Archive for May, 2004
Saturday, May 22nd, 2004
I’ve been having trouble walking for nearly two weeks. The thought occurred to me while walking through the mall today: escalators don’t have a “passing lane.” I guess those busy shoppers tromping up and down the escalators will just have to wait behind the guy doing the speed limit.
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Friday, May 21st, 2004
Got Description?
After some , I revised regarding to include detail so you don’t have to follow the links to determine what the content is. I guess that is the job of a good weblogger–give the reader a taste of the content and maybe some commentary or reaction. Unfortunately, freshmeat’s RSS feed does not give any description, [...]
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Thursday, May 20th, 2004
Grab bag
GeoNiche is a GPS enabled PalmOS program for geocaching, hiking, fishing, bicycling, and other outdoor activities. In addition to a whole host of standard features, GeoNiche includes many features not found in other GPS applications. Summary: Web Parts provide you with the infrastructure for creating customizable Web applications. When you build a Web site with [...]
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Thursday, May 20th, 2004
Got Meat? (freshmeat.net)
Syntax Desktop 1.3 Syntax Desktop is a publishing system used to manage the contents of a Web site. It has an attractive GUI with DHTML elements. You can use it to insert news, photos, documents, and tree data structures into your site. It features easy DB backup and style switching. BTS BugTrack is a bug [...]
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Thursday, May 20th, 2004
Slashdot: Whopping-Big Data Theft At U.C. Berkeley http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid/10/20/1329217 aceta writes “An intruder penetrated a research computer at U.C. Berkeley in August and had access to names, social security numbers and other data for 1.4 million Californians participating in a state social program. CNET calls it the worst intrusion U.C. Berkeley has experienced. SecurityFocus additional details: [...]
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Thursday, May 20th, 2004
I just upgraded my Linux server’s webmail system to SquirrelMail 1.4.3a. (http://www.squirrelmail.org/) with surprising ease, all over a VNC session from my Windows box. Apparently, the new version, as is common with many release-early-release-often open source projects, fixed a critical memory leak and some security problems. It was surprising because starting a tech project late [...]
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Wednesday, May 19th, 2004
Windows XP SP2 released
Windows XP Service Pack 2 is out and available for use. …By the way, I notice there’s an RSS feed on . That’s a good one to subscribe to. brought to you by []
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Wednesday, May 19th, 2004
Using Drupal
is a versatile open source content management system. I’m trying to install it for my own use, but I need to upgrade my PHP version first. My friend suggested that I rebuild the server with an updated Mandrake or SUSE distribution. I’m currently running Mandrake 8.2, and I can’t get patches for it anymore. It [...]
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Wednesday, May 19th, 2004
Yoohoo, Oh Blogosphere…a Bookmarklet Challenge
. Anyone know if it would be possible to create a bookmarklet that emulates an style application: as you move it around the page it shows you the hex colour code for the pixel directly under the mouse pointer? I’m pretty sure it can’t be done but I’d love to be proved wrong. [] I’m [...]
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Tuesday, May 18th, 2004
Tivo is starting to get on my nerves
I’m beginning to loathe my TiVo. Maybe loathe is a strong word. It sucks my time away. I can record an unseemly amount of shows that I have no time to watch. If I try to follow any of them, I have no time for the richer things in life, like blogging for example. Plus [...]
