http://www.myaccount.charter.com/customers/Support.aspx?SupportArticleID=2665
Yet another tab that I need to make a note of and come back to at some point. Interested to see how my Asus router with Tomato firmware does with IPv6, and to start spending some time getting familiar with the “new” protocol.
http://www.davidpashley.com/articles/writing-robust-shell-scripts.html
I’ve had this open in my browser for a long time now. I think it’s one of those tabs that was well aligned with something I was doing at one time, but I have moved on and forgotten what it was that I was working on at that time. Still, good content. I often write shell scripts for some quick, one-off deal and never come back to them, but I always try to write them so they fail gracefully and safely if possible. It doesn’t always work that way with time constraints, but it’s a good goal at least.
Didn’t really need the tab anymore at the moment, just wanted to record it as one of those things to come back to down the road if needed.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firessh/
Handy little add-on for Firefox. Can’t really speak well to its stability and functionality, as I almost always have PuTTY available on my system and configured for very convenient access, but it seems to be well-received, and it fits in well if you follow the “everything in a browser” mentality. Definitely noteworthy that it supports tunneling.
I recently took the battery out of my LG remote control to do some minor modifications to the case and lost the programming for the small set of functions that work with the TV. There’s not much on the web directly about this, and it’s pretty simple, so I thought I’d throw a quick note up here to save someone 5 minutes in the future.
Here’s a picture of the remote in question.
To program the remote, simply hold down the TV POWER button in the top right corner and press the manufacturer code button for your TV with the numerical buttons (see the table below).
LG: 1 (default), 2
Zenith: 1, 3, 4
GoldStar: 1, 2
Samsung: 6, 7
Emerson: 6
Sony: 8, 9
Hitachi: 4
Westinghouse: 6, 9 (Thanks Stacey, DB)
Magnavox: 2 (Thanks Michael)
Phillips: 12 (Thanks Benjamin)
Then release the TV POWER button to complete programming.
http://www.vehiclehistory.gov/
My final related post in a group of used auto purchasing posts – the National Motor Vehicle Title Information System provides you some good baseline information about the title history of a car, at a lower pricepoint (granted with less information than) Carfax or the other auto info site I can’t think of offhand. You don’t get names, but you do get the sales history and odometer readings, as well as information on the title such as whether it is salvage, total loss, flood, etc. NMVTIS has the details of what is included in the report, and you have the option to select from several different vendors starting as low as $2 (I was pleased with my report from http://www.mvscusa.com at this price point).
https://www.nicb.org/theft_and_fraud_awareness/vincheck
Along the same lines as my last link, a site you can use to help you verify that a used car you’re investigating isn’t stolen or a total loss. Quick and easy, just enter the VIN, accept the terms, and type in your Captcha code.
This is a handy link to have if you’re buying a used car. It’s surprising the level of information you can determine about a vehicle given just the VIN. Then you can do your basic research on components with much more specificity.
