Items in Jan, 2007
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Flickr users are marked as such in the Yahoo user database. What this means is that the account is permanently protected from deletion, even if you cancel your SBC-Yahoo DSL and even if you never check your Yahoo Mail (if you elect to have one). Both free and pro accounts are protected. And your Yahoo signon name will not be displayed anywhere on Flickr -- your existing Flickr username will stay the same.
— crawl on MeFi # 31st January 2007, 10:27 pm
Spelling correction using the Python Natural Language Toolkit. Uses porter stemming to implement a search engine ’did you mean’ feature based on the Brown Corpus. # 31st January 2007, 10:07 pm
Two hosts are considered equivalent if both host names can be resolved into the same IP addresses [...] Note: The defined behavior for equals is known to be inconsistent with virtual hosting in HTTP.
— java.net.URL documentation # 31st January 2007, 9:13 pm
Mr. Gosling—why did you make URL equals suck?!? Wow, the behaviour of java.net.URL.equals is completely idiotic. # 31st January 2007, 8:40 pm
Announcing Jyte. “Jyte is a simple service that allows you to associate claims, credibility and contacts to build a reputation with your OpenID”. The OpenID landscape is wide open for innovation like this. # 31st January 2007, 6:04 pm
Wow! Fantastic photo. # 31st January 2007, 9:36 am
James Randi owes me a million dollars (via) Interesting case study in cryptographic bit commitment protocols, which allow something to be published that can later prove the authenticity of a revealed secret. # 30th January 2007, 1:10 am
OpenID as easy as 1,2,3. An idproxy.net walkthrough, with screenshots. # 30th January 2007, 12:27 am
XRID.net (via) Sign up for a free @xrid*something i-name by logging in with an OpenID. # 29th January 2007, 4:55 am
Apple UK Get a Mac ads. Totally awesome, they’re using Mitchell and Webb. Not sure how much Mac users will want to be associated with Jeremy from Peep Show though... # 29th January 2007, 4:27 am
It’s still a privacy concern. If, for example, I work at and post from Microsoft all day and my identicon is that of the MS Proxy Server then I would be able to identify other mefi users who are my co-workers because our identicons would match.
— vacapinta # 29th January 2007, 4:12 am
undisposable.org. A free Web Service for checking if an address is likely to come from a disposable e-mail service. It’s the anti-Mailinator! # 29th January 2007, 3:49 am
idproxy.net: Use your Yahoo! account as an OpenID
In an ideal world, some or all of the sites with large user databases (Yahoo!, AOL, Google, Amazon and so on) would act as OpenID providers, allowing their users to sign in to OpenID supporting sites around the Web. Until that happens, people who want to use OpenID need to sign up for Yet Another Account to do so.
[... 414 words]Web Services based on SOAP and WSDL are “Web” in name only. In fact, they are a hostile overlay of the Web based on traditional enterprise middleware architectural styles that has fallen far short of expectations over the past decade.
— Nick Gall, VP Gartner # 27th January 2007, 1:55 pm
OpenID Enabled: OpenID Tests. Useful for checking if your OpenID consumer or server are working OK. # 27th January 2007, 10:34 am
How-to: Read and Write NTFS Windows Partition on Mac OS X. NTFS driver for MacFUSE, with full read and write support. Great for BootCamp. # 27th January 2007, 12:55 am
MacFUSE Tech Demos from Amit Singh’s Macworld 2007 Talk (via) DocsFS, PicasawebFS, ProfFS, RSSFS and SpotlightFS. Eye-opening—especially the ease with which they can be mounted. # 27th January 2007, 12:38 am
Introduction to Neogeography (via) Having run in to Andrew Turner at last year’s EuroOSCON, this is the first O’Reilly Short Cuts PDF that I’ve been seriously tempted to buy. # 27th January 2007, 12:09 am
VCS Migration: The Hare and the Tortoise. Bazaar and Mercurial compared from the point of view of importing 1 million diffs from Mozilla CVS. Bazaar’s import is more robust but will take more than a month to complete. # 26th January 2007, 11:44 pm
Web 2.0 domain name generating shell script. ... sed “s/er$/r.com/g” ... # 26th January 2007, 11:29 pm
Web 2.0 Company Name Generator. I talked to a company recently who had actually used this to come up with a name for one of their products. # 26th January 2007, 6:38 pm
Opera Skins: Tango CL. This skin is the first thing I install when I set up Opera. It’s an enormous improvement on the default. # 26th January 2007, 4:16 pm
The Django Book: Deploying Django. Solid advice based on years of experience at the Journal-World and the Washington Post. # 26th January 2007, 12:38 pm
Farm subsidies in United Kingdom. Top recipients of EU subsidies in the UK include Tate and Lyle and Nestle—do they really need the money? # 26th January 2007, 12:07 pm
We’re the largest domain registrar in the world, and my view is, for $8.95 its not okay for somebody to come and use our services to harm other people.
— GoDaddy spokesperson # 26th January 2007, 10:20 am
XForms in Firefox (via) Practical tutorial on taking advantage of the Firefox XForms plugin, sadly not yet bundled with the browser itself. # 26th January 2007, 9:59 am
MySpace Allegedly Kills Computer Security Website. No need for the allegedly; it’s been confirmed. MySpace got GoDaddy.com to redirect DNS for seclists.org after a list of phished user accounts posted to the full disclosure mailing list list was archived there. # 26th January 2007, 9:57 am
Ninja kitten band win Coke battle (via) There’s a headline you don’t expect to see on BBC News. # 26th January 2007, 1:05 am
Justin Mason: more on social whitelisting with OpenID. The author of spam assassin warns that whitelist-based trust networks are a lot harder than they look. # 26th January 2007, 1:02 am
Social whitelisting with OpenID... (plasticbag.org). Tom’s write-up of the social whitelisting idea. Lots of sceptics in the comments. # 26th January 2007, 1 am