Next week I will get my very first appartment 
Now I need to draw a map with all the measurements of all the rooms. A friend showed me this pretty neat tool: sweet home 3d. Ik can not only draw maps but gives you a 3d impression as well! Since it is programmed in Java it can run on Windows, OSX and Linux. Happy drawing!
screenshot
If you are a hacker, what is the thing you want to be on a Linux System? Root. You can try to access a ssh server with the root user. There is an option in the ssh server configuration which prevents a remote root login. This does not mean you can not become root, it means no one can directly login as the root user. So if you are logged in as Alice you can simple enter the “su” command to become root.
How we can prevent the remote root login is described below.
Smashing magazine posted an article describing 10 steps to improve the protection of your WordPress admin. This is really interesting since hacking WordPress seems to be very interesting for hackers.
Wordpress
In one of my previous post I wrote a bit about the upcoming Windows 7. One of the biggest problems was having a Windows 7 installation up and running, but without visual web developer express (VWD) working it was quite a useless operating system.
The main problem showed up when I opened a ASP.NET web application. Editing the C# source files was no problem at all, but as soon as I opened an .aspx file the whole program freezed.
As a web developer, having a working version of VWD is too important so I switched back to Windows Vista. Sometimes solving problems can be simple; today I decided to reinstall VWD and guess what? Works like a charm!
I have three computers: MacBook Pro, Netbook and a PC. They all have their own data. It would be very nice if I had all my files on just one location (e.g. my server). The only problem is: how do I access these files in a secure way. SSH is an option, but does not quite fit my needs. The solution: NFS over a VPN. NFS fulfilled all my needs, but I do not want to open NFS to whole world through my router.
A VPN, gives me access to my home network and makes it possible for me to access all my files in a secure way. My server (an Asus EEE Box) runs Ubuntu Server, and there is a Linux version of OpenVPN! I thought installing OpenVPN should not be that hard; I just need to find the right tutorial.
Remember the good old days? Sitting behind your 286 machine playing games on a monochrome screen? I do! Actually it was my very first “own” computer running DOS 6.0. I had only one problem: a lot of cool games failed to run. Later it turned out to be a problem that I had a monochrome screen, at least something with my old videocard.
The funny thing was the solution to this problem. I discovered once that I could play the games which first gave an error, if I had run the game “Wings of Fury” in advance…
Wings of Fury screenshot
Today I downloaded the first beta of Windows 7. I was wondering how this new Windows version performed when running under VMWare (Using 1 GB of ram and 20GB HDD). The first problem started when I wanted to download the ISO image of the beta. I am using Firefox for OSX and the according to the Microsoft site I needed to install Silverlight (I guess this is the way they want to push Silverlight into the market). I downloaded Silverlight and installed it on my Mac, restarted the browser and still no Silverlight detected…
Installation process
As posted here I recently bought a Samsung NC10. It comes with Windows XP preinstalled, but I liked to have Kubuntu 8.10 installed as well. The Samsung NC10 is equipped with a 160GB harddisk so there is plenty of space (at least for me). So I started to figure out how I could install Kubuntu 8.10 on a netbook with no cd- nor dvd-drive. In this post I describe how I managed to solve these problems.
My Samsung NC10 running Kubuntu
When I started this blog I wanted to have nice looking permalinks for all articles. This means all articles have links like:
instead of
I almost got this working except the fact that my URLs contained “index.php” like:
After searching through lots of websites I found a solution for this issue.
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