Author Archives: pitz

ASP.NET Session and Forms Authentication

Posted on June 30, 2011 by pitz

The title can be misleading, because in concept, one is not related to the other.  However, a lot of web applications mix them up, causing bugs that are hard to troubleshoot, and, at worst, causing security vulnerabilities. A little bit … Continue reading →

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Yet Another Take on the Padding Oracle Exploit Against ASP.NET

Posted on October 13, 2010 by pitz

Or an example Padding Oracle attack in 100 lines of C# code. This post has been in my outbox for weeks, since I did not want to make it generally available before the patches were released.  Now that the patches … Continue reading →

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Creating an OPENSTEP Boot CD

Posted on September 18, 2010 by pitz

How OPENSTEP 4.2 boots in m68k hardware. A NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP CD cannot be made to boot in both sparc and m68k hardware.  With NEXTSTEP 3.3, there was one installation CD for m68k/i386 and another installation CD for sparc/hppa.  For sparc, the … Continue reading →

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Debian on a Seagate DockStar

Posted on September 17, 2010 by pitz

I bought a Seagate DockStar a couple of months ago.  What attracted me to this device was its size, its low price (compared to other Plug Computers), and support for a standard Linux Debian distribution.  I would have wanted something … Continue reading →

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The Shrinking Digital Camera Packaging

Posted on September 7, 2010 by pitz

Have you noticed how consumer packaging for certain electronics have shrunk over the years?  I’m amazed with how that’s happened with digital cameras.  My oldest digital camera was an Apple QuickTake 100 which was one of the earliest consumer digital … Continue reading →

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Kubuntu Lucid Lynx in VirtualBox on Windows 7

Posted on September 5, 2010 by pitz

I’ve been using VirtualBox as my virtualization platform of choice on Windows 7.  Several years back, I liked Virtual PC 2007, but ever since I wanted to try NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP on a virtual platform, I switched over to VirtualBox (Virtual PC … Continue reading →

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Apple IIgs GS/OS Boot Disks

Posted on July 15, 2010 by pitz

A few weeks ago, I had to access a ProDOS-formatted hard disk within GS/OS.  Since the CFFA where I regularly boot from was temporarily unavailable, I had to boot from the 3.5” drive.  I have several System 6.0.1 boot disks … Continue reading →

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Demystifying the Bandai Pippin Developer Dongle

Posted on April 29, 2010 by pitz

I’ve had my Bandai Pippin @World for years.  The Pippins were game consoles manufactured by Bandai based on the PowerPC Macintosh.  It runs a special version of Mac OS 7.x.  Pippin CDs can actually be played on PowerPC-based Macs (I’ve … Continue reading →

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Kodak W820 Digital Picture Frame

Posted on April 3, 2010 by pitz

It’s April already, and I’ve so been itching to write about one of the toys we’ve bought over the holiday season (yes, three months ago).  The Kodak W820 is an 8-inch digital picture frame.  I wasn’t a fan of digital … Continue reading →

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My Quadra 650, A/UX, and Rocket Stage II

Posted on March 3, 2010 by pitz

One of my main vintage desktop machines has been a Mac LC 475.  I have it running Mac OS 7.6.1, and aside from being my main Classic box, it’s SuperDrive was previously the only practical way I was able to … Continue reading →

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