http://www.anatifero.us/weblog Whee. Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:02:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 AIM Pro lets you get user@domain.com AIM addresses. Since I hate installing the webex client just to register one, the link is here: AIM Pro get screenname http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2010/02/05/get-an-aim-pro-account/ I've put together a little plugin for Growl GNTP for Windows Media Player. The installer is here: http://aitne.com/downloads/WMP-GNTP-Installer-1.0.3.msi. To set it up, simply download the .msi and run it. If you're on a particularly old version of windows, you might need to install the Windows Installer redistributable. If you've tried some of ... http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2010/01/31/growl-gntp-plugin-for-windows-media-player/ I decided that it would be nice if my local network was automagically VPN'd to campus, so I worked out a configuration for the TAMU VPN server using IOS ezvpn (This is on a Cisco 1721 with hardware acceleration module, which has the ADSL WIC). The relevant bits looks something ... http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2010/01/19/getting-ios-ezvpn-to-work-with-tamu-vpn/ In my last post, I talked about how I'd converted an AppleTV into a Linux server. Once I packed up the server with media, the next thing that I wanted to do was deliver it to the living room via my XBox 360. There's a few problems with getting this ... http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2009/10/13/playing-video-on-the-xbox-360-over-the-network/ This weekend I decided to set up Debian on my AppleTV because the experience for most things relating to video is far better on the XBox 360 (e.g. Netflix versus rental, loading indicators, only low-grade HD performance, etc.), for a lower price ($199 vs. $229) Getting Debian on there was a ... http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2009/10/11/debian-on-the-appletv/ After setting up my dad's office with a HP DL370G5 with Windows 2008 Server and Hyper-V, I was thinking that it would be helpful to have a system around the house for my own purposes. I have an MSDN subscription, but Andy pointed out that there's the free Microsoft Hyper-V ... http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2008/12/23/hyper-v-on-the-cheap/ So I noticed on the interblag that Equifax is currently running a free FICO Score report here: http://www.equifax.com/freeficoscore/. Since the credit bureaus aren't required by law to make this free, they typically don't, so now's a good time to find out for free before they cut it off at 10,000 ... http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2008/10/01/woo-free-fico-score/ I was reading the Microsoft Jobsblog and ran across a link to this other Microsoft site called Microspotting. While Microspotting seems to be oriented towards recruiting, there's actually a a lot of nice photography on there, and interesting articles about stuff going on at Microsoft, such as some stuff about ... http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2008/07/30/shameless-promotion-post/ I was looking around online and couldn't find anyone that had build a recent version of this for Windows, so I bit the bullet and compiled it for Cygwin. Package is here: chntpw-080526-bin.zip http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2008/07/16/offline-nt-password-editor-chntpw-for-cygwin/ Marty, Today I received the third unsolicited credit card request from you asking that I sign up for a Texas A&M University MasterCard. To be quite honest, I do not want to receive any more of these advertisements, and contacting your name on the letter seems to be the most direct ... http://www.anatifero.us/weblog/2008/04/08/open-letter-to-marty-holmes-regarding-texas-am-credit-card-offers/