March 31, 2002
FREESCO
free replacement for commercial routers: FREESCO
Vipul's Razor
Collaborative spam filtering with Vipul's Razor
March 29, 2002
as seen on weblogs.com
Now updating on weblogs.com thanks to this
March 28, 2002
configuring galeon
configuring galeon (from a usenet post)
Hi all
>
> Anyone know if it's possible to set a custom user agent string in either of
> the two browsers? I can't find anything in the preferences to do it. My
> online bank service doesn't (yet) support Netscape above 4.76 even though
> recent Mozilla & Galeon are far more capable and reliable for me than
> Netscape. The service works fine using Konqueror masquerading as Netscape
> 4.7, but I'd prefer to use Galeon.
pm@manlap:~/bin$ cat galeonis
#!/bin/sh
case "$1" in
ie|exploder)
gconftool -s /apps/galeon/Advanced/Network/user_agent \
--type=string \
"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90)"
echo "Galeon now is Internet Explorer 5.5"
;;
ns|netscape)
gconftool -s /apps/galeon/Advanced/Network/user_agent \
--type=string \
"Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.18-586tsc i586; Nav)"
echo "Galeon now is Netscape 4.77"
;;
galeon|default)
gconftool -s /apps/galeon/Advanced/Network/user_agent \
--type=string ""
echo "Galeon now is itself"
;;
*)
gconftool -g /apps/galeon/Advanced/Network/user_agent
;;
esac
exit 0
March 27, 2002
Piers Moron
What a smug, self-satisfied gimp Piers Moron is
Ultimate game release site
Ultimate game release site: tothegame.com
Region 1 DVDs on x-box
Play your region 1 dvds on x-box
digital radio
Just about the best digital radio site: uk-dab.info
March 26, 2002
Spamhole - temporary email addresses
Just found SpamHole and it's great. Use in conjunction with a myrealbox address...
March 25, 2002
a new programming language?
haven't heard of this programming language before: euphoria
The Oscars Panel are idiots!
A Beautiful Mind winning best film instead of Lord of the Rings and that Happy Days fool winning best director! Bah!
Last years it was Crouching Tiger, Hidden Tiger that got gibbed, this year LOTR.
At least that cretin Russell Crowe didn't win Best Actor!
March 24, 2002
March 23, 2002
xbox online gaming in the UK
How to do xbox online gaming in the UK
0. Have an x-box, a broadband connection (& pc), a spare network connection and either a crossover cable or a hub.
1. Download & install Gamespy Arcade & Gamespy Tunnel (help)
2. Go to the xbox room in Gamespy Arcade, and either join a game (see caveat below) or host a game.
AFAIK, you have to play against people with the same (territorially speaking) copy of the game - ie: UK PAL. So if you host a game call it something like UK PAL Halo Sid James Server.
And don't use Windows ME, it's buggy as hell. Try XP or 2000.
Also make sure you are using the latest drivers for your network card.
half-life
for everything half-life related: Planet Half-life
release-dates.co.uk
Find out game release dates at release-dates.co.uk & Amazon.co.uk
March 22, 2002
Using SecureCRT with an OpenSSH host
Here's how to convert a SecureCRT key to run on an an OpenSSH host
Generate your key in SecureCRT (Global Options -> SSH2 -> Create Identity File) in RSA format
It will look like this:
---- BEGIN SSH2 PUBLIC KEY ----
Subject: Fred Bloggs
Comment: "Fred Bloggs@giddas"
AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABTTTTgQDE2tAH/hqOF3mA+iIqI+1234/ti8oWcp2KDiJ+
ej4tdKv1YSehncuhEx29lbtiuB9aOromM+T98pEhzRIlob7A3QB6C0eRvNK2V9nG/FFJ
PTVjTSg8l/gXFQccehUEu9hJLnnJnMgsDNZOOwdV+aFddoMOo9etjZW0Ftx+G71jBQ==
---- END SSH2 PUBLIC KEY ----
Upload your key (identity.pub file) to the host.
And convert it and add it to your authorized_keys2 file in one fell swoop.
ssh-keygen -X -f identity.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2
The file will now look like this:
ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABXYFNgQDE2tAH/hqOF3mA+iIqI+4321/ti8oWcp2KDiJ+ej4
tdKv1YSehncuhEx29lbtiuB9aOromM+T98pEhzRIymo7A3QB6C0eRvNK2V9nG/FFJPTVjTSg8l/gX
FQccehUEu9hJLmmJnOrzDNZIPwdV+aFddoMOo9etjFUKOF+G71jBQ==
Oh and make sure
RSAAuthentication yes
is in your sshd_config
UK single & album release schedule
I've been looking for an online UK single & album release schedule for a while
March 21, 2002
levi's running up wall ad
details of the levi's running up wall ad
March 20, 2002
March 19, 2002
are your long links wrapping in email?
Are your long links wrapping in email? Try out makeashorterlink.com.
Unfortunately for http://jamespo.org.uk/weblog/ I got
URL already short:
If we made you a shorter link it would be longer or about the same length, so we're not going to bother.
BAH!
lego rubik's cube solver
This man is the master of lego! lego rubik's cube solver
March 18, 2002
good freeware utilities (500K IMAP & POP3 client!)
good freeware utilities (including a 500K IMAP & POP3 client!) available from memecode
disable cddb in winamp
disable cddb in winamp
Right-click anywere in Winamp. On the menu that comes up, select Options > Preferences. In the new window that comes up, select Setup from the list of categories. It should be the very first one.
In the options that display, find the group labeled Internet settings. Click the radio button next to No internet connection available.
This will make Winamp think that you have no internet connection, so it won't try to connect to any CDDB server. I don't know if there's an option to directly disable CDDB.
a freak
if you queue for an x-box from 5.30 - midnight, you could end up looking like this
March 17, 2002
Liza Minelli gets married
Liza Minelli gets married: Minnelli and long-term bachelor Gest, who collects memorabilia of his betrothed's mother. Are the BBC insinuating something here ;)
fix windows 2000 & XP DNS update
fix windows 2000 & XP DNS update - very annoying for ISPs!
remote control for pc's
remote control for pc's: streamzap. Anyone selling these or similar in the UK?
jlgui - java music player
jlgui a java music player that is fully featured and looks like winamp!
March 15, 2002
Border's bookshop
Alf Garnett Mode=on
Don't you hate the people who seem to be able to make a cup of coffee (if they even buy that) last 3 hours in Border's Bookshop Cafe, whilst reading the entire contents of the store - including magazines they've taken 2 floors up and taking up an entire bloody table!
GRRRRRR! It's even worse than Starbucks
Mainly seems to be European students (studying English). Is the location printed in some Time Out guide for dossers?
March 14, 2002
March 13, 2002
hidden mozilla prefs
hidden mozilla prefs to customize & here
barrel rubber band gun
barrel rubber band gun: 144 bands!
March 12, 2002
adding x-no-archive headers to mozilla newsgroup posts
add this to your Netscape 6 / Mozilla prefs.js
user_pref("mailnews.customHeaders", "X-No-Archive:yes");
It will then appear in the drop-downs. Also works with other headers of course.
commodore 64 sex games
hit 4 & 6 as fast as you can in commodore 64 sex games (I got to the gang-bang, can you?)
March 11, 2002
Palmer chasing Premiership stars
Palmer chasing Premiership stars Who, Michael Owen & David Beckham?
March 10, 2002
March 09, 2002
March 08, 2002
you can send me a yahoo instant message
you can send me a yahoo instant message here (if you're on my friend list that is).
March 07, 2002
March 06, 2002
March 04, 2002
Handy pages for Xft, Xfree86 & Debian
Handy pages for Xft, Xfree86 & Debian: gdkxft.sourceforge.net/README & www.paulandlesley.org/linux/xfree4_tt.htm
March 03, 2002
saving ra streams to wav
saving ra streams to wav in linux (courtesy of a NG post)
It's possible to record realaudio directly into mp3. It's also convenient
if you want to record a 4 hour internet radio program so you can listen on
a portable mp3-cd player.
vsound -s -t realplay sourcefile/URL | sox -V -t au - -t wav -r 44100 -w - | lame --verbose - newfile.mp3
note: you should have vsound 0.5, realplayer, sox, and lame installed.
Also, line 142 in the vsound script needs to be changed:
old: if [ "$verbose" ] && [ "$VSOUND_STDOUT" ]; then
new: if [ "$verbose" = 1 ] && [ "$VSOUND_STDOUT" ]; then
March 02, 2002
great file renaming tool for Windows
great file renaming tool for Windows: Quick File Rename
