So you like hot chillies?
DaleWe had a chilli sauce tasting at work. In the left corner, Mad Dog’s 357 Hot Sauce, and the right corner, Pete’s homemade chilli sauce. We’ll get onto who won…
TrueCrypt – not as secure as I thought.
On Wednesday, I wrote about TrueCrypt, and the requirement to create a Rescue Disk if you were going to use System Encryption. I looked into that, as I was setting…
The HTC HD2 – yes, I would.
The HTC HD2 Smartphone is a beautiful device, with two failings. It’s not an iPhone. And it’s covered in ads for the phone carrier (Telstra in this case). Oh, it…
Eraser – at one time I actually liked it.
But not now. Eraser is a program which allows you to securely delete files off hard drives and USB memory sticks. The sole reason for my dislike of Eraser is…
Bypassing the TrueCrypt Rescue Disk check requirement.
Update: TrueCrypt 7 and later will allow you to bypass this check. TrueCrypt, the freeware open source disk encryption product, allows you to encrypt your whole hard drive. TrueCrypt calls…
How to create a bootable Linux USB stick
I found two programs, each does the job. I thought UNetBootIn was better than the Universal USB Installer, but this was because UNetBootIn works under 64-bit Windows. Apart from that,…
Why the power button didn’t shut off my Linux server
Short answer: In my case, the /user/share/acpi-support directories were missing. I didn’t know that until I learnt how to debug the power function. For that, I had to look at…
I’m going to do this walk one day soon
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Playboy Roses
Rose Society of South Australia: Playboy Rose
The WMI Overflow Error with GetObject
That’s what I thought at least. Consider this snippet of code from the Delete computers from SMS VBscript: Set objResource = GetObject( "WinMgmts:\\" & strSMSServer & _ "\root\SMS\site_" & strSMSSiteCode…