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The UAC security flaw in Vista by Tim Marman

User Account Control (UAC) is one of the key security mechanisms introduced in Vista. In the past, the default account as an administrator. Following the principle of least privilege , the default Vista account runs with limited access, and Vista detects...
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Email Tips by Tim Marman

Some tips on how to write better e-mail. Not only is it polite to follow these guidelines, it also makes it more likely that you'll get a response in a timely manner. Write better subjects . If you want your e-mail to get answered, you should write a...
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The Dark Side of Drag-Along/Tag-Along Rights by Tim Marman

Michael Arrington talks about the sale of FilmLoop . Due to drag-along rights, ComVentures was able to force an unfavorable sale to another company in its portfolio - leaving the founders with essentially nothing. One day, the founders and employees of...
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The Pros and Cons of OpenID by Tim Marman

The Radar team has a good post up about the pros and cons of OpenID . So what does all that mean? It means that there are a lot of people who have OpenID, but they don't have many places to use them and they probably aren't aware that they have one. It...
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First Life is refused a C&D by Tim Marman

Marty's post reminded me about this great anti-C&D from Linden Labs. This notice is provided on behalf of Linden Research, Inc. (“Linden Lab”), the owner of trademark, copyright and other intellectual property rights in and to the “Second Life” product...
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Start++ brings WDS shortcuts to the Vista start menu by Tim Marman

Brandon recently released a tool for Vista that brings Windows Desktop Search-style shortcuts to the start menu (and command line). Users of WDS on XP may recall the “Deskbar Shortcuts” functionality that allows you to create little aliases between words...
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