To anticipate and prevent
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…
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…