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

Skype: And the crappy browser addon»
I generally hate to update things which work just fine. There is usually very little reason to: the application is in use because the stability and feature set of the current version are good. Now I have used Skype for years (probably only using 20% of the available feature set) and I always loathed upgrading because it'll try and install a bunch of stuff I don't need. Which is bad, but ...