Archive for May, 2007
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007
Is it just me or is the SourceForge download mirror selection retarded? Every time I go to download something off sourceforge, on any of my machines, be it Windows, OSX or Linux it will always point me at the Puzzle itc mirror, which never works for me, doesn't matter where ...
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Saturday, May 26th, 2007
A while back one of the mac mini cluster bought the farm as it where, it seemed at first it was a little more fatal than it actually was. Today while tidying I found an original Mac Mini Hardware test CD so on the off chance I tried it with ...
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Thursday, May 17th, 2007
Ok, you know we're all doomed when someone actually isn't smart enough when creating a law that is supposed to stop guns getting into the hands of those that shouldn't have them cannot even put an age restriction in there to stop a baby being issued a permit to have ...
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Thursday, May 10th, 2007
So I joined Linked In today, seemed like a good idea. Updated my profile with various bits of info and dropped contact requests out to 30 people I know that seem to have profiles too..
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Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Been 4 years and 3 seasons but Man Utd are back to their true position Champions of English football.
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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
Ok, there is a number which if said or posted about will get you stoned by the guys at the MPAA you know the one, after all there are may a quarter of a million pages out there with it on now.. But there is even a song too here..
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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
It is amazing what people will do to get their blogs noticed.
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Tuesday, May 1st, 2007
Ok, so today going through a bit of a backlog off reading from the RSS feeds I monitor and I found this on Darknet.
Now just to cover this traditionally, most of the time someone handles a login when they query a backend DB they do something like
$password = $_REQUEST["password"];
$username = ...
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Tuesday, May 1st, 2007
So this is a post about nothing in particular, well a bit of a round up of stuff.. Last week was a fun week, was at InfoSec on Wednesday, bumped into a ton of people from various point in my IT Sec history.
Introduced several people form work to Belgian ...
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