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Entries from December 2008

Delicious Relaunch

July 31st, 2008 · 2 Comments

Just a short post here because I’ve already covered the news in more detail on the AGP blog.  Social bookmarking site Delicious has relaunched with a new UI and a bunch of cool new features.
It’s definitely worth a look, and the new UI is much more like other Yahoo! properties like Flickr suggesting that Yahoo! [...]

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Command Line 101 - Windows: Backup, Remote Desktop and More

July 22nd, 2008 · 3 Comments

I’ve been working on some things for work recently which have me deeply buried in the Windows command line again, both writing applications and scripting/automating actions against various systems on our network.
Backup your Files to a Remote Computer
One of the things we all need to do is keep backups of our data.  It’s easy enough [...]

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iPhone 3G Jailbroken — Ha!

July 21st, 2008 · 1 Comment

Well that didn’t take long.
In a short post titled “Thanks for waiting ” released yesterday, the iPhone Dev Team released Pwnage 2.0 for jailbreaking iPhones running the iPhone firmware version 2.0.
It should be noted that this doesn’t unlock your iPhone, it only opens up all the things that the old Jailbreak used to do.  [...]

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WordPress 2.6 Launches new Security Feature

July 17th, 2008 · 1 Comment

WordPress 2.6 launched earlier this week and among the new features in this seemingly solid build is a significant security enhancement for how WP handles cookies.
Essentially what it boils down to is WP has separated cookies used for accessing the admin interface through HTTPS (SSL) and regular unsecured HTTP.  This allows for login information and [...]

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New Desk - Recycling for Geeks

July 8th, 2008 · 7 Comments

Getting organized… setting up your geek space.  These are things that some of us find very scary propositions.  My physical life has always been something of an organized mess.  Recently I made (or was suggested to make) a drastic change in the way that my office was laid out (read: it was time to clean [...]

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