Monthly Archives: July 2014


DSM update time again (5.0-4493 Update 3)

Synology have released another update for the RS NAS range – time to get that patch on   Version: 5.0-4493 Update 3 (2014/07/24) Improvements 1. Improved the stability of volume expansion. Fixed Issues 1. Fixed two SAMBA vulnerabilities which allowed remote attackers to use the weaknesses to perform DoS attacks (CVE-2014-0244, CVE-2014-3493). 2. Fixed an […]


Intro to Xpages Part 6

Paul @ TLCC recently posted number 6 in a series of 7 tutorials giving an introduction to xpages development and also exposing some of the development “goodies” that might not be immediately obvious to an developer starting xpages. http://pauldn.com/2014/07/21/intro-to-xpages-part-6-demonstration-of-advanced-techniques-using-xpages/ covers a range of slightly more advanced topics like displaying view data and document data on the same […]


Are you a FitBit ?

A recent present was one of the Zip devices from Fitbit – its a pedometer for recording your physical activity. Given the static nature of much of my daily work I thought it was a very useful idea to get an actual figure for the number of steps I take in a day and see […]