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Monday, March 8th, 2010Have 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 [...]
Synchronise Lotus Notes with Google Calendar
Monday, January 11th, 2010There’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 [...]
Wordpress 2.9 notes
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010Batch 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 [...]
President Sarkozy requests a VIP box for Rugby match
Monday, January 4th, 2010click on image to see correspondence in higher resolution
Share on FriendFeed Tweet ThisGenerate MD5 Checksums on Windows
Saturday, November 21st, 2009How 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 [...]
Share on FriendFeed Tweet ThisRSSCloud enabled feed ?
Monday, September 14th, 2009From 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 [...]
Share on FriendFeed Tweet ThisRecover the password from a Microsoft Access Database (mdb)
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009Today, 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 [...]
Share on FriendFeed Tweet ThisStandalone WordPress URL Shortener
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009Using 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 [...]
Share on FriendFeed Tweet ThisA BlackHat / DefCon Secure Communication Tip
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009From 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 [...]
Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009One 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 [...]