I’ve been using the ‘Web Developer Toolbar & Menu for Opera’ for about the last month and after being reminded today about how useful it is, I thought I should probably mention it for those that haven’t heard about it.
This is an extremely useful set of toolbar modification to Opera to have a few very nice touches to it. For most of these tasks, there is a Firefox extension available, Web Developer, which does the job quite nicely. Though switching back & forth just to check something small can be quite a pain (as Opera is my primary browser), so thanks to this little gem, it save me that much more time.
As they say, time is money, so every bit saved is a good thing.
Over the years I’ve used most of the major note taking tools around, I’ve been a paying customer of Evernote for over a decade, I’ve used Standard Notes, Good Notes, pen & paper, and a bunch of others I can’t recall now. They were never quite right for my needs — some were close, but none were what I was after. One of the major challenges was that I didn’t know what I needed, and it’s hard to find something when you don’t know what you’re looking for.
I installed Vista last night twice; the first was an upgrade from XP Pro on my laptop, the other a fresh install on my desktop. The experience was quite interesting for both; here are a few thoughts about the process:
Laptop My laptop has a fairly modest configuration, 1.73GHz Pentium M, 512MB, 80GB hard-drive, and Mobil Intel 915 64MB for the graphics. It’s been running Windows XP Pro, last night I went through the upgrade process to Vista Business.
When I buy something, I expect support. When I buy something expensive, I expect really good support. That may be asking too much, but that’s just how I think. Now, when I contact the vendor for support, I expect to talk to somebody that understands the product. When I bring up an issue that gets me on a conference call with a Vice President and a Project Manager, I expect them to give me accurate data.
A Full Vindication of the Measures of Security Practitioners, from the Calumnies of their Enemies; In Answer to A Letter, Under the Signature of A. Gwinn. Whereby His Sophistry is exposed, his Cavils confuted, his Artifices detected, and his Wit ridiculed; in a General Address To the public, And A Particular Address To the dedicated members of the security community. Veritas magna est & prœvalebit.
Friends and Colleagues,
It was hardly to be expected that any man could be so presumptuous as to openly controvert the equity, wisdom, and authority of the measures, adopted by the practitioners of information security: a group truly dedicated to the protection of business and individuals around the world!
It has now been over a year since the last major release of YAWAST, but today I am happy to release version 0.7, which is one of the largest changes to date. This is the result of substantial effort to ensure that YAWAST continues to be useful in the future, and add as much value as possible to those performing security testing of web applications.
If you are using the Gem version, simply run gem update yawast to get the latest version.
