Of late, I have been coding in C# using Visual Studio 2005. One day while merrily going about my way, I must have accidentally hit the Control key and some keys. A little known “feature” was discovered. All my spaces turned to “dots”. Apparently, this is called the visible whitespace feature. I’ve seen (and used) it in Word, but have never seen it in a code editor.
Unfortunately, my code became highly unreadable in this format. I tried looking through the dialogs to see if I could find ways to turn it off to no avail. Finally, I found this article to be of much help:
http://aspadvice.com/blogs/name/archive/2006/09/15/Visible-Whitespace-in-Visual-Studio.aspx
Ctrl-E-S does the trick apparently. It turns on and off this feature.
A nerdboys blogger blogging at 36103 feet going at 436 mph?! … seem impossible? Among some of the odder offerings of Virgin airlines (mood lighting, linux-powered in-flight consoles), they also offer in-flight WIFI.
…Continue reading » Flying with wifi
After much investigation, it looks like building my own firmware for the LinkSys RV082 will take too long. I will pursue it at a later date but for now I will build my own.
The requirements are:
- Low cost
- Small form factor
- Quiet
- Low heat
- A minimum of three ethernet ports
- Serial port console access
- Powerful enough to be able to route and filter at least 10 Mbps of traffic.
- Linux, FreeBSD and/or OpenBSD compatible
- Loading operating system from Compact Flash
Nice to haves:
- PXE boot
- USB port
- IDE port
So far, the contenders are: …Continue reading » Multi-WAN Router / Firewall: Soekris VS WRAP
