Category: news

"Grendel, WTF? I told you about this months ago..."

Yeah, well, I didnt get around to trying it out until today. Usually, between classes I go to the computer labs to check email and websites. This morning while in the lab, I realized that Firefox was not installed. I didnt want to have to install it, since the systems get wiped clean every night or so. Then I remembered Portable Firefox, a version of the popular Firefox browser optimized for running from USB thumb drives. So, I reached in my backpack, pulled out my thumbdrive, put Firefox on it and it's great!

Portable Firefox is in no way crippled or lacking features - it even plays nice with all your favorite plugins!

So far I have Adblock, All-In-One Gestures, Tabbrowser Preferences and SuperDragAndGo - what plugins are your favorites?

Well I wish I could say it ran Linux, but it's still cool nonetheless. Check out Futaba's new 14-channel goliath of an R/C radio: The 14MZ. This thing is way cool, even for people that aren't into R/C. Fly RC has a sneak-peek review. For you ham guys, I imagine this piques some interest because of the programmable frequency generator...what could a ham do with this thing?

Tired of wanting to check something out and have to put in your email, credit card, or not register at all? Well, there is hope.
Mailinator lets you create a fake inbox for a few hours. The beauty of it comes when asked for an email; just go to Mailinator and let them hook you up.
The second one is cool but you have to be a Citibank card holder. Citibank lets their card holders create Virtual Account Numers for online shopping. No longer do you have to put in your credit card to get the shipping info (which, thankfully, is becoming less common).
The last is just too cool. Tired of typing in name, address, and everything else just to read an online newspaper? Then check out BugMeNot.com. Just type in the desired site and you will have a username and password withount entering a thing!
Thanks to these sites you can beat the system.

Grendel sez: BugMeNot is a cool site. Even cooler, for those that use Firefox, is the BugMeNot plugin. All you need to do is just right-click in a field to fill in, and the extension grabs the correct info from BugMeNot, and fills it in for you. Pretty slick.

I just received my new GPS that I purchased from a guy on SomethingAwful at a nice price. It came in this afternoon, and almost immediately, I visited GeoCaching.com to get the coordinates to the nearest caches to me.

I went looking for 3 of the nearest caches. After some looking, I located my first one. Inside I found a log book to log my visit, a camera to snap a pic, and some goodies. I left a couple of knick-knacks and took one to keep.
I searched for the other 2 for a little bit, but they'll have to wait for another day, since I ran out of daylight.

Update: Found a couple of caches in Nacogdoches over the weekend, left a travel bug in one for the Nac crew to find.

So I'm surfing around the net this evening, digging through some URL's, and I come across a blog with some interesting information on it. Apparently, you can do a Google search for "index of /mp3" or "index of /files" and get all sorts of nice directory listings from some poor sap's personal stash.

In case you need a hyperlink to try it, try clicking here for the results of a search for "index of /mp3".

Also, try all sorts of other interesting filetypes... you'll never know what you might find!
"index of /mov" "index of /movies" "index of /mpg" "index of /files" "index of /warez" "index of /isos"

remember: Lets not forget to make use of our friend wget. (man page)