Technology
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Microsoft Extending RSS
Unlike some others, I don't think that Microsoft Extending RSS is an entirely bad thing. Can it be bad? Sure. But so can just about anything, by any company. I am the last to say that Microsoft is my favorite company – but the stuff they've done with…
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More Gnomedex Day 1
Dean Hachamovitch, from the Microsoft "RSS Team". Very interesting that there is an RSS Team at Microsoft. The whole Microsoft bunch is all wearing "Longhorn (Heart) RSS", which would seem to indicate that there's some big news coming. MSN Spaces purportedly has more than 14 million users, over…
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Conditional Comments in IE
Very rarely do I think that IE is a good browser. But I have to give them a tip of the hat for their conditional comments. This feature saved my butt, by allowing a construct something like this one: <!–[if IE]> <p>Welcome to Internet Explorer.</p> <![endif]–> Any browser…
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Movable Type on GoDaddy
Today I was working with a client and having a bear of a time getting their Movable Type 3.17 install working on their GoDaddy hosting account. It turns out that the way the script name was accessed had changed – and since GoDaddy runs under sbox, it was…