I wrote a MoneyMoney extension in Lua to track crypto currency balances from a Kraken account.

When you buy MP3s on Amazon, it is likely that they contain a “unique purchase identifier” which can be used to link the MP3 file to your Amazon account. Storage Format and Location # This special block of metadata is stored in private frames (PRIV). This makes it harder to be detected and removed, as most MP3 tag editors simply ignore these frames.

The first question that comes to your mind might be: “Who uses guestbooks nowadays anyway?”. Well, personally I don’t, but I maintain two sites that were created in the mid 2000s that have a guestbook installed—and people are still using it. It’s ve_guestbook for TYPO3. In the past years, guestbook spam has become a real issue for me—even though I had been using the captcha TYPO3 extension (screenshot above). Apparently, spam bots have evolved over the years and can now easily circumvent those CAPTCHAs. Suddenly, the guestbooks were flooded with hundreds of spam entries:

Just in case you forgot how this looks.

openHAB doesn’t have a binding for APC UPS devices. Luckily, there are other ways to integrate them into your openHAB setup. In the following, I’m describing how the exec binding can be used to regularly poll the UPS status using the apcaccess command-line utility. The result will look somehow like this: I’m using a APC Back-UPS BX 700VA here—a relatively cheap model with Schuko outlets and a USB connector. Prerequisites # APC Back-UPS connected and configured (the apcaccess command needs to work) Working openHAB 2 installation Configuration # We’ll need to add a binding, a thing, various items, and finally an entry in the sitemap.

“Quaak” is a simple Frogger clone for Windows from the year 1992. I got it from my father on a 3.5″ floppy disk when I was 6 or 7. I played it on my father’s workstation (at his job) and also at home on his 486 laptop running Windows 3.1. The game has pretty cheap graphics. Still it was a lot of fun to play, especially at that age.

“Rollin” by SAV Creations (published by Ticsoft) was one of the DOS games I played the most as a kid. I got it from my grandparents, and I played it with my brothers on their old PC, which had also been a gift from them. I think it was a 386. This was around 1996, when I was 9 or 10 years old. It had a Turbo key that switched between 16 MHz and 40 MHz. If I pressed that key while playing, the game became noticeably slower.

Die T-Online-Software läuft instabil und ist ressourcenfressend. In früheren Versionen gab es sogar Bugs, die den Benutzer zwangen, eine Internetverbindung herzustellen. Daher ist von dieser Software dringend abzuraten. Die Einwahl ins Internet über T-Online kann auch ohne die Software von T-Online erfolgen, nämlich über das DFÜ-Netzwerk von Windows.

Sogar ein Autorennen haben die Programmierer von Microsoft Excel 2000 im Programm versteckt.

Jetzt kann jeder problemlos seine eigene Homepage einrichten: Überall im Internet wird kostenloser Speicherplatz für eine Webseite angeboten. Kunden von T-Online z.B. haben automatisch die Möglichkeit in wenigen Minuten ihre Webseite auf den Server zu laden.