tags: computers
2003
August
- 2003 Aug 16
- my adventures with apache
Enabling virtual hosts on Jaguar (10.2)
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- keychain – always allow
Annoying dialog boxes
· Read more… - 2003 Aug 16
- sbc ameritech dns servers
In case you need them, although I imagine it would be difficult to navigate the Internet in the first place without setting your DNS server.
· Read more… - 2003 Aug 16
- how to add writebacks
Allowing comments on Blosxom 2. (Likely seriously outdated - ed. note 2008.01.02)
· Read more… - 2003 Aug 17
- notes on remotedotcomments
Making Blogger and remotedotcomments play nice. The dangers of not quoting properly.
· Read more… - 2003 Aug 17
- dhtml lemmings
Reminiscing about playing Versus Lemmings on the Commodore Amiga. Now it’s just a Java applet you can run in your browser.
· Read more… - 2003 Aug 17
- pervasive advertising
Philip K Dick predicts the future once again. The first application of pervasive computing is going to be—you guessed it—advertising
· Read more… - 2003 Aug 18
- blog wars
Flame wars move from Usenet to the blogosphere
· Read more… - 2003 Aug 21
- airport (802.11b/g)
Discovering the beginnings of pervasive/ubiquitous computing, and the wi-fi revolution.
· Read more… - 2003 Aug 23
- embedded markup considered harmful
Back in the day when the specs were new, RSS was atrocious, and no one could parse it. One of the things that caused aggregators to choke was embedded markup. Although in all honesty, I never did understand what the problem was.
· Read more… - 2003 Aug 23
- the gender genie
A little script that supposedly is able to tell the gender of the author of a scrap of text.
· Read more… - 2003 Aug 24
- interpolate_pseudoxml
A plugin for Blosxom that makes it just a tad easier to use an XML editor to work on your templates.
· Read more… - 2003 Aug 24
- interpolate_pseudoxml revisited
I take back what I said about my interpolate plugin. Or rather, let me qualify what I said.
· Read more… - 2003 Aug 24
- unordered lists and css
Styling unordered lists
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- bits and pieces
Fixing the
· Read more…archiveplugin for Blosxom. The right way to nest lists. - 2003 Aug 24
- windows is insecure
The sobig.f debacle. I can’t believe people actually trust their data with Windows.
· Read more… - 2003 Aug 26
- wifi everywhere
Pervasive/ubiquitous computing on the way
· Read more… - 2003 Aug 26
- http_get
plugin to arbitrarily pull any content from the Internet. Likely to cause time outs and heavy load on your shared host.
· Read more… - 2003 Aug 27
- time
Y2K was a bust, but maybe Y2K+38 will be something quite unexpected. No one seems to be in a rush to adopt 64-bit time stamps.
· Read more… - 2003 Aug 30
- more bits and pieces
Links to things that might be helpful in setting up a website.
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September
- 2003 Sep 1
- targetted advertising
Now, I don't know if this is really targeted advertising, but the ads on amazon.com do tend to shadow whatever it is I have purchased or I have searched for, for example Basic Flight Physiology, given my recent obsession with space medicine.
· Read more… - 2003 Sep 5
- processing
Is the relationship between Processing and Java the exact relationship between Logo and Lisp?
· Read more… - 2003 Sep 6
- stackable iPods
We should be able to daisy chain iPods and create a RAID array. Or at least have Logical Volume Management.
· Read more… - 2003 Sep 7
- lists and positioning
Neat things you can do with unordered lists and CSS.
· Read more… - 2003 Sep 7
- mp3s and spam
Wanted: mp3s. Not wanted: spam.
· Read more… - 2003 Sep 7
- star raiders
Reminiscing about an Atari 400 game.
· Read more… - 2003 Sep 9
- more about retrograde consolidation
On the other hand, plain text is more expensive to process than, let’s say, binary code. But thanks to Moore’s Law, it ain’t a problem. My phone is over 100x more powerful than the first computer I ever owned. In this day, interpreted languages (more fashionably known as dynamically typed languages) are back in the fore. Thanks to advances in bandwidth, in particular, wireless bandwidth, non-lossy audio compression is becoming a reasonable format to download songs in. But the reliance on plain text has the additional side effect of increased openness: it’s much easier to reverse engineer a plain text spec than it is to try to disassemble opcodes.
· Read more… - 2003 Sep 9
- the tower of babble
The Babelfish Game: take a phrase in English, convert it through multiple languages, then change it back to English, and see what you get. (See the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy for the original reference to the mythological Babelfish.) Natural selection in action? A demonstration on how false vacuum can decay into true vacuum?
· Read more… - 2003 Sep 12
- blessings in disguise
So-called intellectual property is no hindrance to the Internet. It’s very Taoist in a way. Whatever does not yield to the Internet, the Internet merely routes around. Hence, instead of a myriad of proprietary rich media technologies, we’ve got open standards such as CSS and XHTML.
The RIAA pursues a losing strategy. As they say, those who cannot innovate, litigate. While the iTunes Music Store ain’t exactly a clean break from the old model of music distribution, the fact that you can (for the most part) buy just singles (and not just the crappy singles that the music companies allow to be released) is in itself an innovation.
· Read more… - 2003 Sep 14
- itunes_playlist
A kludgy way to incorporate my playlist into Blosxom.
· Read more… - 2003 Sep 14
- retrograde consolidation revisited
What I’m trying to say with retrograde consolidation: instead of using new software on new hardware, let’s use old software on new hardware. Examples:
· Read more…SGMLXML, UNIX, etc. - 2003 Sep 16
- chrono_nav
“Link to previous article” and “link to next article” for Blosxom.
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December
- 2003 Dec 15
- iBook saga continues
I miss blogging. Of course, lately I have very little to blog about, what with my life completely subsumed with my internal medicine subinternship, and interviews with med/peds residency programs, but, frankly, I'm beginning to feel pretty mentally constipated.
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2004
April
- 2004 Apr 9
- virtual hosts and cgi
I had this working before, mostly with the help of this script [citation on macosxhints.com][post on patrickgibson.com] Because of my iBook mishaps, all my tweaks were wiped, and I haven't had the time to reinstate the changes.
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