notes
This area of the site is a collection of notes, usually
of a technical nature, that might possibly be of general
interest.
Git Simple script that demonstrates
very simple command-line Git repository management
SSH and scp workaround for
the latest round of idiocy from A Small Orange
FCGI configuration - when your
web hosting service breaks your FCGI functionality and
can't (or wont) fix it, try fixing it yourself with
adjustments to your Apache config file.
8 page booklet template - a
print-ready grid for making 8-page booklets. Very neat!
Windows 7 Password Reset - Forgot
your Windows 7 account password? Have a Windows 7 recovery disk?
No problem - reset that account password in minutes.
Animal Crossing - Tips and tricks
for the Nintendo "Animal Crossing" game
AOL Images - Sick and tired of
AOL feeding you ".ART" files instead of real image files?
Automounter Configuration -
Resolving unwanted automount of /usr/local and /opt/sfw
Baked Beans -
a most excellent recipe for baked beans
Bass Guitar - Notes on
learning to play the electric bass guitar.
AOL 'main.idx' File Recovery
- A simple repair operation for a serious AOL malfunction.
Crash your Internet Explorer
- how to make Internet Explorer explode by feeding it
just five lines of HTML!
Ham Radio
- amateur ("ham") radio links and resources
Disk Hog
- simple Perl script to report disk space consumption
on a Unix file system
Dual Heads on Solaris
- configuring a Solaris box for dual-monitor display
favicon.ico -
what it is, how to make one, over 100 sample icons
FireFox Prefetch Setting -
By default, the FireFox browser does some page prefetching that
might get you in trouble. Turn this feature off!
Hacking Chip's Challenge -
a silly little Windows game, a bored programmer - and a
hack written in BASIC that shows all the passwords for each
level!
Hacking the Highway -
"Mennonite"'s guide to hacking highway display signs
ladder -
an ancient ASCII platformer game originally written for CP/M and ported to Java
lunch -
lunch options in east Boulder
mmencode -
simple C utility that MIME-encodes binary files for
transmission via sendmail
Mounting ISO Image Files -
how to mount an ISO image file as a file system on Solaris
PHOENIX -
an extremely fast and powerful free-form Oracle
data extraction utility written in Pro*C
PostScript -
simple tips and tricks in PostScript
Powershell -
a simple guide to Windows Powershell
prtdiag -
a handy little Solaris utility that describes your machine
Samba share -
a minimal Samba share definition for sharing Unix directories
with Windows users on the network
Sim Tower Hack - embezzle
$200,000,000 and set your star level to anything you want,
just by uploading your .tdt game file and saving the result!
Sims Cheats - various codes and
techniques for use on the Sims game
Solaris USB Support - my
ongoing adventures in trying to hook a digital
camera up to a Solaris 9 machine via USB
Spray cans -
don't leave them in a hot car! (with pictures)
SSI Banner Rotation -
pseudo-random rotation of banner graphics, text, or
any page components, for that matter
HTML Symbols -
add weird symbols like ∞ , © , ® , and ∴
to your pages and forum postings
Unable to open ToolTalk channel -
how to get around this error and run X applications on remote
systems
vistium - The Great Vistium Video Hack
Wallpaper for CDE - experimenting with
backdrop images on Solaris CDE desktops
rsync - notes and examples of various
kinds of exotic things you can do with rsync
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