This process will let you build custom topography maps based on freely available map tiles. These maps can be then uploaded to your Garmin GPS receiver, along with the maps you’ve already got (CitySelect or CityNavigator, for instance), providing a transparent layer with contour lines. The process has been know to work in a number […]

Wow. Sysinternals has been acquired by Microsoft
There was a time where Microsoft was known for buying small startups that looked like some kind of threat or offered software pieces tightly binded to Windows (and most of all, popular) so that these could slowly be bundled with their software. Most of these software solutions ended […]

Now, an interesting piece of software. I wonder why did it take so long for someone to come up with this. Sudo for Windows (sudowin) allows authorized users to launch processes with elevated privileges using their own passphrase. Unlike the runas command, Sudo for Windows preserves the user’s profile and ownership of […]

Once in a while I am asked to give someone a crash course on PGP (or its free software implementation GnuPG), encryption and authentication. I usually push these poor souls into GPG with Mozilla Thunderbird and Enigmail, following a few well delimited steps which are stored on a text file somewhere which had their command […]