Jared0×90

See my geeks links page for a new way to track UPS packages with google maps. There used to be a way to do this with GreaseMonkey but UPS killed it. Now this site does it without having to download greasemonkey. Very cool!

Update 11/25/2006 - IOFAST has been offering this service for quite some now. It is the only one I have seen that is written using Google Maps API v2. Still needs a little work to be solid in IE but Firefox renders it 100% accurately.

I wrote up a quick CRC16 routine tonight for VB. Check it out in the source code section. Also I made a list of common of phone star (*) codes a few days ago that is also available from the main menu.

In Wireless Advanced:

1. Turned on Afterburner
2. Xmit Power to 55mW. Default is 28. Safe is 70. I wanted to be real safe so I chose 55.

In Administration -> Management:

1. Under IP Filter Settings:

Maximum Ports 4096
TCP Timeout 120
UDP Timeout 120

These settings were mentioned by brianslayer Author of DDWRT

Just to confirm DDWRT does work on the WRT54GL and holy crap is it bad ass!! I turned on SpeedBooster and raised the transmit power!

I have started a mirrors subdomain with mirrors of interesting finds and hard to get files I come across. Check it out on the main menu might find some cool stuff.

I released code edit pro 0.6.1 here are some brief details:

0.6.1
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-Find definition! Will find the definition of whatever is selected with your mouse.
Best way to do this is double click the variable, label, etc and hit F4 on your
keyboard!

0.6.0
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-Code Edit Pro Project Files (.apj) are now associated with Code Edit Pro.
-Added some new keywords to HCS12 highlighting ABA,RMB,DB,DW
-Hitting escape on the search code files search form closes the window properly.
-Comment code updated
-Control S works while a file has focus to save.
-Control Shift C and Control Shift V to block comment and uncomment
-Renaming of most forms/modules. This initially started off as a simple project but now
as it seems to be gaining some popularity I think it might benefit from a little more
structure.
-Miraculously still just 29KB exe!

Apparently McAffee decided to make a virus out of their antivirus scanner today. The company released a dat file that either quarantined or erased numerous files on consumer’s PCs that were not actually a virus. Some of the better ones include excel.exe and uninstall.exe. If you are interested in writing antivirus software there might be some openings at McAfee. See the full article here

For some reason I decided to google GPG thunderbird tonight and started reading about a plugin called enigMail. After I spent about 10 minutes reading about the plugin and how it worked with GPG I decided to give it a go. I downlaoded and isntalled the latest version of GPG (1.4.2.2) which I had to obtain from a mirror and then downloaded the enigmail plugin for thunderbird. After installing the plugin and restarting thunderbird I went through the wizard that enigmail provides. Everything went seemless and before I knew it I had my own PGP public key and thunderbird all set to send emails with all of my accounts. I must say after trying to do the same thing with outlook express many years ago this process has improved immensely. Google enigMail and GPG for some quick tutorials.