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Pro-Symbian Internet m@fia and their machinations exposed. It’s a conspiracy! The funniest tripe I’ve read in quite a while.
Hey Crackhead (via) From the best of CraigsList.
M.I.T Card Information (via) Who’s bright idea was it to introduce a poorly secured swipe card system in a school full of hard-core techies?
View from Satellite (via) Pick a satellite, see what it sees.
Earth View. Live images of the earth from space.
TypeKey is live (beta). TypeKey protocol reverse engineered
IFR: An FIR Alternative. Image replacement with Flash.
48 hour weather forecast for Hell (via) Hell freezes over.
The Nigerian TTY scam. Joe Clark on the IP relay scandal.
PostgreSQL Hardware Performance Tuning. For future reference.
Google and Akamai: Cult of Secrecy vs. Kingdom of Openness. Google is much bigger than they let on.
Why MySQL grew so fast (via) A report from the MySQL users conference.
Rands In Repose: Weblog Writing. Food for thought.
Looking For-Best of David Hasselhoff [IMPORT]. 905 positive reviews. Read them. The Song “Hot Shot City” is particularly good.
Starting at Google next month (via) Google hires Jeremy Hylton and Greg Stein.
Syndication By The Numbers. Two REALLY interesting uses of RSS and weblogs: one high traffic, one military.
Vulnerability Issues in TCP. DoS attack against the protocol itself. This is not good.
// hicksdesign :: Thunderbird (via) New Thunderbird logo to accompany the Firefox one. I like it.
Opinion with David Emberton (via) Compares standards to communism in the first sentence. Watch him get ripped apart in the comments.
EFF: The Patent Busting Project (via) Awesome! Finally someone with the means to tackle crank internet patents.
Will Trade Passwords For Chocolate (via) I’m not at all surprised. Most people see passwords as more of an annoyance than a security measure.
Why parrot in production? If you’re remotely interested in compiler technology or even just general computer science you should be reading Dan’s blog.
Internet Archive: FreeCache (via) Interesting approach to large file distribution, with no special client software required.
A nice CSS template collection. auf Deutsch.
Python Cookbook: Parsing the command line (via) Using optparse, but with the command line setup options stored in the program’s docstring.
Five Favourite Protocol Design Papers. Includes the classic “A Note on Distributed Computing”
Planning for Disaster Recovery on LAMP Systems. Outstanding O’Reilly article on building easily recovered systems.