Sometimes you encounter a web task that is soooo boring you'd wish you had robot doing it for you. I encountered a few of those during this summer so I figured out it was time to acquire some Web Scraping and Automation Ninja skillz.
Turned out it's fairly easy, thanks to very useful libraries made for [...]
Couple of years ago I bought a Contoured Kinesis Keyboard due to a carpal tunnel syndrome (or at least my thumb was starting to feel numb on a regular basis).
I can't tell you, in spite of its very strange look, how wonderful this keyboard is. Not only it solved my pain/sensation issues, but it's really [...]
Just a small post to point to an article bunnie [1] wrote about the virus Influenza A : On Influenza A by bunnie.
This article should be of interest for people with a background in computer sciences but little knowledge in biology. It offers some funny/interesting computer sciences comparisons which should be of pedagogic interests for [...]
Hello,
I think it's time I go back to basics and post something a little bit technical on this blog, which was the original intent of this blog anyway, should I remind everyone .
So we're going to talk about magnetic cards. We all have at least half a dozen of them, if not more, and [...]
That's it, my 2nd year of med' school just finished, the 3rd year will begin this coming September.
I didn't have much time during this year to give any updates to those who still cares, so here is a small overview of this past few months:
I've been busy helping the association which mentors first year students
As [...]
If like me, you'd like to be able to switch between Safari (which has been improved quite a lot recently) and Firefox (which is annoyingly slow and memory greedy... to say the least), here is a nice app, called All Browser Bookmarks, to share bookmarks between Safari and Firefox. And it's free!
Their description quite says [...]
Here is a nice video of the CCC Camp 2007 which took place last summer.
Chaos Communication Camp 2007 Documentary Video
(here is an alternate link if this one is too slow)
The mood and general feeling were just incredible there. While watching, you could pay attention at 00:24:30 for instance *cough*
Furthermore, you'll find very good [...]
Sometimes hacking is really too simple...
You could try this google query for example:
http://www.google.com/search?q=ext%3Aica+planvue
Reference: http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/citrix-owning-the-legitimate-backdoor/
So, "recently" my ISP started to block outgoing connection to port 25 and force SMTP auth in an attempt to reduce spam. So far so good, but I just realized that they embed the real login in the header:
X-ME-User-Auth: my-real-login
So much for my privacy and anonymity...
Note for the spam bots: just google "X-ME-User-Auth" to get [...]
Like this guys, I had my 2 hours of fun while trying to make my airport express works with the Orange's livebox (I have the inventel version).
I never had any problems with it before (it was paired with an airport extreme base station), but since I recently moved back to France, I had to configure [...]