Google has just released a new service called Google Web Accelerator. It basically comes down to the following: 1. What is Google Web Accelerator? Google Web Accelerator is an application that uses the power of Google’s global computer network to make web pages load faster. Google Web Accelerator is easy to use; all you have [...]
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Brief History Of The Linux Kernel Archives
May 3rd, 2005 · No Comments · Cool Geeky Stuff, Internet, Linux
Kerneltrap has written an interesting brief history of http://kernel.org. Excerpt: Peter Anvin has been involved with Linux since nearly the beginning. When Linus Torvalds purchased his first computer on which he began writing the Linux kernel, the state-of-the art PC with 4 megabytes of RAM and running at 33 megahertz was too expensive for him [...]
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The InfoSpace Con
March 12th, 2005 · No Comments · Business, Internet
The Seattle Times has an interesting story on the rise and fall of InfoSpace, and how they were able to con people out of billions: Five years ago this week, at the height of the dot-com stock frenzy, a young Bellevue company called InfoSpace was worth more than Boeing. Wall Street analysts hailed the startup, [...]
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Spyware Gets More Bloated By The Day
March 6th, 2005 · No Comments · Internet, Privacy, Security
Now those sons of bitches are just going too far: The last few days, reports had come back to me at my workplace that someone, somewhere was downloading gigabytes of data onto their PCs. In fact, not just one person – lots of them. Somewhat bemused, I began to investigate and promptly turned up nothing [...]
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Sigarchi jailed for 14 years
February 25th, 2005 · No Comments · Freedom & Democracy, Internet, News
It looks like Mr. Sigarchi has been jailed for 14 years. This is just a travesty. I can’t believe someone can be put away just for blogging what’s on his mind. This is pitiful, just pitiful. Excerpt: An Iranian weblogger has been jailed for 14 years on charges of spying and aiding foreign counter-revolutionaries. Arash [...]
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Looks like we were all conned by LokiTorrent
February 25th, 2005 · No Comments · Bittorrent, Internet, News
Some guy has posted a story on how lokitorrent was probably NOT shut down by the MPAA and that the owner just took the lawsuit donation money and ran. He makes some good points. For those of you who have been living on the moon these past couple of months, the owner of Lokitorrent asked [...]
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Free Mojtaba and Arash!
February 22nd, 2005 · No Comments · Freedom & Democracy, Internet, Middle East
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New URL Unicode Spoofing Technique Revealed
February 16th, 2005 · No Comments · Internet, Security
Another unicode based exploit. Because you can now use unicode in URLs it’s quite easy to spoof them. Example: http://www.paypal.com is the actual site and http://www.pаypal.com/ is the spoof URL. The spoof URL is actually http://www.pаypal.com, which of course is the unicode character а, which looks exactly like an a. You don’t need to be [...]
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Javascript can voodoo with XMLHttpRequest
February 12th, 2005 · No Comments · Coding & Web Development, Google, Internet
All in the HEAD has an article on some cool stuff that can be done with XMLHttpRequest. Excerpt: With the advent of Google Suggest it seems that the industry has deemed that client-side XML HTTP is ready for the prime time. The technology is nothing new, of course, and has been part of every server-side [...]
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Who Says You Can’t Make Money On The Internet
February 11th, 2005 · No Comments · Blogs, Business, Internet
Excerpt: I started something different today. I launched Asbestos News. Like I said, something different. The subject matter, while weighty and all that, is of little importance to me. It’s not that I don’t have opinions on asbestos and asbestos reform, because I do. The whole point of the site is to experiment with an [...]
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