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VBS to Validate Signed Code

  • Friday, June 19th 2009

MSDN article The following sample VBScript code will verify a Signed file: Dim Signer, File, ShowUI, FileOK Set Signer = CreateObject(“Scripting.Signer”) File = “c:\newfile.wsf” ShowUI = True FileOK = Signer.VerifyFile(File, ShowUI) If FileOK Then WScript.Echo File & ” is trusted.” Else WScript.Echo File & ” is NOT trusted.” End If

Copy iPhone's iTunes Library to Windows

  • Saturday, April 25th 2009

Use Winamp Media Player and the ml_ipod plugin to copy music, video and audio books from an iPod or iPhone to a Windows computer. Use these two free programs to regain access to the music saved on an Apple multimedia device.  In short: copy your iPod/iPhone iTunes stuff to your hard drive! The processes and programs discussed in this article do NOT remove any Digital Rights Management (DRM) or copy protection from the media files.  This is simply for copying the files as is from the device to a computer hard drive. The protected and unprotected files are copied without modification.

An Old School Infocom Joke

  • Saturday, November 8th 2008

While recently looking on the web at the old Zork, and other Infocom games, I loved so much as a child I came across this old bit of humor. Hope you enjoy it as much as I do. THE CREATION Infocom interactive fiction – a very old story Copyright (c) 1985 by Infocom, Inc. All rights reserved. THE CREATION is a trademark of Infocom, Inc. Release 42 / Serial number 271828

Jobless in Seattle

  • Saturday, October 25th 2008

It’s been a few days since I was laid off from Zillow.com and I thought I jot down some of the things that have been going on. On Friday, October 17, I got the news that 40+ colleagues and I were being let go from Zillow in an effort to reduce company spending.  Our official final day of employment would be the next Tuesday, October 21, 2008. This really did not come as much of a shock to me, but others being laid off were very surprised and upset.  I feel that Zillow.com did a good job of handling the…

Zillow Release

  • Thursday, September 4th 2008

At Zillow we are trying to launch new code to our website 24 times a year, our approximately every other week.  By new code I’m not including bug fix code.  I’m talking about new features, services, views, reports, and such thing that really change the customers experience on our site.  This also includes major software back end services, that may not be plainly visible but, fundamentally and/or architecturally change the way we mung provide access to our vast amounts of data.  Bug fixes get rolled out each day for a couple of days following the Release. Today was a Release…

Some bash aliases

  • Tuesday, August 26th 2008

These are a few of the aliases I like to put into my shell environment. nano /etc/bashrc # some aliases alias la=’ls -lah –color=auto’ alias ll=’ls -lh –color=auto’ alias cd..=’cd ..’ alias nano=’nano -wz’ alias pss=’ps -e -o pid,user,group,comm,args’