This is a handy tools I used very often lately, all it does is split the FLV files into Video and Audio files (FLV Stream in AVI and Audio in MP3.)
Very handy when you want the audio data only, drag and drop and done done.
You can download it from here:
http://cowscorpion.com/MultimediaTools/FLVExtract.html
.NET runtime 2.0+ is needed.
Archive for Computing
FLV Extract – A handy tools for FLV movies files.
Routing and Remote Access error in WinXP Part II
Made a post about Routing and Remote Access error in WinXP sometime ago, and I have yet another error currently with “Routing and Remote Access” again…..
This time the error from the EventLog was:
“The Routing and Remote Access service terminated with service-specific error 16389 (0x4005).”
A little bit Google-ing gave me an official answer and fix from Microsoft.
You cannot start the Routing and Remote Access service on a Windows 2000 Server-based computer or on a Windows Server 2003-based computer
Problem seems to be related to the Internet Authentication Service (IAS) database damaged in one of the system crash.
Followed the site and yes it did fix the problem, and my VPN server is now back up running again.
Routing and Remote Access error in WinXP
VPN connection to my XP box at home has been down for almost few months…
After a bit trace in system event log, found out it was related to the “Routing and Remote Access”, the service refuse to start given me error code of -2147483576 (0x80000048) in EventLog > System..
I have completely no idea why is it happening and what I did to make the error, VPN was working, and suddenly stop and I was not able re-enable it…
By Google-ing a little bit time, I finally found the problem….
I found that it was related to “Bluetooth Modems
” under Control Panel > Phone and Modem Options > Modems, a few BT Modems like FAX was added with installation of my BT Dongle drivers..
After removing those un-used BT Modems, RRAS was able to start and now I am able to connect my home system by VPN.
Spams Spams, and Spams…………..
Currently Theo’s weblog was under heavy spam attacks, especially on the commenting system…..
No captcha was used in the commenting system because I would like to keep things simple for friends to post comment as they like, and turn out to be appox 100~200 spam comments every 24 hours for me to audit….
Certain keyword has already been filtered, reduced spam comments to 50+…..still a headache to see them everywhere….
By the IP log appox 60% of these spam comments are from Korea, 20% from Mainland China and the rest of the world…..
So just for now, more filter has been developed to “filter” out more of this kind of spams…
Another noticeable hit was some search bot (example baidu, iaskspider, sogou) from Mainland China, they are disobeying robot.txt and hitting the site hard with appox 10% of the overall traffic….
.htaccess is now used to ban these bully off with err 403…
I think spammer should deserve to burn in hell forever!!!!
Google patents search!
Just spotted from google, they have launched yet another interesting beta service called “Google Patents Search”.
This service claims allowing users to search over 7 million patents.
Hum, I like this service, example:
A search of “Palm OS” gives me:
FAT file system in palm OS computer
US Pat. 6424975 – Filed January 7, 2000 – TRG Products, Inc.
Ar ha, no suprise!
They was the first one who did external storage on Palm OS!
And very good documentation was listed too!
Should do more search on Palm related topics when I have sometime!!
🙂
Links:
Google Patent Search
FAT file system in palm OS computer
GoogleEarth with Wiimote
What could be better to “Take the earth on your hand”??
Links:
Engadget – Wiimote control for Google Earth
Wiimote GlovePIE Scripts
Wiimote Drivers for Windows.
I was thinking if the Wiimote, which is actually a Bluetooth HID devices, can be used on a PC would be great!
And now it is possible!!!!
WiiLi.org – Wiimote Drivers for PC discussion
GlovePIE – Wiimote Driver for Windows
I do not have a Wiimote yet, so cannot try it out, if you do have one can you please give it a try and let us know does it works?
(Just got info that I will be seeing a Wii in 2 weeks time!!! yeah!!!!!)
Updated:
Wii for PC in action (BootCamp by MacBook Pro)
Yeah!!!!!!
Second Life Hit By Massive In-Game Worm
I found this very interesting….
Quote from Slashdot:
An anonymous reader writes,
“At 2:46 CST today, the game Second Life was hit by a massive attack by a rogue programmer. Spinning gold rings began to appear in the air and on the ground, and as users interacted with them they began to chase and replicate. Apparently, most people are willing to touch an object they’ve never seen before and this invoked a worm script that was designed to multiply and spread across the 2,700+ servers run by Linden Labs in California, the game’s owner. Many of the six hundred thousand active users experienced serious lag and lost connectivity to the servers, making it one of the largest known denial-of-service attacks in an online game. Linden Labs had to invoke martial law and lock out all logins by users except their staff as they began the task of cleaning the servers of what they began to term ‘the grey goo.'”
Comments in the SL blog entry indicate that Linden Labs had already deployed a “grey goo fence” before this worm struck, but someone found a hole in it.
Hum…….what a Matrix feel……..do we next have bot over-controlling the system?
🙂
Links:
Slashdot – Second Life Hit By Massive In-Game Worm.
Blog of SecondLife – Second Life was hit by a massive attack by a rogue programmer
SecondLife – what is SecondLife.
SecondLife – Offical site
Spams……everywhere……
I currently notice the numbers of spams increases by at least 100%, especially from my yahoo email account..
These spams consider different to “traditional” spam, instead of plain text like “Viagra”, “Penis”, “Fake Rolex”, they first comes with a radom generated paragraph of meaningless text, then they embedded an image (Even comes with pattern overlay to hide from OCR like scanning), which of coz, containing their ads.
Most current spam filter only filter the text content, and these spams got in without notice….
Just saw a news over NewScientist about spams.
Honest, I really don’t understand:
1/: Does anyone really use/buy their service because of the spam? I personally would first ban their product/service.
2/: Why are we the one that have to spend the time filtering these junk? they should be one to stop them! I personally support “opt-in” idea on email ads, I do thinks a big big fine would warn and stop these ppl from doing it.
Links:
NewScientist.com – Inboxes drowning in ‘image spam’
FireFox 2.0 Released!
Tipped by email of a friend, FireFox 2.0 has just been released, wonder why wasn’t the official site updated yet, but you can go http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0/win32/ to download it!
Reports from users that some extension (now call addons) does not works in FF 2.0, but most of them are just same old problem of version number checking, which can be override by another addon call “Nightly Tester Tools”.
Hum, IE7 follow by FF2, seem like we will have quite some beta testing to do again….
Reminds me off the days with IE3.0 vs Netscape 3.0 (I personally don’t count IE 2.0 vs Netscape 2.0 a “compare”)….
🙂
Link:
FireFox Official site
Nightly Tester Tools
Microsoft Official Internet Explorer 7 page
