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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.

For those interested in electronics a professor in Maryland has been selling a cheap LCD controller on the order of a few bucks. You can buy a whole kit with backlit screen for about 30 bucks. It has been pretty fun to play with thus far and could be used for projects like a system resource monitor or displaying RSS feed titles.

Last night I was getting fed up with Azureus. I had got used to it killing the performance of my computer when it’s in heavy use but ever since the most recent update it along with Java decides to completely freeze my machine to the point where the mouse is no longer responsive whenever I try to exit. So I unistalled everything - all the Java versions I have along with Azureus, rebooting several times along the way as I was asked. So I start fresh go ahead and follow the FAQ on how everything should be installed and what do you know? A complete meltdown again.

Time to find a better solution. bitComet is available but I have read a lot of sour posts from people about it’s ability to actually disable certain functions even when you have them disabled which leave me with the feeling of what gives?? So I have been hearing of µTorrent for a while now (pronounced micro torrent for those not in the know) so I decided to give it a whirl. Holy crap this thing rules. The entire program is just a standalone exe that, in it’s current 1.4 stable release, weighs in at 130KB.

This kind of took me by surprise at first as I failed to read the instructions. Maybe I was thinking it is just a really tiny installer for a really tiny program. When you double click on the exe it fires right up and asks you if you want to associate torrent files with it and will create the association to it’s current location if you say yes. For some reason the idiot inside me decided to click on yes even though I had the exe on my desktop. Well I closed the program and made a folder for it in Program Files (x86) and dropped it in there. When I ran it again it must have noticed the association was invalid (as it was pointing to the desktop) and asked me if I wanted to associate it with torrent files again. Very cool.

There are still a lot of things I love about Azureus and I will keep it on most computers I use but I think for the most part I will be switching to uTorrent. The plus side about writing Azureus in Java is that it will run on more operating systems than just windows which is currently the only platform uTorrent runs on. The performance appears to be spectacular compared to azureus probably largely due to the fact it is not running on top of Java. One of the great this about Azureus is the auto update ability but I have read a few sites online that claim that uTorrent auto update takes less than 5 seconds from start to finish including downloading the update and restarting the client. I don’t think Azureus can even start in that amount of time! It seems like the designer of uTorrent modeled it after Azureus as a slimmed down version that would be PC only.

Head over to µTorrent’s website and check it out.

I released a “Spyware Attack Pack” on De-Blander.com. I know it is not life altering but it just has a group of good standalone tools I usually download at one point or another when working on a computer that has been crapped on by spyware.