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Wednesday, August 22, 2007 10:24 PM

Australian Government and Parental Controls

It is interesting that the Australian Government is getting into the act on releasing a free web filter for use with windows, I wonder if they are connecting up to the Vista parental controls settings built into vista. I have to wonder if they provide
Posted by David_Bennett | 0 Comments
Wednesday, August 22, 2007 10:21 PM

Meringue

A tip when making Meringue is to use a teaspoon of vinegar (or lemon juice, something acidic) in the meringue mixture, it makes it a little tangier and works a lot better. Just a small amount of lemon juice can work really well with a lemon meringue pie.
Posted by David_Bennett | 0 Comments
Monday, April 23, 2007 10:44 AM

Taking Responsability for your Code

A co-worker (Kyle Olson) came up with a list of items about how to take responsability for your code that I thought was quite useful. I am reposting the article here. I would like to add that one thing you should always be thinking about when writing
Posted by David_Bennett | 0 Comments
Friday, April 13, 2007 11:18 AM

Kurt Vonnegut died

On April the 11th Kurt Vonnegut died , one of my favourite authors. He wrote amazing books and short stories, like Breakfast of Champions and Slaughterhouse Five. I remember the first time I read Slaughterhouse Five, it amazed me and surprised me. One
Posted by David_Bennett | 0 Comments
Tuesday, April 10, 2007 4:42 PM

Apple (uk) ad targeting Parental Controls

Just wandering around on you tube and discovered an apple (uk) ad targeting parental controls, with the 'naughty step'. The Mac says something about blocking items being "isn't that what kids want to do?". The idea behind parental controls is to block
Posted by David_Bennett | 0 Comments
Friday, March 30, 2007 1:31 PM

Reading WPC logs in C#

Here is a conversion of the WPCEvents.h file that is used with the vista SDK to get the parts of the various crimson events converted into c#. I have written about this file before and how the parts are connected together and how all the numbers work.
Posted by David_Bennett | 0 Comments
Friday, March 02, 2007 3:04 PM

Log Viewer, behind the scenes

The log viewer in Parental Controls reads in the public available system logs and turns them into the data you can see in the control panel. The logs are brought in from a couple of places, the System logs, the Application logs and the Parental controls
Posted by David_Bennett | 2 Comments
Wednesday, February 21, 2007 10:54 AM

Parental Controls used by everyone

Looks like Bill Gates is using parental controls for his children these days, nice to see that people within the company are buying off and using the technology as well. We have had a surprisingly small amount of negative press on the parental controls
Posted by David_Bennett | 0 Comments
Tuesday, February 20, 2007 11:20 PM

A tale of Two Cockies

This is a nifty site with an interesting story .
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Friday, February 09, 2007 1:37 PM

Parental Controls and Press Coverage

We have had a lot of good press coverage from Parental Controls over the past few days, which has been great. Bill Gates and various other people have been pressing it as one of the main reasons to upgrade to Vista, I think it is a very good reason to
Posted by David_Bennett | 0 Comments
Friday, February 02, 2007 2:03 PM

Making a Game marked as run in Parental Controls

For a game to show up in Parental Controls as being run a few things need to happen. First the game must have a GDF file so it will be properly registered with the Game Explorer. Once the game is correctly registered with the Game Explorer it will show
Posted by David_Bennett | 0 Comments
Tuesday, January 30, 2007 8:26 PM

Overwhelmingness of Parental Controls?

There have been some comments about various aspects of Parental Controls being overwhelming, specifically in this post . It is true that some of the existing parental control companies will not be so keen on some features, however there is a lot of area
Posted by David_Bennett | 3 Comments
Tuesday, January 30, 2007 4:37 PM

Summary of Vista Parental Controls Features

Short summary of Windows parental control features: Game Restrictions – ability to restrict games based on ratings and on descriptors associated with the game. These are based on ESRB ratings, and other rating systems from other countries. Application
Posted by David_Bennett | 1 Comments
Monday, January 29, 2007 2:27 PM

HTTP Extension for Windows Parental Controls

To make Windows Parental Controls work better with browsers and other programs that support http, the filter in vista sends back a custom error number when the page is blocked. This number is 450, an app can recognise this error code and display a blocked
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Tuesday, January 23, 2007 12:07 PM

Opening up the WPC Control Panel from the command line

It is possible to open up the windows parental controls control panel from the command line, well any control panel. You pass in the name of the control panel to open up and it opens it up. Nice and easy. For the parental controls panel the syntax is:
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