Idea: Hijack PIN Number for Debit Cards
I happened to walk through the living room while my wife was watching Southland so I stopped to take a break. In this episode a couple of cops get taken hostage by a couple of bad guys. These bad guys need some money so they take the cop’s wallets and ask them for the PIN [...]
Now at the HuB
I’m pleased to announce that I have moved my humble operation into an office at the HuB in Sarasota. The HuB is described as a “creative and collaborative space and community where entrepreneurs come together to develop ideas and contribute toward building a new economy and culture”. I’ve been planted in my office for the [...]
Following up on Forums
Discussion forums can be great tools for a technologist. If you’ve ever had an obscure error message or a program that just doesn’t work sometimes, chances are you’ve loaded up Google or some other search engine and plugged in that cryptic error code to get more information. Chances are you’re not the first to bump [...]
Easy on the eyes…
Ever since I began writing ColdFusion code (originally with Notepad, and then with ColdFusion Studio and later HomeSite+ before eventually giving in and moving to ColdFusion Builder) my eyes have been treated to a seemingly endless parade of characters rendered in Courier New at 9pt. If I remember correctly, when I made the jump to [...]
Accessing Admin Mode on HP Thin Clients Using VNC
One of the tasks that I sometimes have to do involves updating settings to remotely-deployed HP thin clients. In this case, the remote network uses HP t5565 thin clients which run Debian Linux and HP’s ThinPro software. We use a Firefox web connector to load a web application, and I use VNC through an SSH [...]
