The wizards (nay, geniuses) over at the Max OS X Internals Blog have developed what they’re calling BAMBIOS – software that allows legacy booting on Intel-based Macs. From their post:
For example, a regular (that is, non-EFI) version of Linux can be readily booted using this software. [...] Linux works fine, and we have made…
We're beyond baby steps now…
By Howard | Published March 13th, 2006m0n0wall and MS Virtual Server
By Howard | Published March 4th, 2006We recently had the need to simulate a routed environment with low bandwidth/high latency links between remote sites. To achieve this I used m0n0wall – a free software router – running inside Microsoft Virtual Server on multiple virtual NICs. Here’s how to get it up and running…
Things I Have Learned This Week
By Howard | Published February 17th, 2006Thing the first:
Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 does not support teamed NICs on the host.
This bit us on the arse earlier this week when we teamed the NICs on the hosts of our virtual environment. As a result, although we could RDP to the host desktop, all our guest machines dropped off the network. …
XBox360 Backwards Compatibility
By Howard | Published December 14th, 2005Working semi-regularly for Microsoft, I’m now even more aware of when people criticise the company. Sometimes it is justified, sometimes it’s not. Here’s a very funny critique of what Slashdot readers make of the Xbox360 and it’s backwards compatibility.
Funny. Rude, but funny.
tivostatus for Wordpress
By Howard | Published November 1st, 2005Some time ago I wrote a script to query my tivo for status and display it on this page. It was presented as an iframe on this site which called an ASP page hosted on my home network on an IIS box. It was an inelegant solution and I always intended to rewrite…
Can't Even Trust Ebay's Servers Anymore
By Howard | Published February 23rd, 2005eBay Phishing scams, eh?
This is a clever one.
The eBay site is redirecting requests to external domains. An attacker can build a querystring that will cause a valid ebay.com domain to redirect to an attacker’s page:
http://cgi4.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=RedirectToDomain&DomainUrl=http://www.attackers-domain.com/malware/
All they need do is obfuscate the URL to hide what is really happening, like so:
http://cgi4.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=RedirectToDomain&DomainUrl=%68%74%74%70%3A%2F%2F%68%6F%6D%65%2E%64%75%72%64%6C%65%2E%63%6F%6D%2F%76%61%72%73%2E%61%73%70
That’ll point to http://home.durdle.com. …
TiVo Status!
By Howard | Published January 22nd, 2005I had a spare half hour, so I knocked together a script that will parse my TiVo’s Tivoweb info page and consolidate the recording information into a little status display, like so:
The information is cached and will be updated once every fifteen minutes so as to not overload the TiVo itself. It’ll appear in…
Speed Up IE’s HTTP requests
By Howard | Published January 3rd, 2005This is one of those handy tips that I first found out about around IE 4.something, and keep forgetting to write down anywhere – so every time I want to do it again on a new machine I need to Google for it! So here it is in permanent blog form.
To comply with current…
More LinkSys Fiddling
By Howard | Published September 15th, 2004The LinkSys doesn’t behave like a real DHCP server either. So, here’s what I did…
I’ve disabled the DHCP server on the LinkSys and told it to redirect queries to the house server. The house server is now running DHCP and DNS servers for the house network. With a real DHCP server…
Question asked, question answered.
By Howard | Published September 14th, 2004I nipped into PC World before I came into the office this morning and swapped the D-Link router for the LinkSys. I’ve just had a chance to try it out at the office to see what it is capable of. Unfortunately, it’s no brighter than the equivalent D-Link – which I find…
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