…that by this time Monday night I would be using Novell’s SuSE Linux 9.2. I’ll still dual boot just because I do need some Windows apps that I need for work (desktop publishing applications’ learning curves are just too damn high to justify switching and I don’t care what anyone says I don’t trust the… Continue reading this entry
Spam Assassin or none, anyone else ever notice just how much spam can accumulate in a POP3 mailbox? My main -at-onefinejay-dot-com email address gets a little under fifty messages a day, some addressed to [anything] at my domain, and all of which are junk. Many carry different variants of all sorts of email-borne viruses and… Continue reading this entry
I’ve been gone a week from the computer and been all around the world and I, I, I… I remember Lisa Stansfield, does anyone else? So. Today I dropped by Kartooner’s to see his nice new design. It’s pretty swank, quite plain but I like the radio on top. This post of his led me… Continue reading this entry
You reek, ugh! You, Rica? You wreckah? Whatever. This is the app I’ve been trying to find for the longest time and I’m so happy about it I’ll celebrate publicly on my blog by mangling “eureka.” I’m that happy. And I know that I’ve said this before but Guster kicks so much ass. And Crown… Continue reading this entry
I’m having Operating System envy and ogling at the KDE desktop is making me salivate even more. What do I have ahead of me? Well. Finding analogous applications for what I do, reformatting two hard drives to make them actually work, and backing shit up, which is not easy without an external HDD. Staring at… Continue reading this entry
So, Google wants to integrate major national libraries and build a virtual library that includes the Univ. of Michigan, Harvard, Stanford, and the New York Public Library. Why, awesome! Now, the naysayers whose conspiracy theories allege that Google is out to own the internet/WordWideWeb will be more than welcome to blog their scare tactics on… Continue reading this entry
Skillzy has now closed comments on his older posts, and for good reason. Many of them are the target of spam. Just to give y’all an idea of what this here little blog has to deal with in a day, here’s a screenshot of my the referrals section of my tracker: Each of those colored… Continue reading this entry
Could it be that MT, with its proprietary license and whose infrastructure is not scaling fast enough to the onslaughts of new threats by spammers, is the true server killer that beats simultaneous Slashdottings, Instalanches, and Drudge links? Why, yes. There was a short period when I knew WP users whose hosts complained about server… Continue reading this entry
Shelley is talking about lines 77 and 78 of wp-login.php. You can comment them out by prepending the lines with double slahses like “//” without the quotes (screenshot), OR, thanks to Matt, you can change both instances of REQUEST_URI to SCRIPT_NAME (screenshot) and that’s the end of that problem. No more scary heartaches. This is… Continue reading this entry
But the warning before the warning is that I am not projecting: I am not projecting. The first blogger to complain about MSN Spaces, Microsoft’s efforts at democratizing blogs (good Lord, democratizing blogs), as further “littering” the internet will, of course, get called out as a total snob. You’re littering the internet against someone else’s… Continue reading this entry
Since its very inception, the Windows XP GUI has been critized as too “childish,” “unprofessional,” among other, less, favorable adjectives. Some users are happy with things that way, others revert to the Win2K look, and others use visual themes. Others use shell replacements, and other UI enhancements. Me? I like Windows Explorer. I like a… Continue reading this entry
… it took this long for someone to figure out that the idea hasn’t been shared with everyone yet. The WordPress Design Sandbox consists of a static index, the printing and the screen display css files. That’s it. Sure, there are none of the PHP function calls which are just as easy to learn as… Continue reading this entry
A question, and a request: First, do Blogspot blogs ping the update services whenever a comment is left using the Blogspot comments engine? Blogs like that of Wretchard appear to update very frequently on my list when he has not posted anything new. Not that I don’t mind going to his spot, of course. Just… Continue reading this entry
I have four GMail invites to spare; if you are connected to me through blogging for any reason (linking, commenting, etc) or if I know you via AIM or other medium, and still not have GMail, Gmail me at onefinejay -at- gmail -dot- com with your first and last names and an email address that… Continue reading this entry
I’m quite an avid news and blog reader. While I personally prefer Sharpreader over most newsreaders I actually prefer to read my news in my browser for a number of reasons, most particularly is that Sharpreader uses a wrapped-around MSIE6 as its built-in browser, and I am really, really tired of IE. My browsing habits… Continue reading this entry
Comment spam is not one of my biggest interests, but it is worthy to note that I now encountered the first comment spam attack that used the same obfuscation techniques on key spamwords that some blogging tools use to conceal e-mail addresses from farmbots. Such a technique lets slip comment spam, and prevents direct searching… Continue reading this entry
No wonder my blog, among others hosted at Matt’s, has been unreachable for the past few hours: Browse Happy was slashdotted. I have great confidence in Matt’s server capabilities, but no one can expect him to be watching the servers all the time: he’s a great guy with a life too. I’ve been a consistent… Continue reading this entry
I need to ask. I use Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.2, having converted from Outlook a few weeks back. I still don’t know how to force-convert all email I receive into plain text, like Outlook does. Any way this can be done?
Podz, at Weblog Tools Collection, has had it with the whiners who complain about WordPress’ PHP base by designing the funkiest ever WordPress blog. If you think that <?php a**_f*cking_here(); ?> is much harder than <$MTA**F*cking$>, then you can avoid the difficulties altogether by merely editing the CSS file. Podz’ example comes with a sunglass… Continue reading this entry
James Joyner is now running WordPress. I’d like to hear from him as time goes by on the server load, as it is one of the benchmarks that I am keeping an eye on: just how many tits will it take to force a server disconnect error on a higher-traffic blog such as OTB on… Continue reading this entry