http://www.curioso.org Curiosity killed the cat Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:39:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en PictPress Thumbs is a WordPress plugin for dynamically resizing images, maintaining a cache of resized images separate from the images themselves. It is part of the new PictPress implementation. PictPress Thumbs offers the following functionality: An options pages where: names for standard image sizes can be defined. Each size is either a ... http://www.curioso.org/2008/01/03/pictpress-thumbs/ I am working on a complete rewrite of my PictPress plugin for WordPress. PictPress is intended for a way of working where you upload images to your website outside the WordPress admin user interface, e.g. via ftp, shared directories, etc. PictPress offers an easy way of including these images in ... http://www.curioso.org/2008/01/03/pictpress-progress-report/ Quick Look is new functionality added in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopoard. It is activated by pressing the space bar in Finder. Folder.qlgenerator, quick look inside folders Archive.qlgenerator, quick look into zip, tar, rar archives. Source code syntax highlight The qlgenerator files should be installed in the /Library/QuickLook folder. Finder should be relaunched after ... http://www.curioso.org/2007/12/16/quick-look-plugins/ This book provides a detailed and comprehensive overview of applied cryptography. Designed for reference and browsing, the authors still intend that a front-to-back read have some merit. Chapters can be freely downloaded. Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. van Oorschot and Scott A. Vanstone Handbook of Applied Cryptography CRC Press; ... http://www.curioso.org/2007/12/16/handbook-of-applied-cryptography/ It just came to my attention that PictPress 0.91 has a vulnerability for website attacks caused by an unvalidated argument to the resize.php script. As far as I know this vulnerability has been fixed from version 0.99 upwards. All users of the older version should upgrade or remove the plugin ... http://www.curioso.org/2007/12/07/pictpress-091-vulnerability/ I did an upgrade yesterday, and this did not go smoothly, Leopard bit me hard: After the upgrade, the login screen showed all my users, but it refused my password. This issue is described on Apple Support: Unable to log in to account after an upgrade install. Repairing it requires booting ... http://www.curioso.org/2007/10/28/experience-with-upgrade-to-mac-os-105-leopard/ VNC server for Mac: Enable built-in Apple VNC server Vine VNC server VNC client for Mac: Chicken of the VNC JollysFastVNC http://www.curioso.org/2007/09/05/vnc/ After upgrading to an Intel iMac, my HP Deskjet 840C started to produce garbled output. Fonts were too large and clipped at the bottom. Apparently the HP Deskjet 3.3 driver is broken on Intel computers. Solution is to download and install the HP Deskjet 2.7.1 driver. This is a PPC ... http://www.curioso.org/2007/09/04/mac-intel-driver-for-hp-deskjet-840c/ New and old iMac side by side.   SONY DSC-H9 10/60 f/2.8 2900×1992 pixels 1335 kB   http://www.curioso.org/2007/08/31/imac-24-inch/ Development tools for Mac: Subversion plugin for Finder http://www.curioso.org/2007/08/30/development-tools/