Category: General Nonsense

  • Fun with Garmin Forensics

    Fun with Garmin Forensics

    As you’ll recall from my Christmas post the company I work for is replacing their fleet management equipment, and in part that means upgrading some of our older Garmin GPS screens. As a result a steady stream of old equipment has been trickling into my office. Even though these units no longer fit our needs,…

  • Garland  & Garmin Greetings

    Garland & Garmin Greetings

    My office at work wasn’t feeling very Christmas-like, so I flaked out a little and hatched a plan to address the stark lack of festiveness. I have a bunch of these old Garmin Nuvi 5000 model GPS displays in my office right now. We are replacing our fleet management software and with it our vehicle…

  • Reset Buffalo TeraStation PRO Model TS-RHTGL/R5 Password

    Reset Buffalo TeraStation PRO Model TS-RHTGL/R5 Password

    Have a Buffalo TeraStation PRO Model TS-RHTGL/R5 and lost your password? Me too, here’s how I reset the web interface login without losing all my data. The steps will probably be similar on other TeraStation models, but I think the default user credentials might be different (username ‘Administrator’ vs. ‘admin’, etc). The TeraStation this was…

  • De-ActiveX-ifying an ActiveX Component

    Some ActiveX components add “enhancement” to the browser by dropping in custom controls for forms or other fanciness. Those types of components require the browser, because they augment the user’s experience within the browser. Other ActiveX components are little more than a standalone executable that can get it’s command line arguments from the web page…