Evoscan and the Pajero? No way!

I would have preferred this to be a review of the Evoscan software but sadly it’s only a warning to Pajero owners who may be considering that software.

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On Car Disc Rotor Machining

My daily car recently developed a front end shake under light braking. It was pretty slight initially be gradually got worse, to the point where sometimes I’d have to either back off the brakes or apply them harder to try and ease the shaking. Apparently this is a fairly common problem, although I’ve never personally experienced it before. Continue reading

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Security Through Obscurity?

A frequent topic of conversation amongst IT people and system administrators in particular is security through obscurity. Most experienced system administrators will tell you that there is no real security to be gained through obscurity. Is this true or have they failed to properly consider the whole story?

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How We Use OziExplorer

The single most popular page on this site is the one with OziExplorer utilities, so clearly a fair number of visitors to this site have an interest in OziExplorer. Here I’ll talk about how Nicole and I use this particularly brilliant piece of software. I’ll start by describing the computer that runs the software in our Pajero.

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More Advanced Form Input Validation

For a web application I’m currently working on I’ve had to implement some input validation and thought others may find it of use. Although I have yet to add more, admittedly rather specific, validation it will be little more than enhancements of or additions to what I have so far, so here is what I have to date. All this code is in a file I call “functions.js”, which is loaded at the end of the HTML page. As mentioned in the previous post on this topic, I use jQuery in this application.

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