Year: 2005
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Keyrings Larger than Two Men
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I don’t like __keys__. I never have. I don’t like carrying around a pound of jingly metal in my pocket, but you have to nowadays to survive. Keys are perhaps the single oldest surviving design we still use today. The ancient Egyptians used the same design for pin tumbler locks that we do, and they…
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A Service to our IE Users
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So another massive security hole in Internet Explorer was found today, not that it’s too surprising. Even with SP2 and all the recent updates, just going to a website can modify or delete any file on your computer. Trash it. And if the past is any guide, it won’t be fixed for months. Secunia’s solution?…
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Emacs vs. Vi: The Showdown
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Why is vi(m) superior to Emacs? Many reasons, the two chief ones being: modes chicks. —> Standard disclaimer: I have used both editors for significant amounts of time.
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Importation
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I’ve been working on importing all the articles and comments from old halffull. Trust me… it’s a *huge* job. I could probably write a script to magic the SQL over, but it’s a one-time job and I wanted to fix up some of the text anyway. I may skip a few posts, so if anything…
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Fresh Style
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I’ve been working on different styles for halffull most of the day (along with importing a lot of the old posts). You can switch styles via the menu bar on the right. I like them all, though my least favorite is probably Rainy; I’ve made a lot of improvements to Default – “the first bite…
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Welcome to the New Halffull
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Welcome to the new halffull.org. It’s a work in progress at the moment, but I hope it’ll be a lot more elegant and functional for everyone (not to mention standards-compliant). In case you’re a new visitor, the idea behind Halffull is that anyone can feel free to post any opinions they like directly on our…
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