iMatt :: The Blog of Matt Clare

Remember when I said I had two new web sites to create, one was still born: paypalimony.com. More info to come, but I wanted to make this space available for comments.

Sorry my site was down today. I reauthorized comments the blog on Thursday after installing Hascash. Friday afternoon I was alerted that I had excessive growth in my error log. I attempted to correct the PHP Warning: ob_start(): output handler ‘ob_gzhandler’ cannot be used after ‘URL-Rewriter’ warning over the weekend but apparently did not completely… Continue Reading Downtime

Steve Gibson, of Gibson Research (GRC) which brought us Sheilds Up and Spin Right, has created a password generator for WEP and WPA Keys. It’s tough to compete with a big name in security, but passnerd.com does offer passwords created on the user’s end for stronger randomization. GRC offers SSL to get around this, but… Continue Reading Passnerd.com Competition – Already!

PassNerd.com is a web page that will generate a random password that is unique to you. It’s a quick way to get a password that you know is random (as opposed to mouse34, desk12 and appl33) and it can’t be intercepted by hackers while in transit. Other features of the site are a virtual password… Continue Reading Announcing PassNerd.com

I recently helped my brother get “his computer” up and running on someone else’s. Let me explain, his Hard Drive died (an unfortunate habit of 12′ Apple portables) but he did have a backup and even had a few moments to copy his most recent files as the machine died. Since he had access to… Continue Reading Mounting your old drive on a diffrent Mac