Over the last couple of weeks the DNS timeouts and lags I’ve been experiencing at home have made the web experience a little dire. My ISP is actually pretty darned good, but for some reason they seem to have glitches with their DNS servers every now and then.
The code-base that I am currently working with consists of a large set of binaries that are all signed. The savvy .NET devs out there will know that any assembly that’s used/referenced by a signed assembly must also be signed.
This is an issue when dealing with third-party libraries that are not signed. Sometimes you’ll be [...]
Before I even started using Vista, I hated UAC. I read about it all over the place, and laughed at the stupidity involved in asking users to constantly “cancel or allow” every action they wanted to take. As soon as I was forced to use Vista for work (both on my work laptop and on [...]
I’ve just done something stupid. I attempted to install a new plugin for Wordpress without verifying the contents of the package. The result? I lost most of the file system under this website. From what I can see in the script, it also attempted to various other nasty things such as deleting files from outside [...]
I can fully understand the desire a developer has to protect their creation from being copied illegally. I can understand why some steps would be taken to mitigate the risk of losing money due to piracy. What I can’t understand is why some companies go so far with their anti-piracy measures that it starts to [...]
Over the last day or so, stacks of people have been hammering digg as a revolt against their recent actions. For those of you who don’t know, HD-DVD encryption was cracked recently and the master key which allows all movies to be ripped has been released across the web. Digg, in their infinite wisdom, [...]
You gotta hand it to this guy, he says that he “doesn’t like closed systems”, which is pretty darned obvious The man, Jon Lech Johansen, who years ago cracked the DVD encryption known as CSS, and released (with two other unknowns) the software that could be used to decrypt DVDs (called DeCSS), has taken [...]
The Search Kings have come up with another rippin’ tool which allows you to crawl through source code for examples and whatnot. The Google Code Search is quite a cool utility - but it doesn’t come without it’s issues. I found an interesting link worthy of reading which talks about a few amusing results returned [...]
As a regular read of Scott Gu’s blog (see blogroll) I often find nuggets of information that are handy for the work that I do, but I also often end up with a few questions
The latest one that fired up a bit of thought was his post on guarding against SQL injection attacks. [...]
