Archive for August, 2008

PC fully loaded with crap saved by PC Decrapifier!

This weekend I had to restore my home office desktop to the factory original image since I lost my most recent recovery disks. I forgot how much crap software they load on new machines. I was already depressed that I couldn’t find my XP Professional media. Going back to XP Home was hard enough. But [...]

Aria2 - wget and curl replacement

I have a few homegrown scripts I use at work that use wget and curl.  I was looking for something a little simpler and faster.  Enter Aria2 which is a command-line program that can grab HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, Metalink, and BitTorrent files.  It should be in most package manager archives but here is a link [...]

All web browser’s suck

I have spent the last few days working on my new blog Nicholson Security.  I found a nice WP theme and started modifying it to meet my needs.  Most of the changes were made to the theme Style.css which is where my journey through hell begins.
I really find the lack of standards support, in various [...]