Archive for December, 2005

How to make Cat 5 cable

Never done it, but doesn’t look too hard according to this website:

How to Make a Category 5 / Cat 5E Patch Cable

Posted by Karl Herrick on December 31st, 2005 in Hardware, Networking | 1 Comment »

Quick Translator

This web language translator is quick… but I’m not sure how accurate. Give it a try and let me know how well it works!

Languages that are supported are: English, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, and French.

AjaxTrans

Posted by Karl Herrick on December 31st, 2005 in Culture, Web Development | No Comments »

A Currency Exchanger

I wrote a little program called Exch that simplfies currency exchange and the retrieval of up to date exchange rates.

If you are already using Firefox 1.5 extensively it integrates well as a sidebar.

More:
Other extensions I have been involved with.
Exch project on Mozdev.

Posted by Karl Herrick on December 28th, 2005 in Windows, Linux, Exch, Firefox | 1 Comment »

Exch for Linux

I just uploaded Exch for Linux. It was excitingly difficult to make a tar.gz file off of the command line because Ark wasn’t playing nice on Kanotix.

For those who would like to make a tar.gz file of an entire directory, here’s how:

tar -cvf filename.tar directoryName

And then issue this command:

gzip filename.tar

Voila, you should have, 

filename.tar.gz

Posted by Karl Herrick on December 21st, 2005 in Linux, XUL, Exch, Firefox, Bash | 1 Comment »

Exch

Exch is a small utility written in XUL and JavaScript that utilizes the XULRunner runtime. It allows the user to enter two currencies and get them converted from one to the other using data obtained from Yahoo! Finance.

As much as Exch is an exercise in XUL development, and an example of XUL to others, it is quite useful also!

Check out the installation page and try Exch out. You must have a working Internet connection while using the program because it fetches information from over the web.

Posted by Karl Herrick on December 21st, 2005 in Yahoo, XUL, Exch | No Comments »