Monthly Archives: March 2008

Console Replacement for Windows

Posted on March 24, 2008 by Jeff Fitzsimons

The Windows Console is an abomination. In this modern word of mice, cut and paste, and fast video output, it’s slow, painful to use, and ugly. As it turns out, there’s an Open Source project called, appropriately enough, Console. This … Continue reading →

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Windows Vista UAC Goofiness

Posted on March 18, 2008 by Jeff Fitzsimons

Windows Vista UAC is not always a predictable beast. Today I found out that if an executable doesn’t set level=”asInvoker” in its manifest, UAC confirmation will kick in if any of the following substrings appear in the filename: setup install … Continue reading →

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Hacking the Buffalo TeraStation Live

Posted on March 17, 2008 by Jeff Fitzsimons

The Buffalo TeraStation Live is a NAS device which uses an embedded, ARM-based computer running a variant of Linux. Originally, I wanted to enable NFS, though later I stuck with CIFS/Samba. However, enabling SSH access proved invaluable for performing backups … Continue reading →

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XML + XSLT Won’t Render in Firefox

Posted on March 11, 2008 by Jeff Fitzsimons

In an attempt to create some easily customizable Kanji flashcards, I put all the class handouts into an XML file and wrote an XSLT file to transform it into HTML. Internet Explorer was able to render the resultant HTML table, … Continue reading →

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