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Convert a WEP passphrase to hex

Convert a WEP passphrase to hex

April 18, 2011November 12, 2012 Pygmalion
Traveling the world you may find yourself in a place where the Wi-Fi access point is WEP protected. The owner can only provide you with an alphanumeric passphrase, whereas your Linux notebook expects ... Read More
Vodafone UMTS: unwanted image compression

Vodafone UMTS: unwanted image compression

February 15, 2011February 15, 2011 Pygmalion
When surfing the web over Vodafone UMTS in Germany, you may notice that JPEG images are compressed and displayed in low quality. Press Ctrl-F5 (Strg-F5) in your browser to see the original images on t... Read More
Wardriving using an Ubuntu 10.04 notebook and a Garmin Etrex

Wardriving using an Ubuntu 10.04 notebook and a Garmin Etrex

February 3, 2011November 1, 2012 Pygmalion
Most GPS software that ships with Ubuntu 10.04 uses gpsd to retrieve data from the GPS receiver. So make sure that you have gpsd installed. Unfortunately the new JSON protocol used by gpsd is not supp... Read More
Default Glade window sizes

Default Glade window sizes

October 21, 2010 Pygmalion
By default, GtkWindow objects are displayed as compact as possible. In order to specify the preferred window dimensions, first set the visibility of the window to “No” in Glade Interface D... Read More
Dilution calculator for distillers

Dilution calculator for distillers

January 29, 2009January 29, 2009 Pygmalion
This very simple Java application calculates the volume of water that needs to be added to an alcoholic distillate to reduce it to bottling strength. Although it’s not a very complex calculation... Read More
WordPress LinkRoll Widget

WordPress LinkRoll Widget

June 29, 2008June 29, 2008 Pygmalion
The simple widget that runs in our sidebar presents a random selection of stored links. The script parses the <title> tags on the referred pages to name the links. To install it copy the script ... Read More
WordPress AdSense Widget

WordPress AdSense Widget

June 25, 2008 Pygmalion
We customized Mike Smullin’s AdSense to meet the current specs. Our sidebar shows what it looks like. You can find our version right here. After installation and activation you only need to spec... Read More
Prisoner’s Dilemma applet

Prisoner’s Dilemma applet

June 4, 2008March 2, 2014 admin
Retrieved from the old wiki: The Prisoner’s Dilemma source code has been released, a simple AWT based and multithreaded Java applet. /** The Prisoner's Dilemma @version 0.20 @author Serge Helfri... Read More
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