Author: Roman

WordPress spam

There has been a lot of and increasing comment spam on the blog engine and it finally reached a critical amount to put a stop instead of just trashing tens and then hundreds of comments. Before I already restricted comments to registered users only and it did not help much, then I disabled XML-RPC since…

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Managing security desciptors in registry

As it is well known, COM/DCOM per-class launch and access permissions are stored in registry under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AppID key. However the permissions are stored in binary form (as a named REG_BINARY value) and thus not easy to read. DCOMCNFG (or MMC snap-in) is used to modify the values interactively but once one needs to update the…

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ex-USSR software piracy

Essence of respect to copyright in ex-USSR: Поддерживать”отечественного” производителя, котрый не удосужился сделать русскогоязычный интерфейс? Лично для меня “энгельский” не проблема. Так же как 990рублей (не хочу только геморроя с их отправкой автору ), но почему нет “великого и могучего”? Я думаю, что автор несомненно неплохой програмы априори, “соотечественников” за покупателей (таргет групп) не считает.…

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Reusable AVI Resources

While fixing Vista compatibility problems, an interesting issue arose with AVI clips. It is widely known that Windows shell animations are small AVI clips linked into shell32.dll binary as a resource of type “AVI”. Other DLLs have their clips too and standard animation common control is capable of picking the clips. It is quite convenient…

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