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27 Jul 2008
I recently updated iTunes to version 7.7 on my XP desktop recently and today I plugged my iPod video in to synchronise. The whole thing froze up and iTunes effectively became non-responsive.
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26 Jul 2008
The thing about security in the digital age is that pretty much everything is governed by passwords. I have so many to remember these days that it’s just not funny any more. Some of them have particularly stringent complexity enforced on them making them that much harder to commit to memory … particularly as it’s full of obscure user IDs.
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26 Jul 2008
I teach a lot of students a lot of locks in my martial arts classes. This involves entangling and applying pressure to the joints of the body in order to cause a level of discomfort (pain) that allows someone to be controlled - be it wrist locks, arm locks, leg locks, shoulder locks, finger locks or head locks.
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24 Jul 2008
The Internet has been abuzz with the news of the release of Power Pack 1 for Windows Home Server (WHS PP1) a couple of days ago. I’ve had an HP Media Smart Server for several months and have been waiting like so many others for this update to fix the infamous data corruption bug.
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22 Jul 2008
A couple of days ago I posted about using NoteTab to ease the encryption of VBS files to VBE files using Microsoft’s Script Encyption utility. I mentioned at the time that this encyption was in fact reversible. So today I’m going to show you how this is achieved.
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22 Jul 2008
I’ve already raved about NoteTab and now there’s a great reason to rave some more. The free version of NoteTab is NoteTab Light and I’ve been using this for many years both when I was a student and in a working environment where getting people to sign off software purchases for software like this was incredibly difficult. It has been simply superb and I’m sure will be for many years to come.
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20 Jul 2008
Because NoteTab is my favourite text editor and it can be ‘programmed’ using the inbuilt clipping language I thought I’d share some aspects around one of my NoteTab clipbooks used for working with VBS files; Microsoft’s Visual Basic scripting still gives me a quick and easy way to implement automations and NoteTab simply helps me do that even faster.
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20 Jul 2008
I haven’t posted anything about martial arts yet but some activity yesterday gives me an excellent reason to post a brief congratulations to some guys who were grading for Jiu Jitsu Dans yesterday. So congratulations to one of my old students Sensei Bhachu who gained his Shodan and also to one of my instructors Sensei Lycett who has reached the lofty height of Sandan.
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19 Jul 2008
Back in ‘97 I was working on a visual tool for the solution of some algebraic equations as part of my Masters in Computer Science and I reached a point quite quickly where my code exceeded 32KB. Windows notepad stopped working. I had a magazine CD lying around with loads of free and shareware tools on it so I had a browse through the CD and I came across a text editor that fit the bill. It was actually quite cool and it had a tabbed interface and let me open several files at once that were bigger than 32KB - I was very impressed.
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18 Jul 2008
The shine may have rubbed off a little and the mullet dated somewhat but I still have a soft spot for the MacGyver series and I still wish today that I knew 1% of what he did and could do 1% of what he could with a roll of gaffer tape and a pen knife. Unfortunately I ever did manage to cram everything into my head.
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