Cracking PDF DRM with Clojure

Fun little post.

Directory Monitor

Here's a useful little tool for Windows automation: Directory Monitor. The same guy has a good command-line mailer, too (which can handle attachments, a real problem with command-line mailing under Windows).

COM stuff

And then there is just a whole passel of stuff about COM in Perl - again.

• Get the type name of a COM object
• A truly excellent rundown of C++ COMming.
• AutoHotKey can do it, too.
• Getting to the Registry in Perl is boring.
• Registry.
• ProgIDs in the Registry - this would probably be a smaller doable module.
• Registry. Registry.
• And finally Tcl for the win with COM!

More Windows stuff

You can also use IE.ExecWB to download stuff using IE on Windows. You can do a lot of interesting automation on Windows, it's just that today's Windows security models make it a royal pain. For the obvious reasons, of course - they're trying to slow down the botnets.