How many comics can incorporate SQL Injection* into the punchline? See XKCD: *The down and dirty of it is that SQL is the language to manipulate databases, and unless you check for certain characters when entering data, somebody could run code that isn’t meant to be run. That’s “SQL Injection”. By having “DROP TABLE Students” [...]
Visit Take My Tech. Comment on a post. Then comment on another post. You and I both then have a chance to win the item listed in that post: I just give it away. I post a new item that I am wanting to give away, when the comment number reaches at least 100, I [...]
Privacy – Lifehacker For all your Facebookers, I saw this this afternoon: Your Facebook profile will soon be available to search engines unless you disable search engine indexing in Facebook’s Privacy Settings for Search.
I recently received an email from my bank, “MS Money Upgrade Notice from MSUFCU”, about how my fancy version of Microsoft Money 2005 will no longer work after September 1: Beginning September 1, 2007, Microsoft will begin expiring the online service for the following Microsoft Money versions: MS Money 2004 and 2005 MS Money 2006 [...]
At some point in the past couple of days my WordPress crapped the f- out. I first noticed yesterday morning that my blog “aggregation” on the FT homepage was broken for my blog. Stupid MagpieRSS and it’s lame, uninformative errors. So maybe there was a problem with the RSS feeds….I had just added a couple [...]
I recently read an interesting and detailed how-to article on converting your hosted email over to Google. This is actually an idea that I’ve flirted with for some time, but never really got much further than that. This step-by-step instruction set seems pretty straightforward. Google offers a free(!) service that lets you actually host your [...]
do people send image files (say, a logo in this instance) as a PDF or embedded in a Word document? Send the f-ing thing as the original JPG or BMP or GIF image. You have to copy and paste the damn thing into Word or print as a PDF in the first place – just [...]
Here’s this week’s “geek moment”… I know a lot of people that are into Sudoku puzzles, so I got a good chuckle out of a link in my email this morning: Solve sudoku puzzles using a SQL Server stored procedure! It makes sense, solving a puzzle should break down into something procedural. This sums it [...]
This has been floating around the Internet, but I thought I’d post it up in case anyone missed it: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlZxuqjJDgk[/youtube] Really, watch the video if you haven’t seen it. That is freakin’ amazing.
So the world is still a crazy place: In a story making the rounds (CNN, Slashdot) that hits somewhat close to home, a Sparta, Michigan, man is being charged with “Fraudulent access to computers, computer systems, and computer networks” for sitting in a coffee shop parking lot and using the Internet. WOODTV has the original [...]