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Just a fun post
Engineering Definitions.
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Quick port forwarding guide
It always gave me a headache when I tried to figure out the command line syntax of ssh for port forwarding and I ended up staring at the man page for several minutes and making drawings on a piece of paper. So I’ve put together three illustrations for the three possible port forwarding methodologies. The…
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Microsoft did it again!
I usually try to avoid being fanboy or MS basher, but there are some moments when you can’t stand it anymore! What triggert this post was Paul Thurrott’s post on Vista’s new license, however this was just the last drop. Some stuff that irritates me: At home I dual boot between Ubuntu and Windows 2k3…
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Picking the brain of the IE7 team
Martin McKey over of at the Network Security Blog is going to meet the IE7 team and is waiting for proposals regarding the questions he should ask them. Here is mine: First let me give a little background as I see it so that if they choose to answer my question (no offense, but if…
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Hack the Gibson – Episode #61
Read the reason for these posts. Read Steve Gibson’s response. And here it an other episode which starts out great and is at average better than the previous episodes, but still some mistakes slip in. About the new, as of yet unpatched Windows flaw: I couldn’t find any information on it, so I’m not sure…
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I have a career, not a job – a very true post
The Network Security Blog / Network Security podcast is one of my sources of information. Today I’ve found this very true post there.
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How to publish a good looking code on Blogger?
This article is considered obsolete. Please read the followup post. From time to time I would like to publish a post in which I can show code snippets. However the standard <code> or <pre> tags look way too boring. Something with color stands much more out. I was thinking: if I had my own server…
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Pimping my blog #2
After observing that most of my visitors (45% currently) use Internet Explorer, I’ve made a little modification so that they to can enjoy the <q> tag. A more detailed discussion and other solutions can be found at the List Apart site. I’ll only present in short my version. My version consists of two parts: a…
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Delaying the loading of elements in a web page
After listening to the latest Practical Webdesign Magazine podcast (I listen to every one of them as well as the Boagworld podcast, both being great podcasts), I felt the urge to write this post :). When you include many third party things in your webpage, the loading of it can be slowed down considerably if…
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The kind of articles I don’t want to see
After reading this article I was in pain. I don’t want to offend anybody, but this is a perfect example for the things against which this blog was created. The article contains a lot of hype-words but is vague on technical details and some of the details is wrong. I don’t want to accuse anybody…