A quick information card comparing VMWare Workstation 9.0 with Workstation 12.0 Pro. The Old Version (9.0) Usability There are many modal dialogs which often get in the way (example, the virtual network editor) Too many clicks required to get some basic information (like NIC mac addresses) Too many clicks to add extra hardware to VMs…

I’m looking towards updating my desktop to two 4K displays, and it appears that two good choices of GPUs that support this kind of setup (I don’t really care about gaming on this rig) are: Nvidia NVS 510 – £220+ AMD Firepro W2100 — £120 I’ll probably go for the AMD as it has a…

Spent some time working on https://projecteuler.net/problem=14 It was fun, and I produced: Crunching Collatz Sequence…go make some coffee Number 13 also has same number of terms as previous record New record of 18 iterations found for 14 Number 15 also has same number of terms as previous record New record of 21 iterations found for 18…

I made a pretty simple chrome extension that allows you to configure a list of IP addresses, as well as a target host and it will insert an X-Forwarded-For header into the requests for the target host, and switch to the next IP in your configured list after about 6 requests. This was useful to…

I came face to face with “The Man” recently, and lost hopelessly. You see, I spent two weekends working on a relatively basic Chrome Extension that I find useful in my day job; I often have to test a Web App Firewall, and usually you need to simulate traffic from multiple different source clients. The…

Apparently, you just need this simple key combination: CMD + V. Mind == blown! If you found that hard to discover, you’ve been using putty and/or linux for way too long.

Don’t bother trying Sixxs if you don’t intend to use your work address. The haughty folks over there might put you off IPv6 for good. Head straight to Tunnel Broker where you can have a tunnel authorized in 5 minutes or less, with no need to read through a laundry list of Email providers you are not allowed…

While building this library, i ran into errors finding libgpg-error 1.11. There is a small bug in libgcrypt’s configure script for finding this library. It tells you to set –with-libgpg-error-prefix, but it actually ultimately looks for the location of this library from the variable –with-gpg-error-prefix. You should set –with-gpg-error-prefix instead of –with-libgpg-error-prefix, if your libgpg-error…