tries ads with McDonald's, New Line partnership - 6/22/2007 - Video Business Microsoft Xbox Live is partnering with McDonald's and New Line Home Entertainment to offer its first
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Friday, June 22, 2007 4:09 AM

Microsoft parking structure will hold 5,000 vehicles | Seattle Times Newspaper

From the article: Business & Technology | Microsoft parking structure will hold 5,000 vehicles | Seattle Times Newspaper Microsoft is digging for a solution to the parking crunch on its growing Redmond campus. The software giant is excavating a giant
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Wednesday, June 20, 2007 2:23 AM

Anti-security software

Mark Russinovich writes about a class of security bugs that many applications (including lots of 3rd party "security" solutions) suffer from. Squatting Attacks are enabled when improper security permissions are applied to files and synchronization objects.
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007 2:40 AM

Mac or PC, the rap.

Mmm..Geek rap. Originally seen at: GeekLimit
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Monday, June 18, 2007 12:36 PM

Coding Horror: How to Clean Up a Windows Spyware Infestation

From the article: Coding Horror: How to Clean Up a Windows Spyware Infestation Let my mistake be a lesson to everyone reading this: never browse the web without the very latest version of your preferred web browser . Intentionally choosing to browse the
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Saturday, June 16, 2007 8:08 PM

Vista compatible 3rd party firewall now available

From the article: Firewall fire sale: Free ZoneAlarm makes it to Vista The Vista version of ZoneAlarm, a two-way firewall that will continue to be given away, is the first from a major security vendor to apply Vista's Windows Filtering Platform (WFP)
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Saturday, June 16, 2007 3:43 PM

Would you like some cinderblocks with that?

From the article: BBC NEWS | Americas | US time capsule yields rusty car A car buried in Oklahoma in 1957 as a time capsule to mark the US state's 50th anniversary has caused some dismay after being finally unearthed. They had been asked to guess the
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Thursday, June 14, 2007 2:27 AM

Xbox.com | Xbox News - Countdown to Launch with Halo 3 Accessories

New Halo Controlers and Headsets to be released with Halo 3. From the article: Xbox.com | Xbox News - Countdown to Launch with Halo 3 Accessories Gear up for the game's release with a variety of new merchandise, including two new Xbox 360™ Limited Edition
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Thursday, June 14, 2007 2:00 AM

Apple vs Microsoft - sub-pixel differences

When Apple's Safari browser was released several articles on the difference between how pages looked were posted. The majority of Windows users appear to prefer the way Microsoft renders font's and Apple users appear to prefer the way Apple does it. It
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007 2:27 AM

Raymond Chen to discuss software patents

In the article: The Old New Thing : What determines which programs show up on the front page of the Windows XP Start menu? Raymond Chen writes the following: "Software patents suck!" It's irrelevant what your or my opinion of software patents is. So long
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