Archive for August, 2004
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Friday, August 27th, 2004google’s online calculator
Link: http://www.google.com/help/features.html#calculator
Someone wanted to count the permutations of the middle letters of “morning”, figuring if we mistyped the word, we would at least get the first and last letters of the word right.
His solution was brute force: simply generate all the possibilities and count them. His solution is pretty ugly because it only [...]
Private V State school funding
Thursday, August 26th, 2004private schools received $4870 in funding from the state and federal governments per student, while government schools received $8937.
Link here, based on an article from the Australian back in april. Unfortunately, I can’t find the google cache, but it supports some figures i found on the Independent Schools site, that suggested Government schools have [...]
Automating web-form coding
Tuesday, August 24th, 2004there’s always an easier way
EDIT: 2004/08/30 look at www.platinum-central.com/form_gen.php.It provided me with some simple code that I’ve been able to hack into this. It’s nothing spectacular or complicated, which makes good for a template… Send me an email !!!.END EDIT:
From Derek Sivers:a simple formCoding web signup forms…
new or existing?existing? login.login correct? give cookie [...]
Not Happy, John
Monday, August 23rd, 2004The Not Happy John site that accompanies Margo Kingston’s book. Normally, these sites are just gushing prose in favour of the author and their ideals. However, the people associated with this are willing to answer and think about valid criticism.The John Valder feature on Ch-9’s Sunday show. Valder is (or was) a die [...]
The Google Hacker’s Guide
Monday, August 23rd, 2004Understanding and defending against the Google Hacker
Who hasn’t googled an old friend, high-school flame, or job applicant? But the success implied by this ubiquity also has a dark side: Coupled with a lack of web security, it has become a chief source of information for hackers and virus writers who have learned how to use [...]
Missing Files
Friday, August 20th, 2004How / where to download things like MFC42.DLL, WNASPI.DLL, COMDLG32.OCX, WS_32.DLL, VB Runtimes and many others – from SnapFiles
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WinXP update KB835732 broken
Friday, August 20th, 2004KB835732 update keeps downloading
Every time I turned on the kid’s PC, Windows update has been asking me to install Security Update KB835732 – which i have been doing. I finally got the shits with it and decided to investigate. A google search forKB835732 update keeps downloading didn’t help a lot. I tried [...]
MP3 Blogs and wget
Friday, August 20th, 2004 How to keep up?
Pointer from boing boing;original from Jeffrey Veen – read both.NOTE: You can get Win32 ports of wget and other *nix utils at the unxutils homepage.You can get a Win32 prot of wget from GNU.org
Wget to the rescue. It’s a utility for unix/linux/etc. that goes and gets stuff from Web and FTP [...]
IBM seeks copyright judgement against SCO
Thursday, August 19th, 2004either way, SCO has violated Copyright law.
From groklaw
IBM is seeking judgement about SCO releasing IBM code under the GPL. My reading is that there are two possibilities:1) GPL is valid. SCo has no right to charge licence fees for UNIX / LINUXi.e. SCO has violated Copyright law.2) GPL is not valid and therefore SCO [...]
Worries overboard as PM goes bush
Thursday, August 19th, 2004Worries overboard as PM goes bush, and rural Australians gatecrash a “doorstop” media conference at the recent Gunnedah Farm day:The first question, inevitably, was on children overboard and whether or not Mr Howard was telling the truth over a conversation he had with former defence public servant Mike Scrafton.The crowd sighed with near-disgust, heckling journalists [...]
Literate Programming?
Thursday, August 19th, 2004What is Literate Programming ?
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/tchrist/litprog.htmlLiterate programming was invented around 1983 by the very famous Donald Knuth, author of the TeX typesetting system and the multi-volume series The Art of Computer Programming. It is based on two important ideas.
The first idea is that good program documentation shouldn’t be squeezed into little `comments’. It should be structured [...]
Why People Don’t Like Linux
Thursday, August 19th, 2004They feel that the product should be well-designed enough that most of what they want to accomplish should be apparent without having to read any doc.
http://linux.slashdot.org/~severoon/journal/61271A well written comment on why people don’t switch, or stay switched, to Linux on the desktop.I’ve talked to several non-linux users about why they don’t use it, and I’m [...]
