The 3 practical reasons I use linux – the $200-400 i don’t have to give to Microsoft are used to get better hardware, more secure without blaming the user, all the Free software available for it (see the first reason again), and not HAVING to reinstall the OS quarterly. In case that doesn’t convince you, […]
Its not wise to tease your Human Resources manager, you might get a response like the following. (02:04:21 PM) HR: i could beat you at any given moment today (02:04:38 PM) Oscar: that’s going on my blog (02:04:45 PM) HR: lol
Saw today that Google Maps now has a Traffic layer, which color codes congestion around 30 major cities, Washington DC included. If you zoom in close enough, you’ll also now see markers for Metro stations. HT: Gizmondo and Google Blog.
What are some strategies for keeping track of comments you leave on other people’s blogs? Knowing when someone replies to an interesting comment encourages discussion and participation. Some feeds provide comment feeds, for the site as a whole or for individual posts, but before long you might end up with dozens of feeds in your
Roger Johansson’s post from 2005 is still as true today as it was then: A web professional can never stop learning. Here it’s 2007 and we’re still dealing with designs that look best in photoshop, and my personal pet peeve – images for text headers (is there anything less useful?). Web professionals who refuse to
You might think that apple is poking fun at windows in this latest Mac advertisement, but you’d be fooling yourself. But judging by the comments in Very Severe Hole" in Vista UAC Design, its really a documentary, not an ad. What’s the giant security hole – oh yeah – any installer automatically runs with administrator
I’ve been using Subversion heavily lately to keep my live and development sites synchronized and its been a huge productivity booster. I had to move some code over to a lite site for work this evening and it was such a pain, because I had to go through and figure out the files I needed
Under debian, fail2ban’s configuration is in /etc/fail2ban/. In the filter.d directory add the following file and name it apache-modsec.conf. [Definition]# Option: failregex# Notes.: regex to match the password failure messages in the logfile. The# host must be matched by a group named “host”. The tag “<HOST>” can# be used for standard IP/hostname matching.# Values: TEX#failregex
Did you know they advanced the time on the doomsday clock? Did you know we had a doomsday clock? Is the doomsday clock little more than a PR stunt? Sure, it looks bleak, so this dose of optimism should make you think again about our "imminent" destruction. There’s also a predictions markey where you can
Why should you be using an RSS feed aggregator? The discussion following Tyler Cowen’s question about RSS going mainstream highlights many of the benefits of using one, such as Bloglines (my personal choice). Cowen has a number of somewhat curmudgeonly reasons to not use one but the comments are overwhelmingly in favor of using one.