Seeing as though I have a new mobile number I’ve had to register again with the
Well it’s taken me a year (as I wanted to carve one last year) but for the first time ever, I’ve carved a pumpkin! Kristen was on hand to give out advice and laughs about how slow I was going – she’d practically finished her cat before I had finished. Pictures, in order are online at the Coppermine Pumpkin Gallery. Thanks to Byroads magazine for the skull pattern. I was going to do the cat but this looked far too complicated.
The lowlife who spam my comments will get added to Feedsters Comment Spammer listing
Update my Control Panel Backup routine that backups my entire webspace and configuration from the control panel interface. Now includes the crontab definitions.
Update A mailing list has now been set up so you can subscribe to updates on this program.
Microsoft have released version 3.7.1 of Activesync which fixes a lot of usb sync issues (which I occasionally get). The download is on its way!
I was going to download release candidate 0.7 of Firebird, but the Firebird project page mentions the full version will be out on Tuesday so I will wait until then.
Ever wondered about all the fuss made over CSS? Take a look at the css Zen Garden and just see how the use of a few graphics and css can dramatically alter the look of the page.
Open office 1.1 has only been out a few days and already theres been a security vulnerability in Uno which I always thought was a card game?
Found a very useful way of providing users the ability to run administrative tasks without providing passwords to the users. By using the runas command you can launch programs with different credentials, however you need to enter a password. If you provide the user with the password then they could use it to do a lot of other things. Providing a user with a batch file helps, but it doesn’t take much brainpower to read the batch file and obtain the password. However, thanks to techtarget they suggest the use of Microsoft Script Encoder. This takes an existing vbs batch file and encodes the output. Although not pgp strength encryption it would be strong enough to deter the casual browser of your hard disk/batch files. (the only downside is providing a new file when the password to the account changes.)
Incidentally I’ve had to investigate this as one of our users can not admin our iis server settings despite being listed on the operators tab.