Of the many programs I’ve taken the time to probe and dissect, none has instilled me with such a love-hate sensation as iTunes. My favoured media player by some distance, it is beautiful, easy to use, cleanly written, reliable, and all the rest. But with the iTunes (Music) Store came iDRM, as DVD Jon famously [...]
DLL Hell, SxS libraries, manifest files, ‘The application configuration is incorrect’. Oh my! It seems that every C++ blogger and his dog is talking about the side-by-side hell that Microsoft have cooked up, but after having a hard enough time finding answers myself, I figured that it’s best to be part of the solution. If [...]
There’s something uncomfortable about setting up a machine to be as insecure as possible, but that’s what I’ve been doing today. Not being the sort to have sacrificial computers lying around, I settled for a virtual machine. So after a quick and easy installation of the VMare Workstation trial, I got straight to setting up [...]
While universally troublesome and inherently evil, there’s something exciting, even sexy, about zombie networks. The idea that somewhere out there is a global army of dormant computers, their owners blissfully unaware, which could spring to life at the whim of a bedroom hacker and coordinate DDoS attacks to take down a country’s internet presence, distribute [...]