General Nonsense

General Nonsense, Software

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,…
General Nonsense

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…
General Nonsense, System Administration

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…
General Nonsense, Hacks

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…