Archive for the ‘Programming’ Category
Friday, October 3rd, 2008
iPhone users will be interested in news about the class action lawsuit that claims Apple and AT&T Mobility's five-year exclusive voice and data service provider agreement for the iPhone is in violation of the anti-monopoly portions of anti-trust laws
The suit also charges Apple with breaking both Federal and California computer ...
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Friday, October 3rd, 2008
Government types would have us believe that the new "E Passports" are perfectly secure and that there's no problem with them at all. They spend a lot of time and money trying to make sure that everyone believes this and goes along with it, blindly assuming that the RFID ...
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
I was checking out the "Yahoo! Buzz" site for the first time a little while ago and ran across an article that talked about the fact that more Chinese visited the official Beijing2008.cn Olympic website than Americans.
After taking a look at the site I know the reason. In fact, ...
Posted in Internet, Programming, Websites, opinion | 1 Comment »
Friday, August 8th, 2008
Notepad++ bills itself as a "Source code editor and Notepad replacement" but it turns out to be so much more than that.
The reason for this is that it's got so many features that it really blows the original notepad away totally. Some of the features include Syntax Highlighting and ...
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Saturday, July 12th, 2008
Good news for Linux users, According to a recent Slashdot article, Sun Microsystems is finally moving on a decision to open-source Java.
Once it's done and released, this will clear the way for Open source linux distributions like Debian to be able to include Sun Java in their distributions.
Apparently Sun has ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Of interest to Ruby Programmers I just read about some serious vulnerabilities were discovered in Ruby by Drew Yao, a member of Apple's security team.
According to the article about it that I read, these vulnerabilities could be exploited to allow the execution of arbitrary code or lead to a denial ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
When it comes to bad ideas for the Internet, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) a non profit organization that handles IP address space allocation has approved a wide expansion of TLDs (Top Level Domains).
Up until a few years ago, the most common endings for domain name have ...
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Anyone who's installed AVG 8 probably knows about the new AJAX powered browser plugin called "Linkscanner". AVG installs it as a plugin / Browser Helper Object in any browser it recognizes and then it will scan all of the links on SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages) looking for viruses ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Any blogger that's made the move from WordPress 2.3.3 to the new 2.5.x can tell you that the Admin panels have been drastically changed. I've seen a lot of talk about it and there's people landing on two sides of the thing.
One set of people clearly prefer the new ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
Say you're a blogger that has enough knowledge to use WordPress, write & edit posts, upload a plugin. You're not a coder so instead of spending a lot of time learning how to write code, you use a widget-ready theme and use widgets for everything you need to put ...
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