Pakku’s Blog

We all know them when we see them, but mostly we don’t know the name. We use it to verify if you are a human being or not. I’m talking about CAPTCHA, the characters and numbers you have to enter when you sign up for something. But to make it harder for the computer to decode what’s on the image, they use several tricks, like in mine, using multiple colors. As a users we mostly find them iritating, basicly because we mostly can’t read them, but are there good sides about the fact that these images are getting very hard to read? Read the rest of this entry »

UAC (User Account Control), the most discussed feature of Microsoft Windows Vista, said to be made to be a pain in the ass for it’s users, but most of all needed to be the ultimate layer of security, but is now popping up almost every second of your computing time. Is UAC taking control over you? Is UAC going beyond it’s purpose? Read the rest of this entry »

Dcebian based Linux distributions come with a very nice and useful application called: apt-get. It sort of keeps a database with all applications installed on your Linux system installed by apt-get. This can be compared with the ‘Add and remove software’ option in Windows but there is one major difference. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m not in for a long conversation, so I’ll just post the link to Vista4Experts. It is a program to turn of some features in Windows Vista. So to get rid of all those UAC pop-ups, it might be an good idea to take a look at it

For the ones who have recently lived under a rock, OpenID is a decentralized single sign-on system. Using OpenID-enabled sites, web users do not need to remember traditional authentication tokens such as username and password. Instead, they only need to be previously registered on a website with an OpenID “identity provider” (IdP). Since OpenID is decentralized, any website can employ OpenID software as a way for users to sign in; OpenID solves the problem without relying on any centralized website to confirm digital identity.

Will this truly be the future? Will the username/password era soon be over? Read the rest of this entry »

If you read my previous post, Takin’ control over network permissions, you would probably have noticed that it is now very easy to access your files from any computer in your network.

But isn’t this a bit too easy? Read the rest of this entry »

“<Network workgroup> is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions. The list of servers for this workgroup is currently not available.”

This is a common issue for many (home) network administrators/users, but how to solve it? Read the rest of this entry »

Hi all,

In one of my privious post I wrote about ZC Globe. The software we use to connect to the weather station is Weatherlink from Davis Instruments. The software is quit good, it can do all thinks I can think of with a weather station. But… Read the rest of this entry »