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delicious/cdman83
Make: Online : Day planner clock erases itself Posted: 06 Jul 2009 09:23 PM PDT Pennies per square foot, literally Posted: 06 Jul 2009 09:22 PM PDT gulli: WikiLeaks: Daniel Schmitt interviewed (English) Posted: 06 Jul 2009 11:55 AM PDT Good interview about WikiLeaks
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Great songs
Seasons in the sun – I just found out that it is an adaptation of a French song. It was one of the songs of my childhood, from a Russian vinyl disc (I’m quite sure that they didn’t pay royalties on that one :-)). And two great ones ones from Die Toten Hosen:
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The right way to embed
I occasionally rant about “web 2.0” services which want me to embed Javascript on my page to get the functionality. Besides them being a security risk (because they can change the JS on their servers at any time and p0wn all my visitors – and it doesn’t have to be malice on their part –…
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Goldman Sachs security incident
Allegedly the source code for Goldman Sachs “low latency (microseconds) event-driven market data processing, strategy, and order submissions” systems have been stolen by an insider (via Zero Hedge here and here). Personally I find this (and similar cases) overblown for several reasons: Sourcecode by itself is worthless. The important thing is the mathematical model behind…
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Panda Challenge
I know that it is kind of short notice, but I too have only found about it recently: the Panda Challenge (from Panda Security). It begins tomorrow (on the 7th of July) at 10 AM GMT+1 and consists of three rounds. Picture taken from Joachim’s photostream with permission.
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More benchmarking in the 127.0.0.1 vs 0.0.0.0 issue
I’ve done a little more benchmarking in the 127.0.0.1 vs. 0.0.0.0 issue: <script>var start=new Date();</script> <script src="http://ad.a8.net/foo.js"></script> <script src="http://asy.a8ww.net/foo.js"></script> <script src="http://a9rhiwa.cn/foo.js"></script> <script src="http://www.a9rhiwa.cn/foo.js"></script> <script src="http://acezip.net/foo.js"></script> <script>var stop=new Date(); alert(stop.getTime() – start.getTime());</script> What this code does, is to try to include javascript files from five sites and measure the time it takes to process these tags.…
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Posting links from delicious to Blogger
I collect quite a long list of links while I “surf the web”. Until now I’ve done the Mixed Links series, but I’ve been looking for ways to automate it. Enter delicious (or del.icio.us as it was formerly known): it has a nice Firefox plugin and theoretically it can post your bookmarks automatically to your…
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delicious/cdman83
Free Weather Stickers for Your Homepage! : Weather Underground Posted: 04 Jul 2009 11:17 AM PDT Cool weather stickers. Sign up for Feedjit Pro or Webmaster Posted: 04 Jul 2009 02:27 AM PDT Interesting tracker with an option to show visitor sources. Has an image-only option! Idea #13344: “Input special characters with ALT codes” –…
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delicious/cdman83
URIBL.COM – Realtime URI Blacklist Posted: 03 Jul 2009 10:17 PM PDT URIBL provides different RSS feeds (based on registrar, nameserver, etc). Cool! fb-contrib™: A FindBugs™ auxiliary detector plugin Posted: 03 Jul 2009 06:57 AM PDT Alternative FindBugs detectors. Use them with care (as they probably have more false-positives than the built-in detectors). Git –…
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Speedy hosts blocklists
One of the ways to block your machine from connecting to “unwanted” hosts (however you define this criteria) is to list the DNS name of the host in the hosts file of your system and associate it with a different IP address than the real one. While this solution has some limitations (for example: it…