I was curious; which actual sites did the Attorney General shut down? Well each seized domain has had its name servers' IPs replaced with 74.81.170.109 and 74.81.170.108. So the closest I could get, was to use a tool to find the A records that aim at a particular IP and see all the names those IPs are going by. (Looking up the PTR doesn't work, so you gotta be a little sneaky.)
If you do this on NS1, you get a list of ns1.somedomain.tld entries in the resulting web page, and if you copy and paste the list into a text file you can clean it up like this
` cat textfile | awk {'print $1'} | grep -i ns1 `
Which currently (Sunday, December 5, 2010, 23:30 GMT) results in only thirty seized domains' name servers and ns1.seizedservers.com itself:
ns1.2009jerseys.com
ns1.51607.com
ns1.amoyhy.com
ns1.bishoe.com
ns1.borntrade.com
ns1.boxedtvseries.com
ns1.boxset4less.com
ns1.burberryoutlet-us.com
ns1.burberryoutletshop.com
ns1.cartoon77.com
ns1.coachoutletfactory.com
ns1.dajaz1.com
ns1.dvdorderonline.com
ns1.dvdprostore.com
ns1.handbag9.com
ns1.handbagcom.com
ns1.jersey-china.com
ns1.lifetimereplicas.com
ns1.louis-vuitton-outlet-store.com
ns1.mydreamwatches.com
ns1.oebags.com
ns1.realtimberland.com
ns1.rmx4u.com
ns1.seizedservers.com
ns1.skyergolf.com
ns1.sunogolf.com
ns1.throwbackguy.com
ns1.tieonsale.com
ns1.topabuy.com
ns1.torrent-finder.com
ns1.usaoutlets.net
I am definitely doing something wrong -- that's significantly less than the 82 being reported by most bloggers. Naturally, the government has no comments on what domains they've seized. (I'm not sure I like the sekrit-p0lice implications of that.) Also interesting to note, they're running both google analytics and piwik on their take-down notice page.
Sunday, December 5, 2010
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Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Barcode scanning on iFone
I was chatting with Sven the other day about how nice it'd be to have a simple barcode reader that talks to a desktop machine. Basically, he just wants a "keyboard" that takes barcodes as input and "types" them as output over USB/bluetoof/whatever.
I looked at a bunch of apps and about half of them only read QR codes, or if they do read "1-D" codes, they only recognize valid UPC codes, not the barcodes on tapes. Also, it seems like the best way to scan is to make a "scanning stage" where your phone is stationary and you just put tapes in front of it. Autofocus seems to try to lock-on to the background, missing a tape that you're holding in your hand.
I found these:
ZBar : Open source! Captures barcodes very quickly. Unfortunately no "batch" scan mode, you have to click the Camera icon after each scan to return it to scanning mode. You can capture a whole bunch of codes, that it stores in RAM, and then email the whole list to yourself. Very nice, and could be haX0red into a custom application if we had a C++ dev.
iCody: Eight bucks, but well worth it! Lets you crop your camera input down to just a section, so no auto-focus garbage, nor problems when multiple codes are in the view. Captures a whole batch into RAM, and then lets you send those in email. Also, I didn't try it, but it's got a desktop applet that you can run, and if iFone and Mac are on the same wifi, it'll send codes directly to your Mac -- if it works, that's a winner. :)
And the ones I tried that donut work for scanning our backup tapes:
RedLaser: Won't recognize tapes, only takes 1-D barcodes that are UPCs. (It's a shame, since they have a nice SDK.)
ScanLite: only does QR codes. (It's a shame, as they have a web API that lets you write your own webapps that use the iFone app as input.)
codeREADr: only does QR.
i-nigma 4: only does QR, despite suggesting otherwise in the description...
BeeTagg : only does QR
So there you have it, that's what I gleaned in a couple hours over the weekend. Share and enjoy!
I looked at a bunch of apps and about half of them only read QR codes, or if they do read "1-D" codes, they only recognize valid UPC codes, not the barcodes on tapes. Also, it seems like the best way to scan is to make a "scanning stage" where your phone is stationary and you just put tapes in front of it. Autofocus seems to try to lock-on to the background, missing a tape that you're holding in your hand.
I found these:
ZBar : Open source! Captures barcodes very quickly. Unfortunately no "batch" scan mode, you have to click the Camera icon after each scan to return it to scanning mode. You can capture a whole bunch of codes, that it stores in RAM, and then email the whole list to yourself. Very nice, and could be haX0red into a custom application if we had a C++ dev.
iCody: Eight bucks, but well worth it! Lets you crop your camera input down to just a section, so no auto-focus garbage, nor problems when multiple codes are in the view. Captures a whole batch into RAM, and then lets you send those in email. Also, I didn't try it, but it's got a desktop applet that you can run, and if iFone and Mac are on the same wifi, it'll send codes directly to your Mac -- if it works, that's a winner. :)
And the ones I tried that donut work for scanning our backup tapes:
RedLaser: Won't recognize tapes, only takes 1-D barcodes that are UPCs. (It's a shame, since they have a nice SDK.)
ScanLite: only does QR codes. (It's a shame, as they have a web API that lets you write your own webapps that use the iFone app as input.)
codeREADr: only does QR.
i-nigma 4: only does QR, despite suggesting otherwise in the description...
BeeTagg : only does QR
So there you have it, that's what I gleaned in a couple hours over the weekend. Share and enjoy!
Android on my iPhone 3G
Well, here it is, my old iPhone 3G is running droid. I tried the "simple" bootlace method, but ended up diving in deeper than expected. I had to go with the dev team pwnage tool on my Mac to get jailbroken in the first place, then connected to a linux machine to do the actual boot loader install, and then bootlace got the iDroid bits installed so the boot loader could see 'em. But it works!
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