THE REGISTER: BabeWatch at Internet World
“Dawning as it did that there was no news to be had at the show (and even if there was, most stallholders wouldn’t know what their product was), it seemed only right to tell readers how to get the most out of the show.
That’s our justification anyway for giving you a rundown on the Show Bunnies dotted around the floor.”
HostSearch.com
Search for the web hosting providers. Cool utility, but they do have tons of animated gifs on the pages.
THE REGISTER: Linux is more popular than sex
“There were 11,313,520 Web pages found for the Linux search but only 10,755,265 found for Windows.
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When he put the word sex into the AltaVista search engine, only 9,589,620 were found.”
Joel on Software Strategy Letter II: Chicken and Egg Problems
“The idea of advertising is to lie without getting caught.
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You should be starting to get some ideas about how to break the chicken and egg problem: provide a backwards compatibility mode which either delivers a truckload of chickens, or a truckload of eggs, depending on how you look at it, and sit back and rake in the bucks.”
WINE is the key. Also, the same reason that Perl and Python NEED to be in Mozilla to get onto every desktop. I bet Perl being on almost all UNIX boxes at the dawn of the web made Perl the defacto standard for CGIs.
Contagion: Why Our Dependency on Microsoft Makes Us Susceptible
“Ask any biologist, doctor, historian, or agricultural specialist: what happens when you introduce a severe contagion into a monoculture population with little natural resistance? You get pandemic — widespread infection and damage. Whether it is measles and smallpox killing something like 90% of the Aztecs, Dutch Elm disease destroying a mainstay of the American forest, or ILOVEYOU in Outlook damaging files on machines worldwide, the result is a massive and quick-spreading epidemic.”
Diversity is healthy, in culture, biology and operating systems.
Congradulations Michele on making the final cut, you are not a Bengal Cheerleader!
” is a cool little php web script. It allows you to do all things “weblog” OK, hold on Philski, what do you mean by that? What I mean is, you can create weblogs and iplogs. Weblogs are like diaries – you can write in them at will. You use a spiffy interface to manage your plogs, and add/remove/edit entries in a given plog. So you can have a plog with quotes, or with information on a trip. Or use it as a diary. And there’s the iplogs… it’s a comprehensive counter and logging functions. Damn simple to set up, insert two lines of code into any given page and you’re off. It stores not only the time of the hit and the IP, but
also the reversed IP (the hostname) and the page. This means you can have multiple pages on a single counter. They are all measures seperately, but this is cool because it gives you a simple database not a complex, clittered one. All the stats are accessible to you by a clean interface, the same one you use for plogs.”
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