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1
Jul

The Website is Back

Submitted by Apophis on Wed, 07/01/2009 - 09:00

Bad news: I had to move to a new server this weekend, all DNS entries should point to the new IP.  Most data is already back where it was. Only a few data was lost. This website and email had priority, but most services will come up this week.

Good news, this server has better hardware, hope the site is serverd a bit faster. The software setup is also a bit better and cleaner.

28
May

Spider yet unknown banned urls

Submitted by Apophis on Thu, 05/28/2009 - 09:20

I already posted the newest development on the Zensorchecker on its blog.

The next version of the Zensorchecker will be able to spider new url's which have not been leaked to the public. This version will make the leaking less important, since everybody can search for censored urls in the future. I am not sure yet about some design decisions and it might take some time till I release 0.7.

6
May

Schweizer Provider / Swiss ISPs (Zensurliste)

Submitted by Apophis on Wed, 05/06/2009 - 21:48

Quelle: Censorship Reports Switzerland

  • Zensur / Censored
    • Cablecom
    • Sunrise
    • Bluewin
  • Ohne Zensur / No Censorship
    • Flashcable

 

5
May

First Release of ZensorChecker

Submitted by Apophis on Tue, 05/05/2009 - 15:35

I started a new Project on origo, I call it ZensorChecker.

Download HERE | Source Here

The basic idea was to have a simple tool for everyone to check if their own connection gets censored.

The Program checks the locally present DNS Server against the list of Censored Domains

23
Apr

CDS-Spread as Rating

Submitted by Apophis on Thu, 04/23/2009 - 01:58

Found a nice Blogentry which displays the current high CDS Spreads in the market. CDS stands for Credit Default Swap, its basically an insurance against the Default of a the issuer of a paper (i.e. the case the issuer doesn't pay back the debt). You can buy such insurance also for countries.

8
Apr

Downtime twice

Submitted by Apophis on Wed, 04/08/2009 - 12:56

At the end of march the servers MySQL database crashed heavily which needed a complete restore of the whole database, the backup of the previous days were corrupted as well which lead to a restore of the database dating back to the begin of march.

23
Mar

if-else vs. switch vs. Dictionary of delegates (C#)

Submitted by Apophis on Mon, 03/23/2009 - 13:03

Fast Switching

While developing a Patch for the DCC support of SmartIrc4Net I rewrote the CTCP handling. Instead of a switch Statement I developed a Dictionary<string, ctcpDelegate> for the handling of the CTCP String. (i.e. I call the ctcp Handler after a Dictionary lookup of the CTCP String).

There are several Advantages to this:

27
Dec

Censorship List Switzerland

Submitted by Apophis on Sat, 12/27/2008 - 19:45

A few days ago there has been posted the Danish Censorship list on Wikileaks. And I remembered that I once read that it was the danish police which delivered the first 1000 URLs the swiss KOBIK has banned (Heise original News). Therefore I checked the list of domain names against the Cablecom DNS Server to see if they still match in a big part.

13
Dec

ut3 Global Player Stats API

Submitted by Apophis on Sat, 12/13/2008 - 17:31

My ut3 Global Player Stats Projects relies on the Stats aquired by GameSpy. It looks like the have changed their Authentication scheme recently and this resulted in a nonworking Stats Application.

I Updated the Code and fixed some minor Bugs to make it work again!

Please Notice: You need to use the UT3 Account now, not an Account from login.gamespy.com. I know it was confusing before and now it should be more logical!

Hope you enjoy the possibillities!

21
Oct

Every journey has an end...

Submitted by Apophis on Tue, 10/21/2008 - 16:09

...even the very long and intersting ones.

I am home earlier than I have initially planned, the only country I really d'like to visit, but wasn't possible this time is Kazakhstan, but I hope I will do that some ohter time. When I think that I havent planned alot in advance, I could be pretty happy about the journey. There were some things which went not the way I have planned, for example I took the airplane more often than I wanted, which is one of the reasons why I was faster than initially expected.

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