Robsta.id.au » Hacking http://robsta.id.au Progressive Technology Playground of Rob Morgan Sat, 02 Jan 2010 21:32:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Using cURL to Post Updates to Twitter http://robsta.id.au/2007/04/08/using-curl-to-post-updates-to-twitter/ http://robsta.id.au/2007/04/08/using-curl-to-post-updates-to-twitter/#comments Sun, 08 Apr 2007 01:34:45 +0000 robsta http://robsta.id.au/2007/04/08/using-curl-to-post-updates-to-twitter/ Heres a small snippet of code I found that will successfully post updates to your Twitter account:

curl --basic --user username:password --data status="Having fun with cURL" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml

The command ‘curl’ is normally present on most Linux distro’s these days. Windows users will need to Google and download it. To use the code above simply replace ‘username:password’ with your real ‘username:password‘, the string of status in double quotes is the update that will actually appear on your Twitter page. The url present at the end of the code is the Twitter API endpoint.

Twitter will reply with a response similar to the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<status>
<created_at>Sun Apr 08 01:25:56 +0000 2007</created_at>
<id>12345xxx</id>
<text>Having fun with cURL</text>
<user>
<id>xxxxxxx</id>
<name>Your Name</name>
<screen_name>your_username</screen_name>
<location></location>
<description></description>
<profile_image_url>[removed]</profile_image_url>
<url></url>
<protected>true</protected>
</user>
</status>

Note: I have replaced specific numbers with ‘x’s.

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Answer: CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9 are all Windows reserved device names from the early days of DOS. You learn something new each day.

]]> http://robsta.id.au/2005/11/07/the-con-of-xp/feed/ 23 Free Sveasoft Firmware http://robsta.id.au/2005/08/30/free-sveasoft-firmware/ http://robsta.id.au/2005/08/30/free-sveasoft-firmware/#comments Tue, 30 Aug 2005 02:15:13 +0000 robsta http://pc.robsta.id.au/?p=78 This guy offers the Sveasoft firmware for download at no extra cost (free as in beer)! He also talks about how he was abused by Sveasoft and how they are in violation of the GPL.

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]]> http://robsta.id.au/2005/07/29/top-secret-homebrew-military-espionage-electronics/feed/ 0 Email Viruses http://robsta.id.au/2004/12/03/email-viruses/ http://robsta.id.au/2004/12/03/email-viruses/#comments Fri, 03 Dec 2004 00:49:06 +0000 robsta http://pc.robsta.id.au/?p=45 I’m glad my ISP offers free email virus protection and spam filtering. In the past fortnight I have recieved over 100 emails containing the Worm ‘Sober.i’ and a couple of hundred spam messages.

Theres more information about I-Worm.Sober.i on Viruslist.com.

]]> http://robsta.id.au/2004/12/03/email-viruses/feed/ 0 Panther on Windows via PearPC http://robsta.id.au/2004/10/01/panther-on-windows-via-pearpc/ http://robsta.id.au/2004/10/01/panther-on-windows-via-pearpc/#comments Fri, 01 Oct 2004 15:03:34 +0000 robsta http://pc.robsta.id.au/?p=36 Have you always been an exciting fan of Apple? Do you wish your IBM-Compatible PC were more akin to it’s macintosh counterpart. Well personally I love Apple, I just can’t afford one! This whole affair started when they released OS X based on a BSD core (FreeBSD in particular).

Anyway back to the point, I downloaded a Panther image (.dmg) off Suprnova and PearPC from the SourceForge download mirrors. PearPC allows one to emulate a MacOS system running on an IBM compatible architecture.

After following some heavy guides from PearPC itself and a couple of Google-found resources I was able to boot into a fully working Panther (OS X 10.3) system. I won’t write my own guide; there are plenty out there for that matter anyhow.

Screenshots
Please see the links below.

osx_default_desktop.jpg
osx_new_finder.jpg

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I’ve just installed TWiki as my new website CMS system. It took a fair effort to setup and a while to design the custom ’skins’ (themes) – but it seems to be doing it’s job now.

You can view it over here. I’ll polish it up in days to come by making it more efficient.

I decided to use a wiki-based system for my site because I like the rapid page creation, feature set and the ability to let others work collaboratively.

26/July 2004: Decided to use blog for frontpage, wiki in the background.

]]> http://robsta.id.au/2004/05/29/wiki-engines/feed/ 0 Windows 98 Emulated on a Pocket PC http://robsta.id.au/2004/05/23/windows-98-emulated-on-a-pocket-pc/ http://robsta.id.au/2004/05/23/windows-98-emulated-on-a-pocket-pc/#comments Sun, 23 May 2004 08:13:14 +0000 robsta http://pc.robsta.id.au/?p=4 PocketGamer is carrying a story on the successful emulation of Windows 95 and Windows 98SE on the Pocket PC. This was made possible by a Pocket PC port of Bochs, a DOS emulator. If you’re keen to try this yourself, you’ll need a minimum of a 256MB memory card (or stream the image over a wireless network) and you’ll need a program like Nyditot Virtual Display to increase your screen resolution. Oh, yes, and you’ll also need the emulator. You can find more information and a selection of screenshots here. Following the porting of a full speed Playstation emulator and Pocket Quake, this really raises the bar for what the Pocket PC is capable of.

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