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  • Mixed links

    An older ISC blog entry about signs that you have been compromised. It should be a must-read for anyone administering websites, even if s/he is doing it as a hobby. Not doing so can make you a launchpad for malicious activities. An other ISC blog entry points to a paper about fast-flux DNS and a…

  • 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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    Seen on Ars Technica: Chrome antics: did Google reverse-engineer Windows?. This is an other reason for using software where the complete source is available to you. It is incredible that something which is rather straight forward from a technical point of view should create such legal problems. Via the GSD blog: Flash Player 10: Dazzling…

  • 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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    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:…

  • Link list

    The “Last in a Loop” Bug – closures are one of those tricky things. This shows a typical example for (mis-)understanding them, and how to fix it. Via ajaxian: Degrading Script Tags. Very cool, I didn’t know about this behavior. Although, I’m not really sure where you would use it? If a part of your…

  • stackoverflow.com

    Stackoverflow went into public beta. It is a really fascinating (and addictive!) site. What does it do? It provides a place for people to ask and answer programming related questions It it a combination of reddit/digg/forums/wiki You can vote on questions/answers and also edit them (if you got enough reputation) A few quick pointers if…

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    First of a nifty tool for all of you (us?) people using RDP: Terminal Server Ping Tool. What’s even better, it’s written in Delphi and the full source code is available. Opera 9.5 is out, making problems with older versions obsolete. At the same time, via the the Think Vitamin website, Opera Dragonfly. This seems…

  • Mixed links and commentary

    MS Office took a page out of IdeaJ’s book and uses every available method to annoy users (check for valid licenses) – on the bright side hopefully I will time to update my machine to Ubuntu 8.04 today 🙂 The Backup Song. Very, very funny! Writing a small web crawler in Python. Why it demonstrates…

  • Random links and commentary

    From the Mechanix blog comes the tale of the blocking CREATE INDEX call under PostgreSQL – I consider myself lucky that the databases I run are of internal use and I can permit myself to take them offline for a couple of minutes. Via use Perl;: comments in the Perl debugger. Reminds me of the…