October 24, 2009 at 12:11 pm
· Filed under Software
This week I’ve mostly been trying to figure out a way to digitalise some of my bank statements to make accountancy and archiving easier.
I figured there must be a way to scan them in using a document scanner, then use OCR software to render the data into Excel.
Of course, nothing does this natively, but there are ways to do it.
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October 14, 2009 at 2:02 pm
· Filed under Internet
I wrote a little script for an article on fixr.co.uk entitled “Remove OGA Notifier“.
Today I discovered that mydigitallife.info had clearly taken details from my batch file code and used it without giving me or fixr.co.uk any credit at all.
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October 14, 2009 at 12:23 pm
· Filed under Development, Internet, Sysadmin
Today I wrote about Oidentd on Wikipedia. Ident as per RFC 1413 is used for a few different services, in particular IRC. A feature of oidentd that my users find useful is ident spoofing.
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October 13, 2009 at 3:55 pm
· Filed under Development, Software
W32Dasm (or Win32DASM) doesn’t seem to exist on the map any more, but it’s still a very useful programmers tool, especially if you like reverse engineering.
W32Dasm is a Windows 32-bit (Win32) disassembler. What it does is display the programs routines in assembly code, which makes it easier for you to trace what the software is doing.
I like to use this software every once in a while, but recently I found there were no decent sources for this software.
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October 1, 2009 at 11:23 am
· Filed under Internet, Software
I’ve been meaning to publish a post about Pingotron for some time now, but now I fear it’s already too late.
Quite a few months back I was looking for an application that could sit on my desktop and tell me instantly if any of my servers had stopped responding by ping.
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