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Pretty.
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The Russian Woodpecker was a notorious Soviet signal that could be heard on the shortwave radio bands worldwide between July 1976 and December 1989. It sounded like a sharp, repetitive tapping noise, at 10 Hz, giving rise to the "Woodpecker" name. The random frequency hops disrupted legitimate broadcast, amateur radio, and utility transmissions and resulted in thousands of complaints by many countries worldwide.
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Within the past decade, the operating system has become a commodity that should just work and enable you to run the applications you want to run. It should not be a software that makes your life more difficult.
This applies even more to Windows 7. UAC is broken. It needs to go. Now.
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2 responses to “links for 2009-02-08”
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Have you read Going Postal? As with so many things when they are translated from Roundworld to Discworld, the Woodpecker there is fundamentally different from ours, yet uncannily similar…
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Curiously, I started re-reading last week for unrelated reasons…
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