December 18, 2008
Here I sit, day after day, as the corporate computing powers that be and their fascist software push patches for some security hole in Windows XP down to my poor laptop. I suppose this time it’s to fix another security vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Exploder, which I do not use except for accessing company sites [...]
February 11, 2006
How do we look? I’m the middle of restyling the blog and spending some quality time with the CSS spec. All of the archive and search results pages will look a little weird until I get an index page that I’m happy with. Updated on Saturday, February 11, 2006: Our site rebuild is complete. Refresh [...]
February 12, 2005
Once in a while it becomes necessary to install software to deal with the hideous closed proprietary real media format. Unfortunately there’s no utility that will convert real audio format files, so we’re stuck with am equally hideous closed proprietary application to play these files. The last time I installed this monstrosity I had to [...]
January 21, 2005
The hack previously documented here to help us track activity on a phpnuke site that’s been targeted for abuse by a troll has proven to be ineffective. Specifically, it does not record any of the specific actions we want to track. Well, that’s not really true — it does not allow us to quickly cross [...]
January 10, 2005
I’ve been asked to identify IP addresses associated with a particular username or two on a phpnuke site. After spending a couple of minutes parsing the code, I have come up with the following scheme to record all username/IP address pairs visiting a site. Add the following table to the target site’s database: CREATE TABLE [...]
December 26, 2004
I noticed this at the end of a New York Times article about the greyline dealings of some entrepenureal internet marketeers. This poor guy has the same problems as just about everyone else who owns a windoze computer. I liked the way the NYT website capitalized `random’ with effect. John Morgan, 51, owner of a [...]
November 24, 2004
The original radio Obscura machine has suffered a hardware fault and is offline. This private webcast machine is somewhat notorious as having originated the wbcq.com “after hours” webcast reliabily every day for at least two years. Today the machine was sitting at one of those ominous boot prompts that said something like “press F1 to [...]
August 18, 2004
Well, Scott came home from an extended business gig in the desert, and discovered that his local fone company had chosen him to be the pilot test case for fiber optic to the premises. Sure enough, he ran a bandwidth test and comes back drooling all over himself with his nice 2Mbps downlink and uplink [...]
June 09, 2004
I have completed a software upgrade here to the latest and greatest version of Movable Type. The only major change is that comments will now have to wait for approval before appearing. Don’t worry, I do not plan to censor any appropriate or on-topic material. But if you are a robot blog spammer, kiss your [...]
May 18, 2004
Here is some PAL code to force a stream title update. This is especially useful for live broadcasts.
