July 2005

  • Splitting Large Files Carefully

    There comes a time every now and then where you need to split up large files. If you have the luxury of those files being split anywhere, you can use something like WinRAR, which will split it up into whatever size you like. If it's good enough for…

  • Not Quite Ready for Prime Time

    It seems that Iraq may have spent as much as $300 million for faulty military gear – outdated, and perhaps even faulty! While I'm all for independence and everything – you just have to wonder. With all the deaths, all the problems, they can still waste (or possibly…

  • Plan 9 from Outer Space

    While we're speaking of freebies for download, don't forget about Plan 9 from Outer Space, now apparently in the public domain, and available for download from the Internet Archive….

  • Insecure Monkeys are Bad

    Allegedly, the most excellent Greasemonkey extension is insecure, allowing folks to read files from your local hard drive. I tried Mark's leakage demo, only to find, well, nothing. I didn't get diddly. This may mean that it only works with particular versions (I'm using 0.3.3), it may mean…

  • Little URLs and Parameters

    In the course of working with a project today, I came across some useful information. First, the use of command-line parameters in Perl. All you really have to do is add a space between the program name and the first, and then the first and the second, and…

  • Too Many Firefox Tabs

    As I was doing my fiddling today, I think I overloaded Firefox. It had 48 tabs on-screen, and there were others that I couldn't see. Using CTRL-TAB to switch between them became impossible. Even viewing them (while selected) didn't work – tabs at the end of the list…

  • Moving SBS Between Domains

    Today I was finishing up with the task of installing a server at a customer. This SBS 2003 server had previously been a domain controller (in fact, the first domain controller) in a domain. Now, it's a domain controller in a completely different domain. First, I had to…

  • First Movable Type v3.2 Thoughts

    Now that I've played with the Movable Type 3.2 Beta for a bit, I have a thought. That thought is that it seems to me as if Six Apart is going for the ease-of-use crowd (in other words, people who haven't used it and for who it needs…

  • How to Handle Terrorism

    So it seems that the British populace is returning to business as usual, refusing to be cowed by the terrorist actions on subway and bus lines. They are back to riding buses, back to the tube. Meanwhile, we Americans are continuing to be cowed, blockading this and allegedly…

  • Terrorism Around Us

    With this morning's announcement of explosions in the London subway system, you have to wonder about terrorism around us. I've long held that it's not about the act itself – just look at the word. It starts, for good reason, with terror. I've also believed, for about the…