Posts by: Chris

Adventures in Android – Part 1 – Rooting the Motorola Droid

By On October 13, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Android, General

Some of the functions I wanted to use my Motorola Droid for don’t have apps available unless you have root access.  So, I looked into rooting the phone.  This is a relatively easy process.  I watched a few videos and read a few tutorials before I rooted my Droid. The Cyanogenmod [...]

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Motorola Droid on Page Plus

By On September 25, 2011 · 8 Comments · In Android, General

It was time for me to upgrade from the Samsung Saga. It’s been nice, but the old Windows Mobile is lacking in features that the modern phones have. I’ve wanted a Droid ever since they’ve come out, but the original price was about $500 or $200 with a 2 year contract with Verizon (and then [...]

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Home Arcade Machine – Powered by XBMC4XBOX

By On July 13, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Gaming, General, Media Center, XBMC

Over the years, I have used my XBox for gaming and media center needs.  I recently sold many of my older gaming consoles because they were sitting on the shelf collecting dust.  Despite the other systems meeting the end of their shelf life in my house, my XBox was still being used.  However, it’s no [...]

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Installing a new Hard Drive in an XBox

By On June 20, 2011 · 1 Comment · In Gaming, General, Media Center, XBMC

A while back, I wrote a short post linking to a wiki article about “How to Go from Xbox to Xbox Media Center in 30 Minutes”.  That [...]

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vTiger Customizations – Part 5 – Implementing User Account Lockout in vTiger CRM

By On March 17, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In CRM, Development, General, Information Security, vtiger CRM

This is a continuation of a Part 4 – Implementing User Account Lockout in the Customer Portal, regarding implementing account lockout in the Customer Portal.  Now, I’ll go through how to do this in the vTiger CRM application.

PLEASE [...]

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vTiger Customizations – Part 4 – Implementing User Account Lockout in the Customer Portal

By On February 16, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In CRM, Development, General, Information Security, vtiger CRM

I submitted the updates to the Trac site for vTiger as diff updates to the vtigercrm 5.2.1 code, which might be easier to use to update the code.

The current version of the vTiger Customer Portal (5.2.0) is susceptible to a brute force attack in that it doesn’t enforce strong passwords of Customer [...]

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Implementing uPnP on multiple segments via MiniUPnPd

By On December 14, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In DD-WRT, General, Information Security

In a previous post, I outlined how to segment each port of an ASUS RT-N16. Now, I’ll go over the details of implementing uPnP on one or more segments.

First off, autobot on the DD-WRT forums posted the code and binary for MiniUPnPd (link).  The script and binary provided are great.  [...]

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Segmenting your network on an ASUS RT-N16 using DD-WRT

By On November 5, 2010 · 5 Comments · In DD-WRT, General, Information Security, Wireless Security

DD-WRT is really amazing in all that it can do.  I have grown much more fond of it overtime.  Recently, I decided that I wanted to completely segment my home network.  I wanted to have multiple networks (some trusted, others completely untrusted) that could be configured through a single device.  At first, one [...]

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vTiger Customizations – Part 3 – Enforcing strong passwords in the Customer Portal

By On October 14, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In CRM, Development, General, Information Security, vtiger CRM

This is a continuation from Part 2 – Enforcing strong passwords in vTiger.

I submitted the updates to the Trac site for vTiger as diff updates to the 5.2.0 code, which might be easier to use to update the code.

Implementing the enforcement of strong passwords in the vTiger Customer Portal [...]

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vTiger Customizations – Part 2 – Enforcing strong passwords

By On October 1, 2010 · 6 Comments · In CRM, Development, General, Information Security, vtiger CRM

UPDATE 10/5/2010: I submitted the updates to the Trac site for vTiger as diff updates to the 5.2.0 RC code, which might be easier to use to update the code.

One of the things that really bothers me is that there are no built-in password restrictions for users in vTiger. That means if [...]

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