December 29, 2004
Girerd Family Home Page
My good friend Rich was diagnosed with bad bad cancer last week. The family is keeping the web site updated with news.
December 17, 2004
Project C-90
Every cassette tape ever manufactured, as far as I can tell. All of my old friends are there.
December 14, 2004
Book-A-Minute
If you don't have time to read, try this. I read "The Hobbit" plus all three volumes of Lord Of The Rings in less than a minute and a half!
802.11b 300mW High Power Wireless PC Card - Prism 2.5
Someone showed me one of these. 300mW transmit, and -96dBm receive sensitivity. Nice!
December 11, 2004
Build your own 2.4Ghz 15dbi Yagi
The time has come for me to build another antenna. Maybe this one.
Handy things I might do before building it: optimize it or just analyze it.
Handy things I might do before building it: optimize it or just analyze it.
December 10, 2004
December 03, 2004
December 01, 2004
EVC4 SP3 linker settings bug
If you get the following error with a freshly created project...
Then you can fix it by changing your project's linker settings.
Project / Settings / Link / Entry-point symbol should be wWinMainCRTStartup, not WinMainCRTStartup. Remember all PPC apps are supposed to be Unicode, so you need the Unicode entry point.
corelibc.lib(pegwmain.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _WinMain referenced in function _WinMainCRTStartup
Then you can fix it by changing your project's linker settings.
Project / Settings / Link / Entry-point symbol should be wWinMainCRTStartup, not WinMainCRTStartup. Remember all PPC apps are supposed to be Unicode, so you need the Unicode entry point.
November 29, 2004
Trycktill.com | Unlock your mobile phone for free!
That is, as long as it's not my phone, which is made by some other manufacturer.
November 24, 2004
The Hercules System/370, ESA/390, and z/Architecture Emulator
Though I dated my wife via an IM-like system on an IBM 3084Q, I don't think I will be running this emulator.
Froogle Shopping List
Just in time for Christmas, Froogle now has wish lists, so now I can tell you what stuff I want that isn't available on Amazon.
November 23, 2004
Dolphins save swimmers from shark
Look at it from the dolphin's point of view. Which would you prefer: a feeding frenzy, or peace among mammalian species?
November 22, 2004
CNN.com - Pacman breaks out of the arcade - Nov 16, 2004
Bluetooth + GPS + inertia sensors + augmented reality? Where do I sign up?
Back in 80-column land
If you use Visual Studio .NET and would like a to see where 80-column land ends, just put this in a .REG file:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\7.1\Text Editor]
"Guides"="RGB(192, 192, 192) 80"
Hopkin Explained
Hopkin was not lost by a 5-year old boy. The story is tragic. Now let's drop this meme, shall we?
November 19, 2004
November 15, 2004
RoboDump 1.0
"RoboDump is a robot. Sort of. And it poops. Sort of. Forever. A horrible, never-ending bowel movement complete with straining grunts, horrific gas, splashes, and pee sounds."
I'm impressed.
I'm impressed.
November 12, 2004
Whitespace programming language
While it is a joke, the programs and interpreters are real. Just try it. Coming soon: the International Obfuscated Whitespace Code Contest.
Ewrt
Ewrt is the firmware of choice for the WRT54G(v2). It has everything Linksys forgot to put in: NoCat, Wondershaper, Dropbear SSHD, and more.
Next, get all the SSH keys figured out.
P.S. I'll find my frog
Next, get all the SSH keys figured out.
P.S. I'll find my frog
November 11, 2004
November 10, 2004
November 08, 2004
November 05, 2004
November 04, 2004
November 01, 2004
October 31, 2004
October 28, 2004
October 27, 2004
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October 23, 2004
October 22, 2004
TV-B-Gone: status report
The good news: Web site back up, finally.
The bad news: All out of stock, not taking orders yet.
The bad news: All out of stock, not taking orders yet.
Your Friday joke roundup
Including the gem
A woman gets on a bus with her baby. The bus driver says: “That's the ugliest baby that I've ever seen.” The woman goes to the rear of the bus and sits down, fuming. She says to a man next to her: “That driver just insulted me!” The man says: “You go right up there and tell him off – go ahead, I'll hold your monkey for you.”
October 21, 2004
Dyslexic Phishing
Today I got this rather amusing attempt at a phishing email. It, ah, speaks for itself. Use "view source" to be further amused.
Not only is it illegible, the URL features a triple Google redirect to nowhere at all.
Dera Cinabitk Memebr,
Tsih emial was stne by the Citinabk serevr to vfirey yruo emlia aerddss. You mtsu comelpte tsih prossec by clnikcig
on the likn belwo and entireng in the sllam winodw yuor CitabinkATM-Dtibe Cdra numreb and PNI thta you use on AMT.
Thsiis doenfor yoru protectoin - baceuse soem of our memebrs no longrehaev assecc to tehir emali adserds and we
muts virefy it.
To veirfy yuor emali arddess and aseccs yuor bakn accnuot, ckcil on the lnik bleow:
www.citibank.com/?qFmJAqRlkr2wpHXwxoeAj170h0i6rm2fp6wSqDyWPcQOG8FswZPVAcx8h4m5l
Not only is it illegible, the URL features a triple Google redirect to nowhere at all.
October 20, 2004
Webnote - an online tool for taking notes
More collaborative editing online, but with XSS vulnerabilities added!
Skinning Gmail with a Custom Stylesheet
Presumably this could be adapted to any other web site you care about. Mmm, Slashdot.
City of Palo Alto: Creek Monitor
I blogged it last year, and now that the rains are upon us I'll blog it again.
October 19, 2004
October 18, 2004
October 14, 2004
I love machine translation
Tacos Al Pastor. Note the sixth ingredient. Don't try this in your kitchen, kids.
October 12, 2004
October 11, 2004
Advanced debugging tips and stuff you never knew about the "Find" combo box
Wooo. This week's other hot Windows tip is that you can press Ctrl+C in a MessageBox dialog to copy all the text to the clipboard. The question remains: why didn't I already know this?
Another reason to buy "The Sims"
Games don't make people violent. Violent people make people violent. Or something.
October 10, 2004
October 09, 2004
Dell power adapter recall
The affected adapters were shipped with Latitude, Inspiron and Precision M40 notebooks 9/1998-2/2002.
- Part number is 09364U, 04983D or 07832D
- Manufacturer is Delta Electronics (mine is Astec China - yay, I'm not affected!)
October 08, 2004
Party Ben's Sixx Mixx
More available at his web site. They are all rather cool in various ways, and if you're within range of Live105 then you can catch the new ones on Fridays, 6-630pm...
(Thanks, Boom Selection via DJ French Bloke)
(Thanks, Boom Selection via DJ French Bloke)
October 07, 2004
October 06, 2004
Now in MP2 format
But where's episode 3? (Episode 1 was also here)
Update: There are torrents, but they don't work for me :(
Further update: Episode 3 is here but called episode 2.
Update: There are torrents, but they don't work for me :(
Further update: Episode 3 is here but called episode 2.
October 05, 2004
October 04, 2004
The Household Cyclopedia
Or, "how to kill yourself, your pets and your friends, using heavy metals and other dubious remedies". Watch out for horses with farcy, glanders, spavins, wind-galls, cribbiting, and other disorders. Dog got mange? Mercurial ointment. Distemper? Try opium. I find it odd that females have their own class of diseases, yet males do not. Don't try this at home, kids.
October 01, 2004
How To Write Unmaintainable Code
New code style guidelines for the masses: the naming part is particularly entertaining.
Use accented characters on variable names. E.g.
typedef struct { int i; } Ãnt;
where the second Ãnt's à is actually i-acute. With only a simple text editor, it's nearly impossible to distinguish the slant of the accent mark.
September 29, 2004
Don't run red lights!
They're installing "rat boxes" to help catch offenders:
- MV: El Camino at Grant, Castro, Shoreline, El Monte
- MV: Central at Rengstorff
- PA: Middlefield at San Antonio, University
September 28, 2004
Mummy, where do mashups come from?
Well, Timmy dear, perhaps it's time you found out how to Get Your Bootleg On.
Your next camera... you wish
I suspect the EOS 1Ds Mark II may be too pricey for most :) Nice pictures, though.
Only in Japan
The wonderful folks at Toto (makers of the washlet) now have fluffy animals in their marketing materials, as well as fawning men in white coats.
September 27, 2004
September 24, 2004
September 22, 2004
New from the Kleptones
The Kleptones invite you to a Night at the Hip-Hopera (download size: freakin' huge)
Meanwhile, Waxy has been gathering a list of all the samples.
Meanwhile, Waxy has been gathering a list of all the samples.
FYI, the highly controversial Home Computers in 2004 picture turns out to have come from a Fark entry to mash up the innards of a submarine.
I don't often link to Flash animations, but this one about the dangers of Scrabble must not be missed.
September 21, 2004
September 20, 2004
September 17, 2004
On my quest for something I can hack to use at home to bounce ssh, /. reports that the Linksys NSLU2 can be hacked.
September 15, 2004
September 14, 2004
September 13, 2004
September 10, 2004
September 08, 2004
With some editing, the "nice bash prompt" from this Script Showcase can be both handy and instructive.
Pesky government officials or homeowners associations or apartment managers telling you to take down your antennas? Check the FCC Fact Sheet on Placement of Antennas to see what they have to say.
September 07, 2004
August 30, 2004
August 28, 2004
August 16, 2004
August 11, 2004
August 09, 2004
August 05, 2004
August 04, 2004
Now you can squish a DVD down to 128MB to watch on your Smartphone or PocketPC.
(Thanks, Red Ferret!)
(Thanks, Red Ferret!)
July 28, 2004
Everyone knows most of the plot already, but now we have an official title: Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith. Mark your calendar for May 19, 2005. And book a visit to the therapist on May 20, 2005.
July 23, 2004
July 21, 2004
July 19, 2004
July 14, 2004
July 12, 2004
Cute flash app that plays Stairway to Heaven [for|back]wards, along with Another One Bites the Dust It's fun to smoke marijuana, Hit Me Baby One More Time Sleep With Me I'm Not Too Young, and others.
(Thanks, Google!)
(Thanks, Google!)
July 09, 2004
July 08, 2004
July 05, 2004
July 02, 2004
June 29, 2004
June 18, 2004
May 24, 2004
In a few days when my cheap broken Xbox arrives, I will need the Xbox pot tweaking tutorial so I can get the DVD drive working and run Linux on it.
May 19, 2004
May 17, 2004
OK. I hate folding shirts. However, when I saw this Japanese shirt-folding video I was forced to immediately take off my shirt and fold it. And do you know what? It works, it's easy and it's fast! Next time I have to fold a hundred shirts, this will come in handy.
May 13, 2004
May 12, 2004
Finally, you can see naked chicks on the internet [SFW]. Live webcam! They are indeed chicks. And they are quite naked.
May 10, 2004
Boy, do I sympathize with the guy who dug a hole in his back yard and then became an internet celebrity. When I released NetStumbler 0.4 I hit my monthly bandwidth quota in just a few days, and had to move all my downloads offsite.
April 13, 2004
April 09, 2004
April 08, 2004
March 29, 2004
March 24, 2004
Here's another way to waste hours of your day: Play old Infocom games via AIM. Similar to something I hacked up in VoiceXML a couple of years ago, only it works.
March 22, 2004
die kurvenfabrik can be your friend, if you speak German and want to get elliptic curve parameters by email.
March 16, 2004
March 14, 2004
March 13, 2004
March 01, 2004
February 27, 2004
February 26, 2004
The web seems to be only sparsely populated with XHTML entity lists. I expected to find lots of them.
February 05, 2004
We all know how andy46477's ebay feedback made internet history. But it seems that stevebo is trying to catch up, one auction at a time.
February 04, 2004
February 02, 2004
January 21, 2004
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