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Windows Vista has the built-in ability to automatically reduce the potential of security breaches in the system. It does that by automatically enabling a feature called User Account Control (or UAC for short). The UAC forces users that are part of the local administrators group to run like they were regular users with no administrative privileges.
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Running PHP on a Windows system is (and always will be) a painful task. The logical way to go is to have a hosted Linux server on which you host any PHP applications, but what if you need to do development on a local PC? Not everyone has the knowledge to set up and maintain a Linux box, let alone setting up web applications on it. Another major issue would be bandwidth. Some countries (like South Africa) have extremely limited bandwidth available and the connections are not always as stable as we would like. The logical option – hosting PHP on your local PC!
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As any World Of Warcraft player knows, Wednesday is patch-day. Generally the servers are not accessible from the outside world. During that time Blizzard will run routine maintenance or perform critical updates. Today was special though, it was the release of patch 3.2. There is so much good that came from this, so many surprises, so many good many rumours arising from what went on in the PTR’s… Well one thing that got allot of us by surprise – the user interface problem on computers running the Intel 965 Mobile Chipset.

This had caught me completely off guard as never before has a WoW update clashed so severely with a driver. I personally use a Dell Inspiron 1525. It is far from a gaming laptop, but it gets the job done and allows for a bit of Warcraft or maybe a quick mission on Swat. This particular notebook, as well as many others is shipped with the Intel chipset that had issues.
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