Sagacious Himself — now with humility - brevity in circumlocution

May 13, 2008

a.viary phoenix

Filed under: DARPA — Sagacious Himself @ 6:59 pm

aviary phoenix

May 6, 2008

extensions.customizegoogle.misc.filtercolor

Using the preference “extensions.customizegoogle.misc.filtercolor” in about:config you can control
the color of a filtered URL. If it’s not there, you’ll have to create it. The default color is grey (”#aaaaaa”).
This way you can make it disappear (”#ffffff”) or stand out (”#ff8000″).

Ideal for making wikipedia, itself a neologism, vanish from results

April 25, 2008

picresize.com - crop and text

Filed under: DARPA, online image editor — Tags: , — Sagacious Himself @ 8:56 am

NO layers

http://gui.picresize.com/picresize2/

upload, crop, add text, save as PNG or transload to flickr

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snipshot.com - great for quick cropping

Filed under: DARPA — Tags: , , , , — Sagacious Himself @ 8:48 am

snipshot.com - transload, crop, save to PNG or PSD

easy

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EmEditor free download

Filed under: DARPA, Download — Tags: , , — Sagacious Himself @ 6:12 am

forget it

NotePad++

is a well developed sourceforge project

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March 31, 2008

intelligent CAPTCHAs overdue - part 1

Filed under: All Your Base, CIO, DARPA, Geeky goodness, Knowledge — Tags: , , , , — Sagacious Himself @ 12:08 pm

First: the blind and vision impaired have no business inflicting their requirements on a technology designed to present information visually. They need to adapt to reality and not visa versa.

Swirly text deciphering does not intelligence test.

What is the resultant color when that of a strawberry and banana are combined? Orange.

That’s a better CAPTCHA.. applied worldly knowledge.

A more entertaining version has no directions, no cue for robots, though easily defeated by OCR, but only if widespread and only if implemented the same way. Apply deformations as desired.

“not email: slendermexstuffed@o.gemail.co.uk.im”

Where all the letters are blue except “not l er x ed o. e .uk.i” Implies only to use the blue information “email: sendmestuff@gmail.com”. More colors could be used leaving email blue.

What is the sum of the third prime number and the fifth? 14

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March 30, 2008

google video upload: g-upload — without pointless install wrapper

Filed under: DARPA — Sagacious Himself @ 2:32 pm

March 21, 2008

fun with deezer

Filed under: DARPA, circumvention — Tags: — Sagacious Himself @ 10:48 pm

application/x-amf

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March 19, 2008

portable internet video converter - video convert to FLV

Filed under: DARPA, SoftWare — Tags: , — Sagacious Himself @ 1:21 pm

http://ivcsoft.free.fr/index.php?2007/10/01/29–download-ivc-150-english-version-telecharger-ivc-150-version-francaise-portable-usb-key-cle-usb-u3-usb-key-cle-usb

download without popup hassles

http://ivcsoft.free.fr/download/internet_video_converter_1.50_en.zip

March 13, 2008

listen up!! four great, me-approved, FREE, streaming music sites

Filed under: DARPA — Sagacious Himself @ 10:06 pm

here are four great, me-approved, FREE, streaming music sites:

Pandora.com

Deezer.com

Slacker.com

Last.FM — do NOT install ANY of their software

… and some honorable mentions at the bottomest ..

Hope you have both Ad Muncher and AdBlock Plus

Don’t like SPAM? Yeah, me neither. Use a DEA to signup like 10min or sneak

not that pan

see

x

0

yay photoshop…. today’s caps brought to you by a recent video on clipping layers

x

You suck at photoshop #8

(download episode)

x

linky

honorable mentions

play the tunes but lack a me approved interface or performance issues

Jango, Imeem,

xxx

xxx

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March 12, 2008

playable “encrypted” videos — Steganography for video inside playable container

Filed under: DARPA, Geeky goodness, circumvention — Sagacious Himself @ 9:07 pm

It would be entertaining to have an application that would twist a video and its sound into noise in such a way that the file could still be played in any media player, and be “decrypted” with that application.  Steganography for video I suppose.  … Preferably without the loss of transcoding / recoding.

This technology could be further extended to real time transforms of in home wireless video systems like x10, or 2GHz video relay kits.  Keep an eye on your home without anyone else peering in.

Here’s an interesting paper on a similar tangent: http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/330112.html

But that doesn’t get us any closer to posting crypted video to the myriad of free video hosting sites :\

This MSU VirtualDub Filter hides other data in video: http://compression.ru/video/stego_video/index_en.html

I don’t want to hide data in video, I want to render the video unwatchable until decrypted inside its respective container.

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March 11, 2008

building a DEA list for 2008

Filed under: DARPA — Sagacious Himself @ 2:37 am

March 10, 2008

free online photo editors — with layers and text

Filed under: DARPA, overview — Sagacious Himself @ 3:50 am

http://fotoflexer.com
+ text: re-editable
+ layers: cannot add empty layers

http://SplashUP.com

http://

screen caps

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February 18, 2008

photoshop CS3 mask for Badass buddy icon ads in custom text icons

Filed under: All Your Base, DARPA, Download, Geeky goodness, I am bored, circumvention, liberate media — Tags: — Sagacious Himself @ 1:45 pm

vixy.net alternatives

Filed under: DARPA, DIY — Sagacious Himself @ 9:57 am

February 14, 2008

BROKEN junk should have its own ebay category… acounts selling BROKEN junk in wrong category should be suspended

Filed under: BULLSHIT, Concept, DARPA, Justice — Sagacious Himself @ 8:36 pm

Tired of finding stuff listed as broken, “not working”, or “as is” with no assurance of functionality, too?  REQUIRING ALL sellers tick a box assuring functionality on penalty of suspension would allay the issue.

NOT-checking the box would force the item into a separate category of brokenness and NOT show in standard search results

ARRRG

Condition used?   Obviously used to death.  wrong infernal category, cretin

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February 12, 2008

dd-wrt 23 sp2 vs tomato 1.15 — screencaps and whatnot

Filed under: DARPA, Geeky goodness, HardWare, Sagacious Himself, Software Review — Sagacious Himself @ 8:59 am

briefly


tomato has more intuitive QoS controls

tomato has shinier bandwidth graphs

  • tomato bandwidth realtime

  • tomato QoS connections distribution

dd-wrt screenshots later

When KAID, VPN, and VoIP are not an issue tomato is the way to go.

I’m days away from donating $20 to dd-wrt to try their ’special’ QoS edition!

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February 6, 2008

10gig email with 100 meg attachments with free POP3 no IMAP

Filed under: DARPA, Sagacious Himself — Sagacious Himself @ 3:24 am

http://poczta.o2.pl/

use of SMTP “requires proof of citizenship”

    * Server POP3: poczta.o2.pl
    * Server SMTP: poczta.o2.pl

you will get three email addresses with each account

    *  YourUsernameHere@o2.pl
    *  YourUsernameHere@tlen.pl
    *  YourUsernameHere@go2.pl

username = full email address

http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/9994/10gigemailfd9.png

Certain adblockers will need some whitelist tweaking… Adblock Plus (easylists) plays well without adjustment

http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/4126/o2webmailhr3.png

Opcje = options
Nowa = compose new

compare to 6gigs of storage with 20meg attachments
http://wp.pl
also@wp.eu

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February 4, 2008

mp4box crashing in mediacoder 0.6.1.4045

Filed under: DARPA, Download, GateKeeper, convert avi, transcode, x264 — Tags: , , , , , — Sagacious Himself @ 10:29 pm

so I replaced it with an older CelticDruid build:

http://tirnanog.fate.jp/mirror/gpac/dev/mp4box.old/MP4Box20070720.7z

and it stopped crashing

February 3, 2008

http implies www

Filed under: DARPA, Geeky goodness — Sagacious Himself @ 4:02 pm

January 28, 2008

State of the Union address 080128

Filed under: DARPA, Sagacious Himself, download movie — Sagacious Himself @ 8:13 pm

rtsp://video.c-span.org/archive/sou/sou012807_bush.rm?start=:02:34.0

Easily captured with NetTrans ;)   or VLC

with nothing left to lose his false bravery rings hollow… too bad he wasn’t really ever conservative

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January 25, 2008

Windows 7 M1 Ultimate Edition

Filed under: DARPA, Geeky goodness, Windows 7, Windows 7 M1 Ultimate Edition — Sagacious Himself @ 2:28 am

wnidows 7 m1

Vista + more DRM evil inside

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January 19, 2008

the other geeky way to get and install the firefox 2 DOM Inspector extension after installing firefox

first version: http://Himself.wordpress.com/2007/11/10/installing-firefox-dom-inspector-without-having-to-custom-install-firefox/

new fun version:

Repackage this debian binary into an XPI to install to firefox 2

(instructions assume Windows XP, but will work for any OS essentially)

download this debian binary: http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/web/firefox-dom-inspector

don’t have debian? don’t worry. you’ll need 7zip
open firefox-dom-inspector_2.0.0.11+0nobinonly-0ubuntu0.6.10_all.deb (or whatever is current) in 7zip

or right-click-drag firefox-dom-inspector_2.0.0.11+0nobinonly-0ubuntu0.6.10_all.deb to 7zFM.exe

drag firefox-dom-inspector_2.0.0.11+0nobinonly-0ubuntu0.6.10_all.deb to 7zip

extract: data.tar.gz

open data.tar.gz to extract the DOM Inspector extension folder

open: data.tar.gz

browse to: .\usr\share\firefox\extensions\

extract the folder: inspector@mozilla.org

(for santiy sake check the RDF)

DOM Inspector RDF

yup… that’ll do nicely

using your zip capable archive tool zip the newly extracted inspector@mozilla.org folder

(correction: zip contents of the folder)

change the zip extension to xpi

drag the newly created xpi into firefox to install the DOM Inspector extension

or download DOM Inspector for firefox2: inspector@mozilla.org.xpi

http://www.zshare.net/download/66631420154ad3/

or

http://rapidshare.com/files/84948437/DOM-inspector-for-firefox2.xpi.html

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for a slightly less complicated unpack the zip in this directory

http://ftp-mozilla.netscape.com/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest/contrib/

unpack: inspector@mozilla.orgzip contents to xpi

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January 10, 2008

Opting out of Omniture’s 192.168.112.2o7.net, the lazy way

Filed under: AdNoyances, DARPA, Geeky goodness, Sagacious, Sagacious Himself, circumvention — Tags: , , , , , — Sagacious Himself @ 4:48 pm

If you don’t want to use hosts to block Adobe’s use of Omniture’s 192.168.112.2o7.net then OpenDNS to the rescue

sign up for an account https://www.opendns.com/start/

claim your IPA

mash settings

domain blocking

enter: 192.168.112.2o7.net

configure your workstation or router: https://www.opendns.com/start

The straight dope

Our nameservers are 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220

yay

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December 29, 2007

have you ever seen a g.ho.st ?

Filed under: CIO, DARPA, Sagacious, Sagacious Himself — Sagacious Himself @ 3:19 am

http://g.ho.st

now you have.. and seeing is seeing

Imagine the possibilities of remote desktop with 3gigs of space for music.. or something else

FTP uploads to desktop integration.. email.. widgets.. and proxy surfing oh my… office “productivity” and otherly

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December 26, 2007

Red Drive File Transfer Extension - freeware download

Filed under: CIO, DARPA, Download, Sagacious Himself, SoftWare — Tags: , , , , , , , , — Sagacious Himself @ 12:22 am

http://s3.massmirror.com/760f4fd29a1c051b089e1754ce3d36dc.html

available from http://www.jscape.com/reddrive/

free client that supports FTP/S, SFTP and WebDAV protocols as a Windows Explorer shell extension: maps those services to a drive letter

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December 22, 2007

tv writers on strike? yeah so what? the internet is my DVR

Filed under: DARPA, Download, Justice, Sagacious, Sagacious Himself — Tags: , , , , , — Sagacious Himself @ 1:15 pm

I’ve tried netflix. But forget them. They never gave me “as many movies as I wanted”. I’m not interested in paying for as many movies as netflix deems me worthy to receive. I now get as many movies as I want, with not only no late fees, but no pesky returns, and no annoying processing- or waiting list.

hahahaha I win

My internet DVR is great for TV episodes, too

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November 10, 2007

why is there zero free wordpress API integration with OmniDrive?

Filed under: DARPA, Sagacious, Sagacious Himself — Tags: , , , , — Sagacious Himself @ 3:46 pm

OmniDrive is raving about interop while wordpress only offers 50 megs of space.. hmmmm

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redactable cheat engine 5.3 mirror

Filed under: All Your Base, DARPA, Download, Geeky goodness, Hacking, Sagacious, Sagacious Himself — Tags: , , — Sagacious Himself @ 2:06 pm

October 31, 2007

Simple hack to view PRIVATE myspace comments updated how to make myspace suck a little less with firefox adblockplus greasemonkey stylish userscripts noscript and some stuff

click here to read more

with simple updates to the featured greasemonkey userscript it’s fully functional.  thought required.

updated: Jan 21, 2008

September 28, 2007

Colbert Report commercial free ….

Filed under: DARPA, Download, Sagacious, Sagacious Himself, XBox 360 hacking, Xboxen — Tags: , , , , , , , — Sagacious Himself @ 11:13 pm

on my media center. yup, love me my XBMC

the interweb is my PVR

oh, on iTunes, too? neato. But I prefer free-free commercial-free

plus XBMC makes it easier to catch what’s underneath the Colbert Desk

Xecuter3CE plus XBMC plus NAS and some other fun expensive toys

(bottom right)

September 26, 2007

today’s NoScript makes yahoo broadband satellite map iframe NoFun

Filed under: AdNoyances, DARPA, Sagacious, Sagacious Himself, firefox — Sagacious Himself @ 8:30 pm

Yeah, yeah configuration… but how many peak of bell curve people will want to play with IFRAME settings?

http://maps.yahoo.com/broadband

iframe unfun

starbuck recycled combined with bionics equals excellent psychotic character

Filed under: DARPA, Download, Sagacious, Sagacious Himself — Sagacious Himself @ 7:43 pm

yes, the “new” series

bionic woman recycled with new cgi and better post processing

What’s better than a great idea for a TV series? They same idea, of course? Sure…

May 8, 2007

more FTP free file hosting

Filed under: DARPA, Sagacious, Sagacious Himself — Sagacious Himself @ 11:54 am

AxiFile.com - 150 meg

and

MegaShares.com - 10 gigs

April 1, 2007

how to use myspace at school from blocked block blocking firewall network filter bypass

February 4, 2007

convert FLV to anything or convert anything to FLV — almost anything — convert FLV to avi, convert FLV to mpg, for FREE

Filed under: DARPA, Download, Geeky goodness, I am bored, Sagacious, Sagacious Himself, SoftWare — Sagacious Himself @ 12:22 am

requires XP or recent windoze OS

Three simple options:

(1) WinFF
(2) MeWIG
(3) meGUI

For option 1 download this, unpack it somewhere, run WinFF, add media files (in batch) select output format, click start

http://rapidshare.com/files/14825881/winFF_build7760.rar.html

wait for completion, close command window, done.  rejoice.

For option 2 the process is similar but requires toggling more switches and settings.  Option 3 provides far more tweaking options than option 2.

If this can play the FLV you can convert it:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.ph…965#post839965

After converting removing the intro- or outro junk with  AviDemuX

January 28, 2007

MPlayer-Win32 (Unofficial) - More or less current CVS snapshots

Filed under: DARPA, Download, Sagacious, Sagacious Himself — Sagacious Himself @ 6:53 am

January 24, 2007

revised downloading mp3s from myspace music

Filed under: Concept, DARPA, Download, Hackery, I am bored, Sagacious, Sagacious Himself — Sagacious Himself @ 1:10 am

The Sagacious Himself SWF cache method

load firefox ( BrowseHappy.com/why/ )

load myspace musician’s page

clear firefox cache

find url in source that starts as http://lads.myspace.com/music/musicplayer.swf?…

OR use Live HTTP headers to fish it out

load the whole gobbledegook url into a new tab

start song

let “cache” finish…. this will unfortunately take about as long as it does to play entire song

open firefox profile cache folder (below assumes XP. consult kb.mozillazine.org for yous OS path)

%appdata%\mozilla\[yourProfileName]\cache

or whatever is defined for “browser.cache.disk.parent_directory” in user.js in profile

find cache file between 1- and 15 megs. This is the mp3 you want. It will most likely be the largest, most recently modified file.

– alternatively enter about:cache?device=disk into location bar, look for the entry with the largest data size, click it, and file on disk will reveal the filename and location. PLUS while your token is valid you can click the URL labeled key and download the mp3 to your defined download path. It still has a funky name, but it’s “ready to play”.

it will likely resemble: http://cache[NN]-music[NN]-myspacecdn.com/[NN]/std_*.mp3?…

– or if you are especially lazy install Cache Viewer, load cache viewer, search for mp3, double click (or r-click save-as) ..

copy to appropriately named mp3 in suitable location

done

repeat for each song you want. the SWF url will expire. reload musician’s page in firefox, extract new SWF url, paste to new tab, click song, repeat

works. testest. retested. happy enough

please obey laws unless you have an opportunity to screw with verizon or toshiba

P.S. I am not a myspacer - it uses the worst of the least of technologies poorly. Using a DEA I created a myspace account that I have since not touched. Triviality of trivialities.

downloading mp3s from myspace bands revisited

Filed under: DARPA, Download, Sagacious, Sagacious Himself — Sagacious Himself @ 12:47 am

——————————————–
———- NOTES to SELF ————
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unfortunately to play this game one must signup for a myspace address :sigh:

2prong.com to the rescue

- view band page
- find gobbledegook url starting as http://lads.myspace.com/music/musicplayer.swf
- load into new tab
- start live HTTP headers extension
- reload tab
- find url starting as http://mediaservices.myspace.com/services/media/musicplayerxml.ashx?b=

to find band

- load that full url in new tab

– get XML result

interesting results include number of song plays today, total plays, downloads, and other fun things.

hey myspace: munging does not a secure site make

- look for open tag
- find title of song you want to download: Title=”Tonight”
- find download url (in inventively named variable): durl=

:gasp: here comes the hard part

- paste the contents of that sans quotes to a new tab
- wait for download to complete
- play in Foobar2000 or your favorite non-sucky media player

Alternatively, view SWF music player
fire up live http headers

enable capture

click song title to play

generate a new token with
http://mediaservices.myspace.com/services/media/token.ashx?b=[bandIdNumber]&s=[songIdNumber]

grab last url in capture log… substitute in new token.. paste new url to new tab to download or feed to fav download manager

enjoy song

myspace, the suck site that it is, is using firefox to sop up tons of VM space so more myspace another time….

or

http://mediaservices.myspace.com/services/media/musicplayerxml.ashx?b=[bandIdNumber]&s=[songIdNumber]

example:
http://mediaservices.myspace.com/services/media/musicplayerxml.ashx?b=83918838&s=16686495

you’ll need both the NEW token AND the durl.. and combine them manually unless you want a GreaseMonkey userscript

http://cache07-music01.myspacecdn.com/49/std_7354097489537489.mp3?bandid=83918838&songid=16686495&token=143543_435345344&p=something&a=0

compare token in
http://mediaservices.myspace.com/services/media/token.ashx?b=83918838&s=16686495

to token in (thats used in url)
http://mediaservices.myspace.com/services/media/musicplayerxml.ashx?b=83918838&s=16686495

need to get clean filepath to feed to &p=

this is borken at the moment.. more testing to make it work for everyone everytime

if this is enough to encourage you to act foolishly or break laws… please.. go commit suicide now

January 21, 2007

download aimutation 1.3.2

Filed under: DARPA, Geeky goodness, Sagacious, Sagacious Himself — Sagacious Himself @ 2:36 am
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