September 5, 2007 – 11:45 am
Silverlight was released for Mac and Windows yesterday, as planned. The kicker is Microsoft plans on supporting and assisting in the development of Moonlight, the Mono-based implementation. Ars spoke to Miguel de Icaza - head on over for a good read.
In case you haven’t heard and are asking, “What is Silverlight?” - think Adobe Flash [...]
August 30, 2007 – 2:23 am
Wordpress, Livejournal, Blogger, Blogspot, and Moveable Type cover darn near the full spectrum of tools for the more savvy blogger. I’ve run my blog on MT and Wordpress for years and they are the tools with which I am most comfortable. There is a level of control in being able to really get in and [...]
August 18, 2007 – 11:40 pm
Any postmaster worth his salt knows that most spam is spoofed from legitimate addresses. The problem is that a lot of folks are relying upon 3rd party applications or appliances. The result is usually a mess.
Lately, I’ve been getting hammered with bouncebacks from people using Barracuda Networks appliances to control spam. Based on what I [...]
August 14, 2007 – 1:59 pm
I download a .torrent file tonight, and when I launch the file, Opera opens. Interesting….. I search the Applications folder, and no Opera. I right-click on the Dock icon, and lo! it’s embedded in /Applications/Adobe\ Bridge\ CS3/Bridge\ CS3.app/Contents/MacOS/Opera.app
What the heck? OS X comes with a perfectly good browser. Why mess with ownership of file types [...]
From an Information Week article published 20 November 2006:
In May, the Government Accountability Office reported broadband use in 28% of U.S. households, just below the 30% using dial-up. The Pew Internet & American Life Project also released a study in May, which was more bullish: 42% of adult Americans have access to high-speed Internet connections, [...]
During today’s WWDC keynote, Steve Jobs announced the “developer kit” for the iPhone was Web 2.0. Using technologies like AJAX with the iPhone’s Safari browser will - according to Jobs - deliver rich content on a mobile device. Funny - I said the same thing in a prior life, but the focus was on customized [...]
March 28, 2007 – 12:36 pm
That’s how my desk was set up late last year. Since it’s dark, I’ll speak to the details - G5 and LCD facing toward the viewer, with the window behind; Windows gaming machine and LCD with 5.1 speakers; photo printer in the corner. This setup was ergonomically solid - I would turn the entire chair [...]
I got an invite to the Joost beta about a week ago, and I finally got around to installing it on my MacBook Pro. That brings me to my first note: Joost is an Intel-only binary.
The first launch took about 30 seconds to go from no window to small blank window, to full screen [...]
March 19, 2007 – 11:13 pm
My friend Andy AKA [ES] Secret Squirrel AKA Utopia Music has a podcast of his house mixes. I took the liberty of putting his mixes on a Darwin (Quicktime) Streaming Server I set up this evening. Check out his Podomatic page, and then take a listen to his work!
February 7, 2007 – 12:47 am
Attack on DNS root servers
Published: 2007-02-06,
Last Updated: 2007-02-06 23:40:41 UTC
by Mike Poor (Version: 1)
The various wire services and various astute ISC readers have pointed out the news of the attacks against the DNS root servers.
