http://www.okob.net/wp Notes, ideas and general comments on anything related to high-tech. Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:31:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There finally appears to be an affordable product (http://www.emotiv.com/) designed to recognize your mood, simple intentions etc. basing on the analysis of the readings from a futuristic looking device worn on your head and capturing EEG data (14 channels). However farfetched this sounds, it is potentially possible although it is ... http://www.okob.net/wp/index.php/2009/09/20/affordable-mind-reading/ This note is for a setup that allows using Linksys WRT54 router for VPNing into remote network and providing multiple PCs on your home network access to that remote network in similar fashion as they access Internet (through NAT). It is assumed that the VPN server is already available on the remote network and the "openvpn" client can ... http://www.okob.net/wp/index.php/2009/06/04/notes-on-wrt54-as-vpn-client-and-gateway-to-remote-network/ I have just read an interesting NewScientist article. It mentioned that they have had an unprecedented success with artificial aging of wine. To be precise, they mentioned taking a cheap 3-month old cabernet sauvignon and making it taste and smell like a really good wine according to a blind test of ... http://www.okob.net/wp/index.php/2009/05/05/artificial-aging-of-wine-using-electric-field/ It has happened many times that I'd spend long hours looking for a solution for a particular software or hardware problem or just searching for information on an interesting subject. After the problem is solved, the details usually fade away from memory pretty quickly and if similar problem resurfaces a lot needs to be rediscovered. The blogging software allowing ... http://www.okob.net/wp/index.php/2009/05/04/wordpress-php-and-mysql-setup/ Microsoft has changed how the raw sockets behave several times throughout their OS release history. Starting from XP SP2 the transmissions through raw sockets are limited to prevent sending hand crafted frames of particular types (TCP, UDP with foreign source addresses, ...) on client family of OSes. Fortunately the ICMP frames can still be sent and the ... http://www.okob.net/wp/index.php/2009/04/30/icmp-over-raw-sockets-under-windows-vista/