CSS, design
Stack That Shat!
Nathan Ford over at Unit Interactive wrote a great post about making better use of the CSS font-family stacks, to recover the use of fonts that many designers had neglected. The post is here:
Better CSS Font Stacks
I instantly became a true believer, like the bright-eyed stepchild of a country ...
humor, perspective, php, shared hosting
12 Signs That The Recession Has Hit The Internet
05.15.08 | Permalink | 30 Comments
digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/12_Signs_that_the_Recession_Has_Hit_the_Internet';
The United States economy is in a funk. Food prices are up, oil is through the roof, real estate has collapsed, and credit is becoming scarce. Here are 12 signs to look for when the recession hits the Internet:
Digg.com moves their server over to ...
debian, security
Debian OpenSSH Oh Noes!
05.13.08 | Permalink | No Comments
if you're running Debian, the random numbers used to generate your SSH keys may not have been, how you say ... random. Turns out they're predictable! Check this out, and digg it up, let the peoples know the truth!
bash, tutorials, wordpress
Up the WP
04.28.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments
Give me WordPress, give me WordPress
You can have all the rest, give me WordPress
I love Matt's little blogging engine that could. It's easy, fast, and pretty to look at. It's easy to install. It is not, however, fun to upgrade.
That's a problem, because people keep on coming up with tricksy ...
bash, tutorials
Bash it! Bop it! Script it!
I would rather spend 3 hours writing a program to do a task than have to spend 3 minutes doing it myself more than once. Seriously. I'm that lazy. The only task I like to do over and over again is opening a Corona, taking a sip, filling it back ...
debian, tutorials
Housekeeping, or, How To Obsessively Blow Up The Files Left Behind
03.29.08 | Permalink | No Comments
I install, and then uninstall, lots of different software packages on Debian. I'm trying to learn how this thing works, so I'll often install something, poke around, and then remove it. But, I get paranoid about the package manager leaving things behind on my system. Cron jobs, config files, libraries, ...
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