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Signal Catalog #2: OSX Vulnerable, Amazon Dumps Google, RIM Accused Again, Firefox Fix and Slip

Posted Saturday May 13, 2006, 12:12 am, Over one day old

Mac OS X is losing its reputation for being a safe and carefree place with reports of a virus and vulnerabilities making the news these days (which seems to be the iChat trojan from February that really has nothing to do with a vulnerability but just careless / clueless users).

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Are you coming to DevTeach in Montreal?

Posted Saturday May 13, 2006, 12:12 am, Over one day old

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Google bellyaching about IE7

Posted Saturday May 13, 2006, 12:12 am, Over one day old

All that being said, I think a fair approach for Microsoft is to show a "Welcome to IE7" page on first run that has a small section saying "Your start page is set to www.msn.com (click here to change)" and "Your default search engine is set to MSN Search (click here to change)".

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Another Bad Error Message

Posted Saturday May 13, 2006, 12:12 am, Over one day old

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Bad Error Message == Bad Usability

Posted Saturday May 13, 2006, 12:12 am, Over one day old

Bad error messages disrespect the user by saying, "something is wrong but I'm not going to tell you". The problem was not complexity but that my password had been reset yesterday. When the specific error condition is known, tell the user exactly what is wrong and whether or not it is his/her fault.

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Paste Special and Macros in Word 2007

Posted Saturday May 13, 2006, 12:12 am, Over one day old

With the new ribbon interface I have to press Alt+E, C, V, S, Ctrl+End, Enter. A new Developer tab now shows up providing access to macros and some other stuff (like XML schemas). Update : Turns out the Developer tab is also how you edit document properties like Author and Title.

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Using ADSI to Authenticate Against Active Directory

Posted Saturday May 13, 2006, 12:12 am, Over one day old

Here's a VBScript version using ADSI (run at command line using cscript.exe). Dim uid, pwd uid = WScript.StdIn.ReadLine ' Get just the username (samAccountName) Dim username Set obj = LDAP.OpenDSObject(LDAPString, uid, pwd, ADS_SECURE_AUTHENTICATION) Get ( "samAccountName" ) = username Then

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