Some Sidebery customizations

Another short post. Recently the Sidebery Firefox add-on had a major new version and it broke some of my customizations.

So I had to sit down to find how to do them in the new version. Here there are, both are css that is added in the add-on settings - Style Editor.

1. Hide the new tab button at the bottom of the list
   

   .TabsPanel .new-tab-btns { display: none; }

2. Hide close X button on the tabs
   

   .Tab .close { display:none; }

Scale the interface on Viber on Windows

So this is not something I came up with, just an endorsement of Spiros's work.

Basically I was looking for a way to make Viber's fonts bigger on my new Windows laptop. There are no settings whatsoever in the app itself.
I googled a bit and found this git repo with a batch file.
When you start Viber with the file, it scales it an arbitrary amount - set in the file.

And here is the repo itself > scale-viber <

Accessing the EdgeRouter WEB UI through SSH

This is a simple and easy hack, but one I couldn't find when I searched for it.
So you want to access the WEB UI and you are not in your home network. But you have enabled the SSH access from the internet.

I assume the following:

• You have an EdgeRouter
• You have SSH access from the Internet to the router (Check this if you don't know how)
• The WEB UI is currently only accessible from the behind NAT on https:192.168.1.1

With a command line ssh client you can run:

 ssh -L 9000:192.168.1.1:443 user@example.com

 The equivalent in PuTTY is in Connection -> SSH -> Tunnels page.

• Source port - 9000
• Destination - 192.168.1.1:443
• Don't change anything else, radio buttons should be on Local and Auto.
• Click the Add button
• Open the connection

After the connection is opened successfully, open https://localhost:9000 in your browser and accept the security warning.

That's it.

How to disable certain decoder (filter)

I had a problem - I installed a new H.264 decoder. And I already had another 2-3 decoders. And the media players didn't used the new one.

Thankfully one of the decoders is FFDShow from CCCP.
(CCCP is very very nice filter pack - pack of nice decoders and stuff for your media playing pleasure)

So CCCP being very nice gives you the power to disable its filters through its settings. (This could not be said for the other filters I have)
And on top of it CCCP guys have a nice tool which inspects your system and you can unregister/register codecs through it.
The tool is called CCCP Insurgent.

So to find out which codec was f*cking with me I played a file through Media Player Classic, observed which filter it was using - Play menu -> filters. Then I fired the CCCP Insurgent and found the filter and unregistered it. And voila. :)

And if you want to register it back - you should notice where is the location of the file before you unregister it.