Monthly Archives: July 2011

2011 links no. 2

Posted on July 31, 2011 by Maris

Stack Overflow profiler open sourced: Profiling your website like a true Ninja. Smaller is Faster (and Safer Too). Chrome team have just started using a new compression algorithm called Courgette to make Google Chrome updates small. Read more. Ask Amir … Continue reading →

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Urih.com has online resource viewer for executable files

Posted on July 28, 2011 by Maris

One of very interesting online tool we launched in urih.com is online resource viewer for executable files. We call it – Portable executable online viewer. This new (online) tool can be used like any old (offline) tool to view images … Continue reading →

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Strange HTTP GET requests from IP 150.70.x.x and IP 62.24.x.x

Posted on July 8, 2011 by Maris

Recently I started to notice that one of our sites gets strange HTTP GET requests from two IP ranges: 150.70.x.x and IP 62.24.x.x. The short version of this goes as follows: we have web service when users can submit results … Continue reading →

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Windows API PlaySound error / silence

Posted on July 2, 2011 by Maris

Today stumbled at strange behavior of Windows API function PlaySound in combination with SND_FILENAME flag. There are two scenarios: No sound is played, and PlaySound returns success (TRUE) in combination with SND_ASYNC; No sound is played, and PlaySound returns failure … Continue reading →

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