Author Archives: Ashley Ross
Buying iTunes vouchers/gift cards online
Using an iPhone and iTunes as a South African user sucks. Every iPhone user I know has registered a US iTunes account to get access to apps that are inexplicably* unavailable in South Africa. The only downside is that, without … Continue reading
redsn0w 0.8 Checksums
As it doesn’t appear to be online elsewhere, here are the checksums for redsn0w 0.8 for Windows: Filename CRC32 MD5 SHA1 redsn0w-win_0.8.zip 45849b42 6b9480bde795f20c62592645ecddec1c b7c3f3e1ec1f9b62fde9030265f2e3623e2576bd ⌙ redsn0w.exe 01324e34 aeb7ac29b1954c992f33335da1e59189 1499f5fad69a2212126096379582204298abf911
Migrating iTunes apps between installs
Ahh, a new PC, a new install of iTunes, and all the apps I downloaded for my iPhone are nowhere to be seen. iTunes doesn’t offer me a way to redownload all the apps I installed, and what’s more, when … Continue reading
C# Quines
Writing quines is a fun way to while away an afternoon, especially when trying to make them as short as possible. This is the result of my attempt at writing the shortest C# quine possible (155 characters, source file): PS: … Continue reading
Crouching Enumerator, Hidden Boxing
A few months ago, I was playing around with a simple C# permutation generator to build a word list, with each character position having its own list of characters to iterate through: Oddly, I was getting a compilation error on … Continue reading
The Joy of ASP.NET, Visual Studio and Proxies
Some time ago, the web project I was working on started refusing to open. Every time I tried to reload the ASP.NET project, Visual Studio (In this case, VS.NET 2003, but it may affect 2005 and 2008) gave a strange … Continue reading