Like we didn’t suspect this already: running windows update sends microsoft a list of *all* your installed software according to this article. I suppose the next logical step is a kazaa virus to delete anything that looks hacked.
Rest in peace, Mister Rogers.
Some handy java study notes for the SCJP exam. Plus a handy intro to counting in octal and hex.
Last night, the master boot record of my Windows 2000 install became corrupted. Of course, the OS didn’t have the good sense to tell me this. I had to figure it out by myself. But repairing it was easy enough. You just boot from with Win2K CD, launch the “recovery console” [just a DOS prompt, [...]
If you like old time radio but don’t have broadband, you can get mp3 CDs of most everything from otrcat.com. If you do have broadband, check out knotted note radio (I’ve mentioned this site before, but it’s worth repeating). I’m fairly obsessed with Suspsense, The Whistler, and Michael Shayne at the moment.
Home computing and programming [...]
A nice little introduction to Java servelets.
I downloaded b2 this weekend to see if I might want to finally make the switch from blogger. I’ve been tweaking up the templates. If I do switch, I’ll gain a few useful features: rss feeds, permalinks, etc. The one thing I don’t like about b2 is that all the pages are generated live from [...]
I didn’t realize that Jeremy Allaire (the guy who pioneered ColdFusion) had a blog.
I’ve been interested recently in ways the web can be used to annotate texts. Pepysdiary.com takes a simple and elegant approach to the famous diary of Samuel Pepys. Even with the dissapointing outcome of the recent copyright extension debate, there are many etexts out there but most are in ASCII or are webified by well-intentioned [...]
Running a PHP-Nuke site? Better nab the latest security fix. A bad exploitable security hole was found yesterday (thanks steve).