Roger Davies

Should the Web be worried that MD5 encryption is broken? The Web relies heavily on MD5 hash for passwords and encrypted SSL sockets for security, but are the days of this cipher numbered? Roger Davies explores the potential danger and the need to find an alternative solution for the people.

Today I visited the Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (MOSI) and paid my respects to the Small Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM) – the first computer ever constructed. Along with some neat photos, I explain some of the gritty issues facing programmers and give some example code of my own.

 
If like me you adored the game Portal and loved Half Life, then I the idea of using the Portal Gun in Half Life 2 must seem like a wet dream. Well, I got news for you … this is no dream! You can quite easily and quickly hack Half Life 2 to [...]

Search Engine Consultants FirstFound have been helping businesses maximise their websites potential and online presence since it was founded in 1999.  As one of the UK’s oldest and most well established SEO companies, has been a hit with clients, steadily expanding and recently hiring 22 new dedicated staff and opening a new branch in Ireland, [...]

Taking the plunge back into Linux after five years of abstinence came at some shock. CentOS 5 turned out to be a great operating system, BUT the installer failed to detect and add my Windows XP to the GRUB boot-loader!
In fact, I couldn’t seem to mount my Windows XP NTFS partitions through Centos 5 [...]

Your First Search is the brand new UK business directory that is drawing Internet users’ attention. Designed specifically to be user-friendly, each website in YFS is carefully selected and painstakingly categorised into hand-edited categories, allowing YFS to offer a refreshingly useful alternative to your bog-standard yell.com and thomsonlocal.com, seeking to combine the benefits of [...]

A Practical Example of Dynamic CSS
Continuing with the idea of dynamic CSS Stylesheets using PHP, I constructed a basic working example. See this page for details on how you might configure Apache to do this.
 
Once you have played with the settings, try viewing this page, which is not getting any information from this page (or [...]

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PHP in CSS Files – Dynamic CSS Using PHP Stylesheets
It all started when I needed to use PHP in a website that was originally basic HTML files.  The site contained at least 30 pages, and I was dreading having to rename every HTML file [...]

The Evolution of The Internet – Evolution & Conflict of Ideas
I recall with fondness buying my first 14.4Kbps modem in the early 90’s and using my fathers Compuserve account to run up massive bills speaking to random strangers from across the globe in chat rooms. What a neat experience! But the Internet was [...]

Captcha SPAM Protection for Wordpress
Spam is always a problem, no matter who you are. I should quickly say that I have nothing against people promoting their sites, or companies making people aware of special offers or products. No, the kind of spam I refuse to tolerate, is porn advertising, Viagra pills. There [...]