TL;DR verzweiflung (GitHub) is a highly pragmatic solution to packet loss in China (and other places) as well as sharing bandwidth with other users altogether – though at a cost. A class based system About three years ago my employer started sending me to China, a magical place where the internet is strangely different. Besides …
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I’ve added the link to the source quite a while ago, but I feel like posting it here as well so php beginners who want to play with Imagemagik can find it, my banner generator is Public Domain now. So you can get it and do whatever you like using it – just don’t blame …
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Since Debians Pidgin has broken protocols and there was a severe security risk I had to rebuild my local Pidgin. This time I made some nice DEBs so you can use them as well. As always my purple plugin pack contains switchspell. 😉 Oh and they’re all 64bit. pidgin_2.6.5-1_amd64.deb purple-plugin-pack_2.6.2-1_amd64.deb bot-sentry_1.3.0-1_amd64.deb pidgin-gfire_0.8.3-1_amd64.deb pidgin-otr_3.2.0-1_amd64.deb
After searching ages for the reason why Youtube HD Flash videos run fine on my laptop (Even two at the same time!) but not on a friends laptop with mostly identical hardware we found out that it’s depending in the installed architecture. Debian Lenny 32bit has major problems playing flash videos (doesn’t matter whether you …
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Since it took me some time to get Ghost++ (v11.4) compiled I made .dep (Debian/Ubuntu) packages for the dependencies and a zip for the ghost binary. gmp_424-1_i386 stormlib_20090131-1_i386 bncsutil_20090131-1_i386 ghost
I’ve just built a package of the latest version for Debian/Ubuntu. It includes switchspell! pidgin-plugin-pack_251-2_i386
I was searching for a way to display exe icons, but the scripts I found were stuffed with useless crap, so I made my own. You need the icoutils. (“sudo apt-get install icoutils”) Then just run my shellscript (“sh WindowsIconsForGnome.sh“) or doubleclick it in GNOME. It looks like this:
I wasted hours trying to compile the switchspell plugin for pidgin. Since I am social and want to prevent others from doing the same, I share my .deb with you. (includes all the other plugins from the purple/pidgin plugin pack that worked with the latest pidgin. Download (Install just as normal: “sudo dpkg -i purple-plugin-pack_240-1_i386.deb”)
I’ve recently updated my dynamic banner and added a generator as well as an url encoding/compression. Just visit http://dekar.wc3edit.net/banner.php and feel free to use them everywhere you like. It’s still beta, but it should work without any problems anyway. If you encounter any bugs, please email me or post them as comment!
English: AVM recently released an update for one of their popular (at least in Germany) Fritz!Box router. This beta firmware update allows you to force Fast-Path on, without paying for it! Fast-Path is a technique to boost your pings, that’s why it was sold as an add on for pc gamers in the past. If …
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