Recently, I received about ten emails from my NAS within a few days, warning me that multiple IPs were being blocked due to multiple failed SSH login attempts per IP. Concerned about security I decided to look into how to harden my setup. And so I went to see if I could use SSH public…
Continue ReadingA few months ago I got a message on LinkedIn to “prove” I got IT in my DNA and win a Windows phone 7. These where the prices: The first week I tried each day a few times, I think I got on place 4. And after that I only played a few times, I…
Continue ReadingI ran a local virtual Ubuntu server for a while, but as I formatted my PC I thought it was time to do it on another way, yet today I switched back to a virtual Ubuntu server, to continue PHP-web-development. As some functions are not working 100% the same on Linux and windows, I really…
Continue ReadingA colleague noticed that changing a combobox wasn’t showing the changes in the text fields below. When testing, I saw it WAS working. But with the click-once application not. After some time I noticed running the release without visual studio, it didn’t work. Although it worked when running with visual studio. Also the debug version…
Continue ReadingConverting phpBB2CH aka Ptifo to phpBB3 On my installed board (still partially found on azure.m2tec.be/forum) I installed phpBB2CH (Categories Hierarchy) also known as Ptifo. Basically it adds sub-forums, forum links, advanced permissions, board announcements and many more features. It broke support with most (or better said with almost all) mods for phpBB2. But had or has a…
Continue ReadingI needed to make a program in java which logins with the vBulletin login system. As you may know, many php boards use MD5 for hashing passwords. vBulletin uses a “more advanced way” of hashing, just like phpBB3. phpBB2 used just old plain MD5 hashes. So I needed to find out how I could use MD5 in…
Continue ReadingAfter a laptop hard drive failed, I recovered my school work, set up Redmine and Subversion, and started this blog to share programming fixes, software setup notes, and a little personal news…
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