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Jan 31, 2008 Immigration to Australia

I started republishing posts from my old website about immigration to Australia. First few posts are available here, more are coming later. All posts are in Russian. All posts are not published on the first page.

Jan 28, 2008 Simple free online IP conversion tool

For debugging purposes I frequently need to quickly convert ip addresses from one representation to another. Here is quick and dirty (I’ll cleanup the interface when get some free time) converter that does the job.
If you don’t see the form below because of some reason please proceed to this page.
The following formats are supported:

  • integer
  • unsigned integer
  • dot notation
  • hex number
  • binary number
  • octal number
  • natural netmask

Please specify one of the following

Convert from int:
Convert from dot notation:

function dec2string ($decimal, $base)
{
global $error;
$string = null;
$base = (int)$base;
if ($base < 2 || $base > 36 || $base == 10) {
echo ‘BASE must be in the range 2-9 or 11-36′;
exit;
}
$charset = ‘0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ’;
$charset = substr($charset, 0, $base);
if (!ereg(’(^[0-9]{1,16}$)’, trim($decimal))) {
$error['dec_input'] = ‘Value must be a positive integer’;
return false;
}
do {
$remainder = bcmod($decimal, $base);
$char = substr($charset, $remainder, 1); // get CHAR from array
$string = “$char$string”; // prepend to output
$decimal = bcdiv(bcsub($decimal, $remainder), $base);
} while ($decimal > 0);
return $string;
}

function string2dec ($string, $base)
{
global $error;
$decimal = 0;
$base = (int)$base;
if ($base < 2 || $base > 36 || $base == 10) {
echo ‘BASE must be in the range 2-9 or 11-36′;
exit;
}
$charset = ‘0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ’;
$charset = substr($charset, 0, $base);
$string = trim($string);
if (empty($string)) {
$error[] = ‘Input string is empty’;
return false;
}
do {
$char = substr($string, 0, 1); // extract leading character
$string = substr($string, 1); // drop leading character
$pos = strpos($charset, $char); // get offset in $charset
if ($pos === false) {
$error[] = “Illegal character ($char) in INPUT string”;
return false;
}
$decimal = bcadd(bcmul($decimal, $base), $pos);
} while($string <> null);
return $decimal;
}

function pad( $str, $num )
{
return str_repeat( “0″, $num - strlen( $str ) ).$str;
}

// main
if( isset( $_GET["submit"] ) )
{
$ip = 0;
if( isset( $_GET["int"] ) && $_GET["int"] != “” )
{
$ip = $_GET["int"];
}
else if( isset( $_GET["dot"] ) && $_GET["dot"] != “” )
{
$ip = ip2long( $_GET["dot"] );
}
else
{
$ip = 0;
}

$uns_ip = ( $ip > 0 ? $ip : 0xffffffff + $ip + 1 ) + 0;

if( ( $uns_ip & 0×80000000 ) == 0 )
{
$mask = 0xff000000;
}
else if( ( $uns_ip & 0xC0000000 ) == -2147483648 )
{
$mask = 0xffff0000;
}
else if( ( $uns_ip & 0xE0000000 ) == -1073741824 )
{
$mask = 0xffffff00;
}
else
{
$mask = “”;
}
$dot_ip = long2ip( $uns_ip );
$hex_ip = dec2string( $uns_ip, 16 );
$hex_ip = “0x”.pad( $hex_ip, 8 );
$oct_ip = dec2string( $uns_ip, 8 );
$oct_ip = “0″.pad( $oct_ip, 16 );
$bin_ip = dec2string( $uns_ip, 2 );
$bin_ip = pad( $bin_ip, 32 );
?>

Conversion result

Dot notation
Decimal number
Unsigned decimal number
Hexadecimal number
Binary number
Octal number
Natural netmask

Jan 28, 2008 How to improve NFS performance (Linux, OpenSUSE 10.3)

When I used NFS first time 15 years ago on Sun it seemed to me the top of progress. And it really was at that time. So dealing mostly with samba during last few years I forgot how actually NFS works until a few days ago when I issued standard “mount server:/directory /mnt/subdir” and tried to compile a project. The performance was HORRIBLE. So I spent some time investigating how to improve NFS performance and found this solution:

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Jan 26, 2008 Reservation Rewards aka WebLoyalty - Problem Solved

Recently I’ve got $10 charge from company called “Reservation Rewards” …
I’ve seen this company before in one of those “Use your chance to get $20″ with really long explanation that hides the fact you have to subscribe to “Reservation rewards” for $12/month in order to get those $20. But I was very patient first time I saw this ad, I noticed this hidden subscription, noticed checkbox that was prechecked for me and since then carefully hidden subscriptions like this. So here is the story about Reservation Rewards subscription with happy end.

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Jan 26, 2008 Interesting Google Webmaster Tools Misfeature (Re:Sitemap)

I recently uploaded a sitemap for a new website to google and It looks like google webmaster tools do not accept sitemap containing just single url. The error it reports is “Missing XML tag”.

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