Microsoft provide a command shell for Windows Mobile as a part of their Developer Power Tools package.
I fancied giving it a try tonight (for no particular reason other than that I like using the command line, and my phone has a full QWERTY keyboard) so followed the instructions to install it.
No luck – it didn’t work. No errors, it just didn’t work – nothing happened.
It took a bit of playing around with, but I’ve managed to get it running…
Dear Sir,
i have some valuable information about top al-qaeda leadership in Pakistan. Can u help me to give some e mail of top official to contact him and give him the information.
zaheer
This was an email sent to me at work from a Yahoo webmail address.
Huh?
…to the ‘anonymous’ who donated £5 to Solent Youth Action via my JustGiving link. I am gobsmacked.
I added the link to my blog as a bit of a long shot – not really expecting that anyone would go for it. Since we signed up with JustGiving, we’ve not really made much use of it, so I thought it might be worth a try.
So thanks very much. 🙂
I took a day off work today to help with a Solent Youth Action activity (a chance to use my renewed MIDAS certificate! 😉 ).
We took a group of 11-13 year old kids for a day of stream clearing – pulling out rubbish, clearing weeds, and cutting back overgrown plants. It’s half-term week so it was an all-day activity. They did a great job – it’s impressive what a group of enthusiastic people standing up to their thighs in cold water can do!
Today was a Taster Day – a chance to introduce some young people to volunteering. As the name suggests, Taster Days offer a variety of different activities that young people can try out without needing any long-term commitment. If they enjoy it to want to do more, they get help finding similar activities to do in the future. If not, they can always try something else.
By the end of the day they all seemed to have enjoyed it, and hopefully will think of “volunteering” as something fun that they’ll want to do again.
I read something which surprised me in the Guardian today:
Some of the biggest and most famous charity brands are now all but dependent on the state. These include Barnardo’s (78% of annual income), NCH (88%) and Leonard Cheshire (88%) … the National Family and Parenting Institute (97% state funded) … Even conservative estimates show that the sector now derives 38% of its funding from statutory sources, compared with 35% from individuals, which means that the state is now the biggest “donor” to charities.
When using Windows, I log on with an ‘Administrator’ account. I know that this isn’t too clever – I’d never logon as ‘root’ on my Linux box all day. And it doesn’t take much searching to find a dozen pages which advise against it as it leaves me more at risk from malware and various other problems.
But I do it because it’s just too much hassle to run as a normal user. Some apps I rely on need Admin access to run, and other limitations make me think that I need to be Administrator.
The biggest risk is with Internet-facing applications. Any malware that I pick up gets to run with my credentials – as Administrator. So as a compromise, I run Internet-facing with limited credentials. If malware slips in, at least it doesn’t get to run as Administrator. I do this with a free Sysinternals tool, psexec.
I’ve been a bit quiet on the blogging front – both here and on the WMQ one – this week. I thought it’d be interesting to touch base by explaining why I’ve been busy.
This week I:
Right – excuses over. Back to work!
Less something that I have learnt today, and more something that I need to learn. For Valentines, my wife has got me an entry into a fun poker tournament. Sounds like fun – but I need to practice!