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To Compress Or Not, Part III

Read the rest of this series: Part IPart IIPart IIIBack in Part II, I did some time tests to see the differences between reading and writing compressed and uncompressed files. One factor that I did not...

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ABR Reaches 1.0

ABR (Vista Activation Backup & Restore) has finally reached 1.0!It's been working great for a long beta period, except for one minor bug that was fixed with this release. I also added a silent...

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Converting video for iPhone/iPod

Converting video for the iPhone (3G) or iPod (Classic) using mencoder:Basic batch file:set VBITRATE=500set ABITRATE=128set INFILE=inputfile.avimencoder -mc 0.2 "%INFILE%" -of lavf -lavfopts format=mp4...

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A Subtle Form Of Spam

It seems there's a new kind of spam around (though maybe not that new... I've been noticing it for a while now and just got around to posting about it). Normally we think of spam as junk email, or if...

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The Real Hot Chocolate

There's a perception that the powdered hot chocolate that comes in a packet or canister is not the "real" hot chocolate, and that instead "real" hot chocolate must be made from chocolate syrup, or by...

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Slashdot response: How To Argue That Open Source Software Is Secure?

This question was recently posted on Slashdot: How To Argue That Open Source Software Is Secure?Smidge207 writes "Lately there has been a huge push by Certified Microsoft Professionals and their...

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The Brilliance of Bag-Check Fees

It's been a while since most airlines started charging fees for checked baggage. The first time I flew since this started, I had forgotten about it and was a bit surprised when the kiosk prompted me...

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ABR Beta With Windows 7 Support

I just posted a beta version of ABR with Windows 7 support. I have not been able to test it myself (no access to OEM Windows 7 at the moment), but I have had a few beta testers who reported it worked...

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SSH Agent Proxy Between Cygwin and Pageant

Charade ssh-agent proxy to Pageant (PuTTY)Allows ssh in a cygwin session to use SSH keys loaded in Pageant, replacing functionality of the ssh-agent. Allows you to maintain one copy of SSH keys that...

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World IPv6 Day

The press is not doing a very good job of explaining the purpose of IPv6 day.The problem with enabling IPv6 on web sites is that some implementations on desktop OSes did not handle fallback to IPv4...

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