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Breaking The Web

admin — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 13:44:06 +0000

Gawker media and all of it’s web sites went blank this week, due to a hideous kludge because some engineer somewhere thought that it might be a good idea to have web visitors download a huge chunk of javascript to save a teeny bit of server resources and perhaps work around the statelessness of the web. At least that’s the only reasons I can think of. Best quote to describe the situation is “whoever set this up this way is a complete fucking moron.”

And Then Came Loic

admin — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:13:18 +0000

Getting at the Master Boot Record (MBR) through the network card while compromising Hypervisor, clever person!

Dave Winer

admin — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:21:19 +0000

Dave Winer is named Person of the Decade by Slate Magazine’s June Thomas for changing the world for good. George W. Bush and Paris Hilton were also named by the other two panelists for people that changed the world for worse or for worse. The latter for demonstrating the smugness of the stupid and the former should need no explanation.

New Language No Go

admin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:19:14 +0000

Appears that there may be an issue with the name of Google’s new programming language that they named “Go”. Francis McCabe has been working on a programming language of the same name for the past ten years and in 2007 self published a book named “Let’s Go!” which also happens to be the title for Google’s tutorial on the new product.

Appearance of an issue does not necessarily make it an issue though in the long run.

The rssCloud

admin — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:20:58 +0000

Grabbed the rssCloud plug in and activated it, didn’t see the new element in the source of a post so here goes a test for a new post. Interesting idea Dave has there!

UPDATE: rssCloud appears to work just fine, inserting a cloud element into the feed output as advertised.

Real Time Web

admin — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:00:30 +0000

Anil Dash has put the pieces needed together for the real time web.

A Little Better

admin — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:20:50 +0000

Liking Word Press a little better this time around, was stumped for a while figuring out how to get the appearance of the same file structure as /blogx/2009/02/01/somepost.html until playing around with the permalink options.

Back At It

admin — Tue, 26 May 2009 13:37:55 +0000

Here we go again, again…with Word Press. An update to the whiteeagle.ca web site the other day, interesting take on where the money from the sale of the penthouse goes.

Visual Basic and Developer

admin — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:36:08 +0000

Got the Windows IIS7 web server running localhost the other day on the Vista partition of this HP laptop, and yesterday downloaded Visual Basic 2005 and Visual Web Developer to match and installed. Kept getting errors saying I must update with two patches and even a link to them, but downloading the patches and running brought compatibility errors.

Fired up again this morning, and there was a Window update and one of them was the two patches again along with a Defender signature file. This time the patches installed as expected and right clicking and choosing “Run as Administrator” on either VB program it starts up and runs with no problems.

Managed to get the first web site built out of the tutorial, creating a “Master” page which is basically a template file and somewhat getting the projects wire-frame that I’m actually supposed to be working on display like it should using VB and IIS and the whole .NET environment thingee. Not bad for a few hours in the morning; brain exploded just before lunch so went down to the Cove for a coffee and say hi to Norma for a break. Getting back to the dog and house, the afternoon was spent in the sunshine vacuuming out the car for all the dog hair and preparing for the owners to return tomorrow sometime.

Luddite Forums

admin — Wed, 28 May 2008 01:26:58 +0000

Looks like the owner of “Bowen Online” chose someone that doesn’t know what they are doing after I finally was able to drop her as a client, (whew!), it has been down for many days now after an SQL injection attack, completely avoidable too. Not like it would be a big deal to fix either, it’s a known bug and there is a fix here, and here – already advised her years ago to upgrade the software, the proper thing to do. A Luddite though, just wants to drive the thing and never pay for putting oil or gas or any maintenance, nothing I can do about that and glad to not be affiliated with it anymore!