Archive for 'Misc'

Clearing the traffic history in DD-WRT micro

I have been using the DD-WRT micro firmware on my (crappy) Linksys WRT54GS v6 for about 4 years and, so far, it has worked great. Unfortunately, a couple of days ago it started acting up: The WPA algorithm in the Wireless security section would re-set itself to TKIP Wireless connections would become increasing slow Overall performance [...]

TuneLink: An almost perfect Bluetooth proxy for your car

TuneLink

Please note that I have never reviewed a product, so bare with me. But I truly felt this one deserved one, so, here it goes. You can find the review I posted at Amazon here: Amazon Review Permalink.

The Untouchables 2013

PBS FRONTLINE investigates why Wall Street’s leaders have escaped prosecution for any fraud related to the sale of bad mortgages. Scarier than The Exorcist!

Enabling additional command prompt fonts

Command Prompt Fonts

I’ve always wondered why there are so few fonts available for the command prompt, knowing that I have many mono-spaced fonts installed. So, doing some research (yes, googling) I found this trick: Stupid Geek Tricks: Enable More Fonts for the Windows Command Prompt As with many cool configuration tricks in Windows, it involves editing the [...]

Brainfuck compiler, interpreter and debugger written in VB.NET

VBBrainF.NET (A BrainFuck Compiler)

Why? Well, why not? If you don’t know what Brainfuck is, well, it might very well be the most popular and well know of the esoteric programming languages. I had originally developed this piece of complete uselessness and utterly nonsense before Microsoft released the .NET framework. I remember this being the very first VB6 program [...]