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One of the major shortcomings of the web form was that the password was shown in plain text. After a bit of hacking around I was able to get Firefox to send the password to the clipboard for easy pasting. The password is no longer shown.

Check it here

UPDATE: It apparently only works with Firefox. Ill add cross browser support in a bit

So we have all been at the point where we are registered on seemingly millions of sites, and instead of using strong passwords like we should, we get lazy and don’t. Yeah, you know what I’m talking about.

I use a Greasemonkey script (found here) called Password Composer (you can read all about it on that link). Now, this script is an absolute godsend really. But there are some shortcomings..sortof. Not with the script itself, but more with the convenience and implementation. For example, I use my mac regularly, so its totally cool to be running Greasemonkey and my custom hacks. But what about the times I need to quickly check my mail on a random work computer? or the library? or any public computer??

I pop open Firefox and go to login to my email… Then I remember that my email is conveniently locked down by an MD5 encrypted master password to keep me idiots out.

I setup a web based form for these dire times. Check it out here.

You can get the offline version here.

For a long time I have had the problem of DTA giving the “No links or pictures found” message when trying to download a coded link (like from a forum or such). Today I found an amazing userscript for Greasemonkey that not only makes coded links live but checks to see if there are still good.
Rapidshare link parser / checker v2.3
When activated parses rapidshare, lix and rapidsafe text URLs, then checks .de and .com links on the current page.
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/13709

Features

• Converts plain text URLs to hyperlinks.
  Press - Shift+A to activate this function.
  It looks for rapishare, lix.in and rapidsafe.net in the page text, then converts them to links.
  De-munges links like “hxxp” and attempts to fix very long broken links.
  It tries to preserve the original text, while providing you with a working link to the actual RS file.
  Adds a tool-tip message
  [linked]

  , adds a “_blank” target, and in most cases will remove click handlers on these links (needs testing).

• Changes some “redirect” links to a link of the actual file.
• Checks RS links for existing files.
  Press - Shift+R to both create hyperlinks (the above) and activate this function.
  Adds a green + after good links. This is done with the CSS :after selector.
  Adds a tool-tip indicating the file size in bytes, see screenshot above.
  lix and rapidsafe links are replaced with the RS file link whenever possible.
• The link checking status is shown in a transparent box at the lower-right corner.
• Skips duplicate links, these are marked with a blue *.
• Links that return a “file deleted” message are marked with a gray ?.
  The script checks for the Content-Type: text/html header which indicates the file isn’t there, or some other message. The message isn’t checked, the page body isn’t asked for but part of it is sent anyway, see below.
  lix and rapidsafe pages are parsed in order to get the RS link, if it cannot be found then the link is marked with the gray ?.
• If the RS server returns any error code (numbers above 400), nothing happens and the link isn’t tagged at all. I have never seen this happen, but their servers do sometimes go down.
  Rapidsafe and lix aren’t checked for a “200 OK” response, I will likely fix this if it becomes a problem.
• This script works even with “Direct Downloads” enabled. But just in case that fails it only requests the first 2 bytes.
• Will open a selected text URL in a new tab.
  Press - Shift+S to activate this function on a selection.
  Useful for viewing URLs that aren’t hyperlinked, like image previews. For example, drag the mouse over this:
  http://userscripts.org/forums

  press Shift+S, and it will open that link in a new tab.
  This feature tries to remove spaces and line breaks, so that

  user scripts.org

  will work as well (which makes it useful to Linux users too).

• You can change the activation keys and the check limits in the preference manager.
  Select the RS_LinkCheck preferences User Script Command.
  When you hit Apply, these settings are saved and take effect immediately.

Works fantastically with DTA. You just hit Shift+A (or Shift+R to parse and check) to parse all Rapidshare urls on the page. A simple highlight and right click will allow you to easily add batch links at once.

I made 4 Sun Jars for Mother’s Day (2 for me, 2 for my girlfriend, for our mothers of course). I am going to post a how-to soon. These are so cool I just have to have some for myself (and you cant have just one either).

These have a solar cell under the lid with a rechargeable AA batter atop an amber LED. They’ll basicly burn all night long. The LSD (light sensing diode) keeps it off if the light is above a certain threshold.

I plan on making several more soon so I’ll include full instructions on how I did mine and where I got all the parts.

More small fixes

Just little stuff, mostly to get a build out so I can reload my build server.

• upnp discovery is working - sb will see it if configured with –enable-upnp.  Doesn’t work after that, but hey… it’s a start
• Parsing improvements for .wav files
• Some logic for gracefully degrading the db schema
• Small race fixes

Conspicuous in its absence:  fix for the web admin crash on 64-bit machines.  Hope to be fixed once I get a 64 bit build server.

Other fixes are build process fixes.  Fix (hopefully) for the mipsel/mipsel-wl500g mixup in the ipkg repo, and packages for arm etch (finally)

seems to be working nicely. a little unstable though, but that is to be expected. I’m happy that there’s finally a working leopard version

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