http://www.bilange.net Tech & FLOSS stories, howtos and tricks. Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:45:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en No, really, I know this is annoying, even coming from a guy who spams his sounds a LOT. Apologies to anyone pissed off because of my sounds :) Anyways, in this post i'll show you how to setup your computer so you can play sounds over Source games, like Counter-Strike, ... http://www.bilange.net/2008/10/20/how-to-annoy-other-players-with-sounds-on-source-games/ Yong Hwee from was kind enough to send me an invitation for Dropbox, which is currently a closed beta. And now it's my turn to give away my invitations. Reply in here and you could grab one of my 9 5 one remaining invitations! Wait... I dont have any more ... http://www.bilange.net/2008/06/05/dropbox-beta-testing-invitations/ I decided to make a small but useful program with what i've learned so far from C and the Windows API.I have used a free version of xplorer² for some time, and i've been overusing one small but useful feature in that program, which, in a keystroke, copies the selected ... http://www.bilange.net/2008/04/02/small-app-copy-a-file-path-to-clipboard/ This guide is heavily based on this post as seen on Digg, although I improved it a bit. As explained in the link above, you may set up a fake e-mail message appealing to anyone who (for whatever reasons, intended or not) has access to your e-mail account, and this message ... http://www.bilange.net/2008/02/19/howto-setting-a-trap-for-a-potential-e-mail-hacker/ If you happen to have a desktop or laptop which has more than one network adapter, one for the LAN and the other connected to your modem, Windows may mess up it's internal routing table and try to reach google.com over your LAN connection. This mini-howto provides some information about changing ... http://www.bilange.net/2008/02/19/windows-xp-how-to-change-your-network-cards-usage-priority/ Some (if not all) of these links can help you alot when debugging a broken Windows installation. Dependency walker: this free program will show you an hierarchical view of dependencies (DLL's needed, what these DLLs needs in return, etc) for a given program. You can also view the dependencies for ... http://www.bilange.net/2007/11/17/general-troubleshooting-tipssoftware-for-windows/ ...and other Google products, like this experiment where you can browse around in the results entirely with your keyboard. Why reinvent the wheel? Google decided (it seems) to use the very same keyboard shortcuts than in the (very) old but still used text editor vi. j and k to change lines, ... http://www.bilange.net/2007/10/25/one-more-reason-to-like-gmail/ I just found Musikcube for Windows, which is a nice alternative to Apple iTunes. I used to like iTunes back in the day, I used it although I know it was kind of bloated to start with. Since then, I was hooked on the fact I could manage all my music ... http://www.bilange.net/2007/09/13/musikcube/ Hello there! If you happen to expect my personal blog and you found this site instead, everything's okay. You may be surprised for the least, but my personal stuff is put on the dot-ca domain. Otherwise, lets explain what's to expect on this blog. In fact I don't expect to have a ... http://www.bilange.net/2007/09/08/hello-world/