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At work, I was tasked with creating a class to strip RTF tags from RTF formatted text, leaving only the plain text. Microsoft’s RichTextBox can do this with its Text property, but it was unavailable in the context in which I’m working. RTF formatting uses control characters escaped with backslashes along with nested curly braces.…
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This article assumes you already know how to set up a SOCKS proxy, likely via SSH using PuTTY. Lots of people use FoxyProxy in Firefox to selectively proxy based on rules. FoxyProxy for Chrome exists now, which uses the Chrome Proxy API. However, this still leaks DNS via pre-fetch queries in other places in the…
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Yesterday I noticed a strange anomaly in the logs of an application I wrote and manage at work while investigating another issue. It manifested as us sending duplicate messages from a queue to a third party over and over. I looked into the code and since threading was involved, I figured there was some thread…
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Feb 26, 2014 Update: Verizon appears to have solved the problem on their end and an MTU of 1500 will work again. The original problem lasted from at least the beginning of Feb 24, 2014 until mid-day Feb 26, 2014. Verizon’s escalation team later called me back and provided the following information: New uplinks were…
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