To anticipate and prevent
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…