Author Archives: Jeff Fitzsimons
Color Test
I just took a fun test to determine how good I am at discriminating colors. Lower values are better. My results: Your score: 8 Gender: Male Age range: 30-39 Best score for your gender and age range: 0 Highest score … Continue reading
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Stripping an Authenticode Signature
We needed to modify the resources of an installer and then apply an Authenticode signature. Unfortunately, it already had a signature on it, and modifying the resources of an executable with a signature results in a corrupted signature. The Microsoft … Continue reading
Posted in Authenticode, Technology
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Using Certificates and Signtool
Obtain a Software Publisher Certificate Your Certificate Authority will supply one of the following: a Personal Information Exchange (.pfx) file a Software Publisher Certificate (.spc), and a Private Key (.pvk) file a CER-encoded X.509 Certificate (.cer), and a Private Key … Continue reading
Posted in Cryptography, Technology
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PE Format
While investigating Authenticode, I become curious about the Portable Executable format. This is the file format used by all Windows executables. Here is a good overview in the context of .Net. And here is the referenced image which is missing … Continue reading
mssign32.dll
With CAPICOM deprecated, MSDN suggests using the mssign32.dll functions. There are two fundamental problems with this: No example code whatsoever is provided. No header file is provided. Well, at least I can do something about #2. Here is a minimal … Continue reading
Posted in Authenticode, Cryptography, Technology
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Make MSDN Website Load Faster
The MSDN website sucks. It loads extremely slowly, and is visually cluttered. It turns out that MSDN has a low-bandwidth (“loband”) option. This will cause MSDN to render using much simpler HTML, which loads much more quickly and has a … Continue reading
Photographer’s Rights
The Bert P. Krages website has a handy, downloadable PDF version of the “The Photographer’s Right”. If you object to the recent harassment of photographers in public places, I suggest that you download this, print it out, and carry it … Continue reading
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Craigslist Blocks Yahoo Pipes
Craigslist is one of the greatest sites in the world, and the entire Bay Area seems to revolve around it. Sadly, Craigslist’s search facility is extremely bad, seemingly only capable of searching within a price range and neighborhood. Craigslist supplies … Continue reading
Posted in Internet, Technology
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Bicycle Weights
I bought a super-handy digital hanging scale from DealExtreme ($10.84, by far the lowest price on the ‘net). The most useful weights to post that I can think of are those of my bicycles: Cannondale Synapse Carbon 2 60cm (2007) … Continue reading
Posted in Cycling
Tagged allez, allez elite, cannondale, dealextreme, digital hanging scale, hanging scale, raven, specialized, synapse
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The Thunders at Elbo Room
Ellie and I went to Elbo Room to see Crepe-Sensei Shinji’s band, The Thunders. Before them was Clouds and Cannons, which proved to be a great bonus for the night. As their 11:00 showtime approached, the hipster crowd dissipated and … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Music
Tagged band, Japanese, live music, Music, punk, rock, San Francisco, The Thunders
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