This prevents eavesdropping by your neighbor at least. The more recent versions of Opera Mini can be run in mobile emulators and look rather well on larger displays:

I then noticed two cool things: 1. MicroEmulator can run MIDlets from URLs using Java Web Start, and 2. When using the Opera Mini Demo, the client IP address is not sent in the X-Forwarded-For HTTP header. This is what gives us anonymity. It’s not as secure as Tor, but more practical. All you need is to click one link!

http://drop.by/mini
(I recommend: Options > Select device > Resizable device)

(The link forwards to http://microemu.org/webstart/dl.dropbox.com/u/7134461/mini.jnlp where dl.dropbox…/mini.(jad|jar) is the Opera Mini Demo)

P.S. Opera Mini does not provide end-to-end security. Also, we can’t control the HTTP headers or what Opera decides to do on its servers.

mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy -o out.avi in1.avi in2.avi in3.avi

There are also other parameters one would want to set depending on the video file formats. To simplify this process of merging videos, download

• Join video files

and place the file in ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts

Then, simply select and right click video files in Nautilus and choose Scripts -> Join video files

The script will try to set the correct options based on the video files. Files are joined in sequence according to their file names in alphabetical order. The output file is named using the name of the first video file; v1.mpg + … => v1-joined.mpg As shown in the command above, the video and audio streams are copied, not re-encoded.

After fruitless attempts using pen and paper I created a web TOOL.

There exists several similar tools already, but there are some differences. I use numbers instead of symbols to easier process the data. I think maybe the greatest advantage of my tool is the hover effect which affects all similar symbols on mouse-over. There is also a (rather primitive) “generate remaining” function which estimates unsolved symbols.

Unfortunately, I still haven’t solved the cipher ;-)

• html2email.sh

The usage is simple: ./html2email.sh input.html output.txt

Then output.txt can be mailed by e.g. Gmail. A simple way of doing this is using sendemail:

sendemail -f you@gmail.com -t receiver@hotmail.com -s smtp.gmail.com:587 -o tls=yes -xu you@gmail.com -xp yourpassw -o message-format=raw -o message-file=output.txt

View the script

Like many others, I have noticed that Facebook increased its photo size from 604 to 720 pixels. At the same time, I noticed that the commands in my last post weren’t perfect. I have tried to write an improved script:

• facebook.sh

Simply run it in your photos folder and it will make a ‘facebook’ directory to which it copies your processed photos. By default, it only handles the photos in the current directory. To make it recursive (it will skip the ‘facebook’ dir), just remove or edit “-maxdepth 1″.

As before, I can recommend ImageMagick and Cygwin if you are a Windows user.

Shouldn’t have to mention it, but: Use at your own risk.

Jeg skrev et shell-script som sender fra denne siden uten at du trenger å bruke nettleseren. Dette er bl.a. nyttig hvis du ønsker å varsles av datamaskinen din ved ulike hendelser. Jeg synes også det forenkler manuell sending.

Last ned sms.sh og kjør f.eks.:

./sms.sh 98765432 Hei! Skal vi treffes i dag?

Lag en tekstfil, smsnums.txt, med ‘nummer,kallenavn’ per linje for å slippe å huske telefonnummer.

Jeg bruker Ubuntu Linux, men hvis du vil kjøre scriptet i Windows, er det bare å laste ned Cygwin og wget.

All of these developments are really exciting, but I am not totally satisfied. For one thing, you have to choose and stick to one particular browser. Also, they do not sync everything that I would like (e.g. Greasemonkey scripts). A blog post about alternatives to Mozilla’s Ubiquity introduced me to some great projects, and inspired me to start using Quix. Quix lets you access your bookmarks, custom searches, and other tools, from one place. It works across all browsers and doesn’t need to be installed!

Not long after, however, I decided to not depend on Quix at all, and write a free, open version. While Quix lets you write your own command file, I also let you modify and store the code. This way, you don’t have to worry about Quix crashing, going bankrupt, or eavesdropping on your traffic. You just have to host one JavaScript file (or use mine) and remember its address.

Clicking the following image invokes the script: 

Drag it to your browser’s toolbar for convenience. Alter the web address in the link if you want to use your own copy or modified version. The file: WebOsCmd.js

LinkSave.net provides a text box where you can paste the URL and generate a link you can right click and “Save As…”. But do you want LinkSave to know all the links you save?

I created a similar link generator where your URLs are not logged. The link is created on the client side using JavaScript, and you can view the source code to be sure. Easier than writing a new HTML file with the URL every time you want to save a file. Of course, wget is an alternative.

37/53 degrees of the 3-4-5 triangle in 1 Henry IV

This page and its acrostic ciphers are mentioned in the book, but the line was not. It passes through the page’s only two “Lord”s, intersects the upper left corner, and has a 37 degree angle.

Boötes in Antony and Cleopatra

Another interesting page is page 346 of The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra, where I found “BOwTHS” (=Bootes), a “TWO” and “FBACa”.

Rosy Cross in Comedies, page 235

This page is mentioned in epilogue 4 (not in the first edition of the book), but not the circled parts. “R-O-s-y C” between Rossi and crosse is at a 53 degree angle of course!

BACon on page 2 of Tragedies

Mirroring the F BACon on page 2 of Comedies! Also a possible BOWTIs anagram.

BACO on page 281

I have also noticed the BACO on page 281, The Winters Tale:

Other finds that could be nothing:

Ser jo greit ut, kalenderen er best. Eller er den det? På kalenderen kan du vinne maksimum kr 500 000, mens du kan vinne opptil kr 1 000 000 på “Flax million”. Dessuten er kalenderen dyrere. I tillegg kalkulerer Norsk Tipping selv de minste premier som “win”. Altså, hvis du skraper frem 20 kroner på et lodd som kostet 50, så har du “vunnet”. Følgende sannsynligheter kan være interessante:

Som vi ser er forskjellige typer lodd best på forskjellige målsetninger. Vi kan beregne forventningsverdien for å finne ut hvor mye loddene faktisk koster oss (i snitt):

Hvis du kun er interessert i å tape minst mulig penger bør du altså velge Flax million. Hvis en er interessert i sannsynligheten for premier av en viss størrelsesorden kan man se på denne oversikten:

Julekalenderen ser ut til å ligge høyest hele veien, bortsett fra på >= 250, hvor Flax million gjør det litt bedre (men husk at loddene ikke koster like mye). Også på >= 1 000 000 vinner selvsagt Flax million.

Hvis man snevrer seg inn mot store premier, kan man også følge med på kunngjøringer om gevinster og oppdatere sannsynligheten deretter.

Beregningene finner du i dette regnearket.