Date::Manip Error in Ubuntu 10.04 : "XMLTV requires a Date::Manip timezone of +0000 to work properly" -- caused by incompatibility between Date::Manip version 6.00 and XMLTV
(tags: date-manip xmltv breakage mythtv ubuntu lucid 10.04)Misco.ie : another PC component vendor in Ireland, recently came up on ILUG
(tags: shopping components hardware ireland)
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Signature-based AV is failing : on average across the AV industry, 40% block rates just after 0-hour of a new malware sample, rising to 60% after 5 days. sounds like the AV industry is losing, if this chart is valid. (via Terry Zink)
(tags: via:tzink malware av fail accuracy detection false-negatives scanners viruses)Sort vs. Hash Revisited: Fast Join Implementation on Modern Multi-Core CPUs [PDF] : sort-and-merge is likely to be faster on future SIMD-capable multicore CPUs RSN
(tags: sort merge hash join databases performance cpu simd multicore)
Network Advertising Initiative: Opt-Out of Behavioural Advertising : 'developed for the express purpose of allowing consumers to "opt out" of the behavioral advertising delivered by our member companies' -- opt out of the top 50 or so ad programs with a couple of clicks, via Jordan Sissel. great stuff
(tags: ads advertising browser cookies via:jordansissel google marketing opt-out privacy tracking web behavioral)
Monitor anything and get free notifications on your iPhone - amix.dk : using notifo.com, which has an app in the App Store allowing anyone to send push notifications via their web site. I can see lots of uses for this, not least to evade SMS fees ;)
(tags: notification push sms iphone notifo)
Did a denial-of-service attack cause the stock-market "flash crash?" : wonderful; our world's economies are now more networked than ever, and vulnerable to the attacks which that enables. Have we learned nothing from the last few years?
(tags: networking internet ddos stock-markets security)
All slides/notes from the first 2 days of Velocity 2010 : PDFs, docs, links
(tags: slides scalability velocity conferences scaling pdf)Introduction to Unity Launcher « Canonical Design : The new netbook-oriented launcher/dock UI for Ubuntu. Nice! Great to see this kind of open design process, too
(tags: canonical ui unity linux gnome desktop design)
The Deus Ex 3 demonstration, blow-by-blow : PC Gamer : big thumbs-up for 'Deus Ex: Human Revolution'. I'm looking forward to it
(tags: deus-x games xbox previews)We’re Back… so long MongoDB! · Blue74 : MongoDB war story -- records going missing, eek
(tags: mongodb mysql nosql rant stability beta)Hadoop and the fight against shape-shifting spam : Yahoo! anti-spam engineers talk about their extensive use of Hadoop and scale
(tags: hadoop yahoo anti-spam filtering)Petit: Log Analysis : log analyzer; removes common strings and patterns from log files, identifying outliers and hapaxen as "interesting". also does charting of frequencies etc.
(tags: logs logging analysis loganalysis syslog tools)self-replicating configuration in Conway's Game Of Life created : The "spaceship" configuration replicates in 33699586 generations, using 2 construction arms and a volley of gliders circulating between them
(tags: via:newscientist game-of-life life cellular-automata gliders self-replicating)
UPC file-sharing court action begins - The Irish Times : it's with Mr Justice Peter Charleton again -- the Colmcille-misquoting judge from the Eircom case. here's hoping the Data Protection Commissioner gets off their arse and does their job this time around
(tags: upc ireland law filesharing irma copyright)
SimpleRip: Ripping/Encoding DVDs to Xvid with Mencoder : good idea -- generate a mencoder command-line using a friendlier Javascript single-page UI (via OMGUbuntu)
(tags: via:omgubuntu avi mplayer conversion divx encoding howto rip xvid video mencoder)build a Yagi-Uda wifi booster from styrofoam and copper wire : nifty link from Heise; works for 802.11b and 11g. Unfortunately I think my own wifi issues are to do with dying AP hardware
(tags: wifi 802.11g 802.11b wireless yagi antennas diy hacking hardware)MapReduce as a way to cope with high-latency memory : interesting thoughts from Kragen
(tags: kragen thoughts random mapreduce memory speed latency)
O2 iPhone Customers - Get out of contract! - boards.ie : wow, O2 Ireland seem to have dropped the ball something rotten here. customers taking advantage of this in droves to escape the heinous 18-month lock-in
(tags: o2 ireland loophole contract law)Designing an Integrated Map for a Visionary Public Transport System for Dublin : excellent work at creating a usable public transport map, and proposing a small, consolidated set of Bus Rapid Transit routes (via Antoin)
(tags: via:antoin bus travel dublin ireland rapid-transit public-transport design usability maps mapping)
Chatroulette Working On Genital Recognition Algorithm : just *male* genitalia, mind. I dread to think of what the training corpus looks like
(tags: chatroulette algorithms machine-learning genitalia nsfw slashdot)
Balsamiq Mockups : create wireframe mock-ups quickly, via Confluence/JIRA/desktop/fogbugz plugins (via Joe)
(tags: via:jdrumgoole wireframes mockups ui web usability balsamiq layout prototype)
Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1900 Hybrid TV (1179) - dabs.com : Back looking at these again, as Padraig noted the SundTek drivers are closed source; at least pvrusb2 is OSS
(tags: hauppauge drivers hardware linux tv tuners os)SEO Is Mostly Quack Science : 'There is no hypothesis being tested here. It's just graphs, and misleading graphs at that. The sad part is, SEOMoz is as close as the SEO industry comes to real science. They may be presenting specious results in hopes of looking like they know what they're talking about, but at least they are collecting some sort of data. Everything else in the field is either anecdotal hocus-pocus or a decree from Matt Cutts. When you hire an SEO consultant, what you are really paying for is domain experience in the not-failing-at-web-design field.'
(tags: seo ted-dziuba rants science seomoz quality correlation statistics google)
gitPAN : CPAN and BackPAN, as a set of git repositories; essentially a read-only view of all CPAN releases, ever. good plan; I like the way git is useful as a kind of general-purpose distributed archive system
(tags: git gitpan cpan backpan perl releases archives history version-control)SundTek MythTV analog setup : 'Analog TV is working again with MythTV which comes with the final Ubuntu 10.04 release' -- MythTV support is officially tested by SundTek support staff! I think we have a clear winner
(tags: sundtek tv usb hardware linux mythtv)Sundtek MediaTV Pro (TV Cards) - Ubuntu Linux Hardware Compatibility List : 'I can recommend that USB device, I never had a device which has such an easy installation under linux.'
(tags: sundtek tv usb hardware linux mythtv)SundTek Media TV Pro Linux install docs : official, and pretty voluminous. looks good
(tags: sundtek tv usb hardware linux mythtv)
Hauppauge WinTV HVR 1900 Hybrid Analogue and Digital USB TV Tuner : seems to be a safe option for MythTV analog TV and DVB-T support on this side of the pond
(tags: tv hauppauge linux mythtv ireland tuner)pvrusb2 Linux drivers for the Hauppauge product line : Jesus Christ Hauppauge. get a clue already, why are you making it so hard for Linux users to buy your bloody hardware?!
(tags: htpc linux pvr mythtv usb hauppauge pvrusb2 drivers hardware)Today's Guardian : Phil Gyford reworks the Grauniad's website using their open content API. I really like the navigation and just-the-text nature, but I still feel a need to know what other articles are "nearby", which this doesn't quite provide. Still, excellent work
(tags: phil-gyford news newspapers gu guardian design usability reading readability webdesign)
Emoji Symbols in Unicode: PILE OF POO : "unchi" / "unchimaaku", a little Emoji icon of a dog turd. unfortunately still in "proposed" status, not yet a Unicode point, boo
(tags: poo funny emoji unicode unchi shit)practical Linux commands quick-ref sheet : from Padraig Brady. lots of nice one-liners I wasn't familiar with
(tags: padraig-brady bash cli linux reference sysadmin tips commands)Point Village Market : a new outdoor weekend market for Dublin, at the O2 on the north quays. good farmer's market selection, and plans to do free-for-all stalls for random members of the public to sell "yard sale" type stuff, a la the Dublin Flea Market
(tags: the-point o2 ireland dublin markets farmers-markets shopping via:sboyle)
Petrodvorets Watch Factory's black list : vendors of fake Raketas -- pretty much all of the current eBay auctions are on this list :(
(tags: fakes raketa watches ebay)Russian watch RAKETA 24 hour white dial. Polar design. on eBay : 24-hour analog CCCP-era Raketa watches. want. almost definitely fake going by the price, but still very nifty (via adampsyche)
(tags: russia raketa watches analog want 24-hour via:adampsyche)
This page has been floating around in links over the past couple of weeks, as a collection of test cases to compare e-mail address validating regular expressions. However, watch out: it's wrong.
RFC822/2822 defines an email address with a bare IP address domain part as using:
domain-literal = [CFWS] "[" *([FWS] dcontent) [FWS] "]" [CFWS]
In other words, this test case is not valid at all:
IPInsteadOfDomain@127.0.0.1
Instead, it should be:
IPInsteadOfDomain@[127.0.0.1]
ditto for the other addrs using IP addresses in the domain part. They're rare, but the non-bracketed form is definitely not legal and should not be considered so in the test cases.
I sent a mail to the author a few days ago without response, hence this post.
Amazon.com: Western Digital WD TV Live Network-ready HD Media Player : $99, 10-watt, fanless device to stream HD1080p video, in pretty much any format, from a network server to your TV. crazy. quite competitive with the Acer Aspire Revo; downside: less open
(tags: tv wd wd-tv-live hdtv hd video set-top-box home)WebM : open audio/video for the web, from Google; VP8 video codec, Ogg for audio, and a subset of Matroska as the container format. still a patents minefield, though, I'd guess
(tags: codec foss google open-source patents audio video vp8 webm standards mozilla open web)How Etsy deploy their site : pretty basic
(tags: etsy infrastructure ops sysadmin continuousintegration deployinator deployment)
GitHub scheduled maintainance due to Redis upgrade : good comments on the processes useful for large-scale Redis upgrades
(tags: upgrades redis spof nosql databases github deployment)Mea Culpa : 'Programming is an embarrassment compared to other fields of engineering and design. Our mainstream culture is one of adolescent self-indulgence. It is like something from Gulliver’s Travels, with the curly-bracketeers vs. the indentationites vs. the parenthesesophiles. The only thing that everyone seems to agree upon is how stupid all the other programmers are. Try googling “stupid programmers”. We have met the enemy, and he is us.' Fantastic post via Jan Lenhardt
(tags: via:janl coding programming software philosophy languages lisp elitism)Ca'n Quiros, Soller, Spain : many atrocious TripAdvisor reviews of this kip which ripped us off heavily last week. looking forward to adding my $.02. roll on data roaming limits so I can check TA via 3G before we sit down ;)
(tags: restaurants food soller spain rip-offs scams dodgy tripadvisor)
iPhone 3GS GPS suddenly stops working? here's the fix : via a forum on MacRumors -- blow away the locationd cache. Worked perfectly for me after my GPS crapped out halfway through my holidays :( Requires that the phone be jailbroken first
(tags: iphone gps software 3gs reliability bugs macrumors jailbreaking locationd)
SoundCloud Developers Manifesto : 'We recognize that only through your apps and hacks, can SoundCloud fully realize its potential as the audio platform.'
(tags: apps hacks soundcloud mp3 music hosting files json rest oauth apis http)Good volcanic-ash links : European air traffic control Twitter feed and NOC site, via Boards.ie. The thread itself is a good reference, too
(tags: volcano ash vaac twitter boards.ie threads travel air holidays)2-day volcanic ash forecasts over Europe : using SNAP, the Norwegian Meterological Institute's nuclear-fallout modelling system. Very useful, much niftier than the UK version, and much more *publicly available* than the Irish version
(tags: europe volcano norway yr.no met.no weather ash snap modelling forecasts)
The Totalitarian Buddhist Who Beat Sim City « Viceland Games : interview with the guy behind the "Magnasanti" video. [Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi] 'presented the world in a way I never really looked at before and that captivated me. Moments like these compel me to physically express progressions in my thought, I have just happened to do that through the form of creating these cities in SimCity 3000. I could probably have done something similar - depicting the awesome regimentation and brutality of our society - with a series of paintings on a canvas, or through hideous architectural models. But it wouldn’t be the same as doing it in the game, for the reason that I wanted to magnify the unbelievably sick ambitions of egotistical political dictators, ruling elites and downright insane architects, urban planners and social engineers.' WHOA
(tags: whoa mental architecture culture gaming society video simcity urban vice)
New programming jargon you coined? - Stack Overflow : some nice coding neologisms here. aside from "Refuctoring" (see other link), I like "The Duck" (a sacrificial feature, used to distract cut-crazy bosses from useful features) and "Stringly Typed" (an implementation that needlessly relies on strings when programmer and refactor friendly options are available)
(tags: coding funny slang neologisms jargon stack-overflow the-duck stringly-typed)Refuctoring : 'the process of taking a well-designed piece of code and, through a series of small, reversible changes, making it completely unmaintainable by anyone except yourself' (via Mozai)
(tags: funny refuctoring via:Mozai coding tests tdd programming software)
UK Met Office: Volcanic Ash Cloud Maps : updated 4 times daily, maps of Europe indicating coverage of the ash cloud. I'm going to be F5'ing this constantly over the next week as I'm supposed to be flying on Sunday :(
(tags: airports hazards iceland travel maps weather volcanic-ash ash forecast europe met-office holidays ash-cloud)
The result of the IMRO & music blogger meeting | Nialler9 Music Blog : upshot: IMRO will think about it and get back to Nialler et al; in the meantime, everyone operates as before. one to keep an eye on, even if you're not Irish; this will play out overseas soon too. Good call getting Simon McGarr along
(tags: music mp3 shakedown imro nialler9 ip)EU must break down national copyright barriers, says EU Digital Agenda Commissioner Neelie Kroes : "There is a huge Digital Single Market for audiovisual material. The problem is that it's illegal [...] We have effectively allowed illegal file-sharing to set up a single market where our usual policy channels have failed." "While the internet is borderless, Europe’s online markets are not. It is often easier to buy something from a US website than online from the country next-door in Europe. Often you cannot buy it at all within Europe."
(tags: copyright piracy neelie-kroes quotes eu ec music ip)Cory Doctorow: Persistence Pays Parasites : 'Falling victim to a [phish] isn’t just a matter of not being wise to the ways of the world: it’s a matter of being caught out in a moment of distraction and of unlikely circumstance.' +1, that matches with the personal phishing stories I've heard from others
(tags: phishing cory-doctorow security anti-phishing scams distraction twitter)
Dutch forum thread on splitting analog signals from a UPC Thomson DCI-6221 DVR : I'm trying to figure out how I can rebuild a MythTV box with new UPC equipment. this claims that you can split the cable before it enters the Cisco cablemodem, and get analog TV off the basic cable that way. hmm
(tags: analog tv upc mythtv dci6221 mediabox cable-tv)the world’s largest DVR : SnapStream's 100TB rack which records 50 analog TV channels simultaneously
(tags: snapstream video tv storage hardware analog television)Comparing genomes to computer operating systems in terms of the topology and evolution of their regulatory control networks — PNAS : 'we present a comparison between the transcriptional regulatory network of a well-studied bacterium (E. coli) and the call graph of a canonical OS (Linux) in terms of topology and evolution. ... both networks have a fundamentally hierarchical layout, but there is a key difference: The transcriptional regulatory network possesses a few global regulators at the top and many targets at the bottom; conversely, the call graph has many regulators controlling a small set of generic functions. This top-heavy organization leads to highly overlapping functional modules in the call graph, in contrast to the relatively independent modules in the regulatory network. ... These findings stem from the design principles of the two systems: robustness for biological systems and cost effectiveness (reuse) for software systems.' (via adulau)
(tags: via:adulau papers toread genetics genome call-graph linux kernel e-coli operating-systems transcriptional-regulatory-network)
A fast, fuzzy, full-text index using Redis : quite easy, using a Metaphone sound-like indexing scheme to provide the fuzz
(tags: metaphone sounds-like indexing python redis search full-text fuzzy)Total victory for open source software in a patent lawsuit : yay, Red Hat beat down patent troll IP Innovation, L.L.C. (a subsidiary of Acacia Technologies), in East Texas no less
(tags: ip law legal novell linux open-source patents redhat swpats uspto acacia-technologies)article on the IMRO-vs-blogs LOEL spat : by an ex-Hot-Press staffer. interesting: Hot Press 'also publish MQ, the IMRO members’ periodical.' well, that would explain a lot
(tags: hot-press ireland music mp3 loel imro shakedown)Indie music mogul: The net's great for us : Martin Mills of Beggar's Banquet. thought-provoking interview, and he nails it on this: "People who in their 30s a few years ago who may have stopped listening to new music, or were listening to iterations of music they heard in their late teens or early twenties, are now able to discover entirely new things. You've got new artists being discovered by 30, 40, 50 and 60 year olds. You'll now have a group of friends talking about music and sending links." That EXACTLY described my situation a few years back
(tags: martin-mills beggars-banquet music record-labels xl mp3 filesharing)
Facebook | Save Irish Music Blogs From IMRO! : join this group to add your voice
(tags: facebook imro shakedown blogs ireland music mp3)the torture garden: On Hot Press and My Place In The Real Economy : it seems Hot Press have come up with some Paul-McGuinness-esque pro-IMRO one-sided turdery masquerading as journalism. shock me
(tags: imro shakedown hot-press tat journalism ireland dublin)Two bands pull out of IMRO show in blog protest : fair play to The Cast Of Cheers and Mia Sparrow, cancelling their show in response to IMRO's actions
(tags: imro shakedown bands music ireland the-cast-of-cheers the-richter-collective)Why Our Civilization's Video Art and Culture is Threatened by the MPEG-LA : incredible. Almost every single modern camera capable of recording video now requires that you obtain a license from MPEG-LA to use recorded footage for commercial purposes. These clauses are currently not enforced, but could be. Horrifying (via Tony Finch)
(tags: via:fanf patents mpeg2 codec compression consumer-rights copyright legal law mpeg h264 mpegla codecs)
Make your own sourdough | Life and style | The Guardian : more recipes. This one looks like a good guide to creating a starter culture, something I've been meaning to do for a while
(tags: sourdough bread recipes food guardian)Thomasina Miers' simple Mexican recipes | Life and style | The Observer : some pretty good "ports" of Mexican recipes to ingredients available over here, must try these
(tags: mexican food guardian recipes tortas tlayudas ceviche tacos burritos)Stephen Walter's The Island : truly amazing artwork, as featured in the BBC4 documentary 'Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art' last week. 'The Island satirises the London-centric view of the English capital and its commuter towns as independent from the rest of the country. The artist, a Londoner with a love of his native city, offers up a huge range of local and personal information in words and symbols. Walter speaks in the dialect of today, focusing on what he deems interesting or mundane.'
(tags: maps stephen-walter cool detail the-island london)
ScamNailer - Anti-Phishing Filter : a generated set of SpamAssassin rules containing known-phisher addresses
(tags: scams phishing spear-phishing spamassassin rules anti-phishing)Endangered sites in Britain and Ireland to see before they die : including Roundstone Bog, burned to a crisp last week :(
(tags: roundstone bogs ireland connemara tourism endangered)Irish music blogs under attack over royalties | Music | guardian.co.uk : 'If IMRO goes ahead with its plan, targeting music blogs around the world, there will soon be legions of frustrated bloggers. And it will be much worse if other regional publishers follow suit.'
(tags: imro ireland guardian news blogs music mp3 shakedown)Vending Spree : 'I am going to consume and review every item in my office vending machine and there is nothing you can do to stop me.'
(tags: vending-machines funny blogs food daily)Why We’re Siding With The Bloggers and Why IMRO’s LOEL Blog License Won’t Work : good post from online music marketing site Amp.ie
(tags: music mp3 blogging blogs ireland imro shakedown loel)On The Record » “This music blogger IMRO licence thing” : Jim Carroll's blog post on the IMRO mp3blog shakedown. Comment thread has some good stuff from Irish music heads
(tags: imro mp3 blogs music ireland jim-carroll shakedown)IMRO propose massive increase in indie cinema fees : what are they up to? '1 per cent levy on the gross box-office takings of every cinema in the country ... Smaller cinema operators who attended a meeting ... said the proposal amounted in some cases to a five to sevenfold increase on their existing royalties payments.'
(tags: imro wtf cinema movies ireland shakedown)Nialler9's getting the IMRO shakedown : Irish music blogs apparently need to pay a minimum of EUR150/year to the collection agency for "making copyrighted music available online" -- and they intend to ask _all_ sites who offer music, Irish or not, to pay this fee (!)
(tags: imro shakedown nialler9 ireland music mp3 blogs blogging)
Mix Tape Amnesty : ha! 'The amnesty was created in an effort to finally rid the country of illegally taped music. Although technology has evolved, the law on this issue has remained unchanged and these mix-tapes still constitute a threat to artist royalties.' Remember: home taping is killing music
(tags: mixtapes funny history ireland virals music mp3 filesharing)
"Child pornography is great", according to one EU music-business lobbyist : it's the perfect 'gateway' to allow anti-filesharing filtering of the internet. 'Start with child porn, which everybody agrees is revolting, and find some politicians who want to appear like they are doing something. Never mind that the blocking as such is ridiculously easy to circumvent in less than 10 seconds. The purpose at this stage is only to get the politicians and the general public to accept the principle that censorship in the form of ”filters” is okay. Once that principle has been established, it is easy to extend it to other areas, such as illegal file sharing. And once censorship of the Internet has been accepted in principle, they can start looking at ways to make it more technically difficult to circumvent.' Via TJ McIntyre
(tags: via:tjmcintyre ifpi filesharing child-porn filtering internet johan-schluter anti-piracy-group sweden denmark eu)
How to setup your Wii to act as a media server : SMB setup details
(tags: smb files wii video mplayer networking)MPlayer CE - WiiBrew : 'a homebrew media player for the Nintendo Wii. It was initially created as a fork of Team Twiizers' port of MPlayer, combining elements of MPlayerWii, GeeXboX and other great homebrew contributions.' recommended by conoro
(tags: via:conoro mplayer video wii homebrew movies)Evernote export script : this promises to make Evernote a good deal more usable for me, if it works
(tags: evernote export data silos documents storage)Dropbox Startup Lessons Learned [PDF] : good set of slides from Dropbox. traditional marketing and AdWords failed utterly; word-of-mouth (and a great product) was how they've succeeded
(tags: business dropbox lessons marketing pr presentation startup viral)spamtune.pl : 'a Perl script that generates an OpenOffice.org spreadsheet which loads up SpamAssassin configuration and known spam and ham messages. Once loaded, you can tweak individual SpamAssassin scores in the spreadsheet itself and see their effect on spam/ham classification in real-time. The script also shows you the number of false positives and negatives for a set of scores in real-time.' by Raj Mathur
(tags: spamtune spamassassin rules scores optimization tweaking openoffice)GameStation now legally owns the souls of thousands of online shoppers, thanks to unnoticed T&C tweak : "By placing an order via this Web site on the first day of the fourth month of the year 2010 Anno Domini, you agree to grant Us a non- transferable option to claim, for now and for ever more, your immortal soul. Should We wish to exercise this option, you agree to surrender your immortal soul, and any claim you may have on it, within 5 (five) working days of receiving written notification from gamestation.co.uk or one of its duly authorised minions."
(tags: funny eula terms-and-conditions legal clickwrap via:risks gamestation shopping)
Nick Clegg - Conservapedia : Conservapedia gold. "His father was half-English, half-Russian. His mother was dutch. He speaks English, Dutch, French, German and Spanish. His wife is Roman Catholic. Aged sixteen, Clegg was arrested in Germany and charged with arson. He and his friends destroyed a priceless collection of rare cacti while he was drunk."
(tags: nick-clegg funny conservapedia wingnuts right-wing teabaggers lib-dems uk politics)
Rhizome | Soviet Sci-Fi Animation in the 1980's : Soviet animators' cartoons based on classic sci-fi
(tags: movie scifi video russia via:boingboing)NoSQL at Twitter (NoSQL EU 2010) [PDF] : specifically, Hadoop and Pig for log/metrics analytics, Cassandra going forward; great preso, lots of detail and code examples. also, impressive number-crunching going on at Twitter
(tags: twitter analytics cassandra databases hadoop pdf logs metrics number-crunching nosql pig presentation slides scribe)
RFID "zapper" constructed from disposable camera : also, an RFID "jammer" to block reads of RFID chips within range. related: the Israeli govt is considering voting cards with RFID chips, apparently
(tags: rfid via:risks security hardware rf radio jamming israel)computing a rank by combining user rankings with a Dirichlet distribution : interesting
(tags: ranking algorithms recommendations datamining dirichlet scoring rank)Kohsuke "Hudson" Kawaguchi leaving Sun : and starting a new company around Hudson
(tags: hudson ci sun oracle acquisitions startups build)GetitKeepit.com : free e-bill aggregation/archival service from an Irish company, for Irish users (right now at least). looks very useful
(tags: bills aggregator ireland webapps via:jdrumgoole archiving)
Major labels go bragh? Irish judge allows 3 strikes : 'The justice refers to legal alternatives to illicit downloading, such as "an I-player system," when he's writing about the BBC's well-known iPlayer catch-up service [which is not available here]. He refers numerous times in the order to "DetectNet," a company which can find P2P infringers, when he really means DtecNet. A strong grasp of the technical details won't be found in this ruling'
(tags: ars-technica ireland dtecnet legal law three-strikes eircom filesharing)Lonely Planet offers free iPhone guides to stranded travelers : free (excellent) city guide apps for Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Budapest, Copenhagen, Istanbul, London, Moscow, Munich, Paris, Rome, Stockholm, and Vienna until April 22nd; normally $10-$15!
(tags: lonely-planet free iphone apps travel europe cities)
Mr. Justice Peter Charleton, in the course of his judgement on EMI Records & Ors -v- Eircom Ltd is quoted as having said the following:
' There is fundamental right to copyright in Irish Law. This has existed as part of Irish legal tradition since the time of Saint Colmcille. He is often quoted for his aphorism: le gach bó a buinín agus le gach leabhar a chóip (to each cow its calf and to every book its copy).'
As many have already noted, Colmcille didn't say that at all; his opponent did. If anything, Colmcille invented copyleft.
Manus O’Donnell's account:
Do inneis Finden a sceila art us don righ, ass ed adubhairt ris: “Do scrib C.C. mo leabhur gan fhis damh fen,”ar se, “aderim corub lim fen mac mo leabhur.”
“Aderim-se,” ar C.C., “nach mesde lebhur Findein ar scrib me ass, nach coir na neiche diadha do bi sa lebhur ud do muchadh no a bacudh dim fein no do duine eli a scribhadh no a leghadh no a siludh fan a cinedachaib; fos aderim ma do bi tarba dam-sa ina scribhadh, corb ail lium a chur a tarba do no poiplechaibh, gan dighbail Fhindein no a lebhair do techt ass, cor cedaigthe dam a scribudh.”
Is ansin ruc Diarmaid an breth oirrdearc .i. “le gach boin a boinin” .i. laugh “le gach lebhur a leabrán.”
Or, translated to English by A. O’ Kelleher and G. Schoepperle:
Finnen first told [High King Diarmaid] his story and he said “Colmcille hath copied my book without my knowing,” saith he “and I contend that the son of the book belongs to me.”
“I contend,” saith Colmcille, “that the book of Finnen is none the worse for my copying it, and it is not right that the divine words in that book should perish, or that I or any other should be hindered from writing them or reading them or spreading them among the tribes. And further I declare that it was right for me to copy it, seeing there was profit to me from doing in this wise, and seeing it was my desire to give the profit thereof to all peoples, with no harm therefore to Finnen or his book.”
Then it was that Diarmaid gave the famous judgement: “To every cow her young cow, that is, her calf, and to every book its transcript. And therefore to Finnen belongeth the book thou hast written, O Colmcille.”
Soon thereafter, of course, 3000 died in the Battle of the Book at Cooldrumman, bringing a rather literal meaning to the modern term "copyfight". 'Colmcille and the Battle of the Book: Technology, Law and Access to Knowledge in 6th Century Ireland' is recommended for more background.
A Clatter of the Law: 'Graduated Response' now de facto law in Ireland : excellent post on the 'three strikes' judgement
(tags: law ireland eircom mp3 filesharing copyright)
Digital Rights Ireland blog post on the secret internet-filtering plans : 'it becomes clear that for some time now the Department of Justice has been proposing the introduction of internet blocking in Ireland – and has been doing this under the radar, without any public consultation or legislative approval. Indeed, it is clear from the list that the Department is not planning on introducing legislation but instead intends to introduce this new form of censorship without any legal basis, based on the now discredited Norwegian and Danish models.' This is very bad news indeed
(tags: ireland censorship filtering internet great-firewall dri politics freedom)Irish Dept of Justice secretly plotting a China-style "Great Firewall" : according to DRI's TJ McIntyre via Karlin Lillington. “Blocking involves censorship taken on no legal basis. There is no judge, no jury and no right to be heard if you are blocked,” says McIntyre. “The chances are it also will be used in unaccountable ways by unaccountable organisations.”
(tags: blocking censorship government internet ireland dri filtering great-firewall)ClamAV and The Case of The Missing Mail - Return Path Blog : version 0.94.x got end-of-lifed a year after the release of .95, to fix a bug that would increase bandwidth consumption on their mirrors. To mandate upgrades, the devs sent a kill-switch trigger to .94 installations in the field. chaos ensues, unsurprisingly
(tags: clamav filtering mail ouch upgrades end-of-life support open-source sourcefire return-path)
BlueRunner: Email in the Cloud with Cassandra [PDF] : interesting prez from some IBM researchers on using Cassandra as a mail store, via Jeremy
(tags: via:jzawodny mail cassandra database data ibm nosql performance presentation pdf)N7 Armour Stripe Hoody : too nerdy? it seems possible
(tags: n7 armour mass-effect geek clothing games)
Authentic Carnitas and Three Pounds of Lard : fatty pork deep fried in lard. oh yeah. thanks Ben!
(tags: via:ben pork carnitas mexican recipes food yum lard)Boojum Fresh Mexican Food : new lunch spot serving Mexican food in Dublin. hopefully good, haven't tried it yet, menu looks promising though
(tags: mexican food dublin ireland lunch meals)Mirror Man of Los Angeles : whoa, amazing street performer outfit
(tags: street-art performance mirrors via:lcbo photos)Every Time Zone : "Never warp your brain with time zone math again." Quite a useful javascript TZ conversion tool, although it could be more intuitive still
(tags: conversion javascript reference timezones time international)Compu b - 10% off all Apple products this Saturday : new Apple reseller on Dublin's Grafton Street, sounds like a good deal
(tags: apple ireland shopping via:adrianweckler)
Internet Security is a failure : ASF's Paul Querna: 'Security on the Internet sucks, and it is only getting worse. The problem is systemic, with security researchers and developers not producing viable ways for the average user to live on the Internet in a secure fashion without excessive paranoia.'
(tags: asf authentication infrastructure tls internet security)
Radisson Blu Galway – I’d avoid for events « Damien Mulley : Damien shares his atrocious experiences with a Galway hotel, and (naturally) commenters from the hotel's IP address range pile on what looks like astroturf in the comments
(tags: comments astroturf radisson galway hotels funny events customer-service cluetrain)
Gizzard, a framework for creating distributed datastores : from Twitter. looks interesting
(tags: twitter gizzard database nosql storage sharding scalability scala replication)
"Crosaire" dead : the legendary compiler of the 'Irish Times' cryptic crosswords died on Saturday in Harare, Zimbabwe, aged 92
(tags: irish-times history crosswords puzzles cryptic crosaire)
City of Portland develops iPhone app to report city infrastructure problems : ie. take a pic of a pothole and it'll be reported up to the appropriate office quickly and without hassle. wow. are you watching, Dublin?
(tags: portland cool iphone apps potholes infrastructure city)BenQ W600 projector : 600 euros all-in for an entry-level DLP home cinema projector capable of 720p HD. tempted, but stil a bit pricey
(tags: shopping tv video projectors home cinema dlp hdtv)
Grooveshark Mobile for iPhone : nifty, an official app for this music-streaming site -- although for jailbroken iPhones only
(tags: jailbreaking iphone music grooveshark streaming mp3 apps)
Where Tcl and Tk Went Wrong : from David Welton. what, the lack of support for GNOME UI standards was *deliberate*? bad choice if so
(tags: gnome david-welton languages via:fanf scripting gui tk tcl)Gmail APIs and Tools: IMAP and SMTP using OAuth : 'The Gmail IMAP and SMTP servers have been extended to support authorization via the industry-standard OAuth protocol.' pretty cool, support third parties sending outbound as you, or filtering your inbound gmail
(tags: gmail mail oauth smtp imap api)creators of AMQP ditching it for ZeroMQ : 'While iMatix was the original designer of AMQP and has invested hugely in that protocol, we believe it is fundamentally flawed, and unfixable. It is too complex and the barriers to participation are massive. We do not believe that it's in the best interest of our customers and users to invest further in AMQP. Specifically, iMatix will be stepping out of the AMQP workgroup and will not be supporting AMQP/1.0 when that emerges, if it ever emerges.' wow, massive downvote there
(tags: queueing amqp zeromq imatix mq protocols openamq via:janl)
BBC News - How spam filters dictated Canadian magazine's fate : the Canadian mag "The Beaver" is changing its name due to broken filters' false positives. Bennett Haselton reckons that there's no incentive to fix FPs, which as Henry Stern notes isn't the case
(tags: anti-spam false-positives beaver canadia canada bbc)TLS-encrypted spam : the Rustock botnet is now attempting TLS encryption of spam delivery sessions
(tags: tls rustock botnets anti-spam mailchannels ssl encryption)
Pictures from the Irish Blog Awards 2010 : I like the "blogging is dead" funereal theme ;)
(tags: blogging ireland iba blog-awards coffin)
pwnat - NAT to NAT client-server communication : 'a proxy server that works behind a NAT, even when the client is behind a NAT, without any 3rd party'. nifty, by Samy "MySpace worm" Kamkar
(tags: samy-kamkar apps firewall ip nat networking pwnat stun traversal tcp sysadmin tunneling udp)
Bulgaria: Bulgarian City Struggles as Councilors Play Farmville on Facebook - Novinite.com - Sofia News Agency : 'The troubled councilor, Dimitar Kerin, has defended himself by saying he was not the only one in the City Hall watering virtual egg plants. He said he had reached only Level 40, whereas Daniela Zhelyazkova, a councilor from the rightist Democrats for Strong Bulgaria party, was already at Level 46.'
(tags: farmville funny slackers bulgaria plovdiv games facebook)Pivotal Tracker : hmm, nice-looking Scrum tool
(tags: scrum collaboration dev management project-management tools agile)
Guinness' latest product, Guinness Black Lager, gets a panning in the Irish Times today.
I'm not a fan of Guinness. It's a good beer, but monotonous when it's the only thing available. This, from the old Dublin Brewing Company website, makes some interesting allegations as to why that may be the case:
In 1996 the Dublin Brewing Company was set up in Smithfield, in the old James Crean soap factory. As the only other brewery in Dublin to Guiness, Dublin Brewing Company represented a small but real challenge to the Guinness monopoly. Initially [Guinness'] reaction was "it won't work because, Irish people were brand loyal" and wouldn't change to anything new." However by November 1997 Guinness could see an increasing threat from a number of new microbreweries which were opening up around Ireland; it built its own microbrewery called St. James's Gate Beers. In the words of their Weekly News No: 44 "the four unique and distinctive draught beers are designed to meet perceived demand amongst ale and lager drinkers over the age of 28 for a wider choice of tastier draught beers."
The project team had spent 18 months conducting exhaustive R & D into the Irish drinking palette before the launch. This research included taking samples of Beckett's and D'Arcy's from public houses in Temple Bar and returning it to their citadel of brewing science for further analysis. Just exactly how do those "Fun Lovin Brewers" in Smithfield make beer? The code word for this return to basic brewing was affectionately known among company staff as "Operation Wolf".
The Dublin Brewing Company, amongst other small breweries was going to be lambs for slaughter. Of course, when you have a virtual monopoly on tap space in most bars, it's no problem launching no less than four beers in twenty pubs in Dublin overnight. Luckily drinkers in this country know what they want, and if they want a real beer they support the increasing number of microbreweries in Ireland, not a monopoly brewer masquerading as a small producer. The attempt at what was called "full taste" beers turned out to be a disaster. By October 1998 the operation was quietly closed down. However, now that St. James Gate is no more (£3-5m expenditure), we have its latest treat, Breo, being launched with the usual bravado Guinness display on these occasions - 10/15 kegs of beer free for every publican that takes it in. The pub gets the higher number of kegs if they take something else out. As the only other brewery in town, the Dublin Brewing Company is back on the firing line. The Dublin Brewing Company would like to dedicate D'Arcy's Dublin Stout to the memory of those old Dublin breweries.
Sadly, whether due to Guinness' tactics or not, the DBC appears to be no more. There are a few microbreweries around Ireland, but generally, the pub taps in this country are dominated by low-quality lagers, and Guinness. At least Paulaner is becoming widely available on tap, imported by Heineken...
Heathrow security man "ogles" female colleague's breasts using full-body scanner : 'John Laker, 25, allegedly copped an eyeful of Jo Margetson, 29, when the latter "entered the X-ray machine by mistake". She was "horrified" as Laker "pressed a button to take a revealing photo" and remarked [on the size of her breasts].' as Conrad says, "who didn't see this coming?" Wonder how many other "revealing photos" are on that hard drive
(tags: privacy scanners heathrow the-register uk via:cjodea)
OSSBarcamp : this year's open-source BarCamp, in Dublin, April 17th. no way I'll be able to get a talk together (again) but hopefully I can attend ;)
(tags: ossbarcamp open-source dublin ireland barcamp)How to get Google Voice working in Ireland : hacky, but I'm very tempted -- GV looks nifty and there's no indication they're bothering to roll it out on this side of the pond
(tags: google google-voice phone ireland hacks skype)
alleged Jolley Gang super-ligger chokes to death on a canapé while gatecrashing : wow, incredible irony
(tags: death humour observer ligging jolley-gang gatecrashers irony)
SpamAssassin 3.3.1 went out last Friday. The main change here is the inclusion
of Spamhaus' new URIBL list, the DBL, as the URIBL_DBL_SPAM rule.
Download page for source tarballs etc. Here's RPM packages from Warren.
Ruby Best Practices - Full Book Now Available For Free! : one for the to-get queue
(tags: best-practices ruby book free download toread library pdf reference coding)Top Ten One-Liners from CommandLineFu Explained : worth it for #10: 'Capture video of a linux desktop': '$ ffmpeg -f x11grab -s wxga -r 25 -i :0.0 -sameq /tmp/out.mpg'
(tags: video capture x11 ffmpeg cli bash linux)Sexy Executives : 'The finest corporate photography - from their extranets, to you' (via Adrian Weckler)
(tags: via:adrianweckler funny business blogs ceo photography executives zzzz)
Just heading this one off before it gets too much further...
A couple of weeks ago, a researcher found a bug in the spamass-milter project, an open-source milter to integrate SpamAssassin filtering into an MTA. Here's the exploit details.
This H-Online story covered it:
Security vulnerability in SpamAssassin filter module
The SpamAssassin Milter plug-in which plugs in to Milter and calls SpamAssassin, contains a security vulnerability which can be exploited by attackers using a crafted email to inject and execute code on a mail server. The SpamAssassin Milter plug-in is frequently used to run SpamAssassin on Postfix servers.
(I think this is the source article on Heise.de.)
That was more-or-less accurate -- but the problem is the "chinese whispers" effect, where a news story on another site builds on misreadings of another news article. eSecurityPlanet:
Security Flaw Found in SpamAssassin Plug-in
The SpamAssassin Milter plug-in has been found to contain a security vulnerability. [...]
sigh.
To clarify: spamass-milter is not a part of SpamAssassin. it's a third-party product which allows sendmail/postfix users to integrate spamassassin into their message flows as a milter.
a sad story of connections made via second-hand small ads : '“It’s free to advertise,” Ned explained. “And we have a lot of things we don’t need.” So each week, they advertised for sale in Loot something from their apartment. This was their social life. Some weeks – the good weeks – they had three or four people who came to see what they were selling.'
(tags: loot stories london small-ads for-sale second-hand irish-times irishwomans-diary rosita-boland)
RE2: a principled approach to regular expression matching : Russ Cox' C++ lib to provide safer, guaranteed-linear-time, non-exponential regexps, at the cost of dropping support for backreferences and generalized zero-width assertions. actually looks quite useful, unlike most "I've fixed regexps" claims ;)
(tags: regular-expressions regexps efficiency linear-time exponential-time backreferences google re2)
VOGON PLIERS : quick! where's my towel?!
(tags: via:spoon funny google-maps google pliers vogons)
NexPod, Freedom of Espresso : Nespresso-compatible capsules -- fill up with your own freshly-ground coffee and use in any Nespresso machine
(tags: nespresso coffee capsules espresso)Wall anchors & plasterboard/dry lining walls : Boards thread with good advice regarding wall fixings for drylined walls
(tags: diy boards walls howto)
openstache, closestache : new nomenclature for "{" and "}". This I can get behind
(tags: moustache silly openstache closestache squiggly brackets punctuation intercal bang-splat)
DIY Burglar Alarm : Damian Beresford's experience installing his own home alarm. pretty cheap, sounds quite easy too
(tags: alarm home-alarms house security diy install)Post-mortem for February 24th, 2010 outage - Google App Engine : extremely detailed; power outage in the primary DC resulted in a degraded fleet, and on-calls didn't have up-to-date on-call docs to respond correctly
(tags: google gae appengine outages post-mortems multi-dc reliability distcomp fleets on-call)Wrex in Effect, or, Deep Space and the Negro/Injun/Krogan Problem : fantastic article about Mass Effect's political allegory. I'm slightly disappointed that Mass Effect 2 didn't live up to ME1's quality, IMO
(tags: mass-effect games gaming politics)
Ubisoft DRM Authentication Servers Go Down : Assassin's Creed 2 players unable to play the game for no less than 10 hours due to failure of their DRM servers. nice work Ubisoft
(tags: drm fail defective-by-design gaming ubisoft assassins-creed)
Remote Pair Programming : using ssh, screen and emacs
(tags: ssh screen editors emacs pair-programming xp remote collaboration)
Gallery experiment proves theory that science can be fun - The Irish Times - Fri, Mar 05, 2010 : Dublin's Science Gallery is proving to be a massive success. good news. just wish I could visit more often!
(tags: science science-gallery art museums tcd dublin ireland)
More Best of the Email - The Daily WTF : the "45-hour workweek vs 80-hour vacation" one is a bureaucratic classic
(tags: email via:eoin funny daily-wtf bureaucracy hr health-and-safety omgwtfbbq)
Update News! (in first two posts) - Steam Users' Forums : mind-boggling work decoding Portal-2-related ARG content by Portal fans. as one jwz commenter put it: 'Seriously, if aliens ever contact us, the internet will have it worked out and replied to in about three hours fast.' Also, people are confused by the concept of modems and BBSes; I feel old
(tags: glados portal arg incredible effort)
Unit Testing Achievements : XBox style achievements for Python's 'nose' unit testing framework, eg. 'Major Letdown: all tests in a suite of at least 100 pass except the last.' genius!
(tags: via:simonw funny testing unit-tests python xbox gaming achievements nose)FastMail and sessions : a clever HTTP session-management trick (via Tony Finch)
(tags: via:fanf web http sessions cookies fastmail)McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Selections From H.P. Lovecraft's Brief Tenure as a Whitman's Sampler Copywriter : Lovecraftian ads for chocolate. 'There is a dimension ruled by a blind caramel God-King who sits on a vast, cyclopean milk-chocolate throne while his mindless, gooey followers dance to the piping of crazed flutes. It is said that there are gateways in our world that lead to this caramel hell-planet. The delectable Caramel Chew may be one such portal.'
(tags: caramel lovecraft mcsweeneys geek parody funny food cthulhu chocolate)Approaching 100% spam block: Spamhaus releases the Domain Block List : DBL announcement. working on the SpamAssassin support for 3.3.1...
(tags: spamassassin anti-spam dbl spamhaus dnsbls)
Phishing in Irish : someone has gone to the trouble of translating the 'Hang Seng Bank' phish to Gaeilge. I would surmise that some phisher has a table of CCTLD-to-language mappings and is pasting their text into Google Translate before spamming their .ie address list. If only they knew how few people can read it!
(tags: irish gaeilge funny languages translation)
Buzz by analise torrez from Mobile : EPIC BURRITO THREAD demonstrating the true power of Google Buzz
(tags: burritos mmmm yum food lisey google-buzz epic)2010 Irish Blog Awards Nominations : bloody hell, where did these all come from?! wow
(tags: blogs ireland blogging awards)
Search results for url:taint.org on Delicious : wow, you can search a time period for everyone who bookmarked pages on a specific site (via Britta)
(tags: delicious search nifty tools egosurfing via:britta)Mindblowing Python GIL : 'presentation about how the Python GIL actually works and why it's even worse than most people even imagine.' A good chunk btw could be rephrased as 'pthreads is worse than most people even imagine'. pretty awful data, though
(tags: python gil locking synchronization ouch performance tuning coding interpreters threads pthreads)
ElasticSearch : nifty; Apache-licensed distributed, RESTful, JSON-over-HTTP, schemaless search server with multi-tenancy
(tags: search distributed rest json apache elasticsearch http)Chip and PIN is broken : Ross Anderson's lab demo an attack on TV whereby any Chip-and-PIN debit card can be used in conjunction with a MITM device, with a PIN of "0000", verified online, and producing a receipt saying "PIN Verified". thoroughly hosed
(tags: security banking money chipandpin crypto ross-anderson)
How do we kick our synchronous addiction? : great post on the hazards of programming in an async framework, and how damn hard it is. good comments thread too (via jzawodny)
(tags: via:jzawodny coding python javascript scalability ruby concurrency erlang async node.js twisted)
PeteSearch: How to split up the US : wow. fascinating results from social-network cluster analysis of Facebook, splitting up the entire USA into 7 clusters
(tags: clusters facebook data statistics maps culture analytics datamining demographics socialnetworking graph dataviz)
Inside View from Ireland: Analysing Electronic Forensics Evidence : fascinating note from Bernie Goldbach: 'MORE THAN 20 YEARS ago, I worked with message traffic and the work told me the importance of verifying source material.'
(tags: bernie spam anti-spam authentication spoofing security phishing)
Op-Ed Contributor - Microsoft’s Creative Destruction - NYTimes.com : MS internal politics routinely torpedoed cool new projects. surprise, surprise. 'Engineers in the Windows group falsely claimed [ClearType] made the display go haywire when certain colors were used. The head of Office products said it was fuzzy and gave him headaches. The VP for pocket devices was blunter: he’d support ClearType and use it, but only if I transferred the program and the programmers to his control.'
(tags: cleartype microsoft software bureaucracy politics culture management corporate nytimes)
Dublin City Development Plan 2011-2017: Public Consultation - boards.ie : Dublin City Council is offering the ability to public consultation via a Boards forum. cool
(tags: boards dublin council consultation politics civic)
Trojan torrent sites - why you should never reuse passwords : 'for a number of years, a person has been creating torrent sites that require a login and password as well as creating forums set up for torrent site usage and then selling these purportedly well-crafted sites and forums to other people innocently looking to start a download site of their very own. However, these sites came with a little extra — security exploits and backdoors throughout the system. This person then waited for the forums and sites to get popular and then used those exploits to get access to the username, email address, and password of every person who had signed up.'
(tags: passwords security torrents warning twitter accounts)What Second Life can teach your datacenter about scaling Web apps : good scaling advice from Linden Labs' Ian Wilkes (who doesn't seem to have a blog, sadly)
(tags: linden ian-wilkes scaling datacenters scalability deployment ops services)
Lift View First : explaining Lift's code-free "display only" templating system. I like it. Very similar concept to WebMake's "scraped templates": http://webmake.taint.org/doc/scraping.html , nearly 10 years old now!
(tags: java scala lift templates templating scraping)Daily Links Posts from pinboard.in : hmm. may be one for the TODO list
(tags: pinboard tags blog wordpress rss links)Ross Anderson and Steven J Murdoch rip into Verified By VISA : 'this is yet another case where security economics trumps security engineering, but in a predatory way that leaves cardholders less secure.'
(tags: verified-by-visa security phishing web banks banking money authentication finance visa 3dsecure papers)
Spamalyser : a custom pastebin for spam messages. cool
(tags: spamalyser spam anti-spam paste pastebin web)
DNS Pre-fetch Exposure on Thunderbird and Webmail : Ugh, very bad idea indeed. A backchannel for spammers/phishers/attackers from the mail reader is something we definitely do not want to provide. This is why we chose to cut URLs at the registrar boundary for URIBL lookups in SpamAssassin
(tags: privacy email dns mozilla thunderbird prefetching urls abuse security spam)Pricewatch - The route of the problem : great article about Dublin Bus' shortcomings, featuring an interview with Antoin! Very interesting to hear about the upcoming GPS-based accurate bus timetabling service to be visible via their website, that'll be fantastic
(tags: gps busses dublin-bus dublin mass-transit commute travel)
explanation of the PS3 exploit : good walk-through by Nate Lawson
(tags: ps3 root hypervisor exploits mod-chips consoles reversing)The SAY2K10 bug [LWN.net] : LWN follows up on the FH_DATE_PAST_20XX fiasco. 'It would appear that what SpamAssassin needs is some dedicated maintenance talent which is not dependent on evening hours put in by developers committed to other projects.' I wish
(tags: spamassassin say2k10 bugs maintainance lwn commentary)
Whisky Map of Distilleries in Scotland (Malt Madness Distillery Data) : wow. my new shopping list. also: now do one for Ireland ;)
(tags: whisky yum reference maps geodata distilleries single-malts)The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache SpamAssassin Version 3.3.0 : w00t!
(tags: asf apache spamassassin releases 3.3.0 anti-spam)The New Data Center Rack From … IKEA? : the LACKRack -- IKEA's "LACK" side tables have exactly 19 inches of space, perfect for rackmounted hardware with a little hacking
(tags: lack ikea funny furniture hardware datacenter rackmount)
Waiting for the Apple Tablet, with Joel Johnson : possibly the best article written yet about the iTablet
(tags: itablet apple civilization vans bulldogs off-the-grid products consumerism joel-johnson)
Dublin & Wicklow Walks » Lugnaquilla : this is the plan for tomorrow -- looks good!
(tags: lugnaquilla walks wicklow dublin ireland hiking)
AOL sacks pretty much the entire US postmaster team : 'This is a totally devastating blow to everyone'
(tags: aol anti-spam layoffs postmaster email smtp)One Mutation per 15 Cigarettes Smoked : aka, lung cancer develops after 50 pack-years of smoking. sobering thought
(tags: cancer lung-cancer smoking tobacco risk mutation)The Top Google Search Result for each Unicode character : exactly what it says on the tin
(tags: google search unicode hublog)
How would you serve 100,000 simultaneous comet requests with node.js? : C10K microbenchmarking fun in Javascript (via:simonw)
(tags: web http javascript scaling comet c10k node.js long-poll)French Anti-Piracy Organisation Hadopi Uses Pirated Font In Own Logo : 'Of course you have to appreciate the irony – the agency in charge of enforcing France’s new anti-piracy legislation using a pirated proprietary font in its very own logo.' hoho! hoist by their own petard
(tags: hadopi piracy copyright design fail france fonts typography logos ip)YouTube - Mass Effect 2 Launch Trailer : whoa. really looking forward to this, Mass Effect was one of the best games I've ever played
(tags: mass-effect games via:colmbrophy xbox scifi video youtube trailers)
Auto-appendectomy in the Antarctic: case report -- Rogozov and Bermel 339: b4965 -- BMJ : holy shit. This is absolutely amazing, a first-person account of auto-appendectomy (via infovore)
(tags: history science russian medicine antarctica medical amazing appendectomy surgery)Google Translate fail : Google reckons that the English translation of "Amhran na bhFiann" -- the Irish national anthem -- is "Save The Queen". ie. part of the *English* national anthem. the perils of machine learning (via Adam Maguire)
(tags: via:AdamMaguire funny fail google translation machine-learning)
Google Agrees to Censor Encyclopedia Dramatica Entry in Australia : nice work, Aussies! this is very stupid indeed (via Waxy)
(tags: censorship google satire australia stupid encyclopedia-dramatica trolling)