October 7, 2010
by Neil T
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Yesterday I changed my Windows Live password. I’m a little embarrassed to admit that this is the first time I’ve changed it, and I’ve been using it for the best part of 10 years, back when it was for my Hotmail account.
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June 30, 2009
by Neil T
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One of the ‘duties’ you acquire as the member of the family who knows something about computers is that you end up trying to keep your parents’ computer updated with software patches etc.
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February 8, 2008
by Neil T
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Paynova is a site in the ilk of PayPal, Google Checkout and Nochex in that it offers merchants secure online payment services, and a personal account system for users that remembers their card details. CD-Wow is one of Paynova’s clients and so rather than re-enter my card details every time I buy from them I can use my stored details.
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September 23, 2007
by Neil T
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As you can probably gather from the post title, I’m now running Movable Type 4.01.
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January 4, 2007
by Neil T
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VLC 0.8.6a has been released – it is a security update to VLC 0.8.6 to fix a vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary code execution.
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September 27, 2006
by Neil T
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In what has to be the first security fix in a very long time, Movable Type 3.33 has been released to patch up several currently-undisclosed flaws which were found internally by Six Apart themselves.
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March 24, 2006
by Neil T
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A few weeks ago I found that Hari’s computer had StarForce Copy Protection installed on it, after reading it about it on BoingBoing.
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January 11, 2006
by Neil T
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A couple of days I added Bad Behavior to a few pages on this site.
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August 26, 2004
by Neil T
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A flaw in Winamp 3.x and 5.x means that if you were to install a specially-crafted skin, it could cause arbitrary code execution.
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September 11, 2003
by Neil T
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This is an ‘all-in-one’ entry because I have various small snippets that don’t go together in one coherent entry.
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