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2^18 of 2^24

by Rob Friesel

Slashdot Posting Bug Infuriates Haggard Admins: Last night we crossed over 16,777,216 comments in the database. The wise amongst you might note that this number is 2^24, or in MySQLese an unsigned mediumint. Unfortunately, like 5 years ago we changed our primary keys in the comment table to unsigned int (32 bits, or 4.1 billion) […]

Monday night brain dump

by Rob Friesel

A windsurfing, CSS-grudging, IE7-hating, web-developing, gigantic-machine-puzzling friend joins the blogging fray HiveLogic has a new Mac Pro: and wants you (me? us?) to name it Pete is rocking DC’s house party scene and Ben has the picture to prove it (don’t let the over-exposure fool you, this photo was NOT taken in 1977) I’ve made […]

nice try, kiddo…

by Rob Friesel

Via B^2: A 17 year old Polish kid got busted after police found him growing pot inside his computer. In a surreal moment here, I recall having had almost this exact dream a couple years ago. Except they were mushrooms (and not pot) inside the computer and it was campus security instead of Polish gestapo.

Knight Bus?

by Rob Friesel

“I’ll be there to pick you up momentarily, Michael…” According to the Autoblog article: You wouldn’t catch a ride to the bus station to hop on the Superbus, either. Developers plan to have the bus eschew traditional stops in favor of door-to-door deliveries via intelligent routing technology. Riders would be able to text-message the bus […]

linkdump.20060828

by Rob Friesel

Seriously, why aren’t we using secure email? Interesting /. slug on getting an African-language Wikipedia(s) up and running. “What use is an encyclopedia when literacy rates among a language’s speakers approach zero?” Flickr appears to have streamlined geo-tagging. w00t! Also: Croque-monsier? Look delicious! currently playing: Blonde Redhead “Elephant Woman”