VMWare and keyboard input
This morning I fired my Windows XP VM on my mac and my keyboard input simply stopped working. After a couple of VM reboots, which had no effect, I did some googling. The first result suggested typing a few commands to determine what had disabled it:
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CODE:
$ ioreg -l -w 0 | grep SecureInput
| "IOConsoleUsers" [...]
AJAX calls and expired sessions
I have been updating a bunch of code recently to make use of the new features in Prototype 1.6 and one of the great additions in this release was the introduction of Automatic JavaScript response evaluation. This allowed me to improve on my session checking code without having to fuff around with the response information [...]
Goosh
The unofficial Google Shell... I like it!
Reflow
Or more appropriately what is it? Fascinating...
IIS virtualhosts and SSL
For posterity, if you are configuring several websites, that use the same IP/port combination for SSL and you are using host headers to identify them, then you'll need to follow these steps, particularly this one here. Always strikes me as odd that when you basically have everything in a GUI, for the final step you [...]
Embedded images an IE work around
A while back I posted about using the data:image/jpeg;base64 to directly embed the image in to the source attribute of an image tag, however this did not work with IE. Today I stumbled across this JavasScript solution. Certainly an option, though in my case it was overkill, however I thought others might find it useful.
Restricting FTP passive ports
After a full day of messages going backwards and forwards between myself and our firewall admins, here's a gem of a post with a script to restrict the port range used by passive FTP on Windows 2003 server (as well as telling Windows Firewall to leave those ports open). Who would have thought securing FTP [...]
Bad Network Solutions, bad
Courtesy of Slashdot, news that Network Solutions are front running domain names. I don't care much for their response that this is to protect us, the customer, from evil do-ers. Especially when they charge a premium ($34.99) for their domain names, whereas services like Go Daddy offer them for $9.99. Way to go Network Solutions!!
Happy New Year…
... to one and all.
New year, new look, search engine friendly URLs, fresh apache 2 install, ditto for MySQL. Add to that an additional 20% of RAM (thank you Linode!!), all in all a good start to the new year, promises to be a good one.