Monthly Archives: August, 2008
Testing Your Websites
We all know that we should test our websites once we’ve developed them, and that we should test them in multiple different browers, but how easy is it to actually do this? I have Firefox 3.0, IE6 and IE7 at my disposal, and I could probably install Flock and Safari, but what about SeaMonkey running [...]
WordPress Flaw
One of the nice features of Worpress (used for this blog) is that people can register as a user which lets themreceive notifications whenever I add new content. Whenever this happens, I receive an email notification that they’ve registered – and as you can imagine, I like receiving emails like this. Today though, this all [...]
Hit by XPAntivirus!
As an IT professional, I consider myself to be more careful than your average Internet user when it comes to things like viruses. I only download things from trusted sources, I have a virus scanner running all the time and I try to restrict myself to known, safe sites. This last point though, becomes more [...]
How-To: Lock Windows XP
I used to work for a with a guy who was paranoid about keeping his laptop secure – even amongst friends. He was also a heavy smoker so was forever needing to run out of internal meetings for a quick smoke, and every time he went, he’d lock his laptop (Ctrl-Alt-Del, then click on “Lock [...]
How-To: Vista Autologon
One of the most common questions that people these days ask me regarding their home PC’s is how to have it startup and go straight to the desktop. This used to be the only option, and when Microsoft did us the favour (!) of allowing us to have multiple accounts, very few people embraced this [...]
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