Hashing passwords is a common way to secure them in a database and make sure that they cannot be read easily.
But did you know there’s a website that reverse engineers the hashes and stores them in a searchable database?
The folks over at RedNoize have created such a site.
Obviously, there’s no better protection than keeping your [...]

Microsoft have posted a KB article to manually create ADM and ADMX files which will allow you to manage the search providers in Internet Explorer 7’s Search Box.
This can be very useful for admins who only want certain sites to be searchable across their domain (such as an intranet!)

After when deploying Internet Explorer 7 around your site through a service such as WSUS, there are immediate considertaions that have to be dealt with. The main one being configuring settings for IE7.
It is possible to download the Internet Explorer Administration Toolkit (IEAK), but when dealing with IE7 that has been installed on computers automatically [...]

When fixing people’s internet, it’s common to try and get onto the router or modem through a web interface.
Manuals are usually difficult to find, so there is an excellent page at kitz.co.uk which outlines a fine array of adsl hardware and their passwords – as well as how to get to the page to check [...]

I had some trouble getting the ICA client to connect to a site in Ubuntu today. Actually, it’s been for a few days. I’m not entirely sure if I’ve used Ubuntu for Citrix stuff.
Anyway, whenever clicking on a connection on the Citrix web interface, the webica application would fail with this error: “Proxy connection failed: [...]

John muses over his first blog spam, and invokes Wordpress’ Akismet anti-spam plugin.