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.NET Development and General Musings

Forcefully kill a process

Tuesday, 19 August 2008 19:39 by Thomas
One of the many useful tools that comes with the XP Support Tools is a utility called TaskKill. TaskKill lets you dump a process that refuses to let you kill it from the Task Manager. On occasion, I have run into processes that would throw an "Access is denied" error when I try to kill it ... [More]

What happens when cities depend on revenue from fines

Saturday, 15 March 2008 22:39 by Thomas
Dallas' red light cameras may face changes as revenue estimate drops Dallas' system works too well, eating into revenues, fueling possible changes.  The Dallas Morning News   Municipalities should not depend on fines to generate revenue. It creates an obvious c... [More]