A Letter To Brian
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I wrote the following letter to my pastor Brian Emmet at Covenant Ministries1, in response to his latest newsletter2, which decried permitting homosexual marriages....
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Peace In The Middle East
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The middle east is pretty damn annoying. Specifically, the whole Israel / Palestine deal. I mean, it feels like there's good evidence that there are a very large number of totally reasonable people on both sides who are being totally ignored by...
Continue readingA Simple Strategy For Spam Control
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I've recently employed a very simple mechanism for spam control. So far, it's been quite effective and required the installation of NO new software, tunable Baysian filters, or anything. So I thought I'd share it with you....
Continue readingWhy IPv6 Won’t Be Here By 2005
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This message was posted on October 27, 2003 to a mailing list in response to a post that claimed that IPv6 would be widespread by 2005 due to an IPv4 address shortage. Given that 2005 has come without IPv6 having taken off, this post feels vindicated...
Continue readingFormats
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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 readingLinux Unicode Support Sucks
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Unicode1 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 readingProfessionalism
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I'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 readingGoogle: A Brain Extension
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Over 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 readingThe Peril Of Using ETags In A Cluster
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Apache 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 readingPhilip, 2014
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Written mid-2002, this is a letter from the future....
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The Perils Of Accidental Rudeness
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Just 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 readingOn Leisure
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Looking 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...
Continue readingMirroring Web Content
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originally posted to the Apache Development mailing list...
Continue readingTribooting Apple’s Titanium Laptop
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sidestory how i got my laptop...
Continue readingPresumed Backing
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I find myself dealing sometimes and indeed am guilty of a phenomenon that I would like to call "Presumed Backing."...
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Adventures In Housing, Take Two
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So, 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 readingFTAA, EFF, Skylarov, DMCA
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\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 readingActive Optimism
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There 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 readingLack of Updates
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There 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 readingDie, Record Industry, Die!
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written 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 readingAphorisms
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Just for the sheer, unadulterated hell of it, I'll put some aphorisms of mine here. They may alternately amuse, disgust, or bore you....
Continue readingThe Efficiency of Instant Messaging
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Realtime 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 readingHired
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I'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...
Continue readingSecure Audio Path: A Bad Way To Go
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written for the pho list...
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