Greasemonkey Script for Joystiq.com
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008Just a quick update. I wrote a greasemonkey script to remove ads from joystiq.com. Its very static, but it gets the job done. The script can be found on greasespot.
Archive for the ‘Nerdy’ Category
Just a quick update. I wrote a greasemonkey script to remove ads from joystiq.com. Its very static, but it gets the job done. The script can be found on greasespot.
Piss off Roadrunner
Sunday, December 30th, 2007Roadrunner just began resolving bad DNS queries to a search page. Absolutely stupid as this breaks the whole state machine of the internet. request some ridiculous domain that doesnt exist like "bestbuy.co" and instead of getting a DNS server error the server name will resolve to 24.28.199.152. ...
Facebook Beacon: Perfect for self-centered pricks.
Friday, November 16th, 2007Facebook Beacon is a new effort announced by Facebook to allow users to share their buying preferences. A few lines of javascript allows a website to post to facebook what items you purchased, games you played, movies you saw etc. Hell attach the three lines of code to ...
Zune 2: Bigger Faster Stronger
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007Simply put the new version of the Zune software is amazing. Microsoft took all the suck out of the last version and released something that rivals iTunes. Its podcast support is awesome now. Simple and to the point with an excellent browsing interface. The social actually ...
Steam = Everything wrong with DRM
Thursday, November 8th, 2007Oh well I do beg your pardon Steam. How absurd of me to attempt to play a game I purchased. Please accept my apology for bothering you while you were doing other, much more important things. I'll try back later when its more convenient for you.
Why Java applets are obsolete.
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007Recently I took a test where I had to write a Java Applet. I realized something while I was writing it. Java Applets are obsolete and deprecated. Anything they can do, faster newer technologies can do better. Lets look at the two main purposes of a ...
XBOX 360 Towel Trick
Tuesday, August 21st, 2007So it happened. My XBOX 360 red ringed. Right when I put BioShock in. So after panicking for a few I decided to try something. I placed the busted xbox in two towels and turned it on for about 15 minutes. After it heated up ...
How to find your old host
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007I came across an issue today. After changing hosts, I decided that I wanted to recover my data from my old host. A problem of course arises that the dns entry for condescension.net has changed from my old host to the new one. So FTPing into my host accesses GoDaddy ...
