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Archive for March, 2004

A kind letter to my hosting provider

Tuesday, March 30th, 2004

My hosting provider, DreamHost, is very reasonably priced, has lots of features, and friendly/knowledgeable tech support. They have also just experienced a massive denial-of-service attack that took down their entire network infrastructure for pretty much all of Monday. This was annoying.

For this guy it was really annoying.

Update: more reactions to the DH outage.

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Right Now

Tuesday, March 30th, 2004

So, George Bush has started using “Right Now” in his campaign materials. No, wait, wasn’t there something about ‘oil companies and old men’ in that video?

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Fancy-pants trackpad driver for OS X

Tuesday, March 30th, 2004

SideTrack: fancy-pants trackpad driver for MacOS X, including scroll-at-side (which I’ve come to enjoy on my Dell laptop, on those rare occasions when it works correctly). The author points out that it’s compatible with uControl (arbitrary keyboard hackery on OSX).

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mooix

Tuesday, March 30th, 2004

Most MOOs run off in a corner of a unix system, as a single process. They re-invent their own programming languages, which are often not very expressive or powerful, their own object oriented database systems, their own multiuser support, and essentially everything you’d find on a unix system. Mooix turns this on its head, and rather than trying to reinvent unix inside a MOO, it turns the unix system into the MOO. It uses every unix strength possible to the advantage of the MOO; its multiuser nature, preemptive multitasking, disk caching, device abstraction, numerous programming languages, editors, libraries, etc. With Mooix, unix is the MOO.

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Japanese DateBook: Attention Deficit Model

Tuesday, March 30th, 2004

Warning/Achtung/Avertissement/警告:

Do not look into crazy Japanese Date Book with remaining eye.

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Action Comics #1

Tuesday, March 30th, 2004

Action Comics #1 (which you will no doubt recall is the debut of Superman) can now be read online, in its entirety. Not exactly “mint” condition, but the timeless hero’s story transcends creases and dog-ears. (Part of a three-year-old web project on the Man Of Steel at UVa.)

And hey, there’s a coloring contest! Oh, wait: “All entries must be in by midnight, Monday, June 6, 1938.” Damn.

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“small world”

Tuesday, March 30th, 2004

“In my version of Friendster, you’d have to pick me up from the airport—or at least lend me money—before I’d let you in.”

Ze Frank takes on social networking software. (QuickTime, a couple minutes long)

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