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Friday, May 16, 2008 #

Ever need a quick and dirty way to check the MD5 Hash on any compressed folder or executable?

At Work: Joe and I have had the occasional corrupt file from Microsoft and had to pull out of installing patches and such. This was a problem and a time waster. So in every deployment of any project we decided to be sticklers on checking the hashes. While yes there is a few utilities on the interweb or ExtraNet (both very bad slang for Internet) I have settled for the non installing executable to do my Hash Checking.

Some have even commented: "If your such a great developer why don’t you write your own?" I suppose I could however I have little time to rewrite the wheel.

WinMD5Free

Have a look and enjoy.

WinMD5 Web Site

winmd5free.zip

Hashes for safety:

WinMD5Free.zip MD5: 73f48840b60ab6da68b03acd322445ee

WinMD5Free.exe MD5: 944a1e869969dd8a4b64ca5e6ebc209a

 


Wednesday, May 14, 2008 #

First I must say this has nothing to do with my current employment as I am very happy with my coder manager. However I found it funny. See what you think:

A woman in a hot air balloon realized she was lost.

She reduced altitude and spotted a man below. She descended a bit more and shouted, "Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago but I don’t know where I am."

The man below replied, "You’re in a hot air balloon hovering approximately 30 feet above the ground. You’re between 40 and 41 degrees north latitude and between 59 and 60 degrees west longitude."

"You must be an engineer" said the balloonist.

"I am", replied the man. "How did you know?"

"Well", answered the balloonist, "everything you told me is technically correct, but I’ve no idea what to make of your information, and the fact is I’m still lost. Frankly, you’ve not been much help at all. If anything you’ve delayed my trip even more."

The man below responded, "You must be in management."

"I am," replied the balloonist, "but how did you know?"

"Well", said the man, "You don’t know where you are or where you’re going. You have risen to where you are due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise which you’ve no idea how to keep, and you expect people beneath you to solve your problems"

project.cycle


This Video Brings me back to the day.  I miss this. Check it out.


Monday, May 12, 2008 #

Sadly events in China are ugly. God bless those people and their families.

Nextel Wireless is down tonight. Looks like the entire western region as far as I can tell.

Happy very belated Mothers day.

Lots of Pictures this week.

FightingCat 

Don’t be hating.

 zoid

Her is the List:

Free AbandonWare

Ring Ring Ring TwitterFone

Twitter IM

Twitter Tools Collection

Rock Scroll for Visual Studio

Zip Scribble Map

Mount VHD Files with VhDmount

Klok Time Keeper(adobe air app)

Kittens on a treadmill

binary Toys

50 habits of Highly Successful people

SEO Rapper

 

Plug o' the week: woot.com

Capture1

BOCwoot

 

imustdestroyyou


Tuesday, May 06, 2008 #

Did you know the periods in your gmail address don’t mean a thing? That’s right, if you signed up as geek.dork@gmail.com, you’d still get emails sent to geekdork@gmail.com. You’ll even get emails sent to g.e.e.k.d.o.r.k@gmail.com, for the crazies in your family. Ooh, and anything sent to "googlemail" instead of "gmail." Honestly, it’s the little things that are fun (and btw, none of the above email addresses belong to me!). More usefully, you can add a plus sign to the end of your address, and then you can set up a folders in your email that coordinate with that. For instance, say you open an online account with USBank. When you sign up, give your email address as "geekdork+banking@gmail.com", then in Settings, set up a filter. In the From box, add in USBank or your chosen bank, in the To box, put in your newly-created geekdork+banking@gmail.com address, and the set the filter to put in a folder titled "banking." You can also use this technique when you sign up for something and send their emails to you directly to the trash!hold-a-meeting

 

Don’t worry about thanking me.