Officially disguised as a Canadian
I’ve just written a very nifty C# application, and for reasons of secrecy, I can’t tell anyone what it is or how it works! This is frustrating because I think it’s awesome. Hopefully just posting this entry about [redacted] will get the excitement off my chest and then I can continue doing my tax filing.
There’s been a major attack on all WordPress (and Joomla) websites worldwide. When I last read about it, over 150 000 IP addresses were involved in the botnet. My (fantastic) service provider, Site5, with whom I host all of my customers’ sites as well as my own, mitigated the attack through the course of aContinue reading Two-Factor Authentication for WordPress
There’s a trend on various networks to show off one’s home screen on their smart phones and / or tablets. Never being one to miss an opportunity to follow the herd, here’s my iPhone’s home screen: For good measure, here’s the second screen, because how can I get by with only two? I love folders.
Success! Sort of … Instead of the complicated method I described previously, I’ve gone manual, which is, yes, more complicated :-). I started with the latest sms.db file from my new iPhone, and then editing SQLite scripts, incremented the ROWIDs by 30,000 for the message table, and 1000 for the others, so as to avoidContinue reading Merging iOS Message databases: update
I ran into a bit of a snag with my original plan. I built the framework for parsing the SQL script, one statement at a time, and catered for statements that wrapped over more than one line. It took about two hours to get to the point where I was ready to parse the SQLContinue reading Progress on Merging SMS databases
Disclaimer: I haven’t actually done it, yet. Last night I rediscovered my original iPhone SMS database from before I did a factory-reset on my phone. I had jailbroken my 3G ages ago, and ever since then, the carrier wasn’t updating properly, regardless of the SIM card I used or country I was in. So inContinue reading Merging two iPhone SMS sqlite databases
I am a developer-tier member of ADN. I started writing something this week but I’m not really sure where I want to go with the concept. It’s not a Twitter clone, it’s more a social media platform, and there are amazing clients already. I use Felix, Kiwi, Riposte and Netbot. So instead, I recommend youContinue reading ADN (Or, what the cool kids are calling App.net)
Apple has this week announced an “iPad with Retina display”, to replace the third-generation “the new iPad”, the latter being just seven months old. I am on my fifth iPad so far. This is not bragging. It’s a combination of two cases of inheritance, one replacement device, and two purchases. I have owned all threeContinue reading The new the new iPad
On SuperUser.com, a question came up about how to do a proper Linux backup, including the applications installed, and associated configurations. In light of a previous post I wrote about backups and run books, I thought this would be useful information to share. I answered with a link to the original run book I haveContinue reading Where do I start with a Run Book?
Someone asked a question on SuperUser today, about getting PocketCloud and RDP to play nicely together, where they could connect to the host from outside the network. I thought I’d repeat my answer here with more info. Firstly, it’s important to note that PocketCloud Windows Companion uses the Remote Desktop Protocol, running on port 3389.Continue reading PocketCloud Windows Companion vs RDP port-forwarding