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Copyright is not theft!
Recently there have been quite a few copyright-related posts which came up in my feedreader. This is of course a complicated and layered problem which can’t be solved in the couple of paragraphs of this blogpost, but at least I can post a bunch of great materials which should contribute to the edification of all…
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Dear people: try to think harder, even if it makes your head hurt!
This again is the case of a couple of links on the same topic piling up in my reader (this tends to happen if you take a pause in blogging :-)): Gmail’s Spam Filter No Longer Effective? 60% of Facebook users consider quitting over privacy Poll: 93% say Facebook should make you ‘opt-in’ to sharing…
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Who is hype-free?
I’ve done a writeup about the name of blog when I started it. However recently two links came up in my Google Alerts: The first one is from Urban Dictionary and it defines hype free as “Slang word for drug free”. The second one is from Yahoo! Answers and states pretty much the same thing…
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delicious/cdman83
Password Strength Checker Posted: 09 Apr 2010 05:40 AM PDT NetPositive error messages Posted: 13 May 2010 09:52 PM PDT Default Passwords | CIRT.net Posted: 14 May 2010 06:23 AM PDT AmigaRemix – The place for Amiga Game- and Demo-music Remixes! Posted: 18 May 2010 09:54 PM PDT Remix64.com: C64 and Amiga Music Remix Community…
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On the hopelessness of pulling content from the interwebs
In the last couple of weeks I had at least two cases where I saw a (provocative) post come up in my feedreader, click trough to read the entire piece (BTW, partial feeds just suck!), just to find that the owner removed the post. The first was from the DynDNS blog named “Open Dialogue” (apparently…
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Putting the eval into Java
“eval” (short for evaluate) is usually the name given to the method in dynamic languages which makes it possible for the programmer to access the compiler / runtime. Here are a few links to the documentation for the function in different languages: Javascript Perl PHP Python Ruby LUA They are usually used to quickly evaluate…
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Update to the Blogger Tag Cloud
A small PSE (Public Service Announcement): if you were using the Blogger Tag Cloud I’ve put together based on the WP-Cumulus plugin, you might have noticed that it stopped working some time ago (I’m not entirely sure when, since I didn’t notice it, until a reader commented and brought it to my attention – thanks…
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“Funny things I found while browsing the web” post
The Geek/Nerd/Dork/Dweeb Venn Diagram (via Joel Esler’s blog): BTW, here is a quick way to convert JPEGs which should be PNGs or GIFs (because they aren’t photos!): simply use a photo editing software (like the GIMP or IrfanView / Paint.NET) and reduce the color depth without dithering. This should pretty much get you there. You…
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Updated YARPG
This has been sitting in my queue for some time: almost four years ago (it’s incredible how time flies!) – amongst the first posts I’ve published on the blog – I’ve written a random password generator in Javascript which I’ve named YARPG (for “Yet Another Random Password Generator”). The advantages to using it are the…
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Sending an X-Face email with Perl+GMail
In the latest Software Freedom Law Show Bradley mentioned the X-Face email header and challenged listeners to send them an email containing the X-Face header. So here is the small Perl script I’ve whipped together to send them an email trough GMail: use strict; use warnings; use Net::SMTP::TLS; my ($from, $password) = (‘…@gmail.com’, ‘MySuperSecretPassword’); my…