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Per's Scratch Pad

Welcome to my scratch pad.

Scratch parts:

• Installing and using Xen with Ubuntu Edgy

• Installing Oracle 10g XE in a Xen domU

• Some Excel formulas for doing statistics

• Communicating with an old Ericsson mobile phone in binary mode

• Bridging wireless and wired networks using Windows XP

• Installing the IBM JDK on Ubuntu (and probably Debian)

• Configuring a directory for a specific group with group write preserved

Blog:

• Syntax highlighting in b2evolution using GeSHi

Software:

• WhichBatch - batch language version of the which command for Windows

• WindowsPrinterSelector - small utility written in C to get or set the default printer in Windows

• ReqParser - a tool written in C# to apply a set/sequence of XSLT transforms to an input file

• WakeTime - a tool written in C++ for showing the Windows uptime/boot time and wake time

• IcsControl - a tool written in C# for managing Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) in Windows from the command line

• SingleRAR - a Python module that provides a way to determine if a RAR file is a multi-volume continuation file or not

• RelUnpack - a Python script that can unpack a release movie directory

• CryptSetupCheckMount - simple cryptsetup check that mounts a crypt disk after starting it

Programming:

• Getting the properties of an INetConnection in C#

• Vtable experimentation

Other stuff:

• http://www.pjd.se/lirc/ - my LIRC patch for making the PVR-150 IR remote work. The patch is included in mainstream LIRC, so it is obsolete. There is a config file for the remote, though.