Scriptable SSH from PowerShell
Just in the last week, I’ve seen at least four people asking about SSH from PowerShell, and at least three of those specifically were looking for something they could script. That is, they needed a way to make an SSH connection, and then run commands on the remote PC and do switches in their script [...]
Google: Comprehensive consumer surveillance and entrenched hostility to privacy
So, Privacy International has made official and extremely public what I’ve been muttering about for years: Google doesn’t care about your privacy. A recent study they published rated Google as the worst internet service. In fact, in light of the results, they actually called the study
Microsoft Internet Explorer “Developer Toolbar” release 1.0
The Developer Toolbar finally got out of beta … you can download it here … and really, you should, if you ever write web apps that have to be debugged on IE — personally I do most of my development work on Firefox, using Firebug and the Firefox Web Developer Toolbar but when I cross-test [...]
Silverlight Streaming, Silverlight CLR, Data Services, Ozzie, and IE 8
Microsoft made several big announcements today at MIX07… CLR in Silverlight The most exciting announcement I’ve today is that Silverlight will include the Common Language Runtime (CLR) on both Windows and Mac … which means that it will allow development using any .NET-supported languages. They’re even including the open source Dynamic Language Runtime and thus [...]
wget for PowerShell
Update: You should look at this other WGet for PowerShell script if what you want is to just download a file and have it work… I’m probably the last person on the planet to figure out how easy it is to get a basic wget working in PowerShell … but just in case I’m not [...]
Blogging Press Releases and Apologies
One of my myriad email newsletters had a link this week to this Techworld article, entitled: Microsoft admits OneCare flaws … which is basically an article about a couple of blog posts by the AntiMalware Team and the OneCare Team Corporate communications on spaces.live.com? Really? My company has the whole domain blocked off as being [...]
Firefox Extensions – Web Search Pro
You’ve really got to check out Web Search Pro, a Firefox extension that actually adds a few hot features to Firefox searching. A new and inovative way to search the web: Drag & DropZones, just drag text on any website, and drop it in one of your 16 fully customizable DropZones, and your search will [...]
Wikia says: Forget Free … we’ll PAY you
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales announced that his for-profit company, Wikia Inc., is ready to give away not just MediaWiki (the software which runs Wikipedia) but also the hosting you need to run it. And even further, if you run what they consider to be a popular website, you can even have the advertising revenue from [...]
The Google News Roundup
Lately it seems like Google is spending most of their time, energy, and money on making sure you spend as much time as possible on their website … with enhancements to Google’s RSS Reader and calendars (check out the new built-in weather forecasts) their new shopping checkout service (oh, and don’t miss the $10 off [...]
Goodbye Network Neutrality (at least in Norway)
In June 2006 NextGenTel, one of the biggest broadband providers in Norway decided to deliberately limit the bandwidth from the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK). Meaning that customers of NextGenTel in Norway will experience a lower quality of service on content from the NRK compared to content from the providers that want to pay NextGenTel for [...]