As many people now a days, I'm a big MySpace user. With all the ability to customize the site, alot of people put tons of 'fluff' on their page, and MySpace themselves is constantly putting new features and people flashing at me to look at. Well after some work, I found a nice GreaseMonkey script that disables users themes (read this makes their home page look like the default page). It makes things look a little cleaner. Shortly after realizing I could clean off themes, I read up on how to remove HTML from a page. So I wrote the following script to remove the big blue bar from the top of MySpace, and several other areas that I find annoying on my logged in view.

Found this link which solves a huge memory issue when I'm using SessionSaver to keep 40 tabs open at the same time. Current memory use before implementing this as 161,680KB + 368,644KB of memory, 132 Tabs open...

"The Firefox memory leak is not a bug. It's a feature! The 'feature' is how the pages are cached in a tabbed environment." From the article: "To improve performance when navigating (studies show that 39% of all page navigations are renavigations to pages visited less than 10 pages ago, usually using the back button), Firefox 1.5 implements a Back-Forward cache that retains the rendered document for the last five session history entries for each tab. This is a lot of data. If you have a lot of tabs, Firefox's memory usage can climb dramatically. It's a trade-off. What you get out of it is faster performance as you navigate the web."

One of the interesting things about the new Video iPod is the ability to subscribe to Video Podcasts, and have the ability to sync them to your Video iPod... this all assumes that you have an Video iPod, which I don't. But I do have a excellent Sony PSP, which actually has a larger screen. I have also found that the most recent Google Video site, allows you to download the uploaded content in PSP format as well as iPod. So I set about trying to make this work

Bottom line... I now can podcast the Suicide Girls Video and transcode it into PSP format and have an excellent viewing experience on my PSP. There are notes on how to do the same with the DVD's in my cabinet... but that is another weekend project.

Well I have been working to use Firefox more and more for my web browsing. I am a HUGE fan of NetCaptor, and today, I finally found the last Extension to Firefox to allow me to use it more. Its called SessionSaver and what it allows you to do is save every tab that is currently open, automatically. And when Firefox relaunches, it opens them all back up again. Yes... this is in a way an Evil-Thing... (as I have over 180 tabs in Netcaptor). I honestly don't think Firefox will be able to handle it. As Tab's although a big part of Firefox, don't seem to have the attention given to them that Netcaptor has.

- To add an XML RSS feed.

In Trillian create a new News Feed with:

Server: www.corvettepower.com

Location: node/feed

Some people down the road might ask how to reference specific portions of the OWA interface. For example if you wanted to open another users Calendar, or open the browser right to the Calendar, with a specific view.

Here are some good links.

Customizing OWA and how the architecture works (its OWA 2000, but things work fairly close)
http://www.winnetmag.com/Articles/Print.cfm?ArticleID=19714

Custom URL's to display specific OWA information (email/calendar/contacts/tasks/views)
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=321832

Microsoft offers free security program

CNN Article

Microsoft (r) Windows AntiSpyware (Beta)

Microsofts Spyware Site

Microsoft Anti-Spyware Software Info

I downloaded and installed the beta this morning, and it is interesting. I have attached a couple of screen shots. For those familiar with Ad-Aware and Spybot S&D there are a lot of similarities.

For some time I've been looking for a way to securely remote certain protocols through a remote server. I've finally found several free SOCKS4 compliant server products that allow you to open one port to them, and they proxy requests to the original server. Particularly good for getting IM to work at places that block it, or sniff it. So far I only have AOL IM working, and it does allow me to do SecureIM over it. Next is IRC. I've started with the Analog X product. They have a SLEW of other neat network related tools.

http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network.htm

A list of free Proxy Products

After about 4 hours of messing with different ways to get SOAP::Lite to work with a Microsoft IIS .NET Web Service, we finally found the following sample that made everything work. All attempt to try and do this in one line of code failed. This method also works with the current release of SOAP::Lite and doesn't require the beta version. Every other way we used to call the WebService resulted in us getting a blank variable passed into the WebService, rather than the value we were hoping for. You can get get SOAP::Lite from CPAN. This has been a great way for us to integrate our Unix/Linux tools with new systems we are developing on Windows.

For some time I have run my Outlook Web Access from behind a Linksys Firewall Router with no problem. In the past, I had my default website running on one machine on port 80, and my Exchange server runing on port 6969 (since it was a different machine I needed a different port for it). My rules in the Linksys's forwarding settings looked something like:

Forward:

WEB     80:80 TCP -> 192.168.1.2
OWA    6969:6969 TCP -> 192.168.1.3