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Re: OS X In The Crosshairs

Zhasper — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 23:27:54 -0000

Your link to securityfocus is broken, but I think you meant http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11375

You know what I think happened? The researched had an easily gueassable password, the attacker managed to guess it and connect (via ssh perhaps?)

Seems far more likely than some spooky unknown vulnerability..

Re: Google’s Inevitable Betrayal

Zhasper — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:38:01 -0000

It's also dependant on the legislative environment Google lives in.

I, too, implicitly trust the current management of Google. However, I don't trust the US government - not neccessarily anything specific against that government, I just don't trust governments in general.

I'm sure we can all imagine scenarios in which the government of the day decided it was neccessary for themt o obtain complete access to all gmail archives etc - it's not too much of a stretch, given what the current government has tried to get access to.

The rest of this thought is left as an exercise for the reader.

Re: Google’s Inevitable Betrayal

Zhasper — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:51:08 -0000

Also - are they actually archiving all chats, or just chats done from within the gmail interface? I'm not clear on that..

Also - if you do use the chat option in gmail, you get the option to make your chat "off the record", meaning that it won't be saved in your gmail (nor in the other party's gmail, if they're chatting from within gmail as well).

If people are going to get huffy, they could at least get huffy about things that are actually a problem.

Re: Google’s Inevitable Betrayal

Zhasper — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:53:59 -0000

Also - is there a general comments feed for all comments on your site?

Re: Why Don’t We Clean Up The PGP Key Servers?

Zhasper — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 17:48:04 -0000

+1

Hear Hear!

Re: Google’s Inevitable Betrayal

Zhasper — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 20:57:13 -0000

And the answer is.. they archive all chats from all interfaces.

(Hurrah for a Google Alert finding this comment for me again)

Re: The MacBookPro: A Version “A” Product Example

Zhasper — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 20:51:37 -0000

# Wireless Card Issues : I've had issues with my TiBook connecting to my linksys as well. They've mysteriously gone away of late though *crosses fingers*
# Sleep Recovery : Old, old old bug. I get this on my TiBook running 10.4 all the time. Specifically, it happens if the 'book gets woken from sleep, asks for a password, but gets no response. It will time out fairly quickly and go back to sleep - but then, when you do wake it and log in, you get re-asked for authentication exactly as you described. Even worse, if it work and re-slept three times, you have to log in 3 extra times (plus the first time, a total of four logins). I can't understand why Apple haven't fixed this yet..

Lastly... I hate to be a pedant, but the fact is, I am one. One of my pet hates is people confusing "wary" and "weary". You meant to be wary of version A products. Pedanting over...

Re: The MacBookPro: A Version “A” Product Example

Zhasper — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 23:19:34 -0000

Your post just re-popped up in my aggregator because it was changed :)

Re: It’s Called A “Mobile” Phone

Zhasper — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 23:38:35 -0000

here in .au, it's always been "mobile"
Not sure what you mean about europeans though - for instance, in Germany, they call it a "handi" (short for handtelefon - lets not start on what mental images that conjures up).

In .au though, everyone does know if you're giving them a mobile or landline number - all our mobiles are in the 04 area code, with the next two digits indicating (approximately) your carrier (I say approximately, as we've had MNP for years now, so although my prefix indicates I'm with Telstra, I've actually been with Vodafone for over a year)

Re: Linux DHCP

Zhasper — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 03:33:04 -0000

What flavor of linux?

Does the script produce any output? Are there logs in /var/log/syslog or /var/log/messages?

What output do you get if you run "sh -x /etc/init.d/dhcp"?

And.. umm... my fuzzy recollection suggests that /etc/init.d/dhcp may well be intented to start a dhcp client - is there possibly an /etc/init.d/dhcpd or etc/init.d/dhcp3d script as well?

Re: Linux DHCP

Zhasper — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 18:11:31 -0000

After having had overnight to stew on this, I want to semi-apologize for my original question.

Someone, possibly you, had a rant on their blog a while back about people asking questions such as mine in response to posts such as yours, and how annoying it is. If you'd wanted help, or a solution, you'd have asked for it - you were just venting, and suggestions such as mine are just annoying..

I should have been more clear in my original post. dhcpd is one of my own personal bugbears - every time I try to set it up, there always seems to be some little inexplicable thing that stops it from working until, magically, it just starts, and I'm never really sure why. I was actually asking for my own reference, in case it helps me next time I have to set it up, not intending to offer suggestions to you..

You're right though, dhcpcd is the client daemon :)

Re: Experience Without

Zhasper — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 20:16:45 -0000

I heard it expressed this way:

Experience is learning from your mistakes.
Wisdom is learning from other people's.

Re: Experience Without

Zhasper — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 06:19:29 -0000

Yes, you're right - that is nothing more than a summary.

For myself - I grew up in a small country town, with very narrow-minded conservative fundamentalist christian parents. If it weren't for me being able to see things through other peoples eyes - chiefly through reading books from the local library - I'd never have realised that there were alternative viewpoints, let alone started thinking about whether some of those viewpoints might be valid....

One of the things I most enjoy about meeting new people is that every new person I meet is a new chance to try to understand what experiences have shaped their perception of the world, and what that can tell me about myself.

Re: We Are Engaged

Zhasper — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 19:09:56 -0000

Congratulations :)

Re: English: Precision Matters

Zhasper — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 19:15:54 -0000

I'd have added your/you're(/yaw/yore) as well. Also, the fact that 've is short for have, not of (eh, should've = should have, not should of).

But yes, the two you highlighted are the two most annoying.

Well, those, and butcher's apostrophe's.

Re: Never Argue Again About The Pronunciation Of “OS X” (Proof Included)

Zhasper — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 23:35:45 -0000

Those of you lucky enough to have a mac, have it run it's text-to-speech engine over the phrase "OS X". It will be pronounced as "Oh Ess Ten".

Re: Never Argue Again About The Pronunciation Of “OS X” (Proof Included)

Zhasper — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 02:21:13 -0000

Extra detail:

Go to Preferences, Speech, Text To Speech. Tick "Speak selected text when key is pressed", set the key to something obscure (I used command alt control shift s). Highlight the phrase "I am a fancy computer, and I run OS X", and hit your keystroke.

Re: Never Argue Again About The Pronunciation Of “OS X” (Proof Included)

Zhasper — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 17:40:57 -0000

Tim:

Darwin isn't another name for OS X; Darwin is a component of OS X.

Cf (of course) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_...)

Re: Never Argue Again About The Pronunciation Of “OS X” (Proof Included)

Zhasper — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 18:11:08 -0000

Valdean, you're wrong.

You pronounce Linux lee-nux because that's how the creator of Linux wants you to pronounce it - cf http://www.paul.sladen.org/pronunciation/

Apple/Steve Jobs have made it clear that they prefer their creation to be pronounced OS Ten.

Sure, you can go ahead and pronounce it however you like... but you're wrong ;)

Re: My Problems With Google Reader I

Zhasper — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 23:20:13 -0000

That new tab thingy?
Twiddle "browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground" to True.

I can do this two ways: directly, via about:config; or, by going to the TabMix Plus options, Events pane, Tab Focus tab, "Diverted Windows" checkbox.

viola, fix0red.

folders, tags, and labels are the same things.

As for tagging feeds - assigning them to a "folder" is exactly that. I've got my UserFriendly feed in the "Comix" folder, so each and every item has the tag "comix". Tagging individual items makes a lot of sense to me - just taking my own blog as an example, about 80% of what I write could be tagged "faggoty rubbish", but the other 20% would be "tech ramblings". Neither label applies to both..

That said, I'm not likely to be tagging individual posts in my reader - I read them, and move on. But, the ability is there...

Re: My Problems With Google Reader I

Zhasper — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 23:21:21 -0000

Also? That list of synonyms?

To tags, folders, and labels, add "categories".

Re: I Just Made A Firefox QuickSearch For Google Blog Searches; The Keyword Is “BS”

Zhasper — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 23:24:16 -0000

grrr@trimmed posts in feeds.

Grrr! Grr! Why, Daniel, why?

(Not that you have to explain yourself to me or anything, I'm just annoyed and ranting)

Re: I Just Made A Firefox QuickSearch For Google Blog Searches; The Keyword Is “BS”

Zhasper — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 23:25:14 -0000

Talk about missed opportunities.. if I'd been thinking I'd have made some reference to "I'll tell you what's really BS"... oh well.

Re: Free Will: The Necessary Delusion

Zhasper — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:10:44 -0000

You just told me I have no free will, now you ask me to choose to act as though I don't know something.

Hrm.

Re: Do You Put New Items On Top, Or On Bottom?

Zhasper — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 23:39:45 -0000

RSS: New on bottom - I want to read things in the order they occored. New on top means when I've been away for a few days, I end up reading conclusions before the beginning of stories.

Email: New on bottom. It just feels more natural to me, I can't give any rational reason why. I do have filters set up so that I can read the important emails (ie, those from my managers and their upstreams) first, then those from my own team, then those from other parts of the company, then those from outside.

Re: I’m Back Up

Zhasper — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:11:25 -0000

Yay!

Welcome back :)

What *did* happen?

Re: Dumping OS X

Zhasper — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 22:31:50 -0000

Bastard.

I was reaching for the "oh no, another bright mind sucked into the MS accretion disk" unsubscribe button when I noticed what day it was yesterday..

Re: Atheism and the Substitution Phenomenon

Zhasper — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:06:28 -0000

I love the gAds right now:

God -total Union with God: Why Juesis is the Only Way to Union? The Answer May Surprise You

I can't really put my finger on anything that I substituted for.

Partially, this is probably because I didn't have a sudden transition, but a gradual transition over about 3 years, starting with me rejecting some of the things I'd learnt growing up. When I eventually stopped going to church, it wasn't because I'd rejected the faith, it was because I couldn't find a church I liked - and then the rest of the faith atrophied fairly quickly.

Mostly, I think it's because I had bigger issues going on around the time I stopped going to church - I'd just gotten out of uni into a slave-labour job, and moved 1000km or so. I had few friends, and even those few friends I had, I had no money to do anything with, so I was constantly bored at home. The most major bouts of depression I've ever had came then (not that they were major bouts, by any means - just the most major I've had)

Looking back over the course of the couple of years when I was gradually shedding faith, if there was anything that took it's place it would have been Scientific Fact/Reason.

Re: The Primary Law of Intelligent Immigration Policy

Zhasper — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 22:29:02 -0000

I think there's a jump from "Your country is better than where I came from" to "Your country is perfect and must never be changed"

Unrelatedly, I think that even current citizens who are on the whole happy with the country and don't wish to live anywhere else may, quite rightly, want to improve things in order to adapt to changed circumstances or new understandings - eg, to abolish slavery, give women/blacks voting rights.

Put the two together: it's not at all unreasonable that someone may prefer to live in your country than in their own country, but still have things about your country they'd like to see changed.

(Not intended as disagreement with you, but intended as constructive criticism to help you refine your position and/or word it better. Sorry if it doesn't read that way, that's my fault).

Unrelatedly again: have you heard anything about our goverment's hairbrained scheme to discourage "illegal immigrants" to our fine country, with the threat that instead of being allowed to come here they'll get shipped off to your fine country instead?

Re: s/he

Zhasper — Wed, 02 May 2007 21:18:42 -0000

Personally, I like Greg Egan's pronouns in Diaspora - "ve" for he/she, "ver" for him/her, "vis" for his/hers

Re: Why Apple Didn’t Release An iPhone SDK

Zhasper — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:11:29 -0000

Nope. It's not "feux paux", and it's not "faux paux" either, it's "faux pas".

You americans have funny ideas about french..

But back to the point...

What makes Apple's situation different to Nokia or Sony-Ericsson's situation with their Symbian phones, or anyone with a Windows based phone? They all provide SDKs that allow applications such as "WikiCache" to be built - why is it not a problem for them?

You seem to be hinting that there's something different in Apple's case, something that makes them unable to do what Nokia/SE/O2/iJam have been doing for years, but you don't explain what....

Re: Why Apple Didn’t Release An iPhone SDK

Zhasper — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:31:40 -0000

Because they aren’t attracting tons of developers to write applications for them as a popular, interesting thing. Hence the people that *do* write them tend to be more experienced.

This is different with the iPhone SDK because Apple would advertise it all over the place, and thousands of casual quasi-programmers would find the notion of using it VERY attractive. And of course the tool would be very easy to use. Want to make a network call? Drag and drop! Etc.

Sorry, I thought we were arguing based on reality, not based on the featureset of some mythical SDK you dreamed up.

I'm going to counter your Apple-makes-an-SDK-that's-really-simple-for-noobs fantasy with an Apple-makes-an-SDK-no-simpler-for-noobs-than-existing-SDKs-for-similar-phones fantasy. Something like an extra API or two exposed in xcode, plus a cross-compiler and some libraries that one has to pay Apple money for, coupled with a contract on which the developer agrees not to create anything that will cause problems on the network.

But getting back to reality-based discourse... Have you *seen* the quality of some of the apps for S60/UIQ/Palm out there? There are, very definitely, a lot of inexperienced programmers already creating apps for existing phones, principally with J2ME. So, your argument that the iPhone's mystical SDK would be the first to attract inexperienced programmers is irrelevant.

Secondly, I think Dave Winer has a much more reasonable suggestion about why there's no SDK - no SDK == no Skype == no competition for AT&T, with whom Apple had to work closely in order to be able to get the features they want on the phone.

Re: Why Apple Didn’t Release An iPhone SDK

Zhasper — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 07:29:39 -0000

First point: I need to steal your blockquote style at some point, it's very pretty

Second: you say that "AT&T will take ALL the traffic from poor iPhone apps built with an SDK" like it's a bad thing. Here in .au, all of the providers charge quite nice (for them) rates for data - mostly on the order of 5c/kb. One provider instead charges 20c per minute, in 5-minute blocks. In other words, most of our providers would *love* to have the traffic generated from poorly-written apps - in fact, they're quite experienced and writing watertight contracts so that they can benefit from poorly-written apps on the existing phones.

Judging from your comment though, it sounds like this isn't the case where you are. Do AT&T have some kind of all-you-can-eat data plan or something like that, that would end up costing them money if someone used a lot of data?

To some extent I agree that the remain-in-known-good-configuration is quite likely. One of Apple's biggest strengths has always been the lack of choice in their product offerings: eg, when choosing a macbook, you can choose the amount of ram, the size/speed of hard drive, but that's about it - the only real choice of hardware you get is that you can sometimes choose between two different video cards, or lately, two different types of monitor. This makes their product offering very simple to support: there's a very limited range of hardware -> very few drivers -> easier to ensure that the drivers work reliably. Contrast with Windows, which supports a huge range of hardware -> huge range of drivers -> huge numbers of people with varying skill level writing drivers -> less stability.

Also, the most recent product aside form the iPhone was the iTv - no SDK for that either, no support for third-party apps (that I know of - everything that's been added has been hacked on, right?)

So, it would fit with their model to provide limited choice and extensibility, aiming to have something that works consistently. I do agree with that.

As for it being odd that Apple would make an agreement with AT&T that led to them not offering an SDK simply to stop VOIP apps - I don't think that's any more peculiar then them only selling the phone through one particular network. Well - from an Australian perspective at least, that's very odd - maybe it's more common to have a phone model tied to a particular provider over there?

It's just occured to me though that there's at least one VOIP provider who could still happily have an interface on the iPhone, despite the lack of an SDK: JahJah (http://www.jajah.com/)! They could turn this into a great opportunity - they're the only provider I can think of who provide that functionality, so they're uniquely placed to be the only VOIP provider who can have an interface on the iPhone..

Re: Why Apple Didn’t Release An iPhone SDK

Zhasper — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 08:02:10 -0000

So, I blogged about my comment. Also, it annoys me that you don't respond to my trolling. At the same time, the fact that you give meaningful responses makes me respect you more...

Re: People That Scare Me

Zhasper — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 02:50:22 -0000

I'd have written the pronunciation "duh-bel-you"- the b is definitely part of the second syllable when I say it.

But, in practice, I stick with dub-dub-dub as well.

Re: Theme III: Speed

Zhasper — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 03:50:30 -0000

Snappy! Very, very snappy. I like.

I really must get around to doing something with my own...

Re: Fcuk on Comedy Central?

Zhasper — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 08:21:53 -0000

Heh. After 9pm, completely normal even on free-to-air broadcast tv. Over here, anyway.

Remember all the shennanigans after that chick flashed her boobs at the superbowl? We had the footage being broadcast on the evening news here, to properly demonstrate what all the americans were so outraged about.

You guys can be so uptight sometimes :)

Re: The Bar Code Deciphered

Zhasper — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 22:16:58 -0000

You forgot the bit about the mark of the beast

Re: Interesting New Spam Business Model

Zhasper — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 06:56:46 -0000

It's not new. It even had a movie made about it in 2000 - look for "Boiler Room" on IMDB.

your right hand nav displays over the oversized text entry field in Firefox too.

Re: Why Scott Adams is Wrong about Atheism

Zhasper — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 21:40:54 -0000

Scott Adams is the worlds biggest, and most successful, troll. The people who get all worked up and spend inordinate amounts of time writing reasoned responses to jokes he takes half an hour to write (which completely contradict the joke he made the week before) are what makes him amusing.

Thanks :)

Re: Why I Left Del.icio.us

Zhasper — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 05:35:21 -0000

del.icio.us for linkblogging - feedburner has a thingy that fakes a blog post every day with my latest links and sticks it in my feed. I'd rather have a script that pulled them into drupal and made a real blog post, but I've never found one for drupal (and del.icio.us's "thingies" don't work -iirc, because they're using an inccorect format for one of the fields)...

gBookmarks for my own bookmarks: there's a whole bunch of extensions to keep them in ynch with browser bookmarks (although I'm not using any of them lately)

Re: Science Keeps Chipping Away at Religion’s Domain

Zhasper — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:36:27 -0000

Magicians have been forcing choices for years - cf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magician's_Choice

Re: This is How to Fold a Shirt

Zhasper — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:02:40 -0000

http://zhasper.com/zhasper/blog/2005/06/10/10:01

good to see you're catching up ;)

Re: Disturbing On So Many Levels

Zhasper — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 15:25:15 -0000

bur. My comment didn't post! /me cries

Re: “Don’t Taze Me, Bro!”

Zhasper — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 23:12:58 -0000

My thoughts are over yonder *points to link*

Re: The Frickin’ Balls on Israel

Zhasper — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 06:46:19 -0000

So umm... there's also the angle that the Euro is now seen, even by your "allies", as being a more valuable, more stable, more powerful currency than your own dollar. Shouldn't you be mored worried about fixing your broken currency? Getting upset over the objective assesments of your nations health would be like complaining about the "insult" when your doctor tells you you have syphilis.

Re: The Frickin’ Balls on Israel

Zhasper — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 06:47:32 -0000

Oh and, about what Arik said? Keep spewing undigested ideas at me, please. I like getting an insight into what people think. You can always give a follow-up post later if you change your mind/get new information/gain new insights :)

Re: You Already Have Admin, Dumbass

Zhasper — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 10:15:27 -0000

Perhaps there's context that you didn't provide, but I can think of several ways to have admin access to a box without knowing that the admin password is blank.

Re: You Already Have Admin, Dumbass

Zhasper — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:11:20 -0000

Wait, this was you???

Bwahahahahahahaha... I thought you were quoting some random from Teh Intarwebs... I just assumed you wouldn't do this yourself :)

Re: This is Why You Should Be Encrypting Your Communications with Google [Traffic Included]

Zhasper — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 05:53:32 -0000

You're such a linkwhore lately :)

There's a bunch of firefox extensions you can use to enforce this as well - everything from greasemonkey scripts to full blown extensions.

The downside, of course, is that the HTTPS connections take more resources on both ends, require more CPU time to process, generate more network traffic, etc.

Also, if you're going to access gmail via SMTP or POP3, SSL is enforced...

Re: Martial Arts Goals

Zhasper — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 21:12:41 -0000

I'm looking for an article that shows in my reader but not here.

I'm guessing you retracted it because you were so horribly, horribly wrong. I'm curious about why there's no published retraction though.

It's bad enough that you seem to be writing a good 2/3 of your posts solely for shock/digg/traffic value, but now you're going to silently delete stuff as well?

Re: OS X In The Crosshairs

Zhasper — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 23:27:54 -0000

Re: Google’s Inevitable Betrayal

Zhasper — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:38:01 -0000

Re: Google’s Inevitable Betrayal

Zhasper — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:51:08 -0000

Re: Google’s Inevitable Betrayal

Zhasper — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:53:59 -0000

Also - is there a general comments feed for all comments on your site?

Re: Why Don’t We Clean Up The PGP Key Servers?

Zhasper — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 17:48:04 -0000

+1

Hear Hear!

Re: Google’s Inevitable Betrayal

Zhasper — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 20:57:13 -0000

And the answer is.. they archive all chats from all interfaces.

(Hurrah for a Google Alert finding this comment for me again)

Re: The MacBookPro: A Version “A” Product Example

Zhasper — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 20:51:37 -0000

Re: The MacBookPro: A Version “A” Product Example

Zhasper — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 23:19:34 -0000

Your post just re-popped up in my aggregator because it was changed :)

Re: It’s Called A “Mobile” Phone

Zhasper — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 23:38:35 -0000

Re: Linux DHCP

Zhasper — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 03:33:04 -0000

Re: Linux DHCP

Zhasper — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 18:11:31 -0000

Re: Experience Without

Zhasper — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 20:16:45 -0000

I heard it expressed this way:

Experience is learning from your mistakes.
Wisdom is learning from other people's.

Re: Experience Without

Zhasper — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 06:19:29 -0000

Re: We Are Engaged

Zhasper — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 19:09:56 -0000

Congratulations :)

Re: English: Precision Matters

Zhasper — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 19:15:54 -0000

Re: Never Argue Again About The Pronunciation Of “OS X” (Proof Included)

Zhasper — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 23:35:45 -0000

Those of you lucky enough to have a mac, have it run it's text-to-speech engine over the phrase "OS X". It will be pronounced as "Oh Ess Ten".

Re: Never Argue Again About The Pronunciation Of “OS X” (Proof Included)

Zhasper — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 02:21:13 -0000

Re: Never Argue Again About The Pronunciation Of “OS X” (Proof Included)

Zhasper — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 17:40:57 -0000

Tim:

Darwin isn't another name for OS X; Darwin is a component of OS X.

Cf (of course) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_...)

Re: Never Argue Again About The Pronunciation Of “OS X” (Proof Included)

Zhasper — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 18:11:08 -0000

Re: My Problems With Google Reader I

Zhasper — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 23:20:13 -0000

Re: My Problems With Google Reader I

Zhasper — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 23:21:21 -0000

Also? That list of synonyms?

To tags, folders, and labels, add "categories".

Re: I Just Made A Firefox QuickSearch For Google Blog Searches; The Keyword Is “BS”

Zhasper — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 23:24:16 -0000

grrr@trimmed posts in feeds.

Grrr! Grr! Why, Daniel, why?

(Not that you have to explain yourself to me or anything, I'm just annoyed and ranting)

Re: I Just Made A Firefox QuickSearch For Google Blog Searches; The Keyword Is “BS”

Zhasper — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 23:25:14 -0000

Talk about missed opportunities.. if I'd been thinking I'd have made some reference to "I'll tell you what's really BS"... oh well.

Re: Free Will: The Necessary Delusion

Zhasper — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:10:44 -0000

You just told me I have no free will, now you ask me to choose to act as though I don't know something.

Hrm.

Re: Do You Put New Items On Top, Or On Bottom?

Zhasper — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 23:39:45 -0000

Re: I’m Back Up

Zhasper — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:11:25 -0000

Yay!

Welcome back :)

What *did* happen?

Re: Dumping OS X

Zhasper — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 22:31:50 -0000

Bastard.

I was reaching for the "oh no, another bright mind sucked into the MS accretion disk" unsubscribe button when I noticed what day it was yesterday..

Re: Atheism and the Substitution Phenomenon

Zhasper — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:06:28 -0000

Re: The Primary Law of Intelligent Immigration Policy

Zhasper — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 22:29:02 -0000

Re: s/he

Zhasper — Wed, 02 May 2007 21:18:42 -0000

Personally, I like Greg Egan's pronouns in Diaspora - "ve" for he/she, "ver" for him/her, "vis" for his/hers

Re: Why Apple Didn’t Release An iPhone SDK

Zhasper — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:11:29 -0000

Re: Why Apple Didn’t Release An iPhone SDK

Zhasper — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:31:40 -0000

Because they aren’t attracting tons of developers to write applications for them as a popular, interesting thing. Hence the people that *do* write them tend to be more experienced.

This is different with the iPhone SDK because Apple would advertise it all over the place, and thousands of casual quasi-programmers would find the notion of using it VERY attractive. And of course the tool would be very easy to use. Want to make a network call? Drag and drop! Etc.

Re: Why Apple Didn’t Release An iPhone SDK

Zhasper — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 07:29:39 -0000

Re: Why Apple Didn’t Release An iPhone SDK

Zhasper — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 08:02:10 -0000

So, I blogged about my comment. Also, it annoys me that you don't respond to my trolling. At the same time, the fact that you give meaningful responses makes me respect you more...

Re: People That Scare Me

Zhasper — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 02:50:22 -0000

I'd have written the pronunciation "duh-bel-you"- the b is definitely part of the second syllable when I say it.

But, in practice, I stick with dub-dub-dub as well.

Re: Theme III: Speed

Zhasper — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 03:50:30 -0000

Snappy! Very, very snappy. I like.

I really must get around to doing something with my own...

Re: Fcuk on Comedy Central?

Zhasper — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 08:21:53 -0000

Re: The Bar Code Deciphered

Zhasper — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 22:16:58 -0000

You forgot the bit about the mark of the beast

Re: Interesting New Spam Business Model

Zhasper — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 06:56:46 -0000

It's not new. It even had a movie made about it in 2000 - look for "Boiler Room" on IMDB.

your right hand nav displays over the oversized text entry field in Firefox too.

Re: Why Scott Adams is Wrong about Atheism

Zhasper — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 21:40:54 -0000

Re: Why I Left Del.icio.us

Zhasper — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 05:35:21 -0000

Re: Science Keeps Chipping Away at Religion’s Domain

Zhasper — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:36:27 -0000

Magicians have been forcing choices for years - cf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magician's_Choice

Re: This is How to Fold a Shirt

Zhasper — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:02:40 -0000

http://zhasper.com/zhasper/blog/2005/06/10/10:01

good to see you're catching up ;)

Re: Disturbing On So Many Levels

Zhasper — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 15:25:15 -0000

bur. My comment didn't post! /me cries

Re: “Don’t Taze Me, Bro!”

Zhasper — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 23:12:58 -0000

My thoughts are over yonder *points to link*

Re: The Frickin’ Balls on Israel

Zhasper — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 06:46:19 -0000

Re: The Frickin’ Balls on Israel

Zhasper — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 06:47:32 -0000

Re: You Already Have Admin, Dumbass

Zhasper — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 10:15:27 -0000

Perhaps there's context that you didn't provide, but I can think of several ways to have admin access to a box without knowing that the admin password is blank.

Re: You Already Have Admin, Dumbass

Zhasper — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:11:20 -0000

Wait, this was you???

Bwahahahahahahaha... I thought you were quoting some random from Teh Intarwebs... I just assumed you wouldn't do this yourself :)

Re: This is Why You Should Be Encrypting Your Communications with Google [Traffic Included]

Zhasper — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 05:53:32 -0000

You're such a linkwhore lately :)

There's a bunch of firefox extensions you can use to enforce this as well - everything from greasemonkey scripts to full blown extensions.

The downside, of course, is that the HTTPS connections take more resources on both ends, require more CPU time to process, generate more network traffic, etc.

Also, if you're going to access gmail via SMTP or POP3, SSL is enforced...

Re: Martial Arts Goals

Zhasper — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 21:12:41 -0000

I'm looking for an article that shows in my reader but not here.

I'm guessing you retracted it because you were so horribly, horribly wrong. I'm curious about why there's no published retraction though.

It's bad enough that you seem to be writing a good 2/3 of your posts solely for shock/digg/traffic value, but now you're going to silently delete stuff as well?