posts brought to you by the category “what's the use of getting sober”
Das eez kaput! Sometime around 2002 I spaced the entire database table that mapped individual entries to categories. Such is life. What follows is a random sampling of entries that were associated with the category. Over time, the entries will be updated and then it will be even more confusing. Wander around, though, it's still a fun way to find stuff.
Are you a MovableType weenie feeling left out by all the XPath-enabled searching going on?
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Peter B. Ladkin : Some observations on e-mail phenomenology
I conclude that some work needs to be done to attempt to understand the organisational motivations and behavior of system administration, and to devise ways of preventing the collective behavior of professional administrators from making problems a lot worse than they otherwise would be.
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M-J Milloy on donut-eating surrender monkeys
see also : The Current on "embedded Canadians" which is mostly just the same old sickly sweetness but worth it just to hear David I've applied for U.S. citizenship Frum wax poetic about Canada being his point of reference. As usual, I don't think there was any mention made of the oft-neglected classic Canadians among us but I had to stop listening about 5 seconds into the second "George W's West Wing" schtick.So tomorrow morning, a horde of Quebeckers will be enjoying something uniquely Quebecois, redeveloped, industrialized and popularised by a Southern donut chain. How distinctly Canadian -- or, at least as Canadian as the products of that other chain, owned by Americans, named after an American who played hockey for an American hockey team.
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Me : Net::ITE.pm 0.02
I recently built a fresh FreeBSD install.
- the dock thingy thingy
- a clock
- the wm prefs thingy (arguably unnecessary)
- xterm
- emacs
- phoenix (mostly just because mozilla takes so damn long to build)
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Dubya on not eating the broccoli:
Just in case you had any doubts. You crazy fuckers, you.I'm the commander -- see, I don't need to explain -- I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the president. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation.
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Jeremy Beker : Figuring out how iSync interacts with .Mac
David Gates : American Disaster and Self-Congratulation
I take back what I said yesterday about this country having the world's best music: That piece "The Last Full Measure of Devotion," sung by some airbag soprano with the U.S. Army band at the Pentagon, was what P.G. Wodehouse characters call the frozen limit. All this stuff, moving as some of it is—the reading of names, for instance—brings together some noxious tendencies. One is atmospheric overkill: As I type this, for instance, a string quartet is playing "Amazing Grace" while a man and woman take turns reading. The names alone, among distant city sounds, would have done the trick. I don't mean to sound like a fucking esthete, but whoever planned this was working in accordance with an esthetic too. It reminds me of the original coverage, when TV news—see, I'm not entirely abstemious—would put dramatic music under footage of the towers collapsing. Got to keep the customers entertained.
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : grimble
1.Any movie in which, no matter how important the man's job (stopping an assasination, saving the universe, generally preserving life), his wife does nothing but gripe about how it's breaking the family up and that he missed little Jimmy's birthday again. 2. The act of a movie woman griping in this way.
ex. Sissy Spacek did nothing but grimble all the way through the movie _JFK_.
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Bowie J. Poag : MicroBlogger
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Real World Styles : Floating Thumbnails
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Matt Kingston : Homebrew TrackBack Tutorial
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : cueless
The blank expression on a newsreader's face when the autocue breaks down.
ex. When they cut to camera 5 and for a moment, he looked totally cueless.
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : flooped
Stumbled.
ex. The girl with all the dishes just flooped by me because she couldn't see and tripped over the chair.
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : chary
Chary \Char"y\, a. [AS. cearig careful, fr. cearu care. See {Care}.] Careful; wary; cautious; not rash, reckless, or spendthrift; saving; frugal. His rising reputation made him more chary of his fame. --Jeffrey. web1913
chary adj : characterized by great cautious and wariness; "a cagey avoidance of a definite answer"; "chary of the risks involved"; "a chary investor" [syn: {cagey}, {cagy}] wn
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : doover
Miscellaneous item, usually one you can't remember the name of. Substitute for thingo. Can be extended to "dooverlakie."
ex. I left the thingo on the doover.
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : jings
An exclamation of surprise. Originates from Oor Wullie as chronicled in the Sunday Post (Uk)
ex. Jings, would you look at the size of that.
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Simon's Journal : CPAN XML-RPC
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : jackfucker
Someone whose action indicate she possesses the heinous attributes of both a jackass and a motherfucker.
ex. You're directly behind a woman in line at a fast food drive-through who is sorting through her purse, letting other people get in front of her, and drastically increasing your wait. She then drives off without ordering. "Jackfucker!"
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is flummery
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is gallimaufry
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Sean Dague : Building Perl projects with MakeMaker
Alberto Reggiori : RDF Perl Resources
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Two words : chmod 0777
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What does that mean, exactly? I'm not fluent in file permissions; is this considered bad security juju or what?
It means that the directories/files are world writable. In a web context it means that the magic web-server user (usually "http" or "www") has permissions to write all that stuff in a www/blog form to disk (read : index.html)
It also means that any other user on the same server can affect said files. Since most installs of Apache explicitly disallow HTTP "PUT" (read:write) statements, there is some illusory protection from random people all over the Internet, proper, writing to the unprotected directory.
On the other hand, if your webhost offers shell access it would be pretty easy for a bad person, with a login, to snoop out[1] one or more [ insert insecure weblog application here ] directories. From there, they could do something like install a PHP upload form and, bang, your weblog has turned into an instant warez node[2]. Or it may suddenly be "protected" by an .htaccess file you didn't write. That kind of thing.
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[Y]ou can solve most of these problems if your webhost filters cgi-scripts through a "cgiwrapper" that suids to user 'you'. Since you have write permissions on your own directories, you don't have to extend the privilege to the web-server or anyone else. I haven't done a survey, but I suspect that any ISP/webhost worth it's salt uses a wrapper, which makes install docs that say "0777" all the more frustrating.
[1] Due to the nature and history of Unix systems, many of the auditing tools are readily available and you can find out a whole lot despite the best efforts of security-minded sysadmins...
[2] This is probably unlikely, since PHP is usually built with limits on file uploads but you get the idea.
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see also : W3C World Wide Web Security FAQ - CGI (Server) Scripts and Practical UNIX & Internet Security, UNIX Security Checklistmeta
I have taken some tiny solace in the counsel that to paralyze one's life,
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Michael Ignatieff : "Yes, we are a community bound together by rules of civility and reflection,
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Andy Oram : We need the courage to look beyond abstractions
This is not a time for shooting first and asking questions later.
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Peter G. Neumann : [W]hen there is no security in place, the alleged culprit cannot have exceeded authority
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Claes Jacobsson : JavaScript.pm
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Syncal
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is donnybrook
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is propitiate
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is inexorable
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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is bucolic
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Luke Tymowski : How to build [the Frogware] weblog in Zope
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is teetotaler
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A bit of unsolicited advice to all those who are keen on billing for online content.
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Matt Sergeant : Using AxKit To Build Static Sites
Big thanks to everyone who's sent along birthday wishes.
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CBC : &34;The study says the chemical, triphenyl phosphate,
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XML Hack : RDF from email headers
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This sight at the Vatican museum
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Bill Humphries : URLs URLs URLs
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I've decided that all OS reviews should end
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Apparently, the burning question
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tempography
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Dale Dougherty : Copy Right and Wrong
The architecture of the Napster service is such that users download music files from each other's computers without ever storing the files on the Napster server. Would you say that Napster allows users to exchange copies for their own private use? Or would you say that Napster is really acting as a publisher, not only distributing the work but giving it away for free while making money in other ways such as advertising? Or is Napster much the same as a commercial FM radio station?
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Slate Diary : Adrian Tomine
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Ah, it's so nice to be home again...
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Jim Fulton : Introduction to the Zope ODB
MacWorld reviews the Handspring Visor
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Emma and Greg can't think of a name
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I like the Internet as much the next person
On that note, I leave you today with the Wisdom of Bendypig (passed along by mapgirl ), which says : "Try drinking coffee through a bendy straw, you can never take yourself too seriously doing that."
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The search engine
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The Internet for Assholes : Voting Fraud for Assholes
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William Safire : Manichaean Madness
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The Times : Evidence of the Great Flood supports Noah's Ark saga
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XHTML 1.0 has been making the rounds
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What is Monk?
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Dan Lyke : Newwwsboy2: Newwws Harder?
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Meanwhile, Rob Moritz has a mission :
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Cowboys Junkies : Live From the Archive
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wtf?
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dude, where's my car
This document uses CSS kung-fu and a small amount of JavaScript for rendering its contents. Efforts have been made to separate the form from the content so if you are viewing this in a text-based browser it shouldn't be an issue.
On the other hand it may look funny if you are viewing it in a browser with incomplete CSS and/or JavaScript implementations. Internet Explorer 6 comes to mind.
It's not that I don't love you. However, my time is limited and I no longer feel very good about spending it working around any one browser's inconsistencies with little, or no, confidence that they will ever be fixed or otherwise made more inconsistent at some later date.
On the other hand, if something is down-right unreadable please let me know and I will endeavour to fix it.
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yes, we have no bananas
This page may not validate. It's not that I don't care, it's just that I'm not aware of it yet. Part of the reason that I rewrote the entire back-end for managing this site is that the old stuff made it too easy for these kinds of mistakes to slip through the cracks.
See also : W3C::LogValidator.pm
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it's the software, stupid