I have aquired the new domain LIEW.AU for use and will migrate web and email to the new domain from LIEW-AU.COM. Both will be available for the time being but I expect at some time in the future I may retire LIEW-AU.COM in the future after all migrations are completed and the changes have propogated through search engines.
\nNot sure why I had not noticed earlier but .au Domain Administration (auDA) made these .AU domains available since March 2022.
", "author": { "name": "Leslie Liew" }, "tags": [ ], "date_published": "2026-07-21T16:29:24+10:00", "date_modified": "2026-07-21T16:38:12+10:00" }, { "id": "https://leslie.liew.au/posts/protect-your-credit-stay-ahead-of-identity-theft/", "url": "https://leslie.liew.au/posts/protect-your-credit-stay-ahead-of-identity-theft/", "title": "Protect Your Credit: Stay ahead of Identity Theft", "summary": "Data breaches are rampant, and identity theft is a growing threat—protecting your credit record has never been more urgent. Taking proactive steps to protect your credit record is more important than ever. Regularly checking your credit score is a vital part of maintaining financial health…", "content_html": "Data breaches are rampant, and identity theft is a growing threat—protecting your credit record has never been more urgent. Taking proactive steps to protect your credit record is more important than ever. Regularly checking your credit score is a vital part of maintaining financial health and safeguarding against potential threats.
In Australia, the major credit reporting bodies include Equifax, Experian, and illion. These organizations collect and maintain credit information, which is used to generate credit reports and scores. Understanding how these agencies operate can help individuals take control of their financial health.
Australian law grants individuals the right to access their credit data held by reporting bodies. You can request a free copy of your credit report annually or within 90 days of being denied credit. This ensures transparency and allows you to verify the accuracy of the information being used to assess your creditworthiness.
Equifax credit report can be through their website: https://www.equifax.com.au/ or alternatively call 138332 and select option 2.
\nExperian has acquired illion in October 2024, but currently as of August 2025 they provide separate facility to requesting your credit report.
\nExperian provides a form to request a credit report to be compiled and sent to your email address: https://www.experian.com.au/consumer/order-credit-report or call 1300783684 9am-5pm Monday to Friday.
\nillion provides access to a dashboard to access your credit score and report: https://www.creditcheck.illion.com.au/ or call 132333.
\nRegular reports to monitor for fraudulent activity help minimize the effects of identity theft can be requested every 3 months, and each credit reporting body provides facilities to correct your record. By staying vigilant and taking advantage of these resources, individuals can proactively safeguard their financial health and ensure their credit information remains accurate and secure.
", "image": "https://leslie.liew.au/media/posts/17/protectyourcredit.png", "author": { "name": "Leslie Liew" }, "tags": [ "steps to protect your credit from fraud in Australia", "preventing identity theft through regular credit monitoring", "how to get a free credit report in Australia", "best way to monitor credit score for identity theft", "annual credit check rights for Australian consumers" ], "date_published": "2025-08-05T16:13:57+10:00", "date_modified": "2025-08-06T20:17:25+10:00" }, { "id": "https://leslie.liew.au/posts/password-security-with-keepass/", "url": "https://leslie.liew.au/posts/password-security-with-keepass/", "title": "Password security with KeePass", "summary": "Passwords are your keys to online services and all services are not secured equally. These days it is not unheard of for a large company to be compromised and sharing a password across services will make you vulnerable. For ideal password security your passwords should…", "content_html": "Passwords are your keys to online services and all services are not secured equally. These days it is not unheard of for a large company to be compromised and sharing a password across services will make you vulnerable.
\nFor ideal password security your passwords should be:
\nWe make compromises on the above to make them more convenient to use. Previously I thought it more important that my passwords be memorised, so I used 3 passwords for different levels of security. After some troubling data breaches I decided to update all my passwords to make them unique.
\nTo achieve this uniqueness I used a password database or password manager. I didn't previously use this because it was a single point of security failure, however it is a compromise I am now willing to make to address the more likely risk and I would recommend for others concerned about recent data breaches.
\nKeePass is the one I chose to do this for the following reasons:
\nWebsite: http://keepass.info/
", "author": { "name": "Leslie Liew" }, "tags": [ ], "date_published": "2016-11-18T02:27:48+11:00", "date_modified": "2025-06-12T00:58:23+10:00" }, { "id": "https://leslie.liew.au/posts/memory-use-improved-in-warframe-alert-tray-v10a/", "url": "https://leslie.liew.au/posts/memory-use-improved-in-warframe-alert-tray-v10a/", "title": "Memory use improved in Warframe Alert Tray v1.0a", "summary": "Warframe Alert Tray just got patched to version 1.0a which fixes a memory leak and clean up on Quit which seemed to keep the process running. Available for download at the Warframe Alert Tray Project page.", "content_html": "Warframe Alert Tray just got patched to version 1.0a which fixes a memory leak and clean up on Quit which seemed to keep the process running. Available for download at the Warframe Alert Tray Project page.
", "author": { "name": "Leslie Liew" }, "tags": [ ], "date_published": "2016-03-29T22:42:51+11:00", "date_modified": "2025-06-12T00:48:59+10:00" }, { "id": "https://leslie.liew.au/posts/warframe-alert-tray-v10-released/", "url": "https://leslie.liew.au/posts/warframe-alert-tray-v10-released/", "title": "Warframe Alert Tray v1.0 Released", "summary": "Warframe Alert Tray version 1.0 now available for download at the Warframe Alert Tray Project page.", "content_html": "Warframe Alert Tray version 1.0 now available for download at the Warframe Alert Tray Project page.
", "author": { "name": "Leslie Liew" }, "tags": [ ], "date_published": "2016-03-24T02:12:47+11:00", "date_modified": "2025-06-12T00:47:31+10:00" }, { "id": "https://leslie.liew.au/posts/git-for-version-control-and-deployment/", "url": "https://leslie.liew.au/posts/git-for-version-control-and-deployment/", "title": "Git for version control and deployment", "summary": "In the past I have used Subversion for version control but having to have a repository somewhere put me off from using it on many projects. Git was created in 2005 by Linus Torvald and Linux developers to address their needs for distributed version control.", "content_html": "In the past I have used Subversion for version control but having to have a repository somewhere put me off from using it on many projects. Git was created in 2005 by Linus Torvald and Linux developers to address their needs for distributed version control.
\nGit makes it trivial to have a local respository, so when I rework code to be better sturctured or more efficient I can rest assured that the previous working code can be reverted to if it breaks everything.
\nOn Windows 7 I have installed TortoiseGit which integrates nicely with Explorer. Right click on any directory and select \"Git Create repository here...\" to start and icons will visually show the status of affected files.
\nYou can push your repository to another remote repository for collaborated projects or for deployment.
\nI use this for deploying projects on to my web host with the following setup.
\nCreate a bare Git repository to receive push to production: mkdir www.git\ncd www.git\ngit init --bare\n
Create the production directory, in this example should be \"/home/username/www\" cd ..\nmkdir www\n
Add the file \"/home/username/www.git/hooks/post-receive\" with the following ensuring that GIT_WORK_TREE is the one create above: #!/bin/sh\nGIT_WORK_TREE=/home/username/www\ngit checkout -f\n
Make the new script executable: chmod +x /home/username/www.git/hooks/post-receive
To setup your development side to push to this new deployment repository: git remote add live ssh://webhostname/home/username/www.git\ngit push live +master:refs/heads/master\n
Or in TortoiseGit use the \"TortoiseGit >> Push...\" and add the remote destination as above.
\nFrom then on this information is stored in the development repository and you can just call: git push live
Turning your Perl into a Windows Executable lets you distribute a program and not have to worry about having perl installed and managed on the target system.
\nUsing this method does not \"compile\" the perl, meaning that the source is still accessible and also there is no improvement on performance, in fact there will be a tiny overhead for unpacking and setting up the environment to run.
\nI am using Strawberry perl which is my preferred package of Perl for Windows.
\nYou will need the PAR::Packer module which you can install from CPAN. Bring up the CPAN shell with the command \"cpan\" at your Perl Shell or Command Prompt. Within CPAN shell run the command \"install PAR::Packer\".
\nWith any luck this will work without a problem but I stumbled upon a few errors during this step. Check that your Strawberry perl shell has PATH of your installation strawberry/perl/site/bin, strawberry/perl/bin and strawberry/c/bin. They MUST appear ahead of any other path with MINGW compiling tools.
\nWhen this module is installed an program called \"pp\" will be available in strawberry/perl/site/bin. pp perl_program.pl -o program_executable.exe
Before you run the above command you will likely need to disable virus scanning shields. For me Avast! caused an executable name \"parlXXXXX.exe\" to become frozen without any warnings.
", "author": { "name": "Leslie Liew" }, "tags": [ ], "date_published": "2016-02-22T03:15:15+11:00", "date_modified": "2025-06-12T00:34:08+10:00" }, { "id": "https://leslie.liew.au/posts/windows-7-directory-links/", "url": "https://leslie.liew.au/posts/windows-7-directory-links/", "title": "Windows 7 directory links", "summary": "Links are a shortcut for a file or directory which tells any programs that use it where the real location is. Using Links you can access files from multiple locations even across different hard drives. These are useful for moving physical location of files yet…", "content_html": "Links are a shortcut for a file or directory which tells any programs that use it where the real location is. Using Links you can access files from multiple locations even across different hard drives.
\nThese are useful for moving physical location of files yet allowing existing software to work with the existing file location.
\nThere are 3 kinds of links in Windows 7, soft links, hard links and Junctions. I found that some software doesn't handle soft links very well and also Explorer doesn't distinguish hard links from normal directories, so Junctions worked best for me.
\nIn my case, I installed a Solid State Harddrive (SSD) as the boot partition and some rarely used programs and larger program data were moved to the older Harddrive.
\nIf you have used Linux you may be familiar with the following command to make soft links.ln -s real_location new_link_location
The equivalent command for Windows 7 to make soft links in Command promptmklink /D new_link_location real_location
The command for Windows 7 to make a directory junction in Command promptmklink /J new_link_location real_location
Here is an example from one I did recently.
\nC:\\Program Files (x86)>mklink /J \"Finale NotePad 2012\" \"D:\\SSDLink\\Program Files (HDD)\\Finale NotePad 2012\"
\nJunction created for Finale NotePad 2012 <<===>> D:\\SSDLink\\Program Files (HDD)\\Finale NotePad 2012
\n
Update June 2021: I have finally created an application to Manage Directory Junctions to Offload from my SSD.
\n", "author": { "name": "Leslie Liew" }, "tags": [ "Windows 7" ], "date_published": "2016-02-15T03:39:30+11:00", "date_modified": "2025-06-12T00:33:07+10:00" } ] }