Background If you have a working BOPM installation, you are trying to prevent abuses of your IRC network effected through anonymity services such as proxies. BOPM has built-in support for scanning for open proxies. It also has support for looking…
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Configuring BOPM for TorDNSEL
Tagged with: bopm, dnsbl, irc, ircd, tor, tordnsel, unrealircd
Posted in Linux, Quick Tips, Technology
Posted in Linux, Quick Tips, Technology
Downloading wget Without wget: Use bash
There are many ways to download and install wget without having wget itself installed. For example, one can use curl, a sort of competitor to wget, or a package manager with libfetch or some other library-level downloader integrated (such as…
Tagged with: bash, download, from irc, Linux, networking, shell, wget
Posted in Linux, Quick Tips, Technology
Posted in Linux, Quick Tips, Technology
Converting .MTS video files into .mp4 files
I have a Canon HF200 video camera and it outputs HD video, but it’s in .MTS file format. This is a pain because there are no good free video converters or editors for .MTS files. But using Avidemux, an open-source…
JavaScript “Current Filename” Function
I found the need to get the current filename, without the file extension, of a webpage using javascript. I thought there would be an easy way with jQuery, but I found a good way to do it in plain javascript.…
Insurgency: Access your linux box from anywhere
The problem: you have a computer sitting behind a firewall. You want to access it from a different location, but you don’t have the ability to forward any ports to it. The answer: SSH tunneling.
Quick Tip: Quit Messages in IRC
Ever exited out of IRC without telling people why? Don’t know how to tell people why you’re leaving? Then you need to use quit messages. Really. It’s just annoying to see people randomly leave with no reasoning.
Quick Tip: Quieting computer fans
Does your computer sound like a supersonic jet somehow hovering directly over your workspace? Does your computer make odd scraping noises, often accompanied by random crashes? Check out this [protofusion] quick tip.