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Measure twice…
Some time ago I was twiddling with my blog template, when I had the “great” idea of modifying the Google Analytics tracking code such that it checks the successful loading the external script before calling the logging function, to avoid generating errors when the script failed to load (because of NoScript, hosts file entry or…
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Effective self-censorship
No, I won’t be talking about China or Australia here. I would like talk about my experience of downloading a Firefox theme. The given theme was marked as experimental, and thus – to download it – I had to create a user account on the site. The F.A.Q. explains it as follows: Why do I…
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Daily funny
Found this band on Last.fm: Hayseed Dixie “A Hillbilly tribute to AC/DC”. Very, very funny. SeeqPod – Playable Search
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Spam?
I was reading about dynamic proxies in Java (sidenote: it is interesting how similar concepts get implemented in languages which are considered “far apart” – take the foreach loop or “magic” getters and setters, all of which are present in PHP, Java and Perl – just in the languages I used recently) and came upon…
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Regular Expressions in Java
I was wondering why the gnu.regexp package exists, when Java already includes libraries for it. One thing I can think of is the fact that they’ve been added only in 1.4. During searching around I found some surprising facts about the built-in regex libraries (the site goes up and and down, so here is the…
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Mixed links
From the “Things that make you go hmmm” blog: Do most people vote on five star ratings in extremes? [analysis, MySQL queries] – interesting look, however I’m not sure how much value there is in such analysis. I don’t really feel an urge to “please the public”, however on some more technical posts (“how to”…
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The disadvantages of cloud based scanning
My fellow blogger Kurt has written a post about the benefits of scanning in the cloud. While I mostly agree with it, there are some disadvantages which also needs mentioning: The need to be always connected – how will such a system deal with the disconnected scenario? As much as we are used to being…
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Will Morro continue to innovate?
Rich Mogull thinks that Morro (the free AV from Microsoft) will lead more innovation. However I think that the issue is not so clear-cut: Morro will be forced to innovate like any AV vendor due to the external pressures of the extensive user base of existing AV solutions, changing threats/attacks, and continued pressure from third…
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Suspicious domain – or not?
I was forwarded a link to primariaclujnapoca.ro, and (although I was 99% sure that the site is legit) decided to check it out with domaintools. To my amazement I found the WHOIS information to be severely lacking. This, coupled with the fact that it is hosted on a shared server raised my suspicion. In the…
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Join the World Community Grid!
Via Userfriendly: join the World Community Grid and help save lives – effortlessly. Do I sound like a late-night TV commercial? Now with no added sugar! 🙂 All jokes aside: WCG is a cool community project which dedicates idle CPU time to things like cancer research. While I don’t recommend that you leave on computers…