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For protocols there's Ethernet, TCP, IP, UDP, AIM in ICQ, OSCAR, and TOC flavors!, Yahoo! Messenger, MSN Messenger, IRC, SOCKS5, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, POP3, FTP, Shoutcast, SSH, and Kazaa&8230;and that's just what's running on my desktop...
Continue readingUnicode1 is just about the coolest thing since sliced bread. It's the kind of thing after which you wonder how things possibly worked previously. The idea is simple: one character set can represent any character in any language. There are a few...
Continue readingI've learned a lot in the last two years about what it means to be professional. Here are some of the things I've learned; I hope you can learn them without having to be the fool I am! Please note that I'm not smart enough to actually...
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Continue readingOver the last few days a subtle error on the part of our home's gateway to the Internet rendered Google1 inaccessible. I was in agony. I was unable to write reports and actually felt rather stupid without it. I then realized I had effectively un...
Continue readingApache administrators: beware ETags if you have more than one webserver! If you only have one webserver this article will not be useful to you....
Continue readingWritten mid-2002, this is a letter from the future....
Continue readingJust now, I did something horribly mean. I ignored a nice person on AIM that was having a delightful chat with me. And \BAM\, I ignored them, never to see a message from them again. I rebooted my computer and any and all traces of them were removed....
Continue readingLooking at the great inventions and awesome creations of art that humankind has collectively produced, I can't help but notice a common theme: the need for leisure. Leisure here not meaning, sitting around and doing nothing at all, but the need...
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Continue readingI find myself dealing sometimes and indeed am guilty of a phenomenon that I would like to call "Presumed Backing."...
Continue readingSo, I just found a new place to move into. Just like last year's adventure1, this spin around was every bit of a madcap little hunt for a house. It started out in late July. Poking around made it clear that real estate prices had dropped signifi...
Continue reading\The following letter was sent regarding recent lanugage in the FTAA draft agreement that would require, effectively, all nations in the Americas South and North to make it illegal to reverse engineer copyright-protection software. This would permit...
Continue readingThere are, in my view now, two kinds of optimism. There is the pleasantly naive optimism that comes from living a relatively sheltered, loved life. This is how I would characterize my life heading into college. As I ran across the ups and the downs o...
Continue readingThere have been a definite lack of updates to my website over the last half year early 2001-mid 2001. Some of you have been asking about this. Why have I slacked on posting? It's because I'm going through some very painful and wildly confus...
Continue readingwritten for the pho list I think that those of you who have known me and my progression of thoughts throughout this whole insane MP3 thing so far have know that I've \tried\ to keep a semblance of perspective on things. But&8230;...
Continue readingJust for the sheer, unadulterated hell of it, I'll put some aphorisms of mine here. They may alternately amuse, disgust, or bore you....
Continue readingRealtime textual dialog, such as in IRC, ICQ, AIM, or ytalk, is a unique communication form. Allowing for two or more participants to simultaneously be contributing their throughts, reading responses, and calculating replies, it is the ultimate infor...
Continue readingI'm hired. I got a job at Legato Systems1 today. It's a big company &8211; a couple of thousand people. It looks like I'll be one of their architects, helping them get a good vision for the future of backup and then helping them actual...
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Continue readingThere is a fundamental problem with energy conservation as it relates to homes that are rented from a central organization, such as a realtor. It's a very simple problem: the realtor pays for infrastructure, but the renter pays for the utility b...
Continue readingThe first dot-com boom has come and gone and we now find ourselves in the gritty interim period, where only innovation, cunning, and realized profits will save us and bring us back to prosperity. Gone, thankfully, are the lucrative days when anyone w...
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