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« Previous EntriesSet up a personal, home SSH server
Wednesday, October 11th, 2006How to set up a personal, home SSH server Why SSH? Unlike a home web server, SSH is read/write, meaning you can get and put files on a server with it. Unlike a home FTP server, SSH is secure. All the transactions are encrypted and cannot be sniffed. Unlike a VNC server, SSH alone doesnt [...]
Opensource CMS blogs e-commerce groupware Forums etc
Saturday, October 7th, 2006www.opensourcecms.com is designed to give you the opportunity to “try out” some of the best php/mysql based free and open source software systems in the world. The site provides an administrator username and password for every system which allows you to to add and delete content, change the way things look, basically be the admin [...]
Include SOME Google Gadgets Into Any Page
Thursday, October 5th, 2006Google has announced that some of the gadgets available for Google Personalized Homepage can be embedded into any web page. The list of the gadgets includes: Google Calendar Viewer, Google Calculator, US Traffic Information, Moon Phase, Picasa Album Viewer and more. This way, you can enrich your web page with live information. Google gives an [...]
Creating a Static Front Page in Word Press
Wednesday, October 4th, 2006For various reasons, you may want to present users with a static page, but still use your word press themes etc. Happily, there’s a WordPress plugin, Filosofo Home-Page Control, that does easily, without manipulating your code or editing. Install plugin. Choose which page to be the home page. Thats the functionality I’m using at the [...]
incoming RSS feeds on wp
Friday, September 29th, 2006Shaolin Tiger’s “How to Use RSS Feeds on Your WordPress Site” from Adding RSS Feeds to WordPress One issue I did come up against is that although you can put Template Tags and PHP code into a Page Template, you cannot put these into the content of a Page and expect them to run. This [...]
Getting started with Bit Torrent
Tuesday, September 19th, 2006Idolator has a guide to getting your tunes using BitTorrent. Pretty basic, but worth it just for the Lars Ulrich crack in the drawbacks section. Blond and Danish or not, do be careful broadcasting your IP address with BT – Check out some info on anonymous BT so you can at least try to hide. [...]
How to get rid of startup programs (XP only, sorry)
Thursday, September 7th, 2006I recently removed some programs from my home PC. however, the uninstall process didn’t work properly for some of them, and while the executable or DLLs have gone, there are still some references to them. This causes an error at startup. It’s just a windows dialog box that I click OPK to, but its a [...]
rsync roundup
Tuesday, September 5th, 2006You use more computers and operating systems to get your work done today than ever before. But how do you keep your files synchronized between them? Plenty of OS-specific tools can mirror folders, but you need something cross-platform and highly customizable. You need the 10-year-old command line file mirroring utility called rsync. EverythingLinux’s excellent rsync [...]
“Security Engineering” Is Now Online
Sunday, September 3rd, 2006Ross Anderson, author of ‘Security Engineering’, notifies in a message to comp.risks that he just got permission from Wiley to let anyone download the full content of his book for free. This is one of the best books on computer security and it is used as textbook in many University courses . Bookmark It Hide [...]
Dynamic Drive online tools: Button Maker
Monday, August 21st, 2006Use the Dynamic Drive online tools Button Maker to easily and visually create those popular “XHTML valid” micro buttons (80×15). You can also opt for the larger 88×31 button instead. Enjoy! Bookmark It Hide Sites
WindowsDevCenter.com — Best Windows Admin Downloads
Wednesday, August 16th, 2006WindowsDevCenter.com — Best Windows Admin Downloads There are more than 9,000 tools, templates, white papers, and other items available from the Microsoft Download Center. Which are the best for Windows administrators? Mitch Tulloch clues you in. Bookmark It Hide Sites
How to Crack a Website – XSS, Cookies, Sessions
Wednesday, August 16th, 2006Informit.com provides an insiders look at a real life XSS attack and how it was used to bypass the authentication scheme of an online web application, leading to “shell” access, an admin account, and more. XSS attacks are often discussed in theory — this walk through illustrates just how dangerous these types of attacks can [...]
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