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The Insecure Invasion Server has been riddled with another round of bullet holes. How sick are you of buffer overflows? How much sense would it take to, I dunno, code in checks for these things? Jeez.

In "Creating High-Res PDF Files For Free" Andy lists the several pieces of software necessary and the several steps it takes to get a PDF out of Linux. He somehow sees fit to end this with "Ain't technology grand?" Unzip the PPD archive and copy the ADIST5.PPD file someplace useful. Run the PostScript windows driver […]

X vs. XP is a topic that's recently been discussed on a mailing list to which I subscribe. Someone quickly pointed out X vs. XP the website, a well-designed, simple guide. However, I thought I'd collect the list's responses and organize them for our own little "master list." It's important to take stock of where […]

When my hardware and OS vendor says jump, I try to evaluate my needs to determine whether I need to jump. I would like to hope that is the same for everyone. I guess not: Hmm, Microsoft is adding webcam support to its instant messenger. I guess I gotta go and get a webcam again. […]

Anyone with half a brain realizes that KHTML is a rendering engine, not a UI framework, but far be it from the less intelligent to figure that out… I think it's interesting that people are freaking out about Safari not having a tabbed interface. Tabbed browsing most probably *will* eventually make it into the Safari […]

Based on The Tyranny of Email I've decided to make some changes to my work habits. First, I've changed my email to check every ten minutes instead of five. Second, I've turned off the "New Mail" sound (sacrilege for the guy running Sound Set Central perhaps). Third, uhhh… Well let's just see how those first […]

McDonald's used to have signs that said "20 Billion Served" or something. Matt and I were chatting today about typos, and I said that if I typed 10% slower, I'd probably make 75% less typos. Many of my typos are the left-hand/right-hand variety, like "agian" - 'aga' is left hand, 'in' is right hand, and […]

I was going to write a longer entry about how the Windows Longhorn UI continues to suck (slide shows in the task bar, "buy photos online" in the file browser, that sort of thing), but Matthew Thomas so easily picks apart the "do you want to replace the file?" dialog that I no longer feel […]

Vinay noticed my my list of DVDs (still a work in progress as of today) and made the comment: i learned from erik that he used a text based database. i think that text based databases are out See, the thing is Vinay, it's not worth the time or effort to maintain a real database. […]

Y'know, I would buy this Wingnuts game if I could only play it in a window. Alas, it does not allow such a silly thing! No, it'd rather force a 640 x 480 stretched display on my 1920 x 1200 monitor, resulting in the movement of my palettes, iTunes windows, and more when I quit […]

David Hyatt discusses tabs in every browser since the Paleolithic age except Safari in this entry. I think the guy's sense of humor is pretty grand, given the "hypothetical" post and now this one. I only hope that the Apple management is aware of this, and that Hyatt steers clear of any trouble. Us Mac […]

From this article: Historically, Unix users tend to work with plain-text files whenever they work with text at all, usually using one of two programs: the simple (but somewhat obscure) vi, or the highly configurable (and mind-bogglingly baroque) emacs. Man, pico gets no love!

This made me laugh. Some people just don't get it. Heads up to those about to click on the link: the author gets it. The person who wrote the argument he dismantles does not.

Eric-with-a-C has some commentary on my previous article on interviewing programmers. I also had a conversation with Jeff after I posted my article. I want to refine my point of view.

So today I played a bit more Quake 3. As I have the Cinema, I have to play it in a window to get a resolution other than 640 x 480. 1152 x whatever with the all the effects set to the highest quality is still silky smooth on this dual 800. I used my […]