Archive for January, 2009

At 23:31:30 UTC on February 13, 2009, the Unix time number (time_t) reaches 1234567890 seconds.

Saturday, January 31st, 2009 at 17:27 | 0 comments
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Google search is marking all sites as This site may harm your computer.

I've tried different browsers and different computers — all the same. Even some of the more reputable sites are being tagged this way. Google.de does the same. What are they experimenting with?
Update: a few minutes later, the spook is over.

Saturday, January 31st, 2009 at 17:23 | 1 comment
Categories: Security
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Thanks, Patrick.

Saturday, January 31st, 2009 at 11:08 | 0 comments
Categories: Entertainement
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The password notification DLL I developed for Active Directory worked like a charm together with its associated Web service. When a user changes her password on Windows, the password notification DLL invokes a Web service which sets the same password in our OpenLDAP directory as well as in the Domino directory (also via LDAP).
Did you [...]

Friday, January 30th, 2009 at 23:19 | 0 comments
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I wrote a short comment in a text area on the online store, while purchasing a copy of MarsEdit today:
Wonderful program. Just two things missing: a) allow media (photos) to be added to post when offline with subsequent upload to blog, and b) save window positions.
And I promptly got some feedback:

I agree with you the [...]

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 at 23:35 | 0 comments
Categories: MacOSX, Software
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Just when I thought I'd finished physically converting my Windows laptop to virtual (P2V) with the VMWare converter, I got a surprise.
Upon booting up the resulting Windows image in VMWare Fusion, I'm greeted with this:

Just in case you can't read the small print, it is the dreaded Windows Product Activation (WPA) that is telling me [...]

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 at 22:28 | 0 comments
Categories: Vmware
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Moving a BlackBerry Enterprise Server to another IP address ought to be no problem: you move the machine, change its IP and Bob's your uncle.
Sometimes.
If you start up the new BES it works. But, if instead, you first use the BBsrptest utility to ensure that the BES can connect to the BlackBerry Router, you'll be [...]

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 at 12:26 | 0 comments
Categories: BlackBerry
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Bonjour is French for good morning or good day. Bonjour is also the name of a service discovery protocol (the artist formerly known as Rendezvous). Bonjour is a protocol which allows a computing device to just "find" other devices on a network.
Even though I've had a Mac for a few years, I hadn't really noticed [...]

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 at 11:09 | 0 comments
Categories: Hardware, MacOSX
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