Monday, 19 May 2008

World of Warcraft (WoW) on Mac OS X case sensitive filesystem

... through some cheating :-)

Prelude

Unix has a nice virtual file system, based on the / (root) and then a lot of branches from that. All of these directories and files can be named using CaSe-sensitive names! The world is great.

But unfortunately some software vendors don't know that this is possible, especially since they moved from bad old operating systems were files were named without regard to names and case for letters. Some software vendors move from older versions of Mac OS to Mac OS X, and other software vendors move from MS-DOS/Windows.

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Posted by hlk at CEST 19:05 19/05/2008 in Toolbox entries

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Wednesday, 14 May 2008

Livet som konsulent, rekrutteringshuse

Hvordan får man en direktør i tale?

Man sender hans medarbejder et oplæg til en aftale, der kan koste kroner ... jeg kalder den nok fremover PHK metoden

Forhistorien

Der er mange selvstændige IT-konsulenter i Danmark, indenfor mange områder og brancher. Der er konsulenter med speciale i mainframe over AS/400 til Unix systemer og selvfølgelig også Microsoft Windows konsulenter. Det var endda kun operativsystemer, der findes jo også diverse profiler p&ari More text

Posted by hlk at CEST 08:05 14/05/2008 in Freelance, work etc.

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Tuesday, 6 May 2008

CISSP seminar in Nigeria

Teaching in Nigeria?

Let me start by telling you what this blog post is really about.

It is about helping the IT-security people in Nigeria get some hard earned credit for doing what we all do - improve security.

I have been teaching two courses in Nigeria at Digital Jewels, a hacker workshop from April 14th until April 18th and CISSP review seminar from April 21st until April 25th 2008.