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Entries from December 2004

Spam Stopgap Extreme

December 31st, 2004 · 1 Comment

I woke up this morning to find over 50 emails in my inbox notifying me that someone commented on this blog. Of course they were all spam and none of the comments actually made it through the blacklist, but it was still annoying. Sure, I could turn off the email notification, but then I wouldn’t [...]

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Tags: General

Help Support Earthquake and Tsunami Victims

December 29th, 2004 · No Comments

Congrats go out to Apple, Amazon, and Google for placing links on their front page to Aid programs which will go towards helping those in East Asia affected by the earthquake and subsequent tsunami.
Where are YOU, Microsoft?!?

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Tags: General

Pac-Mondrian

December 28th, 2004 · No Comments

Play Pac Mondrian.

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Tags: Random Linkage

Christmas Eve Haiku

December 24th, 2004 · No Comments

Got a good night sleep
I Still have to wrap presents
Brrr it’s cold outside.

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Tags: General

Cryptography

December 17th, 2004 · No Comments

GCHQ, British secret service agency, has released a cryptography challenge. Looks like it might not be that hard.
Other Cryptography Links

Perl Frequency Analyzer – Find out which characters appear the most.
Perl Caeser Cipher Decrypter
Various other cryptography links

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Tags: Programming

Small P2P apps

December 15th, 2004 · No Comments

TinyP2P is a 15 line Python script which creates a “small world” p2p file sharing network. Someone has responded with a 9 line Perl script which does the same.

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Tags: General

Take Cygwin with you

December 15th, 2004 · 1 Comment

Now you can take Cygwin with you where ever you go.

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Tags: Linux · Random Linkage