Archive for 'Hacking'

Finding Network MAC Addresses with Advanced IP Scanner 2.0

Tek-Works was asked awhile back to review Advanced IP Scanner 2.0, not wanting to just review something with out actually needing it, would be useless for our readers, so I put it off till today. Today at work, my task was to add a wireless router to our network and to make it as secure [...]

.NET Regular Expression in Code Behind

Most the time when we’re using regular expressions we’re doing it with in our aspx page checking against a text box or some other control. example When working with Query Strings you’ll need to compare the QueryString against a regular expression in the code behine, this is done by using the regex class from the [...]

SQL Case Sensitive Select Query

Today I ran into a problem where I needed to search for the term “PROfile” in my SQL database. the problem was, my queries kept also showing “profile” without the caps. From reading many sites, I guess that depending on how your SQL server was setup, you’ll either have case sensitive or insensitive searches. to [...]

Notepad++ Replace Something with Line Break

Quick how to.. To replace anything in Notepad++ with a Line break or Line Feed, the easiest way to do it is: In the lower left hand corner of the Replace box, you’ll see a section called “Search Mode”. Just select the “Extended (\n, \r, \t, \0, \x…)” choice and you can enter in \r [...]

WordPress & Eval(base64_decode

A good friend of mine sent me an email today asking me if a free theme he was looking into had a virus or some sort of spam code in it. The code he was referring to was a couple strings of code that started out with.. the code went on to show what seem to be [...]

links for 2010-05-13

The Ultimate Start to Finish Guide to Your XBMC Media Center – Xbmc – Lifehacker I’ve used the boxee install to get XBMC on my AppleTV but it’s now time to actually put this on a stand alone machine (maybe a dell mini) since we use it to watch movies and TV shows almost daily. [...]

Old School ASP

Taking a break from my .net. A company that we worked with decided to give up an old ASP site that we had been using on their domains, problem is that some of it wasn’t working correctly, so it was up to me to fix it. I’ve never messed with ASP before but it’s pretty [...]

Fixing TurboTax BootStrapper Setup Failed

Image via Wikipedia Update: See user comments below for the Turbo Tax 2010 fix Update #2: If you still need the .Net Clean up tool, the Link has moved to here. Last night some friends called and told me they were having problems installing Intuit’s TurboTax, every time they tried to install it Turbo Tax [...]

Thank you Google Maps

The above photo of my driveway was brought to you by Google Maps, who I guess likes to take street view images of your house on garbage pickup day.. But I guess this is also a good image to say it’s time to take all the trash out and restart blogging again on Tek-Works. As [...]

ADT Home Security Lives in the Late 90′s

My wife and I are due to have our first born in April and while getting the house all ready for the new born, I figured i’d look into home security systems. Because of great advertising ADT is probably the first place you think of when looking for a after your house is built security [...]