Peng Zhang on September 16th, 2011

Here are the resources that helped me to hide Site Actions menu for those in the visitors and members groups. The main idea is to use the SPSecurityTrimmedControl around the Sharepoint:SiteActions tag, and a carefully chosen Permissions attribute in the SPSecurityTrimmedControl. http://www.sharepointkings.com/2008/11/how-to-remove-site-actions-and-view-all.html http://www.thesug.org/blogs/sharepointunwrapped/archive/2008/6/26/Hide_the_Site_Actions_Menu.aspx.aspx https://sladescross.wordpress.com/2010/04/08/sharepoint-security-breakdown-of-permission-levels/  

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Peng Zhang on July 18th, 2011

I was always curious and now finally has the opportunity to test it out myself. Below is a list of domains that I tested from within China: Google.com – gets re-directed to google.com.hk facebook.com – no response twitter.com – no response youtube.com – no response www.51.ca – works OK info.51.ca – no response vimeo – [...]

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Peng Zhang on December 1st, 2010

After setting up various tests, googling, tinkering with bits of html and css, I was able to nail down the cause of this nasty nagging alert – “This page contains secure and nonsecure items” in Internet Explorer (IE). I was suspecting that any “http://” references anywhere in the html page, referenced javascript and css files [...]

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Peng Zhang on October 3rd, 2010

Parents like me are always in a fight to manage how much gaming their kids can play in a regular week. Here is a list of game-related domains that I am blocking in a content-filtering router. x.mochiads.com notdoppler.com funorb.com jagex.com arcanists.com tacticsarena.com pawngame.com kongregate.com runescape.com I used to use CyberPatrol but I find my kid [...]

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Peng Zhang on September 1st, 2010

I have a site that is developed on HTTP, and later moved onto HTTPS. And it was throwing security warnings “This page contains both secure and nonsecure items”. Took me about an hour and a half to nail the cause down. Because all the conventional weapons I use were not able to find anything wrong. [...]

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Peng Zhang on March 13th, 2010

Yesterday evening, my computer was infected with a horrible horrible malware ironically called “XP Antispyware 2010″, which installed itself without my knowledge, and started popping windows and alerts that my computer was infected with tons of trojans and spyware, and urged me to register it. I was able to kill the running process “av.exe” with [...]

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