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Archive for December, 2004



Search Engine Optimization

Just late night experimentation. First off, I filled out the meta tags a little better, repeating certain terms twice or more. I also made sure that the item title would also be the page / html title for item pages. And I added the excellent SEO plugin by Radek Hulán. Thus, all outgoing links are [...]

Doomed

I just can’t help getting all over seemingly mainstream media events when I notice ulterior motives. One such event is the long hyped movie realization of the Doom computer game franchise. As pointed out last week, there were things moving and shaking on the set that would make any conspiracy nut spin.
From what has leaked [...]

W.Bloggar 4.00 RC2

A long awaited upgrade to 3.03. W.bloggar is still the preferred way to edit a blog with API support (such as I do with this Nucleus blog).
Currently you can post and publish on Blogger, b2, MovableType, Nucleus, BigBlogTool, BlogWorks XML, Blogalia, Drupal, Xoops, E-Xoops, Upsaid, PostNuke, TheBlog, Blog-City, blojsom, Roller Weblogger, Domino, LiveJournal, EraBlog.NET, pMachine, [...]

Tipping over

One odd thing struck me the other day. I was surfing around and came upon a discussion thread about tipping. As in giving a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the agreed-on compensation. Anyway, this was something I was only peripherally aware of before, having seen it through the eyes of [...]

Miranda 0.4 RC1

Miranda IM v0.4 RC 1 Release Announcement.
Finally some news from the Miranda developers after months of the nightly builds being down. I’ll see if I find time to try it out, but with all the 3rd party plugins I’m running, I’m not too optimistic. A full backup would be prudent.
Changes include ..
- Contact list painting [...]

EU software patents unlikely

Finally some good news. Due to recent events with support fading in The Netherlands, Poland and Germany and the new voting weights of member countries, the project is now likely headed for the shredder. One can only hope and speculate further how this might widen the chasm between Europe and other less progressive parts of [...]

Selling one’s soul

Or what is left. It’s interesting that employers would take an disapproving position to people discussing their professional life in the private domain. I fail to see their point of view here. The idea that corporate entities now not only control the work hours of individuals but also infringe upon and expropriate what is left [...]

Hardware developments

Ok. First off, I’m still haven’t gotten the new Aria system to work properly. The Epox mainboard is a real troublemaker in many ways. The most recent development is that I bought another harddrive (since I was short on one drive anyway), a SEAGATE BARRACUDA 7200.7 80GB for the setup and presto, I could install [...]

GeeXboX

GeeXboX is a “full operating system, running under Linux and based on the excellent MPlayer. No need for a hard drive, you just have to put the GeeXboX bootable CD into the CD-Drive of any Pentium-class computer to boot it. Moreover, GeeXboX is free software, created as open-source software. This means that everyone can modify [...]

BitTorrent Attacks

It seems that several torrent trackers, including Lokitorrent, and others, have been under attack from an unknown assailant. The DDoS attacks have effectively demonstrated the pitfall of centralized servers or trackers. Pathetic at best, this will only serve to galvanize those, like me, who run BitTorrent on a daily basis and have been doing so [...]





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