Fanatic

Today I’ve earned my first gold badge at Super User:  Fanatic for visiting the site each day for 100 consecutive days.

Reputation 5050

On March 11, 2013, my reputation at Stack Overflow reached 5 thousand. This week it became 5,050:

It was gratifying that latest upvotes were to old answers from 2011.

While I was planning to write this post, my two answers brought in addition +20 points to reputation. So at the moment of this writing, my reputation is 5,070.

Up to now, I’ve earned at Stack Overflow:

• 2 gold badges,
• 6 silver badges,
• 21 bronze badges.

Menu Alignment

My answer to the question Why all menus in windows are floating left with dual monitor? was not quite right. The author of the question commented my answer and updated the question with the screen shot of the entire desktop.

Menus on their desktop are right-aligned, and it’s not because the menu would fall out of screen with left-alignment.

Usually, menus are left-aligned:

But menus can be right-aligned:

Windows allows changing alignment of the menus, but it provides no UI to control this setting.

So to fix user’s problem, I wrote a simple application MenuAlignment.exe.

Lifetime License to Outpost Security Suite Pro

Agnitum runs a promotion campaign for its Outpost Pro 8 security products and makes a special offers: a lifetime license to Outpost Security Suite Pro or Outpost Firewall Pro for three computers for the price of one-year license.

The lifetime license ensures that Outpost users have the opportunity to enjoy unlimited antivirus updates and product upgrades for the lifetime of the product. Following its "pay once and stay protected for life" promise, Agnitum has waived the expiration date on Outpost protection and is declining to capitalize on renewals.

The offer expires at midnight on December 31, 2012. Until that time you can buy a lifetime license to Outpost Security Suite Pro for 3 PCs for just $59.95

Gifts from Super User

Today Yesterday I received a package from the USA. It was my mouse and t-shirt—the prizes I won in the Windows 8 challenge at Super User.

Microsoft Arc Touch Mouse:

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Consider changing your password

Every three months Windows reminds about changing password. And Windows 7 does in unobtrusive way:

Windows XP shows a dialog box asking whether you would like to change your password now, when you log in or unlock your computer. You have to click a button to continue working. I like the way Windows 7 does it better. Moreover there are email reminders sent in 21 days before your password expires.

Users don’t see such messages at home: Who wants to make oneself change one’s password every three months?

Do you have a password on your home computer?
Have you ever changed it since you setup Windows?