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Google Docs Sharing – Unsharing Documents is Impossible

by Riyad Kalla on 20. Jan, 2010 in Technology

(Caution: This is a venting-rage post… there is some technical merit to this, but it’s mostly me going insane using Google Docs sharing facility)
For the last 3 days I’ve been trying to un-share a large set (About 100) Google Docs that are shared with me that I no longer need access to.
For 3 days…
I’ve come [...]

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Zero Install Allows Installs for Unpriviledged Users

by Ray Gomez on 20. Jan, 2009 in Technology

I recently ran across an interesting application that allows unprivileged users to install programs. While this maybe a good surface idea, the concept and coolness factor runs a little deeper.
The idea behind 0Install is to give the ’standard user’ install privileges without compromising a system if malicious software is installed. While this is cool [...]

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