Wednesday, 25th February 2004
Trepanation. Drilling a hole in your head. Not for the squeamish.
Tear Your iPod mini Open To Get The 4GB Hard Drive? 4GB of Digital Camera storage for less than half the normal price.
Google Search: spong monkeys. I’m second. Rock!
Migrating from PHP 4 to PHP 5 (via) It’s getting closer...
Yahoo! vs. Google. Visually compare the top 100 results for a specific term.
Freedom to Tinker: Great Books. Which five science and technology books should every student read?
Side-stepping IE. A round-up of techniques for dealing with IE’s poor CSS support.
Novel security measures
An article on SecurityFocus led me to this site about Port Knocking. Port Knocking is an interesting security technique in which a box sits online with no ports open to connections and awaits a specific sequence of connection attempts. A user wishing to connect to the box must first attempt to initiate connections to ports in a specific, secret order. Once they do, the box starts up the required service (such as an SSH daemon) on a designated port and allows the user to connect properly.
[... 145 words]Gothamist Interviews: Paul Ford. “the only way to ignore advertising is to die”