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RequestPolicy Firefox Plugin – the ultimate NoScript
I recently found out about the following Firefox plugin/addon: RequestPolicy (via this blogpost) – see also the Firefox addon page. Its function is to whitelist all kinds of cross-domain requests, including scripts, style-sheets, images, objects (Flash, Java, Silverlight), etc. Anything in a webpage hosted on the domain A can reference other content from domain A,…
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Taking apart the Dell Inspiron 9400
A word of caution: taking apart your laptop will void your warranty. Do this operation at your own risk. If you are not comfortable doing this operation, I would recommend against it. Disassembling a laptop is harder than taking apart a desktop computer (mostly because of the confined space), so you shouldn’t do it if…
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Watch out for those reviews…
Recently I was buying a notebook HDD, and after considering a Samsung SpinPoint model, I’ve looked around the net to see if there were any known issues with the model. So I stumbled upon this page and my blood ran cold. Quote: One of the most common problems Samsung SpinPoint hard drives experience is burnt…
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And now for some upbeat news
While I certainly like to rant, one shouldn’t forget about the more sunny side of life (unless you want to go berserk). So here are some random positive things: Some songs which I like: A funny image from a friend: A couple of great freeware programs for the Windows platform: CDBurnerXP – does everything Nero…
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The difference between additive and subtractive color schemes
I’ve known for the longest time that there are two ways of creating / describing colors: additive (RGB) and subtractive (CMYK). However I never really understood the equivalence between them, until recently, when I picked up a book which presented the general concepts of typography. This is very cool, so I’ll try to document it…
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delicious/cdman83
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A couple of new challenges
Here are a couple of challenges I found on the interwebs: SSHliders – from ethicalhacker.net. This one is centered around *nix shell scripting and more advanced topics like pipes. Hugi Size Coding Compo #29 (from Hugi) – not much time left there, the deadline is the 28th of October. No flashy prizes either, just the…
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Using TarInputStream from Java
Recently I had to parse trough a bunch of logs, scattered in subdirectories and different types of archives (tar, bz and gz). My first thought was of course Perl (since it is the language for parsing quasi-freeform text), however I didn’t have “streaming” implementation for the archive modules, which in my case was very important,…