This is the outcome of my attempt of merging the Shift and Vernam ciphers as part of the Computer Security module of my B.Sc. Computer Science degree, third year. The task itself is designed to stimulate an interest in a wide range of security topics. One of the following tasks were… Continue reading
So it’s been a long time since my last blog post. Partly because in between that last post and this post were a bunch of university-related posts that I have since unpublished (they were simply created as part of the course requirements O.o) and partly because life took over! i.e. I… Continue reading
So I decided to upgrade my graphics drivers and something went terribly wrong. Everything disappeared and the screen showed nothing but the cursor only if you moved the mouse. At first I thought “it’s cool, this shit happens when you update the ol’ gfx drivers…” Because it does. The only… Continue reading
The English Wikipedia was started in 2001 with the purpose of serving as a free content, web based encyclopedia that is accessible to all who have access to the internet. It primarily serves as a reference to almost anything one can think of. For example, if you happened to be unfamiliar… Continue reading
Over the last several years, combating piracy has been at the forefront of government objectives, at least in the USA and the UK. Speaking as a citizen of the UK, the effects can’t really be felt unless you intend to break the law (steal some movies over the internet or… Continue reading
So after trying to make a simpler method of executing some Java code that depends on MySQL JDBC drivers via CLI I came up with this solution. It basically involves 3 stages: Extract contents of MySQL JDBC connector (mysql-connector-java-5.1.28-bin.jar in this example) Create a manifest file and compile your Java files Package… Continue reading
We’ve entered a new ere of social networking. Once upon a time you may have met your friends down the pub to discuss a spot of relativity theory and the non-existence of colours. Gone are the days of leaving your home! With the emergence of services such as Facebook,… Continue reading
Okay, ignore the stars… this is a classic ‘dodgy but works’ get the job done kind of scenario where I had to modify a program last year to compare words from file X to words in file Y on a character by character basis to verify spelling – a crude… Continue reading
So, right now I’m meant to be in a social computing workshop but slept through my alarm thanks to the good ol’ codeine I took as a midnight snack to reduce ze tooth ache. I could go in for the next 90 minutes or so but I’m pretty sure that… Continue reading
So, I had today off (saaaame as every Tuesday!) What better way to spend it than doing 10 weeks worth of lab tasks for Databases, Networks and the web. That’s that out the way. Despite the fact that it was a whole term’s worth of exercises, they were quite simple… Continue reading
