10 Sep 2008
It’s been several weeks since I last posted something here. This is beause I’ve been rather busy preparing to get married, getting married, and then having a honeymoon. Anyway I’m back and I’d thought I’d write a little something about a little task I set myself a few days back.
Read More30 Jul 2008
As an IT enthusiast I have far too many computers. I won’t even begin to go into just how many and the various states of repair, but the point is I have more than one computer and from my other posts you may also have noted that I like to have my IT on the move.
Read More29 Jul 2008
As every good martial artist knows, duck the roundhouse kick to the head and you might just live long enough to be hit by the fist behind the beard of Chuck Norris. The question is how can his Walker Texas Ranger character manage to make those round house kicks to the head when his jeans fit so well?
Read More27 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.
Read More26 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.
Read More26 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.
Read More24 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.
Read More22 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.
Read More22 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.
Read More20 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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