Part of the work I’m doing while I’m out had me add a collection of test users. This could have been quite a task, had it not been for the nice features of vbscript.

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The cool thing about the eTrex Summit, is that it also records altitudes. This was quite handy for the bike ride this weekend on the triathlon I attended. It allowed me to profile the track, and see exactly what kind of elevations I was dealing with. Originally, I’d been given the impression [...]

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This evening I’ve been a busy bee. I had finished off processing my photos from my vacation last week, or at least getting them into JPEGs so I can get them on the gallery for the folks to see. I stumbled across a little hitch though. After managing to upload a single [...]

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A few months ago, I signed up for an account with Zooomr, just to play. Whilst uploading a batch of images from the Dallas Arboretum, I noticed a “Geo” feature (I believe Flickr have a similar feature). Having a quick play around, I noticed I was able to append longitude, and latitude to [...]

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I’ve been using Google Reader for my RSS feeds for a while now, and I’m quite addicted to the key navigation. J to move forward, K to move back. The problem is, I’ve been corrupted by these two keys alone. I’m trying to read news groups in Forte Agent, and I keep [...]

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A while back (quite a while now), I wrote a quick post on using bash to combine a handful of tools to organize your music collection on Linux. Weesa also mentioned being a neat freak, and wanted to know how to do it. So here is the way I do it on Windows [...]

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I’ve always been in favor of removing the standard Sendmail install on most Linux boxes, in favor of Postfix. I’ve found it easier to use, and easier to configure. Having a simple configuration file that doesn’t need compiling is always helpful too. However, in some cases, you really don’t like to touch [...]

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It’s not that often you see honesty from a software company, at least not entirely about everything they can/can’t do. Usually I like to blame this on the sales department trying to get that sale. However, in this case, it really is the software developers being totally honest.

Whilst trying to build a new [...]

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Here are some scary numbers…

2 Million 10 times bigger than any other known 46.2 Million 99%

What are they? Stats from InformationWeek regarding the Storm worm that is zooming around. That’s 2 million computers, 10 times larger than any other email attacks, 99% of 46.2 million malicious emails tracked. This looks like it could be a [...]

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Earlier today, somebody mentioned not being able to get to the internet, but didn’t seem to be having any issues getting to local resources (file server, printers, etc). They also mentioned that they had seen a meesage about IP address conflicts with another computer. This is a little interesting trying to debug, because [...]

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