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Visible Whitespace in Visual Studio

Jonathan Ng — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:37:42 +0000

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.

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Flying with wifi

Jonathan Ng — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:31:05 +0000

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.

I’ve been on vacation for the past week and a half, visiting sunny California. Though I try to leave most of the tech toys at home to spend time with the family, I did bring along my netbook, which has proved invaluable for

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Multi-WAN Router / Firewall: Soekris VS WRAP

Joe Kelly — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 00:01:00 +0000

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

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