Category Archives: Programming
Monitoring Bandwidth Usage on a Virgin Media Super Hub (aka the VMNG480)
In the past year I have come at heads with Virgin Media regarding their fair use policy, which is basically “use all you want at peak times unless you start to slow down other people’s connections, in which case we give you a warning”. Apparently I was downloading 60GB non-stop every hour (let’s ignore the [...]
Minecraft Admin Wrapper… now with Levels!
I’m writing a variation on a Minecraft Admin Wrapper, and this will act as a nice page with when things have been added (instead of me spamming new messages every few minutes, I’ll just edit this post) 16:30: Now with Levels! And now I’m going to go and get dinner, I’ll be back in about [...]
Minecraft Tools: SnapShotter 1.0
Although I did post this on the Minecraft Forums, I think I should post this here for anyone who wants to see how simple this script is. What it does is to take a copy of the Minecraft map and copy it to a folder for people to grab (also good for backups when someone [...]
Protected: An Interesting Summer Proposition
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Pulling random data from /dev/random
This is a shell script that will pull 5 random characters from /dev/random and print them out to standard output. It was created as the input component for a random password generator that I am currently writing. Note on using /dev/random: as usual, using this source for entropy will give you pure randomness, though due [...]
Techious2 Screenshot 1
Time to reveal the first image of Techious2, showing an idea inspired from many elements from my previous websites. Partially it is based on some old Ratchet2 design that never made it to launch. Here it is: Now I’ve just put text here, but soon I intend to mix these elements with the spage system, [...]
Welcome to the Techious2 Developers Blog!
Well, kind of, the real link to read this kind of garbage is here, and it only shows the magic that is the Techious2 developer blog posts. Here (or there) I will be posting updates as to how the Techious2 project is going as it happens. Now for a small introduction. Techious2 is (obviously) the [...]
New Project: Value Added Tax Converter
Now it’s about time for some real content. Presenting the first publicly visible project, the VAT Converter! Inspired by the need to convert prices from the old 17.5% VAT standard over here in the UK to the new 15%, I wrote a little script to do this for you. I will at some point release the [...]
New Code Plugins
Here goes nothing, a nice new plugin for my blog so I can highlight code… let’s see if it works: 1 2 3 4 5 #include <stdio.h> int main(void){ printf("Hello World\n"); } Yup, that seems to work