http://www.darrenwatt.com/blog Looks rubbish in IE6, I don't care. Upgrade. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:02:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Much has been made on Tech news sites about the cracking of WPA, which was thought to be fully secure. My recommendation to understand the actual facts on this is to have a listen to Security Now podcast in which Steve Gibson explains in patronising but accessable words, which is useful. Revealing ... http://www.darrenwatt.com/blog/2008/11/19/wpa-cracked-not-really/ One of the things I get involved with at work is sorting auto-deployment of wireless profiles via Group Policy. In the past this has been great for configuring WPA/TKIP wireless profiles which are fine for most situations. However, most implementations of 802.11n require either no encryption or WPA2 before the ... http://www.darrenwatt.com/blog/2008/10/15/applying-wpa2-via-group-policy-in-windows-server-2003/ In an attempt to drum up a bit more interest in my old but still perfectly good laptop. It's for sale on Ebay here and is currently going for a pitiful £0.99 to my mate, which is annoying. Please can someone else outbid him. It's actually a great laptop dammit. ... http://www.darrenwatt.com/blog/2008/09/24/sale-novatech-laptop/ So they say. Just the other day I read an article on how difficult it is to claw back investment into making games because everyone's gone piracy crazy (mainly China possibly). Found that EA have re-released Red Alert 1 for free! - Great plan but rubbish for income. Red Alert 3 trailer ... http://www.darrenwatt.com/blog/2008/09/01/games-are-expensive-to-make/ This is why you need to sign up for every service twice, once with your actual name and once with another pseudonym that doesn't affect family / career prospects... some imposter has nicked darrenwatt on bebo. [caption id="attachment_96" align="alignright" width="240" caption="Sigh"][/caption] As you can see, this one's not quite as good looking ... http://www.darrenwatt.com/blog/2008/08/30/imposter/ Right, I've been so busy with work I don't know what I'm supposed to be doing, let alone having time to blog stuff. The only thing worth blogging this week is that I found a screensaver for windows called Slickr, which you can use to show your flickr collection on ... http://www.darrenwatt.com/blog/2008/08/30/ok-old-app/ Ah the like old days. [caption id="attachment_90" align="alignnone" width="317" caption="steam"][/caption] http://www.darrenwatt.com/blog/2008/08/21/steam/ Dammit, you find something useful and then it stops being quite so useful - Which bit? Twitter, used to let you receive updates from people you were following by SMS text, which was handy when you worked out how to stop them and only get specific updates from people you ... http://www.darrenwatt.com/blog/2008/08/19/twitter-getting-more-rubbish/ Now, today I'm having a very slow day. So slow in fact that I've been looking at Google Lively, which looks like it has no actual use apart from passing the time. I was invited into it yesterday by James (killing time) and we successfully killed quite a lot ... http://www.darrenwatt.com/blog/2008/08/10/google-lively/ [caption id="attachment_75" width="485" caption="Could be right - Better than facts"][/caption] As someone that works daily with WiFi, and with no adverse effects I find this shocking. But there you go, horses for courses. Doesn't work for everyone despite scientific testing. Original Article Update Just read a few comments, some of which are also ... http://www.darrenwatt.com/blog/2008/07/30/wifi-danger/