No effort whatsoever involved in this feat.

Sadly both my windows machine and the tivo do not want to recognise the wireless network anymore all I added was a dhcp server to allocate IP’s rather than assigning static IP’s and now neither of the boxes seem to respond properly.

Olimar on the other hand was more than up to the challenge.

I think the tivo may have to go back to a static IP for the time being. I will spend one more day trying to get the tivo reconnected to the wireless network (I am not overly concerned about the windows box as it is dying a slow gruesome death and the wireless drivers are shitty as all hell)

I grow more and more fond of Olimar by the day.

Yep you guessed it, I got my iBook this afternoon. My lord it is one sexy piece of equipment.

So much to try out and learn. Ah…its like a breathe of fresh air.

I am not going to sit here and brag while others suffer. All I will say is that this will definitely keep my interests up for a while

Update :

Gallery of the virgin birth is now available here, big thanks to Aaron for the quick thinking of taking photos ( I was waaaaayyy too busy with the surgery of getting the box open to even think about photos )

I am now bursting with fruit flavour.

As many of you know I have been considering picking up a Mac of some description for myself for about a year now.

I have finally decided that I would CONSIDER picking up the iBook 12″ laptop. This is the lowest of the low when it comes to the Apple Laptop line up. However it is Small and still beefy enough to do all sorts of funky things (only down side is it doesn’t come with a burner, but since I am probably getting a DVD burner for my home computer I doubt that would be much of a problem)

The only problem I have is that I will not buy one until I see one.

I went into Infinite Systems on Friday (they close at 5:30 so I ran on the strike of 5 from work with Wayne) and unfortunately not a 12″ iBook to be seen. The reason….they don’t have any left, they are all sold out.

“DAMN IT” I cried as I reached for the heavens and cursed Apple’s name. There wasn’t any time to goto the NextByte store in the city.

This Monday during lunch I will go check it out. If it gets my thumbs up I will MOST LIKELY be getting one.

I was pretty much raised on Apple until my last few years in Abu Dhabi just over 6 years ago (from my humble upbringings on our Apple ][ to our shiny Macintosh LC). I got frustrated with the fact that I couldn’t play any of the latest games and that there really wasn’t any software for it (read that games again )

Right now I look at OS X as something that I would love to get my greasy little fingers on. Sleek looking design and an OS that just bloody works. I don’t play as many PC games as I used to (my Gamecube has filled that little hole in my life up nicely). I just want something that I can use at peoples houses, watch DVDs, listen to music, send email, browse the net and probably some experimental coding on.

Its sad to think that all I crave now is a working operating system and portability (so many false promises as I was growing up about what Operating Systems would be like today)

OS X and the iBook 12″ laptop seems to offer the most bang for my buck and I pretty much cry every time I look at anything based on their new upgrade to the OS (due out later this year) called Tiger. Based on the success of this experiment it might even push me to pick up one of the newly announced Mac Mini’s.

So who knows come Monday I will probably have made my decision.

Then hopefully people will stop yelling at me all the time to just make up my mind and either get one or shut up about it

I am the most indecisive person in the world when it comes to buying tech.

I can honestly say I am enjoying it, there is just so much that has been done to improve the way we interact with webmail systems that I will most probably scratch my hotmail account (which I have had for over 6 years) altogether.

A few things that still need to be done that I would like to see:

• Save email drafts (this feature has yet to make an appearance in Gmail)
• Ability to delete attachments from emails
• Allow labels to be made into different colors

Things done well:

• God damn I love Hot Keys, they are not enabled by default (SWITCH IT ON, you have no idea what you are missing!!)
• Viewing emails as conversations (outstanding stuff).
• 1GB of space (you just can not go wrong there).

Yes I am enjoying my Gmail tremendously, it is going to be very exciting when it goes public.

I never thought I would see the day when the MSN bot overtook the Google bot in spidering my site, but now it has.

(*sigh*) Oh sweet sweet google bot where for art though.

P.S. Keep an eye on the Chanel Cole Forum for some more goodies that should be up by early this arvo

However there are certain developers around the world that take that step further and share their work with everyone else. Most people who know me know I am pretty big on open source and gnu linux (I can see Gary shaking his head in disgust).

Although my current line of work involves VB.NET programming there are still people out there making some damn good open source/free controls that I find myself using every day.

I thought I would give them a heads up and a tip of the hat on a job well done.

NetSpell A free open source control that does spell checking within any .Net Application (I have no idea where I would be without this control especially when it comes to the ESP)

Tim Dawsons .Net Controls quite possibly one of the best set of controls I have used and it sure makes your apps look pretty

Today I came across a set of extensions called The Genghis Project, all I can say is wow what a great package. I spent about a week trying to achieve the same effect of most of these extensions and mine only half worked! You have to wonder why MS just doesn’t add these control features to windows forms.

Recently Aaron has been tinkering with Lucene for various reasons and I have to say this puppy is great. The more time I spend reading up on it and seeing it in action the more I want to get my hands dirty in it.

Anyways enough computer talk, Tivo is taping CSI for me and its time that I catch up on the 15 minutes I’ve just missed

As explained on vowe.net

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Thorsten Delbrouck describes in this SecurityTracker post how to bypass Microsoft Office security features:

1.) Open a protected document in MS Word
2.) Save as “Web Page (*.htm; *.html)”, close Word
3.) Open html-document in any Text-Editor
4.) Search “” tag, the line reads something like that: ABCDEF01
5.) keep the “password” in mind
6.) Open original document (.doc) with any hex-editor
7.) search for hex-values of the password (reverse order!)
8.) Overwrite all 4 double-bytes with 0×00, Save, Close
9.) Open document with MS Word, Select “Tools / Unprotect Document” (password is blank)
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tsk tsk (*shakes head*)

I can’t wait for series 2 Tivos to be tweaked to work in OZ (*drool*)