From my last post, I wrote about finding a specific file on a random mountpoint/drive.

The next step in this process was granting permission to the applet to access said file system, and do other things like make a network connection. It made sense in principal, but was hard to find definitive answers – [...]

I recently had the misfortune (or so I thought) of needing to write a Java applet to achieve a bit functionality in a browser that really wouldn’t be possible using anything else.

It didn’t sound particularly hard in principal, but these things never do (before you start out), and besides there’d be loads of Googly [...]