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HA HA!!
when i was in training to be a tech support drone for microsoft, they told us that “in 10 years, the default format for all web documents will be the microsoft word .doc format”… WRONG!! it is now more...
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i am not completely sure this post is as accurate as it was when i first posted it, so it’s coming down for now, until i determine whether it’s actually true or not.
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1 in 10 Americans think HTML is an STD
1 in 10 Americans think HTML is an STD — the other day i was at a friend’s house when my phone rang. it was my mother-in-law, who very rarely calls me, but when she does, it’s usually something fairly...
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new TLDs
shitty.cool pirate.computer the first one is very likely to stay as it is, but the second one begs for some javascript weirdness… anybody know javascript who wants to help with a “good” cause?
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hey, bono… i’ve found what you’re looking for…
AUTOMATIC SONGS-OF-INNOCENCE REMOVAL TOOL — Apple finally sees the point of millions of disgruntled people like me. hopefully they’ll learn something from it, although i’m not going to hold my breath…...
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SHELLSHOCK UPDATE
UPDATE: Bash Vulnerability AKA SHELLSHOCK The ‘Shellshock’ Bash vulnerability and what it means for OS X Apple: Most OS X users safe from ‘Shellshock’ exploit, patch coming quickly for advanced Unix...
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SHELLSHOCK UPDATE
Firms BASH Bash bug with new round of Shellshock patches Cisco splats Bash bug in busy swatting season i’ve run three rounds of security updates in the past three days, and bash was updated in every...
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SHELLSHOCK UPDATE
Shellshock: ‘Larger scale attack’ on its way, warn securo-bods Apple FINALLY patches the ‘don’t worry’ Bash Shellshock vuln Apple Releases Patches for Shellshock Bug Every Mac Is Vulnerable to the...
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unicode geekery
the most current version of UNICODE, (v.7.0) has an emoticons block, which has, predictably, been incorporated into the most recent versions of your most popular operating systems in your most popular...
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if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it
a wise old linux guru told me this, a few years ago, and i’ve found myself smack in the middle of what happens when you follow that maxim… and it doesn’t feel entirely comfortable, at this point. i...
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CIDR notation is used when you’re talking about blocks of IP addresses. it’s the part of the IPv4 address — the “dotted quad” — where there’s a slash, followed by a number between 0 and 32, which...
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FLONG!
a while ago, i came across this word in a web-comic that i read all the time. it was in a joke about librarians who were in the process of being stereotypical stoners, and i thought it was just a joke...
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मनोबुद्ध्यहङ्कारचित्तानि नाहं न च श्रोत्रजिह्वे न च घ्राणनेत्रे । न च व्योमभूमिः न तेजो न वायुः चिदानन्दरूपः शिवोऽहं शिवोऽहम् ॥ १॥ The processors Manas, buddhi, ahaṅkāra and chitta are the qualitative...
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today is the third day of NOT using Kontact, the MUA that i have been using pretty much ever since i switched to linux, back in the dark ages. i really liked kontact. it did EXACTLY what i wanted it to...
View Articlemy name is salamandir and i’m a geek
i’m a geek. i have known it for a while, and there have been several events in my life that have made it sometimes painfully obvious. well, this is one of those events in my life. there is a link on...
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tee hee
Strickland, Jonathan. “How to Remove a Computer Virus.” 06 April 2009. HowStuffWorks.com. <http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/how-to-tech/how-to-remove-computer-virus.htm> 11 May 2009. it...
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Tumblelog – it’s what you’re reading. OMG TIM HAS AN INTERNET
View Articlea sigh of nostalgia…
i backed up, reformatted and reinstalled my os9 mac, and i realised that i may have just shut down mac os9 for the last time ever this evening… i’ve been a mac head ever since the term was coined, way...
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GOOGLE UKULELE HOBBIT!
my good friend and band-mate, howlin’ hobbit, on duty as a busker at the bridge in the pike place market.
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i have always been suspicious of bing (no, i am not going to link to them). part of it is because i’m suspicious about microsoft (not going to link to them, either), generally, which has turned out to...
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spammers
okay, this is getting ridiculous, but at the same time, i’m really glad i got myself far away from 1&1 internet services, and now i’m going to recommend that my associates distance themselves from...
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ooh…. we’re a lot closer than anyone has apparently realised…
according to IPcalypse, we jumped from 214 days until no more IPv4 addresses, yesterday, to 117 days today – almost 100 days, in one swell foop… to me this indicates, either that we’re all set with...
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finally…
there’s something in the news about this… IANA address space running on empty – “I’m not an optimist” – APNIC’s Geoff Houston it doesn’t sound particularly hopeful, either…
View Articlei’ve been waiting years for this…
a long, long time ago, before internet, before CDs, when nobody had cell phones, there was a program called RACTER which generated random english prose. a “dumbed-down” version made it on to my very...
View ArticleWorld IPv6 Day is coming up…
June 6th, 2012 is World IPv6 Day, where most major providers and web sites are going to turn off IPv4 in a test to see how well IPv6 is going to work… and there are no more IPv4 addresses, so it is...
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VMware to stop describing hardware as ‘male’ and ‘female’ in new terminology guide — 🤣 VMware wants to stop using three terms – “ghetto”, “kill switch” and “taint” – but is yet to devise alternatives....
View Articlemicro$not, mshtml, and activex
back in the dark ages, when i was working at STLabs, before we moved to factoria (i.e. STLabs… so, what? maybe 1995? 1996? somewhere in there), i was testing Internet Explorer version 3.0, which meant,...
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so, i decided to reposition major furniture in my office, to achieve the following results: i have to figure out how my studio is set up. i originally set it up to use with the piano/synthesizer...
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