Debunking SEO Myths And Old Webmaster’s Tales
Would you wear a tin foil hat if it thought it would help your page rank? I wouldn’t either, but you would be surprised what some people do in an effort to get more visitors to their web site. One of the most useful tags on Pro Webmasters is the SEO tag, we’re already working [...]
144 Petabytes On Compact Flash (Yes, Just One!)
You did not misread the title, its not 1.44 petabytes, its 144 (as in 12×12) on a single CF card. Read more about it here. It will still limp along at an unimpressive 32MB/sec (well, for CF, that is rather impressive) according to the CF 5.0 specification CAUTION: LINK LEADS TO AN ANGRY FRUIT SALAD. [...]
Fun With Ohcount
I’m sure you have heard of Ohloh, the site that tracks progress and code/documentation contributions to free and open source software projects. What a lot of people (even today) don’t realize is that ohcount, the tool used to track the metrics of the projects is free software under the terms of the GPL v2 (only). [...]
Fun With EncFS
A lot of you have probably, at one time or another, had to deal with PCI/DSS compliance. I’ve dealt with it too, but this is the first time that I’ve really confronted conforming to HIPAA and HITECH, which dictate how medical records should be stored. EncFS is the perfect solution in such a case. Its [...]
Code Monkey Win!
If you have not heard Code Monkey, grab it here. The author of the song allows me to distribute the music that I like under a very permissive license, so we like him. Below are the lyrics for the song:
The .ing domain has landed
If you are a user of OpenNIC, there’s a brand new top level domain available. You can register your own .ing domain completely free now at register.ing. A while back, I was chatting with Tim Groeneveld who had recently been approved as a domain maintainer / registrar for OpenNIC. He asked me to come up [...]
Echoreply has gone .geek
For those of you who use OpenNIC , this site can now be accessed via http://echoreply.geek For more information on why ICANN really means ICANT, read the RegisterFly story. I’m in favor of democratic naming, so I support OpenNIC. I want top level domains that work, without supporting registrars who make millions pre-registering domains while [...]
Helen, Spartan and Sensibility
While reading freshmeat, I stumbled across an emerging operating system named HelenOS. HelenOS (after Helen of Troy) is a new operating system based on a preemptible micro kernel (Spartan) that has some really neat features. You thought microkernels were dead? Read on. Helen boots on pretty much every major architecture (even Xen friendly!). Its being [...]
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