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Security Engineering – A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems by Ross Anderson is now available on-line.

engrowe.com » Blog Archive » Visual.SpellCheck page hack makes Visual.SpellCheck work with WordPress pages.

Update: after experimenting with this I decided to remove it for the moment. It has a nasty tendency to remove attributes from carefully hand-crafted HTML. Maybe at some point I’ll have time to fix it myself.

A handy list of windows startup applications that may be shown by MSCONFIG (from Sysinfo.org).

For various reasons I have to use Microsoft PowerPoint to prepare presentations, but if I post the slides on-line I want them in HTML format so that they can be viewed without using PowerPoint.

PowerPoint has an “Export to HTML” feature that produces nice-looking slides that can only be viewed with Internet Explorer. Or at least they look terrible in Firefox.

The solution is to load the PowerPoint presentation into OpenOffice.org. OpenOffice has an export to HTML feature that works fine with Firefox and other modern browsers.

I just gave a talk on Contract-First web service development using .NET tools. The slides are available here.

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