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I’m going to let you in on a secret that’s little discussed outside the security world: reusable passwords are evil. This might seem like an extreme position, but I can back it up.
October 31, 2006
links for 2006-11-01
October 27, 2006
links for 2006-10-28
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All you need to know to install and use the powerful MediaWiki system.
October 26, 2006
links for 2006-10-27
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Fortunately, it is possible to change the permissions on an Event Log. Unfortunately, it is not as straightforward as you might think.
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You can easily determine a group's SID by using the Whoami command-line utility. To do so, add yourself as a member to the group whose SID you want to retrieve. Then type the following Whoami command at the command prompt:
whoami /groups /sid
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The usual PR nightmare
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In December of 1996 I released a piece of software called Lark, which was the world’s first XML Processor
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A few weeks back, I decided to run MediaWiki on Ubuntu to replace the abandoned setup.
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The Divine Comedy (translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
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activeCollab is an easy to use, web based, open source collaboration and project management tool. Set up an environment where you, your team and your clients can collaborate on active projects using a set of simple, functional tools. 100% free!
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As with my music attention, I’ve been wanting a relatively easy way to share my book reading attention as well as other purchases. Given how I pretty much buy all of my books from Amazon and how much other stuff I buy from them, their wishlists seemed a r
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A few years ago, everything that was seeking that certain luster that the marketplace seemed to require in order for software to be sold tacked “Professional” or “Pro” onto the product and promptly applied a multiplier to the price.
Somehow, just by ca
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The Glass is Too Big is a site dedicated to the proposition that when presented with 2 options, it’s downright scary how often “none of the above” is the right answer. I talk about the things I enjoy from that perspective. That includes lots of web develo
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Powerful enough for any website or intranet design and simple enough for your Mum to use
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In the midst of this big fight with Evangelical leader Dr. James Dobson, Dick Armey has released a truly remarkable letter. In it, he outlines the personal reasons behind his characterization of Dobson as a “bully,” and he also offers a stunningly coh
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TPMCafe is a public meeting place to read about and discuss politics, culture and public life in the United States. The site hosts both blogs and public discussion areas.
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The nation has been “jammed into an ideological corner” by conservative Republicans and is primed for a power shift in the November elections, former President Bill Clinton said Thursday.
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It was in some ways predictable that the central player in the system of willed errors and reversals that is the Bush administration would turn out to be its vice-president, Richard B. Cheney. Here was a man with considerable practice in the reversal of h
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The craftsman is an expert in his trade who builds to last. He creates quality heirlooms that people will be treasuring and restoring in centuries to come, long after it is forgotten who made or originally commissioned them. The bazaar sells trashy geegaw
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You’ve put off figuring out what Outline Processor Markup Language (OPML) is all about and what it can do, right?
We’ll bring you into the picture quickly with 14 wide-ranging uses for the OPML format including:
* Reading lists and RSS subscript
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I live and work from my home west of the 101 in Leucadia, California, where I write, develop film projects and design content with a small circle of friends.
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Messages from the road as best-selling author Richard Dawkins travels the world promoting his new book, The God Delusion.
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a series of articles explaining how to do source control and the best practices thereof
October 25, 2006
links for 2006-10-26
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By default, Windows 2003’s built-in Batch account can run scripts such as VB scripts but can’t run batch files. To solve this problem, you need to reset the cmd.exe file’s permissions. I added the built-in Batch security setting with the right to read and
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Of all the monsters that fill the nightmares of our folklore, none terrify more than werewolves, because they transform unexpectedly from the familiar into horrors. For these, one seeks bullets of silver that can magically lay them to rest.
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President Bush on Wednesday said the United States is “shifting” its tactics in the Iraq war as the “enemy shifts” theirs.
But “Americans have no intention of taking sides in a sectarian struggle or standing in the crossfire between rival factions,” he
October 24, 2006
links for 2006-10-25
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Apache is the number one Web server running on Linux systems. There are a number of little things that can be done to tune Apache performance and to lessen its impact on system resources. One of these things is tweaking the memory usage, which can be a di
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This page teaches you some modern NT-based batch programming and has some fairly advanced and pretty useful batch scripts to help you get started. Batch files are the simple and rather archaic, interpreted scripting language of MS-DOS and it’s derivatives
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RFG believes approaches for IT asset management that use the Internet as a vehicle for collecting or transporting information can ease a corporation into the sometimes painful task of starting an asset management program. IT executives should investigate
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HP asset management
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Configuration Management Database (CMDB) technologies enable IT and business experts to share timely and accurate information about the IT infrastructure and the business services it supports.
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OneCMDB is an Open Source Configuration Management Database (CMDB).
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Auto-discovery automates the easy bit. If I don’t have an auto-discovery tool, I can take any geek and get him/her to map my network for me manually. But I need a higher-value person to work out my logical processes, services, stakeholders and SLAs and in
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Zenoss is an IT infrastructure monitoring product that allows you to monitor your entire infrastructure within a single, integrated software application.
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because the idea of collecting and storing configuration information about every IT asset into one database is overwhelming — and, for the most part, impossible — industry watchers advise IT managers to look into linking multiple databases together in
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CutePDF Writer (formerly CutePDF Printer) is the free version of commercial PDF creation software. CutePDF Writer installs itself as a “printer subsystem”. This enables virtually any Windows applications (must be able to print) to create professional qual
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CMDB can’t be done because it is too complex to load or maintain the data, however it may be stored.
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there's a lot of hype around CMDB at the moment, with lots of claimed CMDB products and precious few real-world practical implementations of the concept.
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a presentation/talk on “Systems Management 2.0
October 23, 2006
links for 2006-10-24
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Full disk encryption (or whole disk encryption) is a kind of disk encryption software or hardware which encrypts every bit of data that goes on a disk. The term “full disk encryption” is often used to signify that everything on a disk including the oper
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an interesting discussion on suggesting cryptographically strong passwords to users
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view the deleted items recovery cache that is available for each folder. To view the cache for a particular folder, use the following URL:
http://OWA_server/exchange/mailbox/folder/?cmd=showdeleted
October 20, 2006
links for 2006-10-21
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Mihai Parparita from Google has written a(nother) cool script that allows you to add the bookmarks from del.ico.us to Google Bookmarks. The live version is available on his site.
Unlike del.icio.us, Google Bookmarks keeps your favorite web pages privat
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Via Dumb Little Man – http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DumbLittleMan/~3/38160103/how-to-take-sharp-digital-photos.html
Getting your digital images perfectly sharp is something that most photographers want – however clean, crisp, sharp images can be diffi
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Clearly, programmers need GTD more than Jolt or Domino’s. And the people managing programmers, responsible for architecture on the front end and quality assurance on the other side, need it just as much.
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There are also myriad other open and closed source projects that have sprung up over time to attempt to build a “better” GTD system. Our own Outlook Add-In is obviously one offering. Numerous others have sprung up, I suspect, because most programmers, upo
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GTD Tiddly Wiki is a GettingThingsDone adaptation by NathanBowers of JeremyRuston’s Open Source TiddlyWiki. The purpose of GTD Tiddly Wiki is to give users a single repository for their GTD lists and support materials so they can create/edit lists, and th
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Sun’s Ultra 20 Workstation: A Heck of a Deal
Sun is offering developers a 64-bit workstation based on the AMD Opteron processor, a licensed and supported version of Solaris 10, and three powerful development tools, for $29.95 per month—and after three -
Al Gore was the first political leader to recognize the importance of the Internet and to promote and support its development.
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Kahn’s resume places him squarely at ground zero of the innovation on which most of the Internet and the Web is based.
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Ethan Zuckerman just posted another amazing “alpha geek” data point supporting the emergence of the transparent society, David Brin’s idea that the proper response to the inevitable surveillance society is to embrace it, making sure that surveillance is e
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buried in the comments:
I wish there would be a biotech counterpart of Squid Labs with the same geek culture! I loved Griffith’ How to how-to? article in current MAKE Backyard Biology issue, because a no-brainer self- documentation tool, like the Helme
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Info: These videos are incredible! Think “Mouse Trap” on steriods.
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The First MMO Real Time Strategy on Google Maps. Take over the world in this real time Risk-like game based on Google Maps.
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New Scientist has recently been updated and redesigned. New print only sections and a strong clear design, all in one innovative, serious and entertaining magazine, make New Scientist an essential magazine for the 21st Century.
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This article, appearing in the Spring 2005 issue of the MIT Sloan Management Review, is something of a sequel to my 2003 Harvard Business Review article IT Doesn’t Matter. Whereas the earlier piece examined the demand side of business computing (how compa
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live blogging from Pop!Tech in Camden, ME
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OK, now I’m only going to explain this once: You start with Tim Berners Lee and the W3C and you wind up with PornTube, LaLa, ytmnd and that “Numa Numa” guy. And it’s all done with computers, coffee, business plans and Douglas Coupland novels. Don’t unders
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We can’t turn back technology; electronic communications are here to stay. But as technology makes our conversations less ephemeral, we need laws to step in and safeguard our privacy. We need a comprehensive data privacy law, protecting our data and com
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Between 2003 and 2006, IT spending as a percentage of revenue has on average fallen from 3.66% to 3.21%.
October 19, 2006
links for 2006-10-20
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If you have lost your root password, you can’t really recover it, but you can change it if you have physical access to the machine.
October 18, 2006
links for 2006-10-19
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ItsYourTurn.com is a unique concept in online games
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I spend maybe 5 minutes a day, usually less, dumping into an easy-to-grep text file milestones passed, pointers to the work I’ve done, CVS checkins I’ve made, people I’ve talked to, and URLs I think might be useful in the context of a particular work proj
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So, for most of the world, the Gregorian calendar has been the law for 250-425 years. That’s a well-established standard by anyone’s definition. Who would possibly ignore it or get it wrong at this point?
If you guessed “Microsoft”, you may advance to
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Clipper programming reference
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The interview is about software development processes used to build the product
October 17, 2006
links for 2006-10-18
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A lot of people have remarked on the similarities between the new Reader interface and Gmail’s. With this in mind, I’ve created a simple Greasemonkey script that adds a “Feeds” in Gmail. When clicked, Reader’s list view is loaded on the right.
