Found an excellent site, Darkage – home of FastPush which enables you to roll out winvnc in its various flavours, realvnc, tridiavnc,tightvnc,ultravnc from your local nt4/xp/w2k machine to other machines on the network. This way you can be sure that each machine is set up in exactly the same way with the same password (assuming you want this of course!) AND you don’t have to visit each machine.
The Toshiba Satellite Pro, 6100 only has a few pre-defined boot order sequences.If I want to have the option to boot from CD but don’t necessarily have a bootable cd in the drive, it will insist on also trying to boot via the lan (which is VERY unlikely to work as I don’t have any boot servers at home or at work so I have to wait for the timeout or press any key. OR I can boot from hard disk all the time and go into the bios if I ever want to boot from cd which is a right pain in the neck. However, the online help says pressing F12 will give me a boot menu (it doesn’t) or pressing C will boot from the CD (it doesn’t). BUT if I press F12 AND C – it boots from CD! And I was meant to work that one out for myself??????Update Actually I’ve found out that pressing the C key until the icons appear and then letting go will boot from CD, likewise pressing F12 until the icons appear and letting go will allow me to navigate through the icons.
Pipex support sent me a reply to an email I sent them 19 days ago. In it they wrote “Dear Customer:
Thank you for your email. Please accept our apologies for the delay in replying. Are you still having the same problem or has it been resolved? Please advise either by replying to this email or by
calling us on the number below.”
I wonder if it will take them another 19 days to read the follow up email I sent to say it was fixed on the same day and another 19 to reply to the snotty email I just posted saying this is a really poor level of response (and its not the first time either).
Loads of people have blogged about blogger going free, but if you read the announcement , the feature that a lot of people are raving about, RSS, is not listed as one of the features now available in the free version after all they need some features to get some income! Being rather cynical I wonder if this is an attempt to stop the flow of people moving from blogger to MovableType (or other blogging tools) as opposed to the “hey we have enough money now we are owned by Google and we’re also good guys too” spin.
Installed a Logitech QuickCam Pro 4000 webcam which is pretty nifty. The size of a large golf ball it sits in a stand and records sound and video. The neat option is the “face tracking” capability. Turning this on, the camera will zoom, pan (to a limited degree) and focus on a persons face as they move around the field of vision of the camera. Great for tracking whats going on in a room. The only weird thing is they don’t have any motion capture triggers to record only when there is movement. Hopefully conquercam will run at the same time as the facial tracking software and enable me to do this.
With the combination of net time /setsntp:”ntp.demon.co.uk ntp1.demon.co.uk ntp2.demon.co.uk” and w32tm -period 0 -once -v my home pc should now be telling me the correct time which means there won’t be a time warp of 10 minutes from leaving the pc in the morning to getting in the car!
Yet another Critical fix is available from Microsoft TechNet. I was tipped off to the existence of this one yesterday when attending the SANS security webcase which by the way was excellent. They showed you the tools to check/hack a web application complete with a walkthrough of how they had pentested a bank site and with no clever tricks managed to view users credit card numbers, bank information, log on AS the user and change the users passwords…..quite scary stuff! Needless to say the bank was anonymous!
I’m currently waiting for the SANS Web conference, “Is Your Web App Secure? How Do You Know?” , and they are playing “hold music” until it starts…and at a low quality stream it sounds awful. On a brighter note, the conference is advertised as featuring Ed Skoudis (whoever he is) with a “Exploiting Web Applications-Live Demo” featuring Caleb Sima so it should be interesting. Hope I don’t get a heartattack at all the weaknesses in my/our webpages!
I tried to setup Feedster to search for references to my blog, but not return my postings. That way I can find out who is quoting/referencing/gossiping about me. I was having trouble getting the tools option to work so I asked Pieter in the ggsearch forums and he pointed me to Feedster Search: ggsearch NOT weblog_title=GGSearch which works. However, if I swap GGSearch for Absoblogginlutely I appear in position 1 Update which is not what I wanted/need. It should have displayed without my results! So sorry Scott – maybe you shouldn’t blog this 🙂 Still yet again, this is the power of blogging getting first rate support with developers keeping an eye on blog feeds 🙂
scriptygoddess linked to an article from Jennifer who linked to a online htaccess editor, which enables you to easily password protect, create custom 404 pages etc. However, Chris has discovered that this wizard is allegedly a copy of Eyecreate’s wizard who have posted their conversation with the “author” of the php2b wizard. Like they say, for someone who cant write english very well, it does make you wonder how they wrote the code! It will be interesting to see how this pans out.