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PingTunnel Improvements: Win32 & Syslog
For anyone interested in clever networking hacks, I strongly advise checking out ptunnel. This software package allows you to tunnel any TCP (such as SSH) over a ICMP (i.e., ping). Since even the most restrictive firewalls (whether corporate, Wifi (don’t steal…) or other) usually let ICMP traffic through, this little piece of code can let […]
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Increasing Java Memory
This tip will show you how to increase the memory available to the Java Virtual Machine. If you arrived here while trying to view one of the panoramas on this site, then you’ll need to perform the steps listed in order to see the full size panoramas.
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Batch Downloading of Lyrics for MP3
I recently wanted to try some synchronized lyric plugins for music playback. Unlike mp3/ogg files, synchronized lyrics are very hard to find. I figured my best bet would be to try and download text lyrics, and sync them myself. It’s not a hard process, it just takes a few minutes. Actually downloading the lyrics, though, […]
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Send Data to the Serial Port
As a counterpart to the LogSer program, I’m releasing code that allows dumping data from stdin to an arbitrary serial port. The code can be downloaded as either source code or a compiled EXE from the ToSer release page under the Software section. To compile the source for yourself, simply run cl ToSer.cpp to compile […]
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See Spam plugin for WordPress released
I’ve recently been under attack by a lot of spammers, and have been a little worried that my spam filters may have been a little overzealous in blocking comments and trackbacks. I’ve been looking at Akismet‘s page of caught spam to make sure nothing got through. However, finding that one comment that got lost has […]