Archive for the ‘IT’ Category
Friday, October 19th, 2007
Media servers for Pinnacle Showcenter 1000
I've had a Pinnacle Showcenter 1000 for a while now. It was one of the first "simple client - smart server" devices around, and is still a great device for getting music, photos and video from a PC to a hi-fi stack and TV.
The ...
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Bioshock is one of the most talked about games (PC and console) to be released in recent times.
Almost all the major gaming sites, or major sites who also carry some games reviews, are lost for superlatives. Check out just a handful of reviews here, here and here. These are most ...
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Tuesday, October 17th, 2006
MD5 Encryption?
It's been a while since I wrote the first part of this MD5 article . Here in Part 2 I'm not (yet) going to cover the subject of hash collisions... That will follow in another future part.
Just now I want to deal with the pervasive, but wrong, belief ...
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Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006
Here's how to do it.
I had a Ubuntu box running 6.06 (Dapper) and a vanilla install of Apache2, PHP5 and MySQL5. I wanted to dabble in Ruby on Rails using the same box, but not affect the "production" side of it.
Despite the normally trivially easy install of software on Ubuntu ...
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Thursday, July 27th, 2006
Here's a little MD5 hash generator to play with...
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Monday, September 26th, 2005
MD5. Hashes. Just what is that all about?
This article is to explore the subject a little and highlight some of the recent discoveries and issues. If you know all about MD5, hash collisions, SHA-1, ... then this isn't for you!
I'm writing this for someone who is technically aware, possibly ...
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2005
Folders are dead. I came to this conclusion a little while ago, although I didn't realise it at the time.
Then in the current issue of The Economist they write about it here. And suddenly it all made sense. They're right.
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Friday, August 26th, 2005
Random password generator. Mainly for my own use, but thought other might find it useful too. Generates varying length passwords from the set including the alphabet, upper and lower case, and numbers.
Some letters or numbers are not used, to avoid confusion in reading the results: no O, o or 0. ...
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