Blog, page 62
page 62 of 79Continuing through the writing archive.
Rabo Encendido(Cuban Oxtail Stew)
Recipe for Cuban rabo encendido, a slow oxtail stew with port, sherry, chipotle, and Cajun seasoning.
Read postWHAT IS reCAPTCHA
How reCAPTCHA reuses the time people spend solving CAPTCHAs to OCR words from scanned books.
Read postBar Tricks
Pointers to a Wired wiki of bar bet tricks and a video of 1000 ways to open a beer bottle.
Read postPHP strip non alphanumeric
A small PHP function that strips every non-alphanumeric character out of a string with preg_replace and ereg_replace.
Read postLast windows boot time, Install date
A one-liner using systeminfo and find to print the last Windows boot time or install date.
Read postThe quick and dirty way of getting the size of a file up to 4GB.
A short fseek and ftell snippet for grabbing a file size in win32 when the file is under 4GB.
Read post403 - An arrogant initiative in defense of the web
A rant on Internet Explorer and an experiment with the 403day.org script that nags IE users to switch browsers.
Read postLeap Year post!
A note on leap day plus the if-mod-4-and-100-and-400 check for detecting leap years in code.
Read postOpen DNS
Review of OpenDNS, with notes on how its NXDOMAIN redirects break utilities that depend on a real not-found reply.
Read postHow to disable AVG 7 temporarily.
Steps to turn off the AVG 7 Resident Shield from the Free Control Center when you need to.
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