VBS: reading and writing excel sheet
I just found 2 little pieces of codes I made some time ago to check how easy it was to read and write excel sheet in Visual Basic. Reading Dim Cn Dim File Dim rst ' init ADODB object for …
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Linux: virtualbox using physical bootable partition
I recently reformated my laptop hardrive to use ArchLinux instead of Gentoo. So I decided to make a special partition to run WinXP natively as well as under virtualbox. I just explain a …
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Java: playing with Java 2D
There’s sometime ago I wanted to see how java 2D was working. I came from Amiga computers, where doing double buffering was part of your job in C. But using accellerated 2D java …
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Projects: YAG Genesis for Amiga
Description YAG Genesis was made some years ago on my Amiga 4000 PPC. I used StormC 3 to compile it (the stormC project file is included in the source archive). Below is the description from …
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Projects : BootManager for Amiga
Description BootManager was written a few years ago, when I was student. It has been made on an Amiga 4000 PPC using stormC 3. Bellow is the description from the Aminet readme file. This is …
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Projects: JSBricks, an arkanoid clone in javascript
There’s some years ago, during the war between IE4 and Netscape 4.5 (summer 2001 if I remember well), a friend and I had to learn Javascript for a job. We known nothing about this …
Read articlePostgreSQL: backup script for all databases
The following shell script can be used as a cron job. It will backup all databases with a unique name based on date and time. Backup files are rotated automatically (delete old backup). This …
Read articleLinux: autokill a crashed / infinite loop process
Sometime a process can take 100% of all available cpu power because it crashed. Here is a little script I used on a server for pdftk because this software was crashing from time to time. …
Read articleLinux: Auto Login without XDM
Beware that the following contains a severe security issue if not well used. A tiny command in C source code int main() { execlp("login","login","-f","YOUR LOGIN …
Read articleHardware: Comtrend CT-633 hidden things
The Comtend CT-633 is a small DSL router that was used by some companies (at least in France). Undortunatly, some usefull features were hidden. Hidden pages bridges wlan / lan: …
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