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What to do when Google PR0s your business 26 May 2012 | 03:59 am
Update Matt Cutts seems to have confirmed that this is just an issue with PR reporting and not an actual issue with our PR. He suggests only using the official Google Toolbar (for Internet Explorer) ...
Simplified Summary of Microsoft Research’s Bitcoin Paper on Incentivizing Transaction Propagation 13 Nov 2011 | 10:51 pm
Shameless Plug: Hide your IP while connected to the Bitcoin P2P network with a VPN Service. This is a very simplified summary of the Microsoft Research paper “On Bitcoin and Red Balloons”. This summa...
GitHub hack: speed up git push and git pull 1 Nov 2011 | 07:27 am
tldr `git pull` and `git push` to github can be greatly sped up (especially for users with >100ms round trip times to github.com) by keeping an ssh master connection open to github.com at all times. ...
Patching The Bitcoin Client To Make It More Anonymous 1 Jul 2011 | 05:18 am
Shameless Plug: Hide your IP while connected to the Bitcoin P2P network with a VPN Service. TLDR: this patch allows you to … - see all addresses, including change - see which addresses are linked t...
Beware of Thread#kill or your ActiveRecord transactions are in danger of being partially committed 4 May 2011 | 03:25 am
Firstly, before you all say you should never use Thread#kill and link to Headius post, this is not the same issue which he explains, but it is somewhat related. Secondly, before you ask why are you u...
String#slice!, Overflow Buffers, and Optimization Math 11 Jan 2011 | 06:57 am
String#slice! is often used when parsing protocols: 1) read some data into a buffer string, 2) read bytes indicating how much data is in the current message, 3) slice! off that amount of data from the...
Canonical redirect pitfalls with HTTP Strict Transport Security and some solutions 28 Dec 2010 | 05:21 am
tl;dr There is a common pitfall when implementing HTTP Strict Transport Security on sites that 301 redirect from x.com -> www.x.com which leaves your users open to a MITM attack. Paypal is an exampl...
socks_switch: switching between direct connection and SOCKS proxying based on ping time to host 21 Sep 2010 | 07:32 am
This little hack named socks_switch allows you to direct connect to sites which are geographically close to you (and therefore have a low ping time) and proxy the rest through a SOCKS server. It’s bui...
How to create a shortcut key to open a new terminal window in the current working directory on OSX 31 Jan 2010 | 03:04 am
Shameless Plug: Use a Mac OS X Compatible VPN Service to protect your privacy on the Internet. In gnome-terminal I always used ctrl-shift-n to open a new terminal window in the current working direct...
Tunnel Splitter: Accelerating a single TCP connection over multiple ISPs 11 Jan 2010 | 01:15 am
About At its essence Tunnel Splitter is a ruby and EventMachine based client/server pair which allows you to split a single TCP connection into multiple parts and send them over multiple TCP connecti...
