Reviews, speculation, and other idle thoughts on hardware, software, firmware…
*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.
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 […]
I got this in my email today: From: “Adelphia Advanced Products Customer Care” Date: Tue Oct 7, 2003 5:00:00 PM US/Eastern To: Power Link Subscriber Subject: “Adelphia Power Link Upgrades” Reply-To: information@adelphia.net Dear Adelphia Power Link Customer, We value your business and understand that many of you have an increasing appetite for online content, email […]
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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 […]
More on the 64-bit screamer: the G5, put through the paces A WiFi Ghetto Blaster!? …11b, 120GB hard drive, MP3 decoder, web-based controller, and oh so much retro 80s flair… Truly plug-and-play…? USB peripheral’s sole function is to vibrate. Certainly there is a practical application for this. And by practical, I mean non-sexual…
…Around the Bend? 802.16a: …covers non-line-of-site metropolitan area networking using the 2 to 11 GHz range… So long 11! B’gock to the ^30~!
re: Abandoned Blogs:: The abandonment rate did vary significantly based on which service was being used: Pitas, BlogSpot and Diaryland had above average abandonment rates; Xanga had an average abandonment rate; LiveJournal had the lowest abandonment rate (the sample size for Blog-City, TypePad and Weblogger was too low to compare). A few interesting points about […]
OS X VirtualHosts simplified. Thanks. % sudo apachectl restart Password: /usr/sbin/apachectl restart : httpd restarted
Fuel to the fire: What the hell is wrong with Apple that they still give a damn about design and packaging and “feel”? This is what Apple does. This is what they are known for and why their design team is so famous and why they win so many awards and why they engender such […]