PingTunnel Improvements: Win32 & Syslog
For anyone interested in clever networking hacks, I strongly advise checking out ptunnel. This software package allows you to tunnel any TCP (such as SSH) over a ICMP (i.e., ping). Since even the most...
View ArticleSerCat released
I've released a replacement for both LogSer and ToSer called SerCat. It supports both stdin and stdout, and provides very basic terminal emulation (no arrow keys or functions keys yet).
View ArticleWorking Portable Ubuntu with Jaunty (9.04)
I recently discovered (courtesy of Ubuntu Geek Portable Ubuntu, a Portable Windows application which uses Cooperative Linux [version 0.7.3] to run a Linux kernel as a Windows process! I was very...
View ArticleHebrewDates fix for WordPress 3.0 (2010 theme)
There's a fix out for Hebrew Dates, which correctly supports the 2010 theme used by default in WordPress 3.0. Now dates generated by either the_date() or get_the_date() are supported. The new version...
View ArticleNew Hebrew Dates (2.0) released!
When it rains, it pours... I just rewrote most of HebrewDates. The new version is 2.0.0, and is available at the Hebrew Dates release page. There's basically no reason to use yesterday's 1.0.4 release....
View ArticleVortlach for Parshas Ki Savo
I've decided to start writing down some interesting comments that I've seen on the the פרשה. I don't know if this will continue or not; we'll see... כ"ו:ד' -- ולקח הכהן הטנא מידך: The רמב"ם rules that...
View ArticleVortlach for Parshas Nitzavim / Vayelech
הנסתרות לה' אלקינו והנגלות לנו ולבנינו עד עולם לעשות את כל דברי התורה הזאת The כתב סופר sees these two categories as referring to the two possible times for משיח to come. The hidden one is the fixed...
View ArticleVortlach for Parshas Haazinu
יערף כמטר לקחי ר' שמחה בונם מפשיסכה notes that תורה is compared to the rain; just like there is no visible effect from the rain when it falls, but only afterwards when plants sprout and begin to grow,...
View ArticleLaser Microscope
When I came across Teravolt's Laser Microscope, I decided that this was something I had to try. For his setup, he used a 250mW laser. While I don't have anything near that dangerous cool, I do have a...
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