Interesting


WordPress bits

The developers have been working on hardening (securing) the current 2.8 tree of WordPress. The 2.8.5 release this week has a number of changes to this end. The headline changes in this release are: A fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack that is currently being seen. Removal of areas within the code where php code […]


Connecting a serial modem to a virtual machine running on ESXi

Recently during a vmware migration project I had a requirement to present a fax modem to a quite elderly installation of Tobit Faxware running on Windows 2003. I had planned to investigate replacing the serial modem with a usb model and testing a USB Anywhere product from Digi. Then I remembered some work I had […]


More fun Yammering

I had cause to look further into the Yammer package capabilities for users of my Yammer network. The issue was that my fellow yammerers were not necessarily at a PC when they needed to update. One was experiencing a block through their corporate internet provider blocking what they described as a “chat site”. So what […]


Euro for it now

The Euro symbol has been around in Windows for quite a while since the currency was introduced. However it was a recent problem when archiving files for an Accountancy client that I can across a strange issue trying to move the files or put them in an archive folder. The common thread between the failure […]