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yrBSD.

by Rob Friesel

Nod to -m on this one: Outside Looking In: The BSD Operating Systems The hook that got me to the end of the article: At the same time, the BSD community had never gotten along well with the FSF because of free software religious wars over GPL vs. BSD licensing issues. And the epiphany: For […]

bitchin’ & moanin’.

by Rob Friesel

I want to be involved in a serious programming project. Bottom line. I want to be in on CVS somewhere and make meaningful contributions. Though that’s less important than the satisfaction of successfully brining a complex series of slightly-recursive nested for loops to some successful return. I want my ifs and thens in my mind […]

addendum.

by Rob Friesel

A quick note to those w/ the horizontal scrolling problem: Sorry ’bout that. Safari was handling the adjust template just fine but… Well, let’s just say that this layout lends itself to all sorts of weird isms. Anyway, in trying to keep the images from polluting across posts, I tried to wrap up posts within […]

unicoded.

by Rob Friesel

*ahem* Getting back to the “English-language-centric Web” thing from not too long ago: The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) I’ll need to finish reading this at some point. But at least I knew to use encoding. And Unicode, at that.

for the record.

by Rob Friesel

a little bit here on mod_rendezvous vis a vis Rendezvous itself… Rendezvous has been tricky to figure out. The existing documentation out there is a bit hard to follow and (for lack of a better explanation) just doesn’t seem to be anything but an all or nothing proposition. <IfModule mod_rendezvous_apple.c> RegisterUserSite all-users RegisterDefaultSite </IfModule> That’s […]

l3370|2 th4n l337.

by Rob Friesel

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techno-virology.

by Rob Friesel

Simonkiker on Slashdot posts on Viruses and Market Dominance – Myth or Fact?. Now several orders removed, we arrive at: So there are far fewer viruses for Mac OS X and Linux. It’s true that those two operating systems do not have monopoly numbers, though in some industries they have substantial numbers of users. But […]