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    A Decade of Mozilla

    by  • 2008/03/31 • Uncategorized

    Congratulations to everybody who’s participated in the Mozilla project on their 10 year anniversary. Even the smallest contributors have been necessary to get us to this point. There’s an old saying in the industry that it takes 10 years to really get something right, and Firefox 3, due imminently, seems to re-enforce that rule...

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    Murphy Strikes

    by  • 2008/03/28 • Uncategorized

    Sure enough, after three years of trouble-free server operation, the day after we deactivate a RAID mirror to make room for drive expansion, the drive dies. If you sent us important mail between 3/26 at 10:00EDT and 3/27 at 02:00EDT, please resend. If there’s a silver lining here, we’ll be trying to build a...

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    Blu-Ray Profile 2 Lands

    by  • 2008/03/24 • Uncategorized

    When Blu-Ray wasn’t ready to ship, they shipped a Blu-Ray that wasn’t ready, to ship. That strategy seems to have worked. Now, the finished version of Blu-Ray, aka Profile 2, is now available on the PS3. The notable difference is that it’s Internet-enabled. There are, of course, all kinds of conspiracy theories about what...

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    Eliminating Credit Card Fraud

    by  • 2008/03/18 • Uncategorized

    Now that Visa is a Public Company it needs to take responsibility for the harm it creates. The antiquated system of trading credit card numbers is only something that seems reasonable in a pre-1978 world, one without public key cryptography. A modern credit card authorization scheme should look something like this: Merchant requests transaction...

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    Comcastic Irony

    by  • 2008/03/17 • Uncategorized

    From the chuckle department: With Comcast High Speed Internet with PowerBoost, you’ll be able to get maximum enjoyment of the FairTax Internet Seminar without the headaches of dial-up or slower DSL. Call 404-COMCAST to get Comcast High-Speed Internet for just $19.95 per month for six months. With Comcast’s recent problems with blocking clients’ Internet...

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    Support an Upper Valley Fiber Project

    by  • 2008/03/04 • Uncategorized

    Quoting in whole from the ValleyFiber page: ValleyFiber is a new initiative by ValleyNet to help towns organize themselves to create and use town-wide fiber-optic networks to offer residents, organizations, municipal government, and businesses high-speed Internet, telephone, and television access without burdening taxpayers. ECFiberNet is the first group of towns that ValleyFiber is working...

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    RPM Repositories Merging

    by  • 2008/02/21 • Uncategorized

    This is good news for fans of RPM-based systems: Two separate consolidations are underway. rpmfusion will be created by the merging of livna, freshrpms, and dribble. rpmrepo will be formed by the merger of the former rpmforge (dag and dries anyway), atrpms, and CentOS Extras. Both will use either RHEL + EPEL or Fedora...

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    New Myspace Worm?

    by  • 2008/02/15 • Uncategorized

    I got a comment on myspace with the text: LOL you gotta see the new pics on her profile. and a link to: http://profile.myspace.com.index.cfm.fuseaction.user.viewprofile.friendid.518729090.cn/ which is a domain in china, registered thusly. It looks like the standard MySpace login page. Because MySpace is retarded and throws up login pages all the time at you,...

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