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Wow, they really got me with that April Fools' prank! Sorry for the mix-up, folks.

Recently the article "How the Iranian Government Shut Off the Internet"[1] on HN was almost popular. It talked about the complexity of the Iran's decentralized infrastructures with…

I live in Iran and I am lucky enough to have a connected link right now, but this is the last link among the others I lost in the previous hours. I was wondering is there any stabl…

This is from QBASIC help file. Composing from PC speaker was very fun: PLAY "MBT180o2P2P8L8GGGL2E-P24P8L8FFFL2D"

I used the same method to see what is the blocking mechanism in Iran. I tried to connect to www.bbc.com which is blocked in Iran. The DNS injection is obviously in place. But somet…

"HTTPS does not provide meaningful privacy for obtaining packages. As an eavesdropper can usually see which hosts you are contacting, if you connect to your distribution's mirror n…

I never use vim or emacs viper-mode on my machine. But I let other people to use my emacs viper-mode: vi() { emacs -nw --eval '(and (switch-to-buffer "foobar") (setq viper-mode t) …

Can I add this as a zone program in zone-mode?

I just finished reading this book yesterday. I am not an expert in refactoring but the book seems too old, although most advises could be still useful. Anyway, today I found a new …

How can a monkey in the middle stop you from going to encrypted Google search? How can they redirect you instead to plain old http://www.google.com? So I'm doing a normal Google se…

To install it under ubuntu: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mohammad-sepent/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install issh For other distros you can grab the .deb or the source pack…

Moreover, SSH has stopped working, too. But, finally I found a way to circumvent it. A simple twist in the client side, could simply bypass the filtering. I wrote a simple script t…

Is this right? "Microsoft welcomes OSI open source to Win8 store, GPL blocked at the door" link: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/12/08/open_source_windows_...

also, http://tnx.nl/ip

Doesn't work in Chromium 13, but works in Chromium 14.

I used a proxy server in US and it works now.

I have the same problem...

Cool, but what is the username/password? Welkom bij JS/Linux JS/Linux login:

Drawing several charts with LibreOffice Calc: http://www.hostmypic.net/pictures/93969c88a3ecaac84ba81c8d38... And it is almost obvious that we have two data sets: (A, D, E) and (B,…

Yes, and the red highlight when you select the text doesn't work in Firefox 7.

Isn't it secure if you use SSL (over tor)? http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/wikileaks-documents... says "The siphoned documents, supposedly stolen by Chinese hackers or spi…

I did traceroute google.com/mail.google.com. nothing unusual happened: [1-7 are ISP routers] 8. 78.38.255.89 9. 78.38.245.17 10. 213.248.76.5 11. 80.91.248.94 12. 80.91.253.118 13.…