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Month: May 2005

Nifty Toys

Today I was turned onto a nift toy called Wpoison. Its a fairly simple perl script that generates random webpages with crap email addresses, links back to itself, and sleeps for 4 seconds on every run. I’ve decided that I’m going to deploy it on a few of my sites, since I seem to have…

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Vigilante Hackers

Yahoo UK is carrying a bit about Vigilante Hackers — AKA White Hats. Guys (and Gals) running around hacking fake banks and other fraudsters. More power to them I say. As the article says: “Experts say that shutting down the scam websites is often difficult because they may be hosted in countries where legal action…

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Strange Ass Server

So my debian machine continues to randomly jump to DHCP (from static) from time to time. I have no fruiting idea why, and all I can do is ifdown/ifup the network adapter. In othernews — I’m moving. Fun stuffs, now back to the ol’ game of DSL Versus Cable — which is faster, cheaper, and…

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Nikon D70 Firmware V2.0

Oh yea! I love the new firmware. Always goodies to play with. Especially the big jumps — when the actually change significant features are fun. Well the D70 has new firmware (found here ). I just finished flashing my D70 — If nothing else, I really really like the new Menu’s. Very….modern… — Where each…

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Widescreen DVD != 16:9

So.. I got Mission Impossible today from NetFlix and started watching it. At start up it asked if I wanted Widescreen or Letterbox. Having a laptop with 16:10 — Widescreen it was. But.. It wasnt. It turns out it was 16:9 shrunk down to fit the letter box width. Yes! I want to watch a…

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Go Holmes

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth —Sherlock Holmes This stands particularly true with networking. I had an issue with our home network tonight and a rogue machine. I eliminated every option (including a stranger on our open AP) — with no avail. The rogue machine — the…

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