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Mount Disk Images using virtual cd controlpanel

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Have you ever tried mounting an .iso image (a CD or DVD image) on Windows XP ? You end up needing 3rd party software, you’ll most likely have to reboot since it installs a driver, and you end up allocating a huge chunk of memory to what is really a very simple task.
I’ve just been [...]

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Synchronise Lotus Notes with Google Calendar

Monday, January 11th, 2010

There’s a lot of software for synchronising various webmail or MS Outlook Calendars with Google Calendar. However, there’s not that much around about synchronising Lotus Notes calendars….
At the moment there are three methods that I have used or know of.
goosync
I use a Nokia N95. It synchronises it’s calendar with Lotus Notes using the [...]

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Wordpress 2.9 notes

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

Batch Plug-in Update in Word Press
When Word Press introduced one click upgrade for pluggins, it was like Christmas in July. But this time maybe on the actual Christmas or perhaps slightly earlier with the release of Word Press 2.9, we will now be able to upgrade multiple pluggins with one click from our WordPress Admin [...]

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President Sarkozy requests a VIP box for Rugby match

Monday, January 4th, 2010

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Generate MD5 Checksums on Windows

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

How do you know, for sure, that the file you’ve download has been transferred correctly ? The UNIX (and by extension, internet) standard has, for years, been checking the md5 hash. Now, there’s plenty of info on the web about creating or checking MD5 or SHA-1 checksums for UNIX or Linux users, but not [...]

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RSSCloud enabled feed ?

Monday, September 14th, 2009

From RSSCloud.org:
In the early days of RSS, we had the idea that instantaneous updates would be the next step.
That was 2001. It took a little longer than we thought, but now with “realtime” as the Next Big Thing, it’s time to reboot all that stuff.

A week or so ago, all wordpress.com blogs became ‘cloud [...]

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Recover the password from a Microsoft Access Database (mdb)

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

Today, I had to do a password recovery from a Microsoft Access 2003 Database. Obviously, my first port of call was Google where I found a free utility from NirSoft called Access PassView which worked wonderfully well.
The author of Access PassView does suggest that it has a few limitations;

It does not work with Access 2007 [...]

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Standalone WordPress URL Shortener

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

Using a standard Wordpress (2.5+) installation, the la petite url WP plugin allows the user to create shortened, unique, permalinks to their content using a combination of lowercase, uppercase, and numeric characters, which originate from their own domain name. By default la petite url generates a 5-character combination of lowercase letters only, for ease of [...]

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A BlackHat / DefCon Secure Communication Tip

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

From A Day in the Life of an Information Security Investigator, currently attending the Black Hat Technical Security Conference:
Here’s some early feedback for the folks connecting to wireless networks around BlackHat (and soon to be at DefCon).
Y’all aren’t taking this whole secure-communications thing too seriously.
Clear-text POP3/IMAP e-mail credentials are getting plucked out of the air [...]

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Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

One of the most important weapons in a programmers / coders / developers mental tool belt is the management of their “Psychological Flow”. Anything that disrupts this is bad for their productivity.
Paul Graham explains how the difference between Maker Schedules (coder) and Manager Schedules (PHB) do exactly this. The Manager Schedule is for [...]

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