Archive for March 2007

Domain Names Are Fun

I had fun with domain names tonight. I wanted to find all 4 letter domain names that start with pb that were available. I tried doing a whois lookup for each one, but that never would work right, so I just did a DNS lookup for each one. If it didn't resolve, I assumed it [...]

Acunetix

I brought out Acunetix to test the script that I'm writing. It's a pretty noisy web vulnerability scanner that tests for XSS, SQL Injection, server vulnerabilities, and other things that just shouldn't be around. I'm not going to reveal too much about my script, but it consists of a user system, private messaging, posting with [...]

BB Code Parser

I've been looking for a good BBCode parser, and never really found any good ones that were small, easy to deploy, and worked properly. They were either really large, required the whole class deal, or just didn't work right. All the str_replace method ones don't account for non closed tags, so an open [b] will [...]

Scripts

BB Code Parser – Parses BB Code correctly without using classes.
Maple Command Generator – Will create commands to use with Maple. Can create commands for most things done in Calculus I, II, and III.
Game Script – This is an adsense ready script for a flash game site. Demo is here.
Custom Style Generator – This would [...]

Sites

DiabloOwners.com – Owners Group for Diablo Paintball Guns. Needs to have the code revamped.
OnyxOwners.com – Mainly bought to prevent one company from snatching it up. Just random cat pics now (or see all the kitties!). Available for non-profit use.
RicksNutone.com – Site written for my uncle's company. One of the first websites I made.
PbBucket.com – Paintball [...]

Adobe Apollo Alpha is out

Been meaning to write about this, but have just been really busy. Apollo is a Rich Internet Application (RIA), that allows you to build desktop apps using HTML, JavaScript, Flex, and other web technologies. There are a few samples of applications that can be made on the sample page. Really, it looks pretty neat, [...]

Netfirms Friendly Url Fix

So I was searching around for Netfirms plus some other terms and happened across this nice thread. The third to last post shows a nice, simple fix for it, just edit your .htaccess file with this code:
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c%gt;
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !index.php
RewriteRule (.*) /index.php/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
It just works [...]

I've found a reason to use Vista

Wireshark works with it!
That might not be impressive all by itself, but my damn wireless card had never worked with it. I guess the Netgear drivers just suck that much, since we already know they don't do 64 bit drivers. But Vista's default driver for it seems to do the job. Sweet. Now I [...]

Viacom Sues Google Over YouTube for $1 Billion

We all knew this was coming, especially since Viacom was getting all uppity about it pulling 100k of their videos, starting their own video site, and then making a deal with Joost. So now, they've sued them for a cool $1 Billion. Nothing like a lawsuit being a nice round number instead of being an [...]

Ubuntu Time v2

Two new install disks

x86 still the same, and x86_64 doesn't look any better

But hey, what's this OEM install mode? Let's try that.

It worked!

After some work, I got the web.

But TV out still doesn't work

Which is basically a killer for me, and the fact that it's 64 bit is causing more problems than good. Not sure [...]