Posts from December 2019
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Illegal numbers
Legal counsel for various companies, including AACS LA (Advanced Access Content System Licensing Administrator) LLC, DVD Copy Control Association Incorporated, Intel Corporation, Motion Picture Association of America Incorporated, Sony Computer Entertainment America Incorporated and Texas Instruments Incorporated, have determined that the possession or distribution of… »
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From the archives: NAT 2024 – Tax file numbers for secondary school students
Until 31 December 2014, secondary school students in Australia could apply for a Tax File Number (TFN) through the Secondary Schools TFN Program. Application was made through the NAT 2024 form: Tax file number – application or enquiry for secondary school students, available… »
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Editable template: Receipt for vehicle sale
Adapted from VicRoads Receipt of vehicle sale form to remove Victoria-specific references. Used under licence.
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Editable colour SVG Secret Hitler for prepress
Secret Hitler is a popular hidden identity party game developed by Goat, Wolf, & Cabbage, licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International licence. However, the official freely-available ‘print-and-play’ PDF edition is in black and white, and low quality. To remedy this, I have created by… »
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The SpongeBob Musical's ‘Bikini Bottom Day’ – Chicago vs Broadway lyrics
‘Bikini Bottom Day’ is the opening number to the critically-aclaimed SpongeBob Squarepants: The Broadway Musical, which premiered in Chicago in June 2016, and moved to Broadway in December 2017. Between the Chicago run and Broadway run, the lyrics to the latter half of the… »
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Not in my backyard, and not in yours either: On respecting the autonomy of others
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, or CDDA, is an open-source survival roguelike video game. As a roguelike, CDDA is characterised by permanent death (permadeath), and one request which pops up now and then on discussion groups is whether permadeath could be disabled. The following is… »
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Investigating Google Cast: Disabling device authentication on Android with Xposed
Background
Google Cast is a proprietary protocol by Google which enables controlling playback of Internet-streamed audiovisual content on the Chromecast, Android TV and other compatible devices.
From the consumer perspective, Google Cast connects two devices: a sender (such as a smartphone) and a receiver (such… »
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FIFO inventory with ledger-cli
Ledger is a powerful command-line plain-text accounting system. It has extensive built-in support for tracking complex ‘commodities’, such as currencies and inventory items, but does not support FIFO valuation.
This is a small Python script that can take input from Ledger, break down the prices… »
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Melbourne to Adelaide via Ararat: Combined V/Line timetable
See here for discussion and context.
Effective 1 December 2019.
… »Mon–Fri Saturday Sunday TRAIN TRAIN TRAIN Southern Cross depart 08:16 Footscray 08:24 Sunshine 08:29 Ardeer 08:32 Deer Park 08:35 Caroline Springs 08:39 Rockbank — 08:45 Cobblebank — 08:49 Melton 08:48 08:52 Bacchus Marsh 08:57 09:03 09:00 -
The secret, better way to get from Melbourne to Adelaide by V/Line
According to the PTV website, V/Line operates a service between Melbourne and Adelaide, via Bendigo. This is described by a V/Line timetable as the ‘Adelaide Daylink’. The journey is lengthy, but economical, particularly for those on concession fares or with large amounts of… »
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Forwarding game controllers and other input over SSH
Various systems exist for remotely controlling Linux systems, such as VNC, Synergy/Barrier and other protocols like SPICE and NX. These systems, however, tend to operate at a high level, and are consequently limited in scope. For example, none of these systems support relative mouse… »
