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October 2006

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by Ron Bieber on Tuesday, October 31, 2006

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links for 2006-10-31

October 30, 2006

Password Gorilla
Password Gorilla is designed to be compatible with the Password Safe program, which was originally developed by Counterpane Labs, and is now maintained as an Open Source project at Sourceforge. All credit for the idea and the technology behind Password Go
(tags: passwords osx apple macintosh security)

Optimizing Page Load Time
(tags: http optimization pageload)

Test Plan Template [...]

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October 29, 2006

Oracle Hijacks Red Hat Linux
Larry Ellison and Oracle are “going to poach Red Hat’s Enterprise Linux (RHEL) operating system – ’cause that’s allowed under open source rules – remove any Red Hat trademarks, Oracle-ize the thing, put fixes in it faster than you can say “Squish, go to G
(tags: linux oracle redhat oss opensource)

NetFlix Wordpress [...]

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links for 2006-10-29

October 28, 2006

WordPress 2.0.5 Upgrade: changed files ZIP, changes diff, changed files list
WordPress 2.0.5 has been released, incorporating security fixes, and 50+ other bug fixes. This is a mandatory upgrade. If you want the full zip with the entire WP install, download it here.
(tags: wordpress blogging)

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Wordpress 2.0.5 Released

October 28, 2006

The folks on the Wordpress team have released version 2.0.5 of the Wordpress Blogging Application. This release includes around 50 bug fixes one of which was a missing index on the posts table. I just upgraded and the site performs much better now. I had always thought that [...]

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links for 2006-10-28

October 27, 2006

Presentation Zen: Gates, Jobs, & the Zen aesthetic
A compairson between the presentation styles of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, with a focus on the Zen mind. Really interesting article!
(tags: presentation skills gates jobs visual information)

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SVK Tutorials now under Creative Commons License

October 27, 2006

After quite a few requests by people to use the SVK Tutorials for various things, I’ve decided to license them under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. This license includes commercial use of the works.
After all the work I did seeking permission to play independent music on the podcast, and finding it so [...]

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links for 2006-10-25

October 24, 2006

http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/notes/svnsync.txt
(tags: subversion mirroring)

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October 23, 2006

How To Defeat Bad Robots with Apache
(tags: apache spiders webcrawling configuration)

RobotCop
Apache 1.3 module that traps web crawlers and spiders
(tags: apache spiders webcrawling prevention)

Jonestown ‘Death Tape’
The complete tape found in a tape recorder under Jim Jones’ chair after the mass suicide in Jonestown on November 18, 1978
(tags: jonestown, koolaid, video, audio, religion, youtube)

IBM sues Amazon over [...]

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Eddie Graphics Arts Project

October 22, 2006

Photo by rbieber
Brother Ed’s Iron Maiden picture from sophmore graphic arts class (circa 1986)

While I’m on a Maiden kick this morning, why not post this cool graphic arts project my brother Ed did sophmore year in high school. This was all hand drawn. No tracing or anything. He was [...]

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I Had Forgotten How Much I Liked Iron Maiden

October 22, 2006

I was a huge Iron Maiden fan in the 80’s. I had quite a few of their albums and was I guess was one of those people who got extremely energized when listening to any of their albums. There was just something about the way the music was put together that [...]

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links for 2006-10-21

October 20, 2006

RDT – Ruby Eclipse Plugin
(tags: ruby eclipse)

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October 19, 2006

My Experiences With Subversion
One guys take on migrating to the Subversion Version Control system.
(tags: subversion versioncontrol)

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October 17, 2006

Free software is a weak mode of production | Free Software Magazine
The success of GNU/Linux and other free software projects is annoying. Free and open source development doesn’t fit neatly in the box of standard business practices and is therefore a problem. We really need to break free of those hippies at the Free Soft
(tags: [...]

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links for 2006-10-17

October 16, 2006

5 Reasons Why RSS Feeds are Not Popular | Hiveminds Magazine for web publishers and community builders
(tags: rss socialcomputing blogging feed web2.0 articles)

CEO Vision of Linux @ ENTERPRISE OPEN SOURCE MAGAZINE
(tags: tech opensource)

Chris Brunner .com » Blog Archive » Computer Security Podcasts That Don’t Suck
Over the last several months, I’ve done my best to seek [...]

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links for 2006-10-15

October 14, 2006

Malcom Gladwell on TED Talks
Malcolm Gladwell is a staff writer for The New Yorker, and best-selling author ofThe Tipping Point and Blink. In this talk, filmed at TED2004, he explains what every business can learn from spaghetti sauce. (Recorded February 2004 in Monterey, CA. Duratio
(tags: video gladwell business)

Blog Juice Calculator
Uses bloglines, links, technorati, etc to [...]

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links for 2006-10-14

October 13, 2006

ComputerWorld: Five lessons in leadership
The best leaders take their lessons wherever they find them — whether in the hard knocks of experience, the generosity of mentors or the clear gaze of their employees. We asked CIOs of five major organizations to share their most important leadership le
(tags: leadership)

http://www-css.fnal.gov/dsg/external/freeware/mysql-vs-pgsql.html
Comparison of MySQL, postgreSQL and Oracle
(tags: database [...]

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links for 2006-10-13

October 12, 2006

Free, Open Source Javascript Obfuscator; Encrypt And Protect Your Javascripts; GNU GPL (General Public License)
(tags: javascript tools java)

Free Javascript Obfuscator
(tags: javascript obfuscation)

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links for 2006-10-12

October 11, 2006

mod_ssl – Apache HTTP Server
SSL Server Variables (CGI) for the Apache Server
(tags: apache netscape cgi-variables ssl)

iPlanet Web Server, Enterprise Edition Programmer’s Guide: Chapter 1 Overview
CLIENT_CERT
(tags: apache netscape cgi-variables ssl)

XML.com: Implementing REST Web Services: Best Practices and Guidelines
Good article on REST, which pointed out quite a few things around the HTTP protocol that I missed when [...]

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links for 2006-10-11

October 10, 2006

Sztywny Blog – Stiff asks, great programmers answer
At some hot, boring afternoon I got an _Idea_. With the help of public accessible e-mail adresses I asked 10 questions to a bunch of programmers that I consider very interesting people and I respect them for variuos things they created.
(tags: programming philosphy interviews)

Google Software Downloads for the [...]

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