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October 2004 - Posts

Sunday, October 31, 2004 7:15 PM

New Halo 2 Trailer

I went to see the film Birth the other day, and was surprised to see a new Halo 2 trailer. I don't know anyone who thought the original theatrical trailer for Halo 2 was very exciting, but the new one is much cooler, with more action, snippets of in-game
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Friday, October 29, 2004 1:32 AM

Show me the money!

A member of the VSTO team just came to my office and asked, "Is it bad to trust all Office documents on the Local Intranet?" That's a good question, and after answering it for him I thought it was also worth blogging about (plus I'm hanging around the
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Thursday, October 28, 2004 6:32 AM

Threat Models in Action

As you probably know, the first Visual Studio "Whidbey" beta was released a few months ago, and we are hard at work finishing the product for release sometime... soon. ish. As you also probably know, Microsoft is now threat-modelling all new components
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Thursday, October 14, 2004 4:01 PM

Windows Update, Automatic Update, and SAFER

Jeroen points out an annoying problem with the new version of Windows Update in his last comment -- it doesn't work from a RunAs-ed Internet Explorer session. This is a known problem with Windows Update that will hopefully be addressed in a future release.
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Tuesday, October 12, 2004 5:39 PM

October Security Bulletins

Microsoft has released several security bulletins today: · IT folks can get more information at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms04-oct.mspx · Home users can get information at http://www.microsoft.com/security/default.mspx It seems
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Wednesday, October 06, 2004 4:51 AM

How many hours does it take to film a lightbulb?

A lot. As you may know, I like to work on independent films as a hobby . I am currently working on another project as an Assistant Director, but I'll leave out details of that project until it's done. Anyway, this blog post is not about my weekend hobby,
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