Gl.ib.ly

(glibly); Just another techie blog.

One linersSecurity

The command prompt has been disabled by your administrator? I came across an old enough post on Didier's blog about Group policies that have disabled cmd.exe from running. Didier mentions a few ways to get cmd.exe to run. The suggestion I like the most is to find the DisableCMD string in cmd.exe and change it to DisableAMD using a hex editor. Thankfully there is a tool which will allow us to patch cmd.exe in one tiny line. Continue reading "The command prompt has been disabled by your administrator?"

Forensics

Ann skips bail. Cue forensics puzzle.»
Found a website and a forensics contest yesterday quite by accident. I was waiting for somebody before going out for the night and I thought this might be a little fun while I waited. Now the contest had closed and the results where available, which I ignored until the end and went straight to Puzzle #2: Ann skips bail . The puzzle revolves around a packet capture of Ann's network taken ...

Moodle

All configuration variables in Moodle code - Part two?»
Earlier we looked at how you can extract a list of all the $CFG variables in your Moodle code. Now that's not of much use! We need to know where in the code all these variables hide. I feel some spooky awk a coming on.

Rants

Grooveshark and Flash memory consumption»
I am not sure what to say in this post without saying too much. Let me start with WTF is the point of flash? If you know a good reason please tell me because I can't think of a single reason why I would ever use Flash over another solution. Let's take the example that instigated this post. Grooveshark, a somewhat nice service. Do a search, get an inferior quality track, play it, save it on a ...