WebViewer

So I’ve started on a new program at the behest of my friend David. It allows you to enter any website that has a bunch of items in a numerical storage system, or through RSS. Thats the idea anyway, some uses are reading webcomics, or looking at EVERY MICROSOFT KNOWLEDGE BASE ARTICLE IN ORDER! That’s the idea, right now it just goes to “Order of The Stick Comics”. But I installed my update class, so I will put updates out when they are ready and it will warn you, then allow you to download them. Links below, my second miror is limited, so please use the first if available.

Download:

https://github.com/daberkow/daberkow.github.io/tree/master/WebViewer

6to4 Card Duplication

Multiple versions of Windows, mostly Windows 7, support IPv6 networking, and if your network doesn’t support it, and the machine wants to link to a site or computer that does, it will make a virtual IPv6 to IPv4 converter card. Now sometimes Windows doesn’t reuse them, or delete them. So in this situation these cards keep being added to the system, adding and adding. Eventually the use will attempt to connect to a local server, or some other service, and Windows will try every card first, and then fail to connect. Timing out even though the real connection has no fault. It appears at around 180 virtual cards we start to see this. The solution is removing all the cards, but Windows wants you to remove them one at a time. Microsoft does have a tool for removing devices in a systematic order, but you need to get the one for your architecture, and some of these need you to download a large package and extract it. So I decided to make it simple, download and run my tool and it will remove these cards for the user. After the removal the user will need to reboot but then they can connect.

Now this doesn’t keep the computer from adding more cards in the future, and I don’t want to disable IPv6, for it is slowly rolling out and when the user actually gets it they should be able to use it. So the current release, v 1.2.2, has a few command line arguments, and will run in graphical mode if no arguments are presented. It is very simple, a few buttons that do their jobs. In the future I want to add a scheduler option, that will allow you to run it monthly automatically so if this problem persists it isn’t a pest, along with a updating function so no need to download a new version if installed.

The download link is below, it requires .Net 2.0, which is already installed on Windows Vista and Windows 7.

https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0BxiWBWPPWSoLZGEzNGQ3ZTEtMWFlNS00YTBhLTk0NDgtYjY3MDE3NDAxMGU0&sort=name&layout=list&num=50

An Open Dock is an Open Apple

Apple has always been known for their policy on locking down computers and their devices, now Apple has announced that in the next update they will finally allow developers to use the dock connector. In the past the iPod Touch and iPhone haven’t gotten things such as a radio receiver, some say because it would challenge Apple’s music sales on iTunes, whether this is true or not now anything from a radio to a TV tuner is possible.
Also now there is possibility for a company to come out with a gaming device, it could look like a PSP and just let you dock the iPhone/iPod touch. Image buttons, and a extended battery to let you play on for hours. The only problem with this is that we would need a common version, so that all the game developers had a common set of buttons. The system is supposed to have the same power as a the Dreamcast, so let’s see the same gaming ability.