Category Archives: IT

Safari 4 Top Sites messes with your Google Analytics

I noticed some strange results in my google analytics account recently, getting a very high bounce rate from visits, and since this is a very small blog about very geeky stuff, a fairly high increase in traffic. After some tweaking around in analytics it turned out that most of the new bouncing traffic came from [...]
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Hiding the Tab-bar in Thunderbird 3

In the new Thunderbird 3, Mozilla included tabbed browsing.  Since you usually don’t have tabs open all the time, it would be nice to be able to hide the tab-bar when no tabs are open.  There is a hidden option to accomplish this.  Thanks to Truben for pointing this out! Read his article at http://truben.no/journal/auto-hide-tab-bar-in-mozilla-thunderbird-3/
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Installing Wireshark on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

After upgrading to Snow Leopard, one of the few things that stopped working for me was Wireshark, a really cool network analyzer I’m planning to write more about later. What happened was that at startup you get a long list of error messages, and then no network interfaces could be found. Luckily, Michael Gracie has [...]
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Learning web-security through penetration testing

At the ROOTS 2009 conference I attended a workshop with Martin Knobloch called “Application Security – Awareness.”  Martin works for OWASP, The Open Web Application Security Project, and they have created a lot of cool stuff.  On the workshop we got an introduction to WebScarab and WebGoat, and for learning how a lot of software [...]
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Spoofing your MAC-address in Snow Leopard

This might not be the most useful hack, but in some scenarios it might be good to know.  And it does show those who believe that blacklisting MAC-addresses on their access point is a good security feature that they are mistaken. For example the system they used at the college I lived in at the [...]
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Switched to WordPress

Well, after using Joomla! for my blog since March, I got tired of it. Joomla is great for building large websites, but it was way too complicated for a simple blog like this.   Also, it’s kind of strange that a open source project got next to no documentation.  I had some problems migrating the [...]
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The Diaper Pattern

At the final presentation of our XP-driven webshop project we ended up in a discussion about whether to catch runtime exceptions at the top-level or not. After having attended a talk by Kåre Nilsen at ROOTS 2009, called “Enterprise app without enterprise crap”, we took the stand that we did not want to catch the [...]
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Spring Tutorial for Beginners

Here’s a link to a nice Spring tutorial, to get into Spring basics http://www.roseindia.net/spring/index.shtml
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