To anticipate and prevent
Yes its been on slashdot, etc — but I actually did download and try Outfoxed. Its a nice plugin for Firefox — its basically a page ranking tool (along with other nifty features like running proccess information). I have to say its very unobtrusive & very easy to use/submit. You can see my informer page…
Today I saw the headline on yahoo about Copyright worries with Digital Pictures which is rather intesting. I also found NPR audio-article about photographers being harrased on the basis of “national security” or what not. Its all a bit scary to think about, but it seems rather typical in this day in age. Heck, look…
Brought a new 7960 online today in the office — and it paper weighted itself. It loaded up the Universal Application Loader, but then refused to load the new SIP firmware. I found two things that are useful, first Voip-info.org has a useful bit and second — pay very close attention the the TFTP server…
DivX 6 is out, as everyone on the net knows about. I thought it was preety nifty, and all the test I saw looked good. Recently I have been coverting some of my DVD’s to HD (mainly Anime). I had a VOB file laying around from the last batch so I gave the DivX Converter…
So I continued my search for compression on the fly for a while yesterday — I found nothing else. So I’ve setup Apache 2.0w/ mod_deflate (yes it does gzip too) on the remote server. For the downloading machine (which I want to script), I found cURL. If you run cURL with -O and –compression it…
I’m looking for a way to compress files on the fly for transfer. I dont mean rar the file, then copy, I mean copying while its compressing. Aparently this is more difficult that it seems. The only logical solution I can find is using Apache w/ Gzip and a compatable browser (but I want to…