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Antivirus survey
Via the Sunbelt blog: Marco Giorgini, a grad student, has been working on his thesis on consumer perceptions of antivirus software. Take the survey if you are so inclined. The interesting aspect of it is that it wants to gauge the motives behind the user’s decision to buy a certain product. More information can be…
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fortitudehosting – an other “get rich quick scheme”
A few days ago I received the following email: Hi my name is Jeff and I came across your page http://hype-free.blogspot.com/2007/03/month-of-php-bugs-started.html which would be great for a text link to my client, a web host certifier. What I am looking for is a small text link, web hosting, and if you keep it for at…
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Mixed links and commentary
pgAdmin 1.9 will have some nice new features. The query designer will probably save a few keystrokes when working with star schemas. The MySQL Performance Blog explains the different meanings of COUNT. Very nice. I usually use COUNT(1) or COUNT(*), but it is very useful to know about other possibilities. I got this one from…
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Interesting phish
Recently I’ve received the following phish: Return-Path <[email protected]> Authentication-Results mta403.mail.mud.yahoo.com from=hosts.co.uk; domainkeys=neutral (no sig) Received from 85.233.160.25 (EHLO outgoing-smtp.namesco.net) (85.233.160.25) by mta403.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:04:47 -0700 Received from [192.168.0.7] (helo=artemis.hosts.co.uk) by outgoing-smtp.namesco.net with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KrKrG-0008PU-2d for [email protected]; Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:05:20 +0100 Received from babs-education.info…
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Media you can get for free
Some time ago I’ve written about (commercial) software which you can get (legally!) for free. Now I’m writing about the media you can (legally!) consume on the “Intertubes”. There are of course the well known players like Pandora, Hulu, Last.fm, and so on (although some of those are not available outside the USA – a…