To anticipate and prevent
Aparently Averatec & ATI are in cahoots w/ each other. ATI refuses to provide any drivers for the Mobility Radeon 9600 I have in this machine. I’m sorry, even if the machines are specalized, they should at leave have a generic copy of their mobility drivers. Basically what ATI said to me is that they’d…
So I was just looking over the logs of my “nifty toys” — the many copies of wposion I installed previously. I saw that one bot from IP address 65.19.150.250 got stuck on the very very first scrip in the series. That bot ended up loading the scipt 471 times — For a total of…
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…
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…