Category Archives: Technical

One of NYGC's staff stations had no internet while the rest were fine. Network icon at lower right screen shows a yellow triangular sign with exclamation mark. Thus, it's not a disconnection. Solution: Router's DHCP server has reached its maximum … Continue reading →

Interesting, some hacker trying to attack my cam server at port 30,000 and omirr. IP 204.45.65.130, blocked via dd-wrt router iptables. Looks like they are collecting servers with webcams or something. Nice try. Try a proxy, Einstein. IP:     204.45.65.130 … Continue reading →

Presenting: Armour Etch. Bought for around $10 3 oz. from Ebay.   Noted for Plastic eye glasses only as claimed on many websites, although I'm not sure why (I applied the cream to a glass edge of a table surface … Continue reading →

While typing some words, email addresses, my Microsoft Word 2007 somehow autocorrects the text into Greek letters. The input is also changed into Greek. I've searched online for help to no avail. I had to fool around with the settings … Continue reading →

A favorite GPS tracking service, for free! I installed on my iPhone and as long as he program is running, I can display my realtime location. http://www.instamapper.com/ext?key=11669709454135683443 http://mobile.instamapper.com/ext?key=11669709454135683443 (mobile version)  I shall put a link in the link section as … Continue reading →

I just realized that. Silly me. I had actually gone through the web high and low to look for such feature and ended up with some PinYin Free app. Very inconvenient. Now, with this original built-in Chinese input feature (I'm … Continue reading →

High dynamic range imaging Very impressive. Learned new term today via Facebook. This gives us a better photo by showing the differences in light intensity (combination of different EV-exposure value) in one photograph. Apparently iPhone4 has it. Speaking of which, … Continue reading →

A very resourceful site for identifying which internet port is for what purpose/program in general.

Apparently happening on some stations: VBA scripting or the environ("UserName") function causing some station's MS Access to popup a field called environ, and no matter what is entered, the resulting value will always be #error. On working stations, they do … Continue reading →

Readiris' OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is impressive. Of course, no OCR is 100% but this is incredible. I would say an 80-90% accuracy. And no unecessary spacings where the document has paragraphs and tables. It creates its own tables when … Continue reading →