Just learned that Peter Naur, a Danish computer scientist and 2005 recipient of the ACM A.M. Turing Award, died January 3 after a brief illness.
In memoriams:
Peter was the N in BNF; some more background info:
Archive for January 6th, 2016
In Memoriam: Peter Naur 1928-2016 | News | Communications of the ACM
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Nikon D5 detailed specifications: CF and XQD versions confirmed | Nikon Rumors
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/06
D5 (CF-Type): 1415g
Too bad the price (USD 6500) is a bit prohibitive for me (:
Source: Nikon D5 detailed specifications: CF and XQD versions confirmed | Nikon Rumors
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Figuring out Windows Registry Permissions: AccessCheck
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/06
I had to verify the rights on some parts of the registry were the same for a lot of machines. So I used AccessChk by SysInternals.
If there were difference, my plan was to use REGINI to fix them.
It appears that AccessCheck does not show the permissions for objects within the specified path, not for the path itself.
As I observed that
accesschk -k hklm\software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell
does not reveal results.
But
accesschk -k hklm\software\Microsoft\Windows
shows:
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