Mandriva, Microsoft and Nigeria, Oh my!
There is yet another squabble in the world of operating systems, Mandriva has suggested that Microsoft sank a 17,000 PC deal made between Mandriva and the Nigerian government to deliver low cost PC’s with a customized version of Mandriva GNU/Linux tailored for education. The computers are to be deployed in many schools. The Nigerian government, [...]
Spammers learn from Tom Sawyer
This is funny, scary and sort of sad all at once. You’ve all seen those boxes that display fuzzy images then ask you to type what you see prior to being able to login to some service, these are known as CAPTCHA blocks, making it very difficult for robot programs to access things like web [...]
So I tried Blogrush, for exactly three minutes
Most of the people who read my blog do so via RSS and never leave a comment. That’s O.K. by me, I enjoy knowing that I provided someone, somewhere with something (at least semi-interesting) to read. I was hoping for more comments when I re-opened my blog. A service named Blogrush was getting quite a [...]
The problem with Google inspired bloggregators
I was not very happy to find myself needing to reserve all rights when it comes to the copyright of the things that I create. All rights reserved means just that, all rights reserved. I did this to keep get-rich-from-adsense-quickers from ripping off my text and reproducing it on some fake blog surrounded by Google [...]
Information overload
Even with the abundance of social bookmarking services, RSS feeds, blog search engines and all of the other gizmos that are supposed to connect my demand for interesting things to read with a steady supply, I still have a hard time finding something good to read. Some of this I’m sure is due to upcoming [...]
Work WITH proactive thinkers :)
A while back I talked about something neat that Radiohead was doing with their latest album “In Rainbows”. Fans were able to download the songs from Radiohead’s web site paying “whatever they wanted” for the music. If you entered 0, you got the music for free. Not soon after, the tracks hit the Pirate Bay [...]
Hosting control panel standards are needed
Last week, I set off to do something rather simple, I wanted to make a very simple control system for Xen that could plug into just about any web hosting control panel. My goal was to make one application that could be easily modified to fit into any kind of panel. This project has turned [...]
C-Panel is really getting shotty
I’ve spent the majority of my morning fixing odd problems with Apache and PHP. This is not at all unusual. What is becoming very irritating is the fact that C-Panel, software that we pay for, is the cause of most of these issues. If you write proprietary software programs you have several responsibilities: Ensure that [...]
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