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Windows also contains 3 drivers loaded during boot, all starting with wd*, especially wdboot.sys. If they are loaded, some paths to defender and registry keys are blocked. I always remove them from the custom ISO I use to install windows using dism.exe. You can also reboot into safe mode and rename them. After that, chipping away at defender using takeownership etc. works.

If you just rename the folders, those drivers are probably still active


There are some pages that are not linked, wondered what happened to these products

https://www.radgametools.com/granny.html https://www.radgametools.com/iggy.htm https://www.radgametools.com/milesperf.htm


Granny, Iggy and Miles are all discontinued as stand-alone products. We're still providing support to existing customers but not selling any new licenses.


While we've got you, any chance you'll attend another demoparty here in Germany? :)

Big thanks for your awesome blog, learnt much from it over the years.


Thanks!

Chance, sure, it's just a matter of logistics. Revision is a bit tricky since it's usually shortly after GDC, a very busy time in the game engine/middleware space I work in, so not usually when I feel up to a pair of international flights. :) Best odds are for something between Christmas and New Year's Eve since that's when I'm usually in Germany visiting family and friends anyway.


What was this odorless substance and where did it come from? (just curious what to watch out for)


It came from a leak in the battery during charging. Exactly what the gas was is still unknown but it knocked me for six a couple of days after I received the unit. I thought about getting it tested and even suing but it took out my whole apartment and I just had to get rid of it and cut my losses. I was in the ER unable to stand and in quite a state, lost balance and coordination and was incoherent for a while. CAT scan w/contrast, it was a whole production on Thanksgiving at 3am. They monitored me for a couple days and sent me back to the apartment where all the symptoms immediately returned, and then I put it together and looked closer at the UPS. Underneath it was a couple of drops of black liquid that had come from the battery compartment and after returning to the ER again to go throw up some more I went back and took it straight to the garbage. I think it was one of those types of gas that can effect you in the PPM range. Totally odorless. This was the enterprise APC UPS, the model was SUA1500


The SUA1500 is a pretty reliable unit and I highly doubt that's the issue. If there was a problem with the battery, those were poor quality batteries, but nothing to do with the UPS and not a reason to avoid them if you have a good use. I've also never heard of such a gas being produced that was odorless, do you know this is what happened for sure or are you just speculating?


I agree the SUA1500 is probably the best UPS APC made certainly my favorite but this happened. Surprised at all the doubt. I know because I smelled this liquid, it was odorless and about 5 minutes later I was pretty violently ill. Could it have all been a series of coincidence? I would bet a million dollars against it but technically sure. So it went in the trash and I was fine. This was a while ago and the unit came with batteries so that really isn't here nor there. In hindsight I should've made a big deal about it. I wrote a few angry emails and such but I was mostly relieved that I didn't die at that point and could care less about well quite a few hundred dollars at the time if I recall. This was a while back now somewhere around I want to say 2010ish. I had health insurance and no damages to show, lawyers are expensive. When you're actually in this kind of a situation very few people care to listen. There's nobody to call and very little to be gained from a fight anyway. I wasn't going to hand over the evidence to the company that made the product in exchange for another gd UPS. I had better things to do


If it was the UPS then that may have been a rare allergy to something.

Lead-acid batteries contain H2SO4 and can emit H2S when being charged vigorously; the latter is definitely not odorless, and the former won't have a smell but instead produce a burning sensation if you did inhale any vapors (which is difficult, since it has a very low vapor pressure at room temperature.)


Are there not more videos that got corrupted? With this amount of data, youtube must have lost several videos statistically.


Does anybody know more about the "Substrate App Platform group"?

As far as I understood it, actually Microsoft Exchange and ESENT powers a lot of Office 365, e.g. the compliance tools, the search and e.g. teams chats. Next to it is another pillar: Sharepoint, which is also exposed as OneDrive and is based on SQL server.

Is substrate or has it been part of Exchange?


Does anybody have a link?



I will try to find it today if I have a chance. I think it was on cscareerquestions or dotnet.


Where is the source code? It looks like they only host releases on github, but the license is MIT


The MIT license just gives you permission to use the work as published. Normally that work would be in source form, but there is nothing in the MIT license requiring that. In this case, it seems that the authors chose to release the binaries under the MIT license.


Just for completeness:

> I open-source pretty much all my work, but TextAnalysisTool.NET is an exception due to a variety of historical reasons. Sorry about that!

-- https://github.com/TextAnalysisTool/Releases/issues/22


I wonder what the historical reasons are.


It was originally an internal tool, so I would guess either A) he doesn't have permission from all the contributors or B) he used reused code from elsewhere within Microsoft that wasn't open source compatible.



I have seen Outlook and other systems click on every link in our mailings. Using a sandboxed browser.

How can one click unsubscribe work here? Mail scanners, virus scanners and even Microsoft's own spam filters would probably click these links!


The unsubscribe links are POST, not GET's. That's basically the entire safety net.


Really? I have not seen a <form> html element in an email in decades! Do you mean a list-unsubscribe header? I mean the hyperlink at the end of an email with "unsubscribe". I think it would be good if that unsubscribe link opens a page where one would need to press one more button to prove that it is not automatically involved by url scanners. But this would not be "one click" unsubscribe anymore. So how can this be solved? Why is not everybody constantly auto-unsubscribed who uses office 365 or hotmail?


I was talking about https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8058. Where the URL is in the headers as List-Unsubscribe: <URL>

A 2 page overview is here: https://certified-senders.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/CSA...



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