links for 2006-11-01
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Article from Novel Connection Magazine around the Benefits of Using Open Source in the Enterprise
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links for 2006-10-31
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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
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(tags: testing)
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Test case template used by Open Office team … might be helpful.
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QA related link mentioned to me today.(tags: testing)
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(tags: via:nalla)
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Mac OS X only: Perian is a freeware plug-in designed to enable the playback of almost every popular video codec in Quicktime.
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If you are one of these executives, the first thing you need to realize is that Search Engine Optimization [SEO] is a misnomer! People don’t optimize a search engine… rather; they make changes to a website that helps search engines crawl, index and ra
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Comparison of Google Analytics and VisiStat,
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Creating search engine-friendly pages that are easy for search spiders to index
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links for 2006-10-30
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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
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We decided to cancel HBO in favor of a NetFlix subscription, so of course, I gotta look for the Wordpress plugins!
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links for 2006-10-29
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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.
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Wordpress 2.0.5 Released
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 the site ran a tad bit slower after the 2.0 upgrade, but for some reason I just figured 2.0 was doing so much more than the 1.x versions. Didn’t even think of looking at table indexes.
Mark Jaquith has also put together his list of change files and corresponding archives containing only the changes from 2.0.4 to 2.0.5, along with a patch file to upgrade your stuff directly. I opted to download from the Wordpress site.
In any event, according to the release announcement, there are some security fixes in this release as well. As I do with every release of Wordpress that contains security release, I am reminding you not to be lazy and get your site upgraded as soon as you can. The performance improvements alone are worth it.
Now … off to see if they fixed that “posting from Flickr mangling CSS thing” …
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links for 2006-10-28
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A compairson between the presentation styles of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, with a focus on the Zen mind. Really interesting article!
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SVK Tutorials now under Creative Commons License
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 much work given an already busy schedule, I realized that I’m actually causing the same level of frustration for people when it comes to the tutorials. Obviously people have found them useful enough to ask to use the content — and I never say no — so why make it such a difficult process?
I’m really glad that these have been useful to people and it makes perfect sense to me to release them on this license.
So have fun with them and stop asking me for permission to use them. 
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links for 2006-10-25
links for 2006-10-24
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Apache 1.3 module that traps web crawlers and spiders
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The complete tape found in a tape recorder under Jim Jones’ chair after the mass suicide in Jonestown on November 18, 1978
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International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM - news) said on Monday it had filed two lawsuits accusing Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq:AMZN - news) of violating patents on features used in its online shopping network.(tags: patents)
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But unlike the technology entrepreneurs of the late 1990s, who spent as much time and money courting investors as chasing customers, Mr. Fried isn’t interested in outside funding. “The more money you have, the more money you are going to waste,” says Mr.(tags: business entrepreneurship)
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An RSS Newsreader extension for Firefox.
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Eddie Graphics Arts Project
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 pretty good for such a young kid.
It seems like yesterday. Its hard to believe its been 20 years.
Sadly, all I have left is this picture. The actual paper disappeared over the years.
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I Had Forgotten How Much I Liked Iron Maiden
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 I really liked.
Yesterday we went on our usual weekend mall trip and while browsing at FYE saw the album A Matter of Life and Death, the bands latest release. I’m not sure why I noticed it, except that someone Jonna works with had gone to a show in Chicago and she was telling me that he was rather disappointed in that they played more new stuff than old, and he didn’t recognize any of the music.
I couldn’t imagine being disappointed at a Maiden concert. They were actually the first concert I had ever gone to, at the now defunct Poplar Creek in Chicago, on the Powerslave tour.
This, coupled with our visit to the King Tut exhibit inspiring me to pop Powerslave on in the car last week has had me jonesing a bit for some new Iron Maiden.
So, this morning I logged into iTunes and grabbed the new album. I have to say, I love it.
The band sounds better than ever. I had forgotten how much Iron Maiden had meant to me back in high school. I remember spending hours learning songs like Number of the Beast, Phantom of the Opera, Wasted Years, and Hallowed Be Thy Name, still one of my all time favorite Maiden songs.
This morning has been pretty satisfying, music wise. I’ve grabbed all of my old Maiden CD’s and ripped them into iTunes. Those I’ve lost, that I really had the urge to hear again, I’ve repurchased (with a subsequent backup - just in case).
For those who were big Maiden fans back in the day, check out this album. If nothing else, it will inspire you to pull out the old stuff and give it a listen.
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links for 2006-10-20
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One guys take on migrating to the Subversion Version Control system.(tags: subversion versioncontrol)
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links for 2006-10-18
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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
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links for 2006-10-17
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(tags: tech opensource)
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Over the last several months, I’ve done my best to seek out every podcast related to computer security concepts. I started with a list of just under fifty podcasts and gradually eliminated the ones that consistently failed to offer interesting ideas or we
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links for 2006-10-15
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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
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Uses bloglines, links, technorati, etc to calculate a “blog juice” rating. Heard about it on geek news central.(tags: blogging popularity)
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links for 2006-10-14
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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)
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Comparison of MySQL, postgreSQL and Oracle
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links for 2006-10-13
links for 2006-10-12
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SSL Server Variables (CGI) for the Apache Server
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CLIENT_CERT
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Good article on REST, which pointed out quite a few things around the HTTP protocol that I missed when thinking about services.
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links for 2006-10-11
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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.
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Google Software Downloads for the Mac
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Pantent filed for process to maintain rebate “breakage” (those who do not file for the return). From techdirt.
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SQLite is a small C library that implements a self-contained, embeddable, zero-configuration SQL database engine.
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