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We should be used to:
- Keeping Anti-Virus signatures up to date
- Running Windows Update
- Keeping other programs up to date
However you should also keep your browser plug-ins up to date. For Firefox, see https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/
Well the HTML5 specification is not finalised yet, but for the moving target that is what has been agreed, here are the results of some testing I did today using http://html5test.com/.In fourth place was the Safari browser with 278 (+2 bonus) points out of 500. This surprised me!In third place was Internet Explorer 10 with 320 (+ 6 bonus) points out of 500. Well good try Microsoft and keep up the good work.In second place was Firefox with 394 (+10 bonus) out of 500.In top place was Chrome with 468 ......
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I wish this book had been available to me years ago when I was learning CSS. It is an excellent book for getting an initial grounding in the use of CSS. I would therefore recommend it to all starting out with HTML/CSS.It is not a complete manual of CSS but it does provide the essential initial understanding. Any IT team wishing to retrain people into web applications, should use this book as a first step in the training process. By following the exercises, any developer should get the initial experience ......
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Today the New Horizons spacecraft reached 26 Au from the Sun on its way to Pluto, yet it has another 821 days before its closest approach!
New Horizons is now far from the Earth that the round-trip time is over 7 hours.
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In a project a long time ago, an architect made the statement - we will not use stored procedures as they can be dissembled. (Unless stored procedures are encrypted, they can be readily viewed.)
Instead, the architect declared, all SQL will be embedded and thus will remain secure. I then fired up ILDASM.EXE, used it to disassemble our prototype EXE and located statement after statement of TSQL within the executable.
I have been reading CLR via C# and realised that I needed to set up a short cut to the Intermediate Language disassenbler. So this is how to go about it.First find your SendTo directory!Install the Platform SDK from http://www.microsoft.com/en... if you have not already done so!Open Windows Explorer and navigate to LogonName/SentToUnder Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 access the folder according to http://geekswithblogs.net/p... ......
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