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Index of pages filed with the "Open Source" tag (listing records 1 to 10 of 21):
- DoubleTake and My First Panorama
(Date: Fri 23-Dec-2005 | Comments: 0 | Permalink)
Way back in October, I asked for recommendations for panoramic image stitching software for OS X (God, was it really that long ago? One of my New-Year Resolutions must be to blog more often.) I received just one reply (thank you Neon M), recommending ... (continue reading) - Solaris 10
(Date: Fri 4-Feb-2005 | Comments: 5 | Permalink)
Four and a half hours of downloading, concatenating 5 x 450MB files and md5summing the result... and I finally have a copy of Sun's Solaris 10. I have enjoyed using Solaris (versions 8 and 9) on Sun workstations for a couple of years. Now I can enjoy ... (continue reading) - ModSecurity: Web Server Defences
(Date: Tue 1-Feb-2005 | Comments: 10 | Permalink)
I can't believe I've been ignorant of this module until today. ModSecurity is an open source intrusion detection and prevention engine for web applications. Operating as an Apache web-server module, the purpose of ModSecurity is to increase web application ... (continue reading) - Technical Weblogs
(Date: Tue 25-Jan-2005 | Comments: 10 | Permalink)
I need to feed (pun intended) my hunger for technical weblogs and add a few more feeds to my blogroll. I am particularly interested in weblogs that cover the following topicsSoftware DevelopmentCPerl / mod_perlRuby / RailsApacheDatabases / MySQLUnix ... (continue reading) - The Weekender #1
(Date: Sat 4-Dec-2004 | Comments: 5 | Permalink)
Some time ago (8th October, 2004) I published a document entitled "The Friday Post". It was supposed to be the first of a regular "feature". At the time, my intention was to publish, each Friday, a single post of commentary on things that had touched ... (continue reading) - Customising the Firefox Throbber
(Date: Thu 2-Dec-2004 | Comments: 7 | Permalink)
One of the many things I like about about Firefox is the ease with which it can be customised. Along with the standard "Options" panel and the ever-growing collection of extensions and themes, Firefox can be tweaked in a myriad ways. Users can fine-tune ... (continue reading) - Firefox Search Plug-in for Koders.com
(Date: Thu 18-Nov-2004 | Comments: 3 | Permalink)
I have created my first search plug-in(s) for Firefox. The plug-ins add search options for Koders, a search engine for source code. Koders enables developers to easily search and browse source code in thousands of projects hosted at hundreds of open ... (continue reading) - Blocking the Referrer Spammer
(Date: Mon 15-Nov-2004 | Comments: 13 | Permalink)
I have mostly passed under the radar of the Referrer Spammers, but my invisibility spell has gradually depleted. This past weekend (13-14 Nov, 2004) my access logs recorded 187 hits from referrer spammers. I'll admit that 187 hits isn't a lot, but I usually ... (continue reading) - The SmoothWall
(Date: Thu 4-Nov-2004 | Comments: 2 | Permalink)
I've just installed a SmoothWall Express 2.0 firewall at the edge of my LAN to replace an aging WinGate 4 proxy server. SmoothWall is an advanced, open source firewall distribution based on the GNU/Linux operating system. Along with the firewall, SmoothWall ... (continue reading) - Unix Shell on Windows
(Date: Thu 21-Oct-2004 | Comments: 10 | Permalink)
Our Shapeshifter application servers all run some variant of Unix. Whilst working on the servers I spend most of my time in the BASH shell. On my Windows XP desktop computer, I spend a large portion of my time using the DOS shell. The problem is that ... (continue reading)
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