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Introducing Microsoft Code Name Zermatt

Security Briefs — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:42:15 GMT

Updated on Nov 26, 2008: Zermatt has been renamed to Geneva, and links have changed. See this post for

re: Introducing Microsoft Code Name Zermatt

Stephen — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:24:05 GMT

The paper isn't there anymore! Is there somewhere else to download it from?

re: Wells Fargo Opt Out 800 Number

Laura G. — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:49:04 GMT

Hello Keith,

About your term "loosely affiliated companies" - there's no such thing, a company is an affiliate of the bank or it not. There are separate privacy laws that regulate sharing of customer information with affiliates and with non-affiliated third parties; and these two forms of sharing have separate opt-outs. You said that in your call to the bank's privacy office, you opted out of "all solicitation" so perhaps you did get both covered. But everyone should be aware of these separate categories of customer information sharing and their separate opt-outs as well.

re: Better exception reporting in ASP.NET part 2

keith-brown — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:33:15 GMT

Dodd,

There's no EULA, no. Grab it and go!

Keith

re: Better exception reporting in ASP.NET part 2

Dodd Pfeffer — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:20:02 GMT

Keith, nice solution. I would like to use it on my site. Is there any EULA associated with this code?

re: Intellisense for XML config files broken in VS 2008?

nj — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 06:25:09 GMT

Thanks very much James.

I read many solutions but they worked.

Your solutions made it!!

I hop that many users find this.

re: PDC's DHCP screwed up my laptop's name resolution

Used Laptop — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 06:55:17 GMT

Thanks for the help .Its highly appreciated.

IIS Service Unavailable

writerus drivelus — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:48:53 GMT

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re: Security questions considered dangerous

Stephen Cleary — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:56:27 GMT

I have ~150 online accounts, since it seems every little website wants to track you these days...

I've also been bothered with security questions that provide no security. My solution is to lie, and regularly give nonsensical answers ("In what month did you get married? Orange"). The security questions and answers get put in my PaswordSafe account for that site.

This provides a more secure solution, at least for me. It is funny, though, the few times I've had to give answers to security questions over the phone. :)

Oh, and I regularly use spamgourmet. What a great service!

re: Intellisense for XML config files broken in VS 2008?

James Osborne — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 01:05:18 GMT

If you are still hitting this, I just found a fix. Using cmd, navigate to the Visual Studio 2008 (9.0) folder in the Program Files folder. cd to Common7\IDE. Type, "devenv.exe /setup"

You can open taskmgr to monitor the devenv process. When it's done, just reopen visual studio and xml should start rendering. At least it worked for me. Good luck.

re: Wells Fargo Opt Out 800 Number

Tom Quinn — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:26:34 GMT

Heh, I know what you mean. But over here in the UK supermarkets have recently begun a policy of not handing out bags for your shopping, if you want / need some you have to explicitly ask for them. Some of them even provide extra loyalty points if you bring your own carriers when you shop.

A small step, but we only get anywhere in small steps don't we?

The world does not belong to us, we are merely holding it in trust for our children!

re: Fix your jumpy optical mouse

jav — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:03:34 GMT

worked for me thanks was searching for software solution to this problem when came to this site and found it was lens needed cleaning thanks

re: PasswordTextBox

Nuno Agapito — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:14 GMT

Nice!!!

Thank you!

re: Sarah Palin and Security Questions

JD Trussell — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 13:12:06 GMT

I was confused as an adolescent that the social security card said "not for identification"... when did that change? Those that predicted the general use of the SSN as a national ID were ridiculed at the time, as being against SS.

As a victem of identity theft I would like to thank congress for facilitating the crime.

re: Twisted Coronas

Brett Berry — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:28:38 GMT

I do quite enjoy a Blue Moon with a liberal splash of pulp-infused orange juice. Bacardi has gotten me into trouble (or gotten me out of trouble - depends on your viewpoint) in the past.