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Thursday, 28 July 2005
A few days ago, Microsoft has implemented “Genuine Advantage”, a scheme which attempts to stamp out the use of pirated copies of Windows XP, by insisting that users must verify their serial number before they can run Windows Update.
Essentially, “Genuine Advantage” tries to force users to either buy Windows XP or tell Microsoft where they got the illegal copy.
It was cracked within 24 hours.
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Sunday, 24 July 2005
As a Linux developer, sometimes you need to know how much space is taken up by files in a directory. The following command shows all files in the current directory, ordered by descending file size:
du -s /home/users/ivan/ * | sort -nr
Especially useful when you need to identify the largest files in a directory.
Wednesday, 20 July 2005
I received a phone call from a mate of mine who was approached by an “internet marketing” company claiming they can boost his business website’s ranking in search engines. He wanted to know if it was a good investment.
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Saturday, 16 July 2005
As Steve Friedl’s excellent article on SQL injection attacks shows, sloppy programming can lead to disasterous consequences for a database-driven website, especially if that database is Microsoft SQL Server.
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Monday, 11 July 2005
Mark Hurst, the good experience guy and customer experience consultant has a free downloadable whitepaper on managing incoming email.
Even though the document is a few years old, the advice given by Mark has never been more relevant, especially considering that email spammers are even a bigger pain in the arse than they were back then.
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