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  1. Flashed my BIOS, and it completely disabled USB support. I needed to hunt down a PS/2 keyboard adapter to get to the BIOS setup screens!12:04 AM Jun 29th from web
  2. OK I never liked Adobe Reader, but I've never seen an installer try to sneak in so much crap as Foxit Reader does.6:06 PM May 29th from web
  3. What is a "microsystem" anyway? Sun claims to make them.9:49 PM May 27th from web
  4. @rob_farley That would be because DST hasn't started there yet :-)12:08 AM May 27th from web in reply to rob_farley
  5. @rob_farley Where does Vista tell you that there is no DST in Casablanca?11:56 PM May 26th from web in reply to rob_farley
  6. @rob_farley According to timeanddate.com, Casablanca has daylight savings.11:36 PM May 26th from web in reply to rob_farley
  7. In Windows 7 you can show an additional clock in the UTC timezone. Doesn't seem to be possible in Vista. (GMT != UTC during daylight saving)9:10 PM May 26th from web
  8. Wolfram Alpha is able to tell the average airspeed velocity of an unlaiden european swallow (11m/s apparently) but not an african swallow.10:34 PM May 23rd from web
  9. Just found out (the hard way) that WCF in .NET 3.5 SP1 can now serialise undecorated types, while .NET 3.5 (without SP) requires them.6:28 PM May 21st from web
  10. Blogged: Protecting against XML Entity Expansion attacks. http://tinyurl.com/p9m3r22:43 AM May 21st from web
  11. Testing a library from classic ASP. I can't believe I'm typing "On Error Resume Next"11:57 PM May 20th from web
  12. For fuck's sake Adobe, what part of "I don't want an icon on my desktop" don't you understand?7:47 PM May 18th from web
  13. Linksys media center extenders discontinued: http://tinyurl.com/qkwqbl. A pity - I've got the DMA2100 and it's awesome.3:48 PM May 18th from web
  14. OASIS does provide a profile for SAML 2.0 in WS-Security. Still I can't see any reason why 2.0 is better than 1.1 in a web service scenario?12:10 AM May 12th from web
  15. WS-I provides profiles for SAML 1.1 only. Does that mean using SAML 2.0 for web services isn't recommended for interoperability?11:07 PM May 10th from web
  16. VS2008 solution + TFS2005 = lots of hacks to get a build working12:53 AM May 5th from web
  17. @simonwaight The point is "scope" means "rules against that specific entity", not "rules that apply to things in that container"10:35 PM May 4th from web in reply to simonwaight
  18. How could *every* printer in the building be broken? Man I hate expense claims.8:52 PM May 4th from web
  19. @simonwaight These still apply only to a single specified target, not to everything in a class/namespace/project.8:43 PM May 4th from web in reply to simonwaight
  20. Arguing with VSTS code analysis. Just learned that you can't use [SuppressMessage] to filter out all violations in a namespace/class/etc.6:53 PM May 4th from web