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18Feb/080

Apparently I’m hosting dodgy content

I just performed a quick search on Google for a couple of keywords I knew appeared on my website and discovered the following:

Google Error

Apparently, the information about building a traffic shaper may harm your computer if you view it!  Err, I think not!  I've submitted a review request to Google and StopBadware.org to figure out WTFs happening here.

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4Dec/070

Native DivX/Xvid support on the Xbox 360!

AT LAST!

After a quick cleanup of my WMP 11 library, I fired up the Xbox 360 and found all the videos on my PC are playable!  Maybe I can finally get rid of the old Xbox 1 brick from underneath the TV...

Filed under: Tech, Xbox No Comments
24Sep/073

Building a transparent traffic-shaping bridge

I've recently had the need to create a box capable of transparently traffic-shaping traffic across a single ethernet connection.

Normally, I'd go for some kind of Linux solution, but after doing a bit of research it looked like one of the BSD's with pf/ALTQ would be the way to go. After trying out a couple of popular ready-made "appliances" (m0n0wall, pfsense) I decided that the best, most flexible way, would be to get my hands dirty and roll my own.

This post is just a quick summary of the active configuration at the time of writing, mainly for my future reference. So, without further ado, here's what I came up with...

[Updated]

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12Jun/070

First glimpse of iD’s Tech 5 hits Youtube

The following was filmed yesterday at Apples WWDC conference.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvuTtrkVtns

At last! iD is producing a game engine than can handle outdoor areas and is actually LIT for a change! :)

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31May/070

Testing Windows Live Writer

This is just a quick test post written using the new Windows Live Writer beta.

As I'm writing this, I'm looking at a WYSIWYG view of pretty much what my post will look like on the site - Complete with CSS styles etc applied.

Windows_Live_Writer_Beta

Seems pretty funky and so far is much nicer to use than the WordPress built-in editor.

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