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Christ On Disk update #
Denver kindly informs us that his excellent Christ On Disk project (mentioned four years ago) has a new homepage. Check out the development story, which details his journey to get all 4.5MB of Bible text into a 1.29MB stand-alone application that does not require installation, write to the registry, or create/modify files outside of its own directory.

/windows | Jul 31, 2008

Windows XP hanging after login #
Upon logging in to Windows XP, the Volume icon would appear in the system tray (yes, I like calling it "the system tray" - so does Microsoft - OK, well, not always) and then nothing else would happen for about two or three minutes. During this time, the System Properties and Network Connections windows would not open. Finally, the wireless and wired network icons would appear with a flurry of disk activity. This unhappy state of affairs was solved (after several frustrating hours) by simply disabling the Workstation service.

/windows | Jul 13, 2008

fseventer - FileMon for OS X #
fseventer 2.6.2 [450k] Monitors filesystem changes - think "FileMon for OS X".
fseventer

/mac | Jul 12, 2008

Dear Apple: Please Consider These Proposed Changes to the Airport Firewall #
  1. Stealth Mode
    • Just like "Enable Stealth Mode" in Tiger: "Ensures that any uninvited traffic receives no response - not even an acknowledgement that your computer exists."
    • Demand is apparent
    • Offered by virtually every other consumer-grade router. Here's a port scan on the $51.99 Linksys WRT54GL:



      And here's one run against the $299 Time Capsule:
  2. Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI)
  3. Dynamic DNS (DDNS) support

/mac | Jul 05, 2008

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