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March 09, 2009 - May 12, 2009

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Posted by dandriff on Tuesday May 12, 2009@08:15PM

This is a cool approach to add-ons and modifications for the Firefox web browser. The approach that I find intriguing is a bookmark for Firefox which removes/overrodes any auto-complete-disabled forms from the current page, which enables the login/password to be stored by FF. The bookmark is actually just a little javascript - So no browser restart is needed! Nice.. (especially since I don't have the Web Developer Toolkit add-on enabled at the moment, since it does have an equiavelent feature to remove auto-complete restrictions.)


Posted by dandriff on Saturday May 09, 2009@07:21PM

This was helpful, I kind of wish I'd known sooner-

Adding a run-as context menu option (i.e. right-click) for CMD and BAT batch script filetypes:

To add the Run as... menu for .CMD files, use this REG file:

 Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
 
 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\cmdfile\shell\runas\command]
 @="\"%1\" %*"

To add the Run as... menu for .BAT files, use the following REG file:

 Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
 
 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\batfile\shell\runas\command]
 @="\"%1\" %*"

Copy the above contents to Notepad, and save the file with .REG extension (say, cmd_runas.reg). Right-click the .REG file and choose Merge.

(Notice that the differences between the two files are merely the words "cmdfile" and then "batfile".)


Posted by dandriff on Thursday May 07, 2009@10:31AM
Posted by dandriff on Monday April 20, 2009@01:01PM

Today I was surprised to realize I didn't know the definition of "Profiteering". Waack!


Posted by dandriff on Wednesday April 08, 2009@02:38PM

Factor looks pretty amazing.


Posted by dandriff on Wednesday April 08, 2009@02:25PM

http://www.google.com/search?q=dijkstra+shunting+yard&complete=1&hl=en&start=10&sa=N -> http://montcs.bloomu.edu/~bobmon/Information/RPN/infix2rpn.shtml

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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-us&q=shunting-yard+algorithm+%22prefix%22 -> http://chaosinmotion.com/blog/?p=73 (guys blog is pretty dumb [Does he know the difference between a design pattern and an algorithm? Yikes!])

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Just plain wrong (improper implementation? wtf, damn the internet is full of idiots): http://en.literateprograms.org/Shunting_yard_algorithm_%28Python%29

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http://penguin.ewu.edu/cscd300/Topic/Stack/WikiExtract.html

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(and naturally the Wikipedia article is almost complete nonsense...bad/non-working version of the algorithm)

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/to be continued.. later../


Posted by dandriff on Wednesday March 25, 2009@12:26PM

A good read: Random Number Generation 102, Coding a Linear Congruential Generator

However, it should be noted that this kind of random number generation is /not/ of cryptographic-grade. See Mersenne twister (code example) instead, if you want that.


Posted by dandriff on Friday March 20, 2009@12:27PM

Pi is wrong according to Bob Palais, a professor of mathematics at the University of Utah. A fun read.


Posted by dandriff on Sunday March 15, 2009@12:56PM
Posted by dandriff on Tuesday March 10, 2009@12:40PM

I know it is still available for download from this page or this direct link. It is just really bizarre that the the dev's website is dead..


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