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Pimping my blog
I’ve re-arranged my blog a little for it to be more usable (for both of my regular readers :-)). Here are some things I’ve done: Added my logo in the header Redirected the autodiscovery feeds through Feedburner. This should give a more accurate readership number (fortunately users don’t have to do anything for this to…
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Beauty is all around us…
you just have to look. For example, we live in an overcrowded, noisy city and still, I was able to find these flowers on my way home from work. I’ve always said that I don’t need a camera phone, but this time it came in handy (and even the psychedelic effect it added to the…
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Link list
Via the GSD blog (a very good blog BTW – I’m amazed how he finds energy and time to write those long posts time and time again): Opera 9.6 is approaching – the browser wars are heating up again, which can only be a good thing 🙂 OpenOffice.org 3.0 RC1 – for a long time…
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What I’ve been working on lately
malware competition.pdf MD5: 1FD6AC0B6120EE280C0A0E68300EFEEC SHA1: A48F88569EA0CD47F97F0327B3DBCB4BC1AF3CF8 After the end-date has passed, I’ll post the complete solution.
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Wikis or blogs?
One of my readers commented that he thought that people should use wikis rather than blogs. I agree with him (for the same reasons he mentions). The ideal CMS (Content Management System) for me would look something like this: On the basis it should have a wiki. I often write tutorials, and the main characteristics…
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Google Fu, or: you are not as anonymous as you think
A colleague gave me a link to the Malware Challeng site. Basically, they have a sample and you have until the 26th of October to analyze it and send them the analysis and prizes will be given to the best analysis. Prizes will be given. But this is not what I wanted to talk about.…
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Ubuntu 8.10 comes with Perl 5.10!
I just found this out: Ubuntu 8.10 (in its alpha version, which means that it probably will be true for the final version too) with Perl 5.10! W00t! I better read through the changedoc it seems :-).
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Creating a horizontal menu with jQuery
I’ve looked around on the net for something similar, but I couldn’t find it, so here is some quick code I’ve put together. Requirements: create a two-level horizontal menu. The menu will be on a separate page on the top frame (yes, frames are so ’90, but they can easily integrate multiple sites). Initially I…
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Mixed links
Via taint.org: viewing PostgreSQL locks and the queries it conflicts with. Via the linuxhelp blog: special locations which can be used in Gnome/Nautilus. Via the journal of brian: Markmail offers advanced methods for searching mailing archives. Yahoo just recently introduced something similar in their mail interface and it works great. Again, via the linuxhelp blog:…
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Speedruns
I game occasionally and these days I’ve learned a new word: speedrun. From Wikipedia: A speedrun is a play-through, or recording thereof, of a computer- or video game performed with the intent of completing it as quickly as possible, optionally under certain prerequisites, mainly for the purposes of entertainment and competition. At Speed Demos Archive…