Sagacious Himself — brevity in circumlocution – suffering genius

July 15, 2009

even better self destructing short URL service

Filed under: Download, Geeky goodness — Sagacious Himself @ 4:39 pm

self expire short url in time or clicks

http://sturly.com/advanced-tiny-url.php

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can be custom set to expire based on number of clicks or period of time

even better than ephemurl

need more content than I link?  combine sturly with tblurb or disposablewebpage

June 9, 2009

adsweep, the other adblock for chrome: yet another reminder to download adblocking technology missing from googe browser

Filed under: DARPA, Download, Geeky goodness — Sagacious Himself @ 8:11 am

first:  STOP using chrome.   No, this is not about firefox.  This is about privacy.

Use Chromium… a particular build of Chromium.  Chrome is a build of Chromium; it’s all about the information harvesting.  Iron is a build of Chromium.

Iron Chromium is what you REALLY WANT:

http://SRware.net , click American flag, software, iron, download, click, wait brief seconds at 144 Mbits/sec, run setup, clickity click, run Iron.  Enjoy the same experience as Chrome without the Faustian hand-off to google.

next: http://adsweep.org/

which itself ironically has banner ads (the site and not the product).

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ads mostly gone.  sure, it’s nowhere near as awesome as the tools for Firefox* but it’s certainly MUCH better than the unmaintained, adblock format based on a FanBoy blocklist Iron Chromium offers in its native adblock engine with SRware’s adblock.ini …  AdSweep is a big help … though I am CONFIDENT SRware will patch up their native adblock engine and integrate it with the context menu (for easy right click on ANY ad / annoyance for quick blocking across sessions)

compare Iron Chromium to Chrome Chromium

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Iron Chromium portable — the only stable portable version of Chromium

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SUBSTANTIAL difference between Iron’s adblock.ini and AdSweepers extension / user script

AdSweep HIDES ads with CSS

adblock.ini BLOCKS ads with pixie dust

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AdSweep does NOT enhance your privacy.   While the current incarnation of Firefox and greasemonkey and AdSweep rely on the page completely loading, unlike Chromium, future versions of Greasemonkey alledgedly will be able to act pre-render of the page.  yay!

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AdBlock Plus
AdBlock Plus Element Hiding Helper
Greasemonkey
Stylish
Platypus
Aardvark
Remove It Permanently
Yet Another Remove It Permanently
RefControl – default set to Forge

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March 27, 2009

prepare yourself apple fan: coming soon to an iTard center near you iShine

Filed under: Geeky goodness, Hardwares — Sagacious Himself @ 4:54 am

iShine keeps all  your apple products shiny

and in Eastern markets:  iShinii

iShine revision2 will be able to make your apple product shiny even if it was not originally shiny.  Keep the most important part of your apple product in perfect condition.

In poverty stricken iTard markets:  uShine – you are accustomed to hard daily manual labor.  Why stop working?  uShine all your gizmos yourself and pay for the privilege!

[insert video here soon]

March 17, 2009

goog-411 disingenuous about caller ANI – caller id blocking fruitless

Filed under: CIO, voip — Sagacious Himself @ 6:22 am
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google free 411 disingenuous about caller ANI

using star codes to block caller id will NOT prevent an ANI enabled line from fetching your information.

http://mobile.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=76433&topic=14471

If you choose to connect to a business through the GOOG-411 service, your caller ID information will become visible to that business. We do not share your information with anyone except in the limited circumstances as outlined in our [alleged] privacy policy.

To avoid having any information associated with your phone number in the future, just block your caller ID before you call. With many phone services, you can do this by dialing *67 before the phone number. In most cases, you can also block your number through the menus on your mobile phone. For specific details on how to block your caller ID, contact your service provider. [be sure not to ask them about 'Automatic Number Identification']

“we won’t harvest your caller-id using ANI, honest, even if you block it, cuz we can’t see it then, but we’ll be able to pass it onto the next party”

google: powered by hippies with new money

more amusing: goog-411 sucks in comparison to microsoft’s offering: 800-2255-411 (800-CALL-411)

try it: http://gizmocall.com/18002255411 or with one of these SIP URI

sip:18002255411@tf.voipmich.com
sip: 18002255411@carriers.us
sip: 18002255411@sip.tollfreegateway.com
sip: 18002255411@tollfree.sip-happens.com
sip:18002255411@tollfreetollfree.com

other free toll free termincation providers

don’t like gizmo/skype?  FlaPhone.com is a pure flash (to you) SIP client

worship at the google altar? dial away otherwise use the SIP URI for goog to try it without being tracked and catalogged.

March 10, 2009

how to grab flickr pics instead of the transparent image block

Filed under: Geeky goodness — Sagacious Himself @ 4:03 am
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CTRL+Shift+V to liberate media (formerly CTRL+Shift+B)

by request.. again

firefox with adblock plus installed

visit image page

CTRL+Shit+V

search: ?v

pick first result, right click, open in new tab, download pic

February 9, 2009

plugoo: chat proxy flash widget — they ain’t not horrifically poor at English

Filed under: DARPA, Geeky goodness, gizmo, overview — Sagacious Himself @ 10:56 pm

plugoo: chat proxy flash widget

Your visitors don’t need neither to download a software nor to create an account before they can contact you. They never have access to your instant messaging information (username). And conversation between a visitor and you is strictly private – other simultaneous visitors on the website don’t see the conversation. You don’t have to change your habits, you keep using your favorite messenger on your desktop or from your mobile phone.

http://plugoo.com/faq.php

February 5, 2009

voip VSP behind NAT best results

Filed under: CIO, DARPA, voip — Sagacious Himself @ 4:03 am

voip sip VSP behind NAT

for best results use a built of DD-WRT with MilkFish (or DIY with OpenWRT)

take it to the next level with MilkFish and a (free) hosted PBX service

http://mysipswitch.com/

https://pbxes.com/

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for more fun grab the latest orgasmatron from PBX in a Flash

ViaTalk growth pains me

Filed under: CIO, voip — Sagacious Himself @ 3:48 am
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painful using new ViaTalk

Oldschool ViaTalk is less vexing to use than VoicePulse behind NAT.  However the ‘new’ (secret) ViaTalk servers are painful to setup behind NAT — some NAT flavors more so than others.  Once their old servers evaporate so will much of their patronage.

Of their almost cutting edge feature set call record (*99) is the most amusing.  ”Your call may be recorded for quality control” is delightful to rave back at the automated attended that puts you on notice whenever you call into most customer server queues.. so that the people you’re calling will similarly be unable to revoke consent.  Unfortunately it’s not very useful to have entire conversations archived on ViaTalk’s voicemail switch as it cannot be downloaded… easily.  As most mail providers will choke on attachments greater than 20 megs.. as they should because email != FTP.. email is obviously not an optoin.  There’s no sane reason not to offer WAV or FLAC downloads of voicemail, especially call recorded conversations, from the ViaTalk web control panel.

Of the dozen VSPs I have toyed with ViaTalk has the most appealing feature set and seemingly responsive support people.  They, however, are oft on par with godaddy: barely read the message before firing back an irrelevant reply.

ViaTalk does have a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) plan which is great for those who like to tinker — which will be ESSENTIAL to create a reliable service.  Future Nine supports the BYOD model but VoicePulse does not.  Be sure to bring a device that allows user set dial plans of you’re in for a world of even more hurt.

Viatalk though is merely SIP and *NOT* IAX(2).

Both VoicePulse and ViaTalk have implementations of call filtering (never let that annoying person ring your line again) but ViaTalk makes redirecting calls to other numbers much easier.  VoicePulse only provides one number to forward to, which ViaTalk lets each rule forward to a number.

grab a free DDI (free DID) and make use of the second port

 

 

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getting to like the new Future Nine

Filed under: CIO, DARPA, overview, voip — Sagacious Himself @ 3:35 am
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like the new Future Nine

as pay as you go goes Future Nine is the first VSP to focus on satisfying the customer AND integrating customer feedback into the service offering

Sure their website looks like a highschool project from 1993 but their lead developer is very active in the forums which matter and is quick to respond to tickets

They use EVIL google checkout, and ethically impaired Paypal.  Also the minimum account funding is TEN dollars!! That’s a bit much for those who wish to purchase a DDI for $4

On the upside one can forward other (free) DDI to the issued SIP URI, and have dialtone upon instant activation to place toll free calls, and comes with voicemail

grab a free DDI (free DID) and receive incoming calls to help a developer community ;)

 

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not a fan of Vonage : MCI tactics at their worst

Filed under: voip — Sagacious Himself @ 3:25 am

not a fan of Vonage

Vonage works less poorly when connected directly to the ISP device.. leaving you to purchase another account to feed your house.  

Receive “support” from an average joe who is receiving free vonage service.  Sure, his english is better than achmed, but he barely has a grasp on the interweb… though he’s less feckless than godaddy “support” staff.

no thanks

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January 10, 2009

free TMDA email account

Filed under: DARPA, Geeky goodness, Service Craved — Sagacious Himself @ 12:50 pm

December 31, 2008

helping to destroy ratio P2P peering one step at a time

Filed under: DARPA, Download, Geeky goodness — Sagacious Himself @ 11:26 pm
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helping to destroy ratio P2P peering one step at a time

How do I create multiple large files that consume no extra diskspace?

Create multiple Hardlinks to one or more files.  Change the names of the Hardlinks to suit.

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:P

[ Himself ]

December 7, 2008

setup modified Mozilla Weave on cPanel web disk with apache 2.0.63

Filed under: CIO, DARPA, Geeky goodness, firefox — Sagacious Himself @ 12:17 am

(1) login  to cPanel 11

(2) web disk (borked webDAV)

(3) username: XXX (in subdomain for me)

(4a) path can be above public_html

(4b) path: /public_html/[subdomaindir]/_isolateuser1/

(4c) optionally enable basic auth, but no for now

(4d) cPanel will report username creation as XXX@sub.domain.int but you’ll be proving only XXX for sanity to weave extension

(5) in FTP client (FlashFXP) navigate to directory containing selected subdomain and user in (3)

(6a) create an XXX subdirectory — weave will assume it exists

(6b) create:  XXX/crypto, XXX/keys, XXX/meta

(6c) inside XXX/meta create a version file containing only the number 3

(7a) modify the latest weave XPI ( http://people.mozilla.com/~cbeard/weave/dist/ ): append dot zip to filename, open in WinRAR or equivalent,

(7b) in install.rdf change em:name to something like “weave [mywebhostprovider]“,

(7c) in \defaults\preferences\sync.js set extensions.weave.serverURL to http://sub.domain.int:2077 — without the cPanel  port one would have great fun with paths

(7d)  in \defaults\preferences\sync.js set extensions.weave.username to XXX

(7e) if creating a modified XPI for multiple profile- or person use skip 7d and enter username on weave use post install

(8) change addon’s file extension back to XPI

(9) drag XPI into firefox, yada yada, restart firefox

(10) BEFORE singing into weave, weave:preferences, data tab: tick only bookmars — to simplify testing for you

(11) if 7e then enter XXX, if not XXX should be already entered … weave:sign in, enter password, tick save, sign in

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+ iterate 4b: _isolateuser[N] for each person’s account or name to suit

+ AFTER you can login and PUT files without error then enable basic auth for the directory in 4b

cPanel 11.23.x
PHP 5.2.x
linux 2.6.18*
weave xpi: 0.2.92

DAV explorer (user: XXX@sub.domain.int)

========= Outbound Message =========

OPTIONS / HTTP/1.1

Host: sub.domain.int:2077

Connection: TE

TE: trailers, deflate, gzip, compress

User-Agent: UCI DAV Explorer/0.91 RPT-HTTPClient/0.3-3E

Translate: f

Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip, x-gzip, compress, x-compress

Authorization: Basic [hash]

========= Inbound Message =========

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Date: [date]

Server: cPanel

Content-Length: 0

Connection: Keep-Alive

Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100

Allow: UNLOCK,HEAD,MOVE,OPTIONS,LOCK,POST,PUT,COPY,TRACE,MKCOL,GET,DELETE,PROPFIND

Content-Type: httpd/unix-directory

DAV: 1,2,<http://apache.org/dav/propset/fs/1>

Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=96

MS-Author-Via: DAV

SkyDrive is now 25 gigs but no WebDAV … gladinet? instead of livesync

DCP

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files PUT up nicely…   funky GET fail

December 5, 2008

SMS to yahoo chat : sms phone out format to yahoo inbox popup

Filed under: CIO, DARPA, Geeky goodness, circumvention — Sagacious Himself @ 2:33 pm

compose new text message (not email)

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TO:  92466502

  • message MUST begin with the full yahoo ID (email address)
  • immediately a colon (no space after TLD)
  • (optionally a space) then the text message

message should be received and stored for delivery even if recipient in not logged in currently.

IF the message is not received try sending to 92466501 instead

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December 3, 2008

music0very: thanks for the mp3s

Filed under: DARPA, Geeky goodness — Sagacious Himself @ 6:49 am
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wish you streamed in FLAC… but CTRL+Shift+V all the same :P

… name munged in the interest of file liberation

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