Computer Stuff

  • Firefox VoIP Extension

    Working as a Firefox extension or as an autonomous app, the Abbeynet Firefox VoIP Extension is a fully fledged SIP user agent. It hasn’t been officially released, but you get more info and download it on Luca Filigheddu blog – Abbeynet’s CEO – ICT Operations. Meanwhile, I’m downloading it 馃檪 [tags]Firefox VoIP Extension, Abbeynet, Firefox,

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  • Help, I Want a Wiki!

    I need a wiki, the question is: which one? I’ve googled it and there’s plenty of stuff out there, but I want something that runs on well on PHP/MySQL and fully customizable. Wetpaint looks very good but I want to host the wiki on my server, so any advice is welcomed. Thanks! [tags]wiki, Wetpaint[/tags]

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  • Best Firefox Extension EVER!

    Once in a while you might come across a site full of files you need to download. It’s a piece of cake as long as the number of files to download it’s not more than, let’s say… 10. But if you have 20, 40 or more download links to click on a page it can

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  • Opera 9 Final

    Opera 9 is finally out! I’ve been following the beta for some time and I praise the work they‘ve been doing. With a little more support from a strong community, Opera could be the next “Firefox”. [tags]Opera, Opera 9, Browsers, Firefox[/tags]

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  • The Numbers Stations

    My last post was a little challenge: a ciphered message with an url inside. All you had to do was to convert the binary code, reverse the text and decode the string with the ROT-13 cipher. You would then get http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/06/16/cryptanalysis-of-phone-numbers-stations/ (as Bruno did very well). Besides the little challenge, the point of that post

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  • DNS and the B(L)IND

    I recently changed my domain to this server. Everything went well except for the pain on the behind that was the DNS. After wating more than 72 hours for the TLDs to update (with no sucess), I had to change the DNS server where my domain was registred (again). Another problem I came across was

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  • Picasa Web Albums – Google’s take on Flickr

    I asked myself this question every day “Why Google didn’t came up with Flickr?” Today I got an invitation to Picasa Web Albums, a Flickr like site to use solo or with Picasa. The free account comes with 250MB of free storage space. For $25.00 per year, you can get a more 6GB of storage.

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