http://darxr.net linux, life, web, technology, and lots of other stuff! Wed, 23 Jan 2008 02:30:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just came across this article on ZDnet from Richard Stiennon and felt I had to say something about it as it's the most rubbish I have read in a long time and displays a complete misunderstanding of the issues at hand from a so called "industry consultant". "Evidently the European ... http://darxr.net/articles/2008/01/23/ip-addresses-are-personal-data/ It seems that the latest release of Google Earth has some hidden features that Google didn't tell anyone about! In addition to Google Sky, a flight simulator mode has been added too. It's been possible to fly around in Google Earth using a joystick for a while now but this ... http://darxr.net/articles/2007/09/01/google-earth-flight-simulator/ I've always had an interest in the weather, it's the one thing in Ireland that can make or break your day. As the say goes, "You don't go to Ireland for the weather"! Anyway, I decided to go out and buy myself a weather station. I didn't fancy spending €600 ... http://darxr.net/articles/2007/08/22/weather-station-up-and-running/ We've been working our way through our stash of Wyse 60 terminals in work over the last few years. They used to be used extensively on desktops but have been replaced by PCs over the past 10 years and are now mainly used in a few small areas where only ... http://darxr.net/articles/2007/08/02/sun-rays-and-solaris-express/ I've updated urlmarkr so it is now working again on Rails 1.2.3. I have also re-written the authentication system using acts_as_authenticated, added support for snap.com thumbnails and fix lots of small bugs and problems. You can grab a tarball of the latest SVN trunk or browse the repository. I hope to have ... http://darxr.net/articles/2007/07/14/some-urlmarkr-updates/ Just one day after it's release, there are already exploits circulating for Safari for Windows. Thor Larholm has discovered a remote command execution vulnerability and some other researchers have reportedly discovered more vulnerabilities too. The hole can be used to execute arbitrary code simply by making a user view a ... http://darxr.net/articles/2007/06/12/safari-for-windows-remote-exploit/ Apple's Safari browser has just been made available for Windows, although it's still in beta. This caught me totally by surprise, but it seems there have been rumours going around for a bit now. Even if I had of seen the rumors I wouldn't have believed it! Here's some screenshots ... http://darxr.net/articles/2007/06/11/safari-available-for-windows/ A few months back I purchased a Meade ETX-80 telescope and managed to get everything up and running. I was able to view some excellent shots of the Moon and also of Jupiter. Part of the draw of this telescope is it's "Autostar" controller, which once programmed and aligned allows ... http://darxr.net/articles/2007/06/09/trying-to-get-into-astronomy/ I've decided to move my blog and the Urlmarkr site away from Dreamhost and to a VPS hosted with Bitfolk. The main reason for the move is that now my exams are finished I hope to be able to spend some time working on urlmarkr and a few other projects ... http://darxr.net/articles/2007/06/03/moving-away-from-dreamhost/ Just recently, I got my hands on a new Dell Latitude D820 laptop and it took me a few days to get everything migrated from my old laptop. Everything was running fine, including Joost, until that is, I joined my machine to our Active Directory domain at work. Every time ... http://darxr.net/articles/2007/05/25/joost-the-exception-breakpoint/