July 2010
3 posts
“Each full page is a giant image – there are actually two images for each page:...”
– Is This Really The Future of Magazines or Why Didn’t They Just Use HTML 5?
Talking about the Wired iPad app/magazine and why it’s bloated to 500MB.
From the Sidewalk to Your Living Room →
Reminds me of Joe and Ann and their curbside treasures.
“Vulcans are renowned throughout the galaxy for their compilers and algorithm...”
– Vulcans vs. Apes
June 2010
2 posts
Scan for Viruses from the Windows AutoPlay Dialog →
Useful reghack to check out iffy thumbdrives and the like.
May 2010
5 posts
Reclaim (Facebook) Privacy →
catharsis:
This bookmarklet by Matt Pizzimenti allows you to easily see which of your Facebook privacy settings might not be as secure as you think.
For more info, check Twitter (@reclaimprivacy) and/or the source code on Github.
/via Teehan+Lax
“But therein lies the rub. All of my open-sourced projects share two attributes....”
– Magic Scaling Sprinkles
That’s definitely one way to communicate.
“That is the web: The beautiful interconnection of navigable content. If your...”
– Understand The Web · Ben Ward
It’s fun when your toys can play together.
“Of the big five, only two browsers currently use this protection on Windows;...”
– Peter Bright, Arstechnica - On Mandatory Integrity Control enabled by Chrome and IE7/8/9 on Vista and Win7.
I wonder what the holdup is with WebKit and FF?
April 2010
2 posts
“All of this led to the revelation that we’ve begun a new age of “communal...”
– Communal computing
—on the iPad opening up computing for shared simultaneous interactive experiences
List of DRM-free publishers : Threepress... →
Good to know!
March 2010
4 posts
No Other Distribution Authorized Under this...
rentzsch:
Apple’s iPhone Developer Program License Agreement:
7.3 No Other Distribution Authorized Under this Agreement Except for the distribution of freely available Licensed Applications and the distribution of Applications for use on Registered Devices as set forth in Sections 7.1 and 7.2 above, no other distribution of programs or applications developed using the Apple Software is...
February 2010
4 posts
“We are about to change that past, radically. And the premise for that change is...”
– For The Love Of Culture | The New Republic
Muffle teh silly a bit
stevenf:
shutup.css is a custom user stylesheet you can install in your web browser which will automatically hide the comments section of many popular web sites. My gift of a quieter, saner web to you.
January 2010
1 post
December 2009
6 posts
“7. Flight attendants will tell you to turn it off on take off and landing. You...”
– 10 reasons to buy a Kindle 2… and 10 reasons not to (via peterwknox) (via mikehudack) (via dpstyles)
What strange alchemy is this!
“I expect this strategy to produce invulnerable computer systems: restructure...”
– D.J. Bernstein: The Good News Archive
Announcing Kong: A server description and... →
Simple. I like.
1 tag
Securing ssh-agent on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) →
How to use the built-in SSH agent w/o losing some of SSHKeychain’s functionality
November 2009
4 posts
http://mult.ifario.us/p/getting-bash-completion-mag... →
I figured it’s time to join the 20th century, er… 21st century.
4 tags
“And honestly, if there were one man on this planet who was ever capable of...”
– http://www.badassoftheweek.com/tesla.html
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October 2009
2 posts
3 tags
August 2006
1 post
2 tags
Captchas and tiredness
I was powervoting into the wee hours for my girl Storm on Rockstar, which is really good Dvorak typing practice (keepin’ it geeky) and I hit this:
I thought to myself, “It’s 3am and the interweb thinks that I am crazy.”
July 2006
2 posts
2 tags
Picking up Dvorak
No special reason for it, but I decided to learn the Dvorak keyboard layout. I’ve been curious about it for awhile, but never thought I had the time. It’s definitely easier on my hands than the Qwerty layout and should eventually give me a speed boost. Ultimately, I just want to be a better touch typist and take care of my hands.
As it turns out it’s pretty easy to get started in most OS...
Apologies
Typo is so unstable right now, I could scream. This blog has been offline more often than up it seems. I fixed things so that at least it doesn’t bring down the rest of totallyrules.com with it each time though.
I’ve made a few changes, slimmer sidebar, no trackbacks (never worked anyway) and a lighter theme. I’m holding my breath as to whether this will work or not.
Looking for alternatives...
June 2006
3 posts
3 tags
RMagick on OSX revisited
Dan Benjamin posted another nice getting started article, this time on installing RMagick on OSX from source. I tried it and things went smoothly, awesome right?
Well, a little bit later came a nice howto to make snazzy Web 2.0-like graphics using RMagick. It sounded sweet and I tried it, I even had Joe time how long it would take so we could compare it to a typical Photoshop workflow. From copy...
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Now with Ubuntu
I decided it was time to freshen up my PC desktop. Miles, one of the geeks sent me a new/old video card so I could play some of the more recent games. I’d been meaning to do a fresh install of Windows for sometime and I just sold the my mini-itx linux server so I thought perfect time to setup a nice dual-booting system.
Several GRUB issues, disk read errors and formatting my Windows install...
Zombie Test
Lyle forwarded this link from k5, another how to start a startup article. Or so I thought, this one is pretty funny in spots including this new gem, and it is quite a line:
Who’s the better shot? Give them the gun.
Ethan and I came up with the “Zombie Team” test for figuring out whether or not someone is ready to work on an intense project, be it a start-up or otherwise. The test is this:...
May 2006
3 posts
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E3 So Far
I know what you’re going to say, and I don’t care. Nintendo’s Wii is awesome. It’s completely won me over and the number of DS games has me this far from pre-ordering a whatever-color-I-don’t-care-just-give-it-to-me DS Lite. Seriously, the games that are coming out for Wii are remarkable, and damned fun.
On the other side of the aisle I got a chance to soak in the PS3. It’s pretty, but honestly,...
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Flickr is SO easy in Ruby
Thanks to Flickr.rb. Wow, thank you http://scottraymond.net/.
My Flickr account is about to expire. A friend of mine, Dan Phiffer tapped me last year with a freebie pro upgrade. This was really useful for somethings like dumping my E3 photos and making more than one photoset. But I’m not sure I’d like to renew.
I tend to use Flickr in spurts and the only compelling reason for me to renew is to...
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ITP on Rails
Things are looking good on the enrollment front for the course I’ve been planning Agile Web Development. I’ve been working on my examples, website and collecting readings, tutorials and all the Rails goodness I can find.
It has really been thrilling (or scary?) planning for this class. It’s like my first day of school. I keep wondering if the other kids will like me and if I’ll learn lots. Well,...
April 2006
1 post
3 tags
What have I been doing lately?
It’s almost thesis season at ITP. So the second years have gone a bit rabid. For me it means answering a megaton of questions, putting out fires and working on two dynamic versions of the public projects site. That’s not too far from the norm though. The really neat thing is that I’m preparing to teach a course this summer! Agile Web Development focusing on Rails of course.
At first I was...
February 2006
0 posts
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Getting MySQL5 to play nice with PHP5
I’ve been trying to get my fresh install of Tiger up and running and decided to take a crack at MySQL5 and the latest PHP5. So I grabbed the handy package from MySQL AB and installed MySQL and the included startup item and preference pane. Easy, same as with their earlier packages.
Then I grabbed the latest PHP source (5.1.2) and set out to find the perfect configure options. I wasn’t interested...
January 2006
2 posts
3 tags
Supposedly Simple Javascript
I thought I was doing something dead simple (toggling the visibility of a div with a checkbox) but IE/Win had other plans. My little trick worked in Firefox, Safari and IE/Mac, but I got zip in IE6 on Windows. Really basic code too:
var target = getElementById('thesis');
After much searching, I figured it out on my own. IE/Win could not tell the difference between a form element named ‘thesis’...
November 2005
2 posts
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Smiles for Today
Just for fun (hey—I had a nice holiday), here’s two things that made me smile today.
First up, more hippity-hype on Nintendo’s Revolution Controller from a developer roundtable:
Tom Fulp (The Behemoth): “I’d like to know just how responsive it really is. I’ve played an arcade game that uses sensors to detect movement of a toy sword. It was fun to swing the sword around and jab stuff, but the...
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Damnit Sony
Sony is planting rootkits on Windows boxen to protect it’s CD content.
This is why I haven’t bought a CD in seven years unless it was handed to me by the artists themselves. The music industry has got it completely wrong. Support the artists you love, go see them live and buy a t-shirt.
Turn off the Auto-run feature if you’re running Windows and watch out if you buy protected content like...
October 2005
4 posts
2 tags
Playing nice with Lighttpd
So it looks like I’m still getting the hang of Lighttpd and FastCGI, but I’m not alone. Lots of folks are jumping on the lighty wagon either for Rails or whatever reason. There’s been a number of bumps along the way and that in turn has caused more than a few collective BUMPs on some TextDrive servers. Of course the fix is easy and pretty reasonable.
When setting up the number of FCGI processes...
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Bringing Some Order to PHP Web Apps
I’m trying to clean up my PHP by ripping off some stuff from rails (er, what little I’ve seen of it). There are some good frameworks that already do this for you, like PHP Biscuit, but, as always, the server that I’m working on doesn’t quite fit the bill when fulfilling the version requirements of newer frameworks. So.. yeah. One way to do it is to mush together a bunch of stuff that’s already out...
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SSHKeychain totally rules
I was trying out public key only ssh authentication to lock down my testbed box at work. After I made the keys and got comfortable with the whole process, I thought I’d try out SSHKeychain. It’s really nice, once you figure it out. Not a whole lot of documentation to speak of though. Now that it’s up though, it does the work of two applications since it can also handle tunneling. Oh and it gives...