“VBA? You wrote VBA code for that?”
Daleexclaimed a colleague. “Is that like Visual Basic?” Well kind of, VBA is Visual Basic for Applications. Which is a scripting language for the Microsoft Office system. I’d had a…
Checking that the weblinks are working.
I use a small program called Xenu’s Link Sleuth. Which looks at all blog posts, grabs the links I’ve mentioned, and then check that they still exist. Or to put…
Semi-regular web-link clearance – April 2009
Deleting old keys on Smart Card (Dmitrii blog) Xyzzy is a pronounceable password generator ... What is this funny SID on my file? (Jeff Hamblin Core Security Blog) ”… That…
It’s a new …
… backup drive! The only people who are really concerned about backups are those people who have lost information. Everybody else doesn’t give it a moments thought. My backup plan…
Only a few emails…
Had an issue at work recently. The background is that BlackBerry emails are delayed when you have 10,000+ emails in your mail file. It takes time for the BlackBerry Server…
And there was a drunk man on there.
I was on an aeroplane in the East some years ago and the man sitting across the aisle from me, was the Mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, John Belk. Some…
“They rang me up, and said …”
“I have an inappropriate password.” The user telling me this, was stunned that anyone would notice. An inappropriate password would be something like password qwerty 123456 But this particular Law…
SSL errors, and how to diagnose them.
Frankly, I don’t know, but here’s what I learnt. It started with a customer reporting a problem When we press the publish button on the website, we get a 403…
Why we ran the biggest ICL shop in the Southern Hemisphere.
State Bank Victoria (SBV) used to run IBM & ICL Mainframes. The IBM Mainframes were a 3084, 3090-600J, System 36 & 4341. The main processing was performed on the 3090. …