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hyperbole or creative?
Being a sneaky, go where you aren’t supposed to, cracker, the kind of thing that most people think of when you say “hacker”, is pretty damn hard. There are two kinds – those who get caught and those who don’t. The ones that you should be afraid of are the ones who have come and…
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down with beige
beige = consensus-building. beige is why industries wither up and die. beige is why there aren’t enough madmen in the city when the barbarians are at the gate to fight them off. beige is lukewarm and mediocre and it is emblematic of death
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google versus del.icio.us
ok, I knew this would happen eventually, and it just did. I found better results to what I was looking for using http://del.icio.us/tag/REST than using Google to search for “REST” ( http://www.google.com/search?q=”REST” ). (I was looking for articles about REST – Representational State Transfer – a way of using existing web infrastructure to do more,…
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the virtues of software distribution
I just have to smile whenever I use an on-line software distribution system that “just works” to install or update a tool. CPAN, gems, darwinports, apt – these are things of beauty and I just love how something as simple as sudo gem update rails makes my life better. No big heavy expedition to the…
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AOL is arrogant AND stupid
ok, it looks like someone Ben Stanfield of MacSlash [ archive.org ] actually read the AOL Instant Messenger Terms Of Service and he blogged what he found [ archive.org ]. They basically say that they own every thing you type into an AIM message, and they you have no rights to it whatsoever, and specifically…
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who watches the watchmen?
This article is over in the new (to me) Policy DevCenter at O’Reilly: O’Reilly Network: Protect Your OSP with logfinder It references a new white paper put out by the EFF to aid system admins in finding log files on their systems with the idea that you can’t be bothered by the Feds serving you…
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fatwa issued against bin Laden
A Spanish clerical council issued a religious decree today, the anniversary of the Madrid train bombings, saying Osama bin Laden has forsaken Islam. Neither it, nor the anniversary of the bombings, made the top stories on NBC News. Will this free other moderate clerics to doing the same? Will this open the door for Iraqi…
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bits and pieces
From this article [ archive.org ] by Peter Hickman at MacDevCenter “The big difference between the world of Unix and that other place is that in the other place they have applications and we have tools.” These are a cool way to burn money: the Cubes & Geekman and his friends from Happy Worker. With…
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pay no attention to the man behind the curtain
As I read through the NY Times this Sunday and it’s full of things about identity and democracy: the want for linking state drivers licenses together into some kind of national database; the fiasco that is consumer information and its relationship to identity theft; the rise of popular representative government in the Middle East; the…
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Divide And Conquer Yourself
Marcus Ranum has this little rant on his web site and it got picked up by Slashdot, so I read it. Divide And Conquer Yourself His basic premise is that the n-flavors of Linux, BSD, and System V kernel based operating systems make it easy for Microsoft to play the various vendors against themselves and…