Dear Comcast…

…We’ve had a relationship that isn’t bad. I sometimes think you ask me for too much money, but you do deliver a good service overall, and it’s dependable. I’ve worked at an ISP before, and I know how hard that really is, you must have a team that care about your network very much. These extra [...]

Building wireshark

If you were wanting to build wireshark on your shiny new install of Leopard, so that you can sniff the packets going to stumbleupon.com for example, you would find that macports won’t do it. The tiff library won’t compile on Leopard.
A little searching has an even better solution:

http://www.christian-hornung.de/ a version of wireshark that has ben [...]

VectorMagic

http://vectormagic.stanford.edu/
this is friggin’ handy if you’ve ever needed to embiggen an image.

Some things didn’t get old with me

I thought Pokemon where a pre-teen fad a decade ago. I had always looked at it as some random Japanese crap that relied on marketing for sales, and that it had all finished more than five years ago.
Well that’s not the case, as I now find that I am having to read about the rules [...]

Craking the stumbler

As a project, I would like to write a script to go to all of the porn pages in stumbleupon and save the contents to my hard drive. It looks like the stumbler api has been decoded by several different people. In fact there is a huge list of stumble addons (list your stumbles in [...]