October 31, 2003
Memes catch on
rageboy picks up on a point I've made all along....
October 30, 2003
New Dog Breeds
My friend Susan always comes up with funny mail. Her latest is a list of dog breeds: Collie + Lhasa...
October 29, 2003
Bluetooth headsets?
Anyone out there using a BlueTooth headset with their PC? I'd like to make use of one as a wireless...
October 27, 2003
Search engine gaming
Ugh, it appears Google's getting less and less useful. Now it would appear the link spammers have overwhelmed it's ability...
October 24, 2003
Spam stats
This is troubling: Spam has e-mail by the throat Do your part to help cut down on spam. Do not...
October 22, 2003
Migration
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I used to keep a notebook of solutions to common perl problems I've encountered. I still have it, but nowadays I use only one solution to perl problems: migration.
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October 17, 2003
Getting beta and better!
I love using Skype. I just had an hour and 35 minute phone call with a guy in New Zealand...
October 16, 2003
What, no pictures?
kynn, among many others, is parroting the Independent's line here. If they used bulldozers there would be no stumps sticking...
Deliberate scratches on CDs?
Re: Fade. This goes way back to the idea of punching minuscule holes in 5.25" floppies. We used tricks like...
October 15, 2003
Courage of convictions
"A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is...
October 14, 2003
Like budda...
I'm sure this will annoy Charles as it's entirely off-topic. I partipate in quite a number of mailing lists and...
Tech costs over time
Here's some FYI links on the cost of CPU Performance, memory prices, and disc storage over time. Ah, the days...
As simple as possible but no simpler
Winer's got his head up his ass again.
Like this is a surprise.
October 12, 2003
Foiling comment spam
Several ideas come to mind when thinking of how to foil comment spammers. One powerful idea is to use shared...
Googlebot and moving site?
Anyone out there know the implications of moving a site from one IP address to another and it's impact on...
October 10, 2003
Search and replace
Need to change some text across a lot of files? As in, moving from one comment or trackback URL to...
Oh, we can hope, can't we?
SELECT * FROM USERS WHERE clue > 0 > 0 rows returned from: [tw]...
October 07, 2003
Freight trains of data
In moving Syndic8 from the old box to a new one I've had to move over 15gb of mostly compressed...
Heinous security hack thanks to MT
Basically there's a way simply be editing templates and files to cause MT to write some files and execute a daemon that'll let you login to a shell with no authentication.
October 06, 2003
Spam abuse
The spammers are out of control. We have ways of counteracting them. Trouble is some of the methods will cause...
LoTR
Tolkien Crackpot Theories (especially Windows95) and don't miss The Lord of the Rings, Illustrated in Legos. All this because the...
October 04, 2003
New p2p voice telephony?
Anyone out there using Skype yet? Supposedly it's a p2p telephony application with sound quality that's better than even landline...
October 02, 2003
Vintage PDA
I've lucked into finding an Newton eMate 300.
WMD story?
It's no surprise to see the media not covering this story. I mean, get real, it seems like they've gotten...
October 01, 2003
Autoconfig proxy settings
If you run a network and people on it are using Internet Explorer you can help them find and use your network proxy (if you have one, that is).
Selling your soul
For those that wany a quick overview of why to be worried, the grocery bonus cards are used to collect data. That data, your buying habits, are then sold without your knowledge, to all sorts of outside companies.
