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Category: Rants

  • Wiki This, Wiki That

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    redshift

    I’m normally not one for wikis. Point me at a MediaWiki that’s not Wikipedia and I’ll barf. Initially I hated them because the concept of letting anyone edit your web page is repugnant, to say the least. I came to accept that, in certain cases, they could be useful as knowledge centers. If you don’t…

  • The Mystery of the Box Office Slump, Solved: Your Movies Are Crap

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    blue midget

    We’re all movie experts in our own right, aren’t we? We know what we like. It may not be what the next person likes, but what we do like, we are experts at. And in the past, there has always been a movie to suit our individual and collective tastes. Not this year. I have…

  • Kubrick sucks.

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    redshift

    Kubrick sucks. No, not the filmmaker, the WordPress template. Blasphemy, I know. You see it everywhere on the web nowadays, partly because of the popularity of WordPress 1.5 and partly because most people don’t change from the default template. I’m not saying the old default was anything to look at, but Kubrick grates on my…

  • Referer Spam

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    redshift

    Spammers are just getting lazy. Even lazier than before. For a miniscule chance of spamming a single person, i.e. referer spam, a spammer will go to incredible lengths. They’re almost as delusional as most of the people on American Idol… Referer spam is the process of going to a website and faking certain information, the…

  • Keyrings Larger than Two Men

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    redshift

    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…

  • A Service to our IE Users

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    redshift

    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?…

  • Emacs vs. Vi: The Showdown

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    redshift

    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.