“Hey, have you heard the news? kyu started blogging again!”
“No way! i thought he abandoned his blog to pursue a career in proscrastination?”
“well that may be but he’s really back!”

:D hello again everyone, and sorry to have abandoned the blogosphere for some two months (actually i was there sometimes, lurking ) the main reason for my prolonged absence lies in the fact that my pc got down several times, (even now i’m hanging on to a dreamlinux live cd to blog this) but i felt that if i didn’t start to blog again now, i probably wouldn’t at all :P

Anyways, i still wish you happy 240 days till 2009 :P

I would have thought my long absence would cause some readers to go away, but my feedburner stats show that i’ve got some new readers subscribed to my feed, so welcome you all, and thanks for following kyusphere

Well, i’ll be back soon with some new tips / hacks, (if those do not get obsolete by that time i mean lol ) anyway, maybe it will be hard to regain the momentum i had before, and achieve a post rate as “high” :P but i will try to be here often

By the way, if any of you remember this post, well guess what? yeah, got it :P (when i say “definitely” i often really mean it :P) well, actually mine looks more like this (i love black way much better anyways :P) and the usb connectivity is just, well, fantastic am not even thinking about buying separate effects pedals now lol :P If anyone in Mauritius is interested, this guitar (behringer iaxe624) is available at Philanne music shop at p.louis ^_^ (damn it, am even advertising freely for them now )

And yeah, results will be here soon, wish me luck (but having to repeat that one as well won’t be as much a problem as in 2006 ^_^)

so see ya soon :P

(@ carrotmadman, haven’t forgotten you i’ll perform my duties asap :P)

Salut a tous! bon, petit billet en Francais car en ce moment je fais un maximum d`efforts pour etre bilingue a 100% pour mes examens :grinnod:

Enfin bref, le but de ce billet est de vous informer qu`a partir de la semaine prochaine les examens commencent officiellement, et que je vais tenter de ne pas me connecter (genre deconnexion du cable ethernet (ou pire, j`enleve direct la carte, et je jette le tournevis, comme ca plus d`excuse du genre `le cable s`est remis tout seul ))

Sinon, certains d`entre vous ont pu lire sur le blog de waz que je pense faire une bd live inspiree des siennes. et bien oui, c`est totalement vrai sauf que ce n`est pas pour maintenant vu que je suis en pleine revision la,

Du coup je vous fait a tous un grand salut!

(ps., je bloggues depuis un an et neuf jours! je ne m`en etais meme pas rendu compte! )

If you are one of those who occasionally download stuff from megaupload, chances are that you have already stumbled on the nasty error message stating that your country had no free download slot for the moment.
The issue is, unfortunately, quite common in countries like Mauritius.

Sure, until recently, there was the nifty user agent extension for firefox, which could simulate the megaupload toolbar being installed, and allowed you to download from MU. However, since mid august 07 it seems that megaupload have updated their toolbar, making the user agent switchers kind of useless.

However, there is still a breach. Indeed, the country slot thingie can still be bypassed. Here is how to do it.

Note: These instructions are for Mozilla firefox, but if you know how to use greasemonkey scripts in opera, it will also work. however please note that I do not know how to do it and thus will in no way be able to help you if you are using opera.

Now let`s go

First thing you`ll need is the greasemonkey firefox extension. if you do not already have it, grab it here.

After the installation, come back here, and download My megaupload user script. You should be prompted to install a user script. You can view the source code if you want.

After installing the script, just go to megaupload.com to initialise the script.

Tadaa, now when you click a megaupload download link, you should normally be able to download your files ^_^

please note that the user agent extension is not required for this to work ^_^

Very special thanks Leo-kun and Mj-chan, without whom i probably wouldn`t have worked this out

Technical info, For the geeks

So, wondering what is behind this trick? Simple. In fact, the new megaupload toolbar does indeed append something to the browser`s user agent string, but it seems to be just a decoy, as the site does not check the User agent.

One more thing the toolbar does is create two cookies, and these are what the megaupload site searches for. Thus, the solution was to fake those cookies, and this is just what that script above does. Want to take a look at the source? here it is:

// ==UserScript==
// @name Megaupload 2.0
// @include *megaupload*
// ==/UserScript==

function Cookie(name,value,days) {
if (days) {
var date = new Date();
date.setTime(date.getTime()+(days*24*60*60*1000));
var expires = “; expires=”+date.toGMTString();
}
else var expires = “”;
document.cookie = name+”=”+value+expires+”; path=/”;
}

Cookie(’megauploadtoolbar_visibility’, ‘yes’, 7);
Cookie(’megauploadtoolbar_id’, ‘197A9F07D8724E438DEBE1C11EBBE405′, 7);

As you see, the script uses a function to create the the two cookies. this is done on going to megaupload.com (hence the initialisation step above.) Thus, if you do not plan to delete your cookies , after this step you could delete the script and it would still work ^_^

Here you are me friends ^_^ again my greatest thanks to Mj and Leo. And oh, the functions above? lol gnu gpl 2 ^_^ (joking of course… )

EDIT:

Thanks to Ahmed-max who gave a solution for opera users so here goes:

1. type “about:config” into your address bar
2. go to isp
3. input ” ‘197A9F07D8724E438DEBE1C11EBBE405′, 7 ” and push save.

This should do the trick. I haven’t tested it though, i will asap :P