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Did it… about two weeks ago. Works awesome… though, I do realize now that the iTrip kills my battery… horray for the car charger.
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[Geeks are Sexy] technology news: Save money: How to make your own Ethernet patch cord.
[Geeks are Sexy] technology news: Save money: How to make your own Ethernet patch cord.
Patch cord making… for reference. Another good tip… write the damn schematic on the box that holds the wire. So you don’t have to reference anything in the future.
You’ll carry the box with you, and you can do it easily enough. -
bluemountain trip #2
Fear and adrenaline are hand in hand.
I guess when adrenaline rushes through you veins, you feel alive. Even if you get injured, you’re able to recover, walk it off, and continue.
Case in point, my half pipe incident. The pipe at blue mountain isn’t a bad place as all, it’s a little icy, but the transition is wide enough, that beginners can learn.
Anyways, I hit the front side wall, no problem. Get good height, come back, backside wall. Good landing as well. Ooops… picking up lots of speed… hit the front side again… WOW! nice height.
Over compensate for the height, and catch an edge. Somehow I accelerated my knee into the flat of the pipe, and well… got some images to show.
I guess that’s why some things are enjoyable to do. The release of endorphins is euphoric. -
Cryptography: JavaScript MD5: Login System
Paj’s Home: Cryptography: JavaScript MD5: Login System
Hmm… thought in my head.
Server
$Server_Pass_Hash // Server has a hash of the users password, retrieved from a database.
var $Date = now(); // Current date as of the moment now()
Server sends the $Date to the client browser.
Client side
Client types in the password in an <input type=”password”> box. $Client_Password.
use a JS function called Hash(value) to generate a hash.
$temp = Hash($Client_Password);
$Client_Hashed_password = Hash($temp + $Date);
Send both back to server.
$Client_Hashed_password
$Date
Sever checks to see if the $Date is less than 2 minutes old (or whatever). If bad, redo, else…
Server computes
$chk = Hash ($Server_Password_Hash + $Date);
if ($chk == $Client_Hashed_password)
//then allow into the system, via a session ID.
[update]
After typing the above, it scares me a little to know that I can have a coherant thought like that. The flow works. -
Art of the flamer
I’ve been using the internet since my grade 10 year… after purchasing an account from www.io.org many years ago. “Internet Online” was the company name.
I’ve always seem flamers/trolls just general jackasses that most are accustomed to. These people would never say the things they do online… the anonymity is the trouble. What fear do they have? Maybe if we post everyone’s IP that post the crap they do.
I know I’ve done it in the past… maybe it’s just a bad day, who knows. -
SHOES!
Well, the recent event at Ken’s was fun. Jan 7th was a nice gather of people at his place.
However, someone walked off with my shoes… It was a mystery for like 2 weeks.
Rob, Dave’s cousin, was a little too drunk to realize that he walked off with MY pair of shoes. Dave msg’d me a couple of days ago, to tell me that he founds them, and apologized.
I thought it was funny. Rob was a little wasted to realize what he was doing what so ever.
Ken now just msg’d me that my shoes have returned.
horray.
Funny life I live. -
Hamachi : Stay Connected
Hamachi : Stay Connected
Wow… a FREE vpn like service. I wonder will this work behind my school’s firewall?
hamachi is so easy to setup. It’s just another network adapter, with a private network setup. Making stuff work just so easily…
you’re hooked up to the network, like ICQ, with just another layer. Speeds aren’t too bad either.
So, all clients hook up to the a central server to get communication information, and then you’re able to connect to the clients without issue.
Now, it’d be nice if I could actually somehow lose the central server hookup. But I’m not complaining if it’ll allow me to go from:
laptop -> hamachi -> vnc 128bit encryption client -> vnc server -> hamachi -> workstation.
a few layers… yup. But currently school is filtering out ports 5800… so I don’t feel like digging to find out what ports are open to me. So hopefully hamachi will solve this problem. I’ll know this evening if I go to class. -
Blogcritics.org: I'm A Programmer, Not A Computer Guy
Blogcritics.org: I’m A Programmer, Not A Computer Guy
The above link is a good read. Correlations between a programmer and a “computer guy” being one and the same works out well. I guess I am one and the same as well. (more…) -
Customer Support, better business
I don’t know if it’s the holiday spirit or what.
When I spoke with both Apple and HP Customer support, I noticed a huge difference. Apple was kind of normal, nonchalant, didn’t care kinda voice but still no hint of disdain. While HP was very helpful, I would even say pleasant, and made me laugh. It was a fun conversation with the tech support woman on the other line.
HP has always been actually a pretty decent company, but more on that later in this post.
I decided that after my iPod died, I was going to buy another one, even though I only had it for a few months… maybe it’s just cause I love the damn thing so much, or that I have no audio CDs, and I’m tired of hearing ‘Nickleback – photographs’ on the radio being played on 3 of my presets, in succession… gah, I know it’s a good song, but you can only take hearing a song soo many times in a day. Reminds me of that Celine Dion titanic song… “Celine Dion – my heart will go on”… that I think at the time would have been 5 preset radio stations.
Went into the apple store, picked up a 30gig 5th gen… asked about a skin/cover… no skins. So I just put it back down. I remember what happened to my iPod without one… a TON of scratches with just normal use. That plastic on the iPod just sucks…
Back to the tale…
I called apple, apple said they don’t support HP iPods… [I can understand why… but common, it’s your logo on the back of the damn thing too, you can’t help with trouble shooting??]. They did give me the HP tech support number, so I called that.
I talked to the lady, and we discussed for like 5 minutes how the serial number on the back of the iPod is not in the database. And she was super nice, to open a ticket for me… after some troubleshooting and joking around about the iPod sad icon/glyph, and the not so funny sound that my ipod was making. “high pitched whine, and then click, click, and cycles/restarts”
Dead iPod… 🙁
But HP is going to replace it for me. sweet. i’m happy about that.
In the past, HP tech support was awesome as well… maybe not the quality of the product itself, but the support was grand. I had an HP CD writer (4x2x8x), and it died just a month after the warrantee expired. I called up HP to see if there was any trouble shooting I could do with it, they did the trouble shooting and it was determined it was dead.
Sent the writer in, and whammo I got a new on in the mail.
Unfortunately it was a DOA unit.
Exchanged it again.
This time a good unit, but died like within 90 days.
Exchanged again.
This time I didn’t even take it out of the packaging, and let it go to someone I knew. They were more than happy to have a new burner that was 4x… This is back in summer of 1997…
Anyways, so I stayed away from HP for a while, after the quality issue was in my standards, sub par. Though the customer service was great.
I think I’m just randomly blogging right now… but hey… oh well. 🙂 It’s my blog, not yours. Want to complain, start your own. I have hosting for you at $132USD/yr. 🙂 hehe
