TOOLS, TINKERINGS & CODE
Greetings once again folks.
It appears to be that time again, Internode have released a new customer tools API – which means at some time in the future the old one will be discontinued.
As a result, I’ve updated (re-written) Node Usage – which is now on it’s 4th version.
New Features
It is a little slower now as it has to perform 3 requests, I’m afraid that can’t be avoided.
Requirements
Installation
You only have one option this time – the script is twice as long as the last version so I’m not going to post it here.
First, be sure to unload your existing NodeUsage before you load this one – in the menu bar of mIRC, click on the Commands menu, go down to NodeUsage 3, click Unload
Download the current version of the script from here and save it into your mIRC directory (newer versions have a scripts directory under the mIRC one, you should place it there)
Once you have saved it, pop into mIRC and run /load -rs NodeUsage.mrc (or for newer versions /load -rs scripts\NodeUsage.mrc)
Note
There will be updates in the coming days and weeks to bring it up to full compliance with the specifications and add help for the templating, the script will prompt you to update if there are updates, you can also check manually using /nodeusage.checkupdate
You know, a good 80% of the traffic to my website is directed at that page, yet almost none of my ad revenue comes from it…
While I’m fully prepared that some people have adblock installed, it’d be real nice if you guys would white list my site – I’m only using google adwords it’s not like I’m using something that’s obnoxious and nasty – You never know, you might see a relevant and interesting advertisement.
So anyway, I’m contemplating setting it up on it’s own domain/subdomain and turning it into more of an application – perhaps even loading some specifically targeted ad banners locally hosted.
What do you think?
I’d like to take some time to introduce you to a cool free tool I found – Bitvise Tunnelier
Having just got my netbook setup and running (MSI Wind U100+ BTW), I wanted to provide a slightly more secure setup then just using my 3G provider – easiest way is a ssh tunnel to home with port forwarding
If I was running Linux on my netbook, it’d be easy – just background a ssh process. Windows makes it a little more difficult, so after a little Googling, I tried a couple of other things – but have pretty much fallen in love with this tool.
Once you configure your host and load your ssh key, it pretty much maintains the connection by it’s self sitting in the tray.
It’s list of features include connecting and maintaining a ssh tunnel, maintaining port forwards (both as a pair of static lists, and dynamic socks5 forwarding), persistent sftp graphical interface, and terminal emulator
I do have a few items on my wishlist tho.
With regards to the second item on that list, there’s probably some commandline parameters I havn’t found yet (not that I’ve been looking)
If you’re looking for the ability to automatically maintain a ssh tunnel in windows, this is probably going to be #1 on my list for a long time.
Green has become the color of choice for the protesters in Iran, red is quickly becoming the color shed.
In support of these protesters, and protesters from all around the world I have turned cryptohash.net green and created this banner:
Large PNG
Small PNG
Feel free to use and re-use these banners.
If any one can reach any Iranians who need a secure gateway to post news, videos, and twit – please contact me I have facilities to allow a small number of ssh users to do dynamic port forwarding (Socks 5 proxy).
Greetings.
Just thought I’d let you know that I spent a couple of hours making cryptohash.net a little faster, a little meaner and a little smaller.
Through the use of APC (Advanced PHP Cache) it now caches the generated page and all the functions pulled from mcrypt. using the tightest of tight css files I’ve reduced the download, and shrinking 3 whole bytes off the images was also achieved.
I was also thoughtful enough to provide a notice for the 500 odd IE6 users that have visited this month – STOP USING IT!
All in all the improvements mean the average page downloads in less then 6 seconds on a 56k modem
So for all your SHA/MD5/etc/etc/etc needs, feel free to pop on over to “cryptohash.net“http://cryptohash.net