10 Ways To Secure Your WordPress Install

November 4th, 2009
  1. Keep your WordPress install and plugins up to date. Probably the most important task you can perform is to upgrade your WordPress installation to the latest version. WordPress will inform you when a new version is available and these days you can perfo

gOS: Walmart Linux OS Overview

November 3rd, 2009

Walmart have been selling their Everex PC for a while now, and they’re currently priced quite reasonably at $130. It features a 1.5 GHz Via Technologies C7-D processor, 512 MB of DDR2 RAM and a 80 GB hard disk drive. The gOS (good opereating system…

Linux Is Not Y2K(38) Compliant!

November 2nd, 2009

Remember the impact the Y2K bug had? Well there’s a similar problem “just around the corner” for UNIX-based programs and UNIX-like operating systems. When storing dates, UNIX uses a 4-byte integer to represent the number of seco…

Create a Back Door on Microsoft Windows

November 1st, 2009

Many people think of Netcat as the Swiss army knife of TCP/IP. Although often used for nefarious purposes, Netcat can also be used for good. Using Netcat we can easily create a backdoor to any machine running Windows. All you have to do is perform the foll…

Speed Up Vista Boot Time

October 31st, 2009

How Not To Speed Up Vista Boot Time

If you are looking for tips on how to speed up boot time for Vista – the following is how not to do it! Back in July 2008, there was a hoax doing the rounds that involved the following procedure:

  1. Open the run box (Window

Google Wave

October 31st, 2009

I don’t know much about Google Wave, other than it’s

an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration…

but I do know that this morning I received an invitation to preview it. Microsoft are also clamouring to dominate the realt

Fixing An LCD Screen Scratch

October 30th, 2009

The LCD screen is quite fragile compared to its more robust (and ancient) couterpart: the CRT (cathode ray tube). You’d be surprised at how little effort it takes to scratch an LCD screen (yes, this is what I do on those cold lonely nights). Fortun…

Brute Force Attack

October 30th, 2009

In the context of computer security, a brute force attack is a particular strategy used to break your lovingly crafted password. This is the most widely used method of cracking passwords and it involves running through all the possible permutations o…

CodeBurner 1.5

October 29th, 2009

Codeburner 1.5, released on October 15th 2009 now brings the HTML and CSS reference to

  • Firefox
  • Firebug
  • Opera
  • Adobe AIR
  • Mac OS X Dashboard

There’s some feedback on Sitepoint’s forum here,  here and here.
Are you using it? What do you think

Screen Sharing With Crossloop

October 29th, 2009

You know how difficult it is talking somebody through the resolution of a PC related problem when the user is a non-rechie. Often their description of the problem just makes no sense. Well, fret no more.
Screen sharing with Crossloop is here!…
Crossloop