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Poised Solutions has written a number of information
technology articles, on a wide variety of computer science,
development, graphic design and administration subjects. The
IT Articles have been written for a mixture of marketing and
personal interest in the field of Information
Technology.
Business case studies have been also been written on a
number of information technology projects that Poised
Solutions has been involved with.
Poised Solutions IT Articles
Below you will find descriptions and links to the various
IT Articles that Poised Solutions has written.
Poised Solutions IT Articles
- Steganography and Steganalysis
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Steganography is the art of writing hidden and covert
messages, steganalysis is the process of recovering and
identifying the hidden information. This Steganography and
Steganalysis article explains how digital steganography
works, gives a framework for developing steganography
applications, and looks at how steganalysis can be used to
recover information. There is also a steganography guessing
game, designed to show how subtle steganography can
be.
- Poised Solutions Legacy Website
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The Poised Solutions legacy website is the old Poised
Solutions Website, it is kept here for link connectivity,
posterity and as analysis for the new Poised Solutions
Website.
- IPTables Netfilter Primer
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IPTables is the client side application to the Netfilter
firewall, which is the standard firewall in Linux Kernels
and distributions. The IPTables primer is just a quick how
to on configuring a simple firewall. The IPTables article is
designed as a primer so it encourages the reader to feel
more comfortable with configuring IPTables.
- Cutouts howto at Beautiful Balms
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Cutouts are quite a common art working task, and there are
quite a few methods to achieve good looking cutouts. The
cutout method shown here is the classic method of cutout
using paths and shaping. The path cutout method is perhaps
not the fastest method nowadays (foreground tool is quicker)
but it effective.
- Dictator Dictionary Interface
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Dictator is a quick GUI front end to the dict tool. Dictator
is there to show just how easily a GUI can wrap a command
line function, it only takes a few lines of high level
code.
- Mini ITX
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The mini-itx article was written to help others trying
to install a daughter board to one of the JetWays motherboards.
Installing a daughter board can be quite odd, as you begin to
worry that too much pressure could snap the board. For the
curious you do need a lot of well applied pressure and the
pin bases need to be flush.
- Web Cookies
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The web cookies article is a look at web cookies both
client side and server side. Various server side languages
are looked at and different methods of setting a cookie
is examined.
- Yin Yang Design
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The Yin Yang graphic design article is a designed to show
how to create a yinyang symbol using primarily dialog boxes
with minimal mouse placements. Designing A Yin Yang symbol
is an interesting process and the base techniques can be
used for a variety of art working and graphic design
challenges.
- Understanding suid Security
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The SUID (switch user id on execution) article is a
Cyber Security article on basic Unix security. SUID'd
applications are a common attack point for what is termed
privilege escalation. The SUID article demonstrates how to
protect yourself and how the exploit can work.
- HTML Reference and Tutorial
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The HTML Reference site or article is a look at the HTML
(HyperText Markup Language), and the various elements and
attributes that can be used to create HTML (web)
documents.
- CSS History Profiling
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CSS History profiling demonstrates how most browsers will
allow a history (pages visited) leak, by using a known list
of site elements and them comparing results. Protection
mechanisms are also explored, and the actual severity of
this problem is quite limited, it is more of an interesting
peculiarity than it is a major exploit.
- Apache Log Rotation
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Apache Log Rotation article shows how to collect logs from
remote servers in an efficient and secure manner.
- Ming Tutorial
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Ming is a Flash generator for Unix systems, the Ming
tutorial is a basic look at how to quickly create Flash
files using Ming.
- Understanding the Document Object Model with JavaScript
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The DOM Javascript article looks at how JavaScript can be
used to manipulate the DOM (Document Object Model). There
are quite a few interesting JavaScript tricks in this
article and a fair amount of introspection techniques.
- Online Brainstorming Tool
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The Brainstorm article is a brainstorm tool that allows
interactive brainstorming to take place. Brainstorm is just
a basic JavaScript application, and was used to demonstrate
quickly was is now quite possible to do inside of web
browsers.
- Vim Commands
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The Vim Commands article looks at most of the basic key
commands in the excellent VIM editor. The article attempts
to add a mnemonic to each command to aid in recall.
- CSS Printing
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The CSS Print article explores printing in CSS, along with
automatic printing for documents such as pick lists, and
where a hardcopy is required in an automated fashion.
- Rounded Corners
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The Rounded Corners article looks at various ways in which
browser element borders can be made rounded.
- SpiderCrypt JavaScript Encryption
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Spidercrypt is a JavaScript Encryption system. The base
encryption algorithm used is blowfish, and the tool is
really a quick exploration of encryption in JavaScript.
- PuffAdder - Python Blowfish Encryption
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PuffAdder is a Python implementation of the Blowfish
encryption algorithm.
- Binary Magick
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The Binary Magick article is a look at some of the more
interesting aspects of binary operators.
- Assembly Reference
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The Assembly Reference site is a tutorial and reference
on low level assembly programming.
- Beautiful Balms Commerce Case Study
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The Beautiful Balms business case study is a look at
the online Balms Shop retailer Beautiful Balms.
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