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MSDN Events
Today I finished up my week in the sunny Florida panhandle presenting security talks for MSDN. On Tuesday, I was in Pensacola. The folks there were great, and a fun crowd. I also had a good time with my group today in Fort Walton Beach (the actual event was in Mary Esther). In between, my wife and son and I got to spend a little time at the beach. My son, who just turned 1 year old, got to stick his toes in the sand for the first time. He wasn’t quite sure what to make of it at first, but warmed up to the beach after a while.
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Running as Admin - Don't!
I’ve written about the problems of running your machine day-to-day as Administrator, and tips for making development as a non-Admin easier on a number of occasions. As a brief reminder, there are many viruses and other malware that would never have spread as widely as they did if the infected user had not been running as admin. Additionally, developers who run as admin when they develop and test software can inflict errors on those who use their software while running with lower privileges. And unfortunately, the ad-hoc “fix” for such problems often ends up being for that user to run with elevated privileges.
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Tip for Visual Studio 2005
Useful tidbit from the MVP summit: