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Constructing instances of a descendant class in C#, Delphi and Java

Posted over 13 years ago

by chuacw
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Lutz Roeder originally wrote Digger in C# many years ago. In 2004, I ported it first to Delphi.NET , and then to Delphi for Win32 . In February 2009, I...
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Connecting Android to the Internet using the PC's Internet connection

Posted over 13 years ago

by chuacw
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Here's a diagram of what I'm talking about. Android -> USB -> PC/Server -> Internet. The PC/Server has an Internet connection and is running...
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Business Continuity Management

Posted over 13 years ago

by chuacw
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Notes and guidelines on Business Continuity Mnaagement Title Description MAS Business Continuity Management Guidelines Provide financial institutions with...
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Applying CodeBetter Captcha to Community Server 2007

Posted over 13 years ago

by chuacw
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This article is taken from here . I added this blog entry to my site because I've applied it to my own site so as to remove those pesky membership...
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Remounting Android rootfs

Posted over 13 years ago

by chuacw
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Making the rootfs and /system writeable mount -o rw,remount -t rootfs rootfs / mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system Making the rootfs...
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Singapore Laws & Information Security Governance

Posted over 13 years ago

by chuacw
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Notes on growing a VMware partition

Posted over 13 years ago

by chuacw
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Working on compiling my own Android OS image, I had to resize the virtual partition as it had run out of space. These are the steps I took in order to...
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Android 2.2.2 System Update available!

Posted over 13 years ago

by chuacw

I just got my Android 2.2.2 System Update notification and updated my Nexus One to Android 2.2.2 today! Here's how the update process looked like in...
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QualysGuard scanning

Posted over 13 years ago

by chuacw
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While checking out if my system had any vulnerabilities, I used Qualys' Free Scan, which utilizes their QualysGuard tool to scan my system. Here's...
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Tunnelling RealVNC over a firewall with OpenSSH

Posted over 14 years ago

by chuacw
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Occasionally, I will use RealVNC to connect to my machine back home. And then, something strange started happening. I wasn't able to connect to my...
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Hacking MDI windows in Delphi

Posted over 14 years ago

by chuacw
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Recently, a question was posted on stackoverflow on how to embed an external window (created from an ActiveX DLL) into a MDI application created in Delphi...
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Hacking Work #2 - Invalid email addresses and detecting them

Posted over 14 years ago

by chuacw
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Long long ago... nearly a lifetime away... The department was in the process of sending out marketing updates (using an email address that is actually...
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Hacking Work #1

Posted over 14 years ago

by chuacw
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Earlier on today, while @ Borders, I was browsing books and I came upon a book titled Hacking Work Breaking Stupid Rules for Smart Results . Intrigued...
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Changing colours on Nexus One trackball

Posted over 14 years ago

by chuacw
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Turning on the trackball cd /sys/class/leds/jogball-backlight echo 7 > brightness echo 5 > period echo 255 0 255 > color Turning off the trackball...
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Network Information Centers

Posted over 14 years ago

by chuacw
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When I started learning about the Internet, I found out that there are Network Information Centers (NIC) for the various geographical regions. At that...
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Is the code running on the Android emulator?

Posted over 14 years ago

by chuacw
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" How can I detect the Android emulator? " is a question a lot of people have asked. The authoritative way is as below. On the Android emulator...
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Running code while showing a progress dialog

Posted over 14 years ago

by chuacw
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The following code demonstrates how to show a progress dialog while starting up an Android activity. The progress dialog is shown near the end of the creation...
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Replacing the SLF4J Logging Framework

Posted over 14 years ago

by chuacw
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For an existing Java project that is using the Simple Logging Facade for Java (SLF4J), replacing the logging framework is as simple as changing the project...
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Lack of security from within: Java insecurity

Posted over 14 years ago

by chuacw
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Microsoft's Raymond posted this little story about the security of their Benefits application back when Microsoft's email address had exclamation...
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Mounting Windows share on Linux

Posted over 14 years ago

by chuacw
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Here’s how I mount my Windows share on my RHEL machine, without installing Windows Services for Unix… ;) mkdir /home/chuacw/mountpoint mount –t cifs \...
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Android System Update available!

Posted over 14 years ago

by chuacw
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Look what showed up on my Nexus One when I do the #*#*2432546*#*# sequence this morning! The Android 2.2.1 aka FRG83D update! In order to speed up contacting...
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A nice regex for URLs...

Posted over 14 years ago

by chuacw
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Here's a nice regular expression to use for capturing URLs: ((https?|ftp|gopher|telnet|file|notes|ms-help):((//)|(\\\\))+[\w\d:#@%/;$()~_?\+-=\\\.&...
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How I earned a thousand dollars an hour...

Posted over 14 years ago

by chuacw
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In order to become more complete, one of the skills I have started working on is public speech. The following is the text of the prepared speech for my...
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VEP redux

Posted over 14 years ago

by chuacw
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8 years ago, I worked on the Vehicle Entry Permit System (VEPS) as the lead engineer. After the project was completed, I left the project. Today, a friend...
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Ramblings on various learning projects

Posted over 14 years ago

by chuacw
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Between 1998 and 1999, in anticipation of participating in project Kylix, I started learning Linux. My first Linux was SUSE 6.1, rapidly followed by Mandrake...