posts brought to you by the category “cbc”
Das eez kaput! Sometime around 2002 I spaced the entire database
table that mapped individual entries to categories. Such is life.
What follows is a random sampling of entries that were associated
with the category. Over time, the entries will be updated and then it
will be even more confusing. Wander around, though, it's still a fun
way to find stuff.
Tortilla tortilla tortilla?
boulevard St. Laurent, Montréal, September
2003
Norm Walsh : Vicious Circle
I maintain however, that using [URLs] as names is confusing
because it violates the niave users expectation that they're
addresses.
karl:humpty dumpty != aaron:omelette
My apartment smells like a fucking swimming pool
Norm Walsh : Generalized Metadata in your Palm
I updated the docs for the 'rels-to-unordered-lists' XSL
stylesheet
Kate L. Pugh : Find::File::Rule::MP3Info.pm
Me : HTML::RSSAutodiscovery.pm 1.1
I did not got to Quebec City for the FTAA, in April 2001,
I have a somewhat irrational dislike of the other teams in the
Original Six,
Caterina Fake : "I was astonished, upon moving to this
country,
that Canadians didn't know how to
deface their own currency
."
"They told us CBC Radio doesn't create enough buzz.
They want a radio service that has people talking
around the water cooler."
Tony Collen : "[H]ere's the BlogML discussion group."
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : lenity
Lenity \Len"i*ty\ (-t[y^]), n. [L. lenitas, fr. lenis soft,
mild: cf. OF. lenit['e]. See {Lenient}.] The state or quality of being
lenient; mildness of temper or disposition; gentleness of treatment;
softness; tenderness; clemency; -- opposed to {severity} and {rigor}.
His exceeding lenity disposes us to be somewhat too severe. --Macaulay.
Syn: Gentleness; kindness; tenderness; softness; humanity; clemency;
mercy.
web1913
lenity n : mercifulness as a consequence of being lenient
or tolerant [syn: {lenience}, {leniency}, {mildness}]
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : adunyaha
A variation of "duh," to be used only under extreme
circumstances.
ex. A. Neil Armstrong went to the moon. B.
Adunyaha.
O'Reillynet : IPsec Tunneling Between FreeBSD Hosts
see also: the FreeBSD Diary on
stunnel
Michael Graham : Palm::Progect.pm
" is a helper class for the Palm::PDB package. It
allows you to load and save Progect databases. ... This module was
largely written in support of the progconv utility, which is a conversion
utility which imports and exports between Progect PDB files and other
formats."
Brian Llyod : Web Services for Zope
Butthole Radio
"Listen to non-stop MP3 streaming of rare and
live Butthole Surfers tracks."
(streaming mp3)
Using the Fluhrer, Mantin, and Shamir Attack to Break WEP
"We implemented an attack against WEP, the
link-layer security protocol for 802.11 networks. The attack was
described in a recent paper by Fluhrer, Mantin, and Shamir. With our
implementation, and permission of the network administrator, we were able
to recover the 128 bit secret key used in a production network, with a
passive attack. The WEP standard uses RC4 IVs improperly, and the attack
exploits this design failure. This paper describes the attack, how we
implemented it, and some optimizations to make the attack more efficient.
We conclude that 802.11 WEP is totally insecure, and we provide some
recommendations."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is parse
| source : web1913 | Parse \Parse\, v. t. [imp.
& p. p. {Parsed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Parsing}.] [L. pars a part;
pars orationis a part of speech. See {Part}, n.] (Gram.) To resolve into
its elements, as a sentence, pointing out the several parts of speech,
and their relation to each other by government or agreement; to analyze
and describe grammatically. Let him construe the letter into English, and
parse it over perfectly. --Ascham. | source : wn | parse v : analyze
syntactically by assigning a constituent structure to (a sentence) |
source : jargon | parse [from linguistic terminology] vt. 1. To determine
the syntactic structure of a sentence or other utterance (close to the
standard English meaning). "That was the one I saw you." "I can't parse
that." 2. More generally, to understand or comprehend. "It's very simple;
you just kretch the glims and then aos the zotz." "I can't parse that."
3. Of fish, to have to remove the bones yourself. "I object to parsing
fish", means "I don't want to get a whole fish, but a sliced one is
okay". A `parsed fish' has been deboned. There is some controversy over
whether `unparsed' should mean `bony', or also mean `deboned'.
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is commodious
| source : web1913 | Commodious \Com*mo"di*ous\,
a. [LL. commodiosus, fr. L. commodum convenience, fr. commodus. See
{Commode}.] Adapted to its use or purpose, or to wants and necessities;
serviceable; spacious and convenient; roomy and comfortable; as, a
commodious house. ``A commodious drab.'' --Shak. ``Commodious gold.''
--Pope. The haven was not commodious to winter in. --Acts xxvii. 12. Syn:
Convenient; suitable; fit; proper; advantageous; serviceable; useful;
spacious; comfortable. | source : wn | commodious adj : large and and
roomy; "a commodious harbor"; "a commodious building suitable for
conventions"; (`convenient' is archaic in this sense) [syn: {convenient}]
[ant: {incommodious}]
Online visitation rights?
Marjory S. Blumenthal and David D. Clark : Rethinking the design of
the Internet
The end to end arguments vs. the brave new world.
"This paper looks at the Internet and the changing set of requirements
for the Internet that are emerging as it becomes more commercial, more
oriented towards the consumer, and used for a wider set of purposes. We
discuss a set of principles that have guided the design of the Internet,
called the end to end arguments, and we conclude that there is a risk
that the range of new requirements now emerging could have the
consequence of compromising the Internet’s original design
principles. Were this to happen, the Internet might lose some of its key
features, in particular its ability to support new and unanticipated
applications." (pdf)
The XSLT Standard Library
"provides the XSLT developer with a set of XSLT
templates for commonly used functions. These are mostly implemented
purely in XSLT. ... Goals of the 'xsltsl' project include: (1) Provision
of a high-quality library of XSLT templates, suitable for inclusion by
vendors in XSLT processor software products. (2) Demonstration of best
practice in XSLT stylesheet development and documentation. (3) Provide
examples of various techniques used to develop XSLT stylesheets (i.e., a
working FAQ). 'xsltsl' uses XML Namespaces, so there is no need to worry
about clashing template names."
Christian Stocker : XML_sql2xml
"takes an sql-query, a pear::db_result or an
array and gives you back a xml string or object representing the data.
You get a more or less decent result with just the basic settings, but
it's also highly configurable, so you can almost get what you want. And
furthermore, if you have joined queries, this class tries to detect the
relationship and gives you back a nested xml out of that. This does not
always work right, but you can customize the relationship between the
tables, as well. The automatic relationship detection does only work with
mysql at the moment. But the class itself can be used with any db
supported by the pear database abstraction class." via
more like
this
A guy named Blars : mod_access_rbl
"allows you to restrict access to web pages based
on MAPS RBL style DNS servers."
Josh Goldberg : traceroute.cgi
"takes numbers from traceroutes and turns them
into midi files. wooooo hooooooooooooo. not great music but it works"
Personally, I'm not sure that a guy incapable
Tres Seaver : FSDump
"is an early cut at a bridge between
quick-to-develop "through-the-web" [Zope] code (folders, DTML, ZClasses,
etc.) and easy-to-manage filesystem code. In this initial version, it
will create filesystem analogs for its parent folder, and all objects of
the types it knows about in that folder."
Perlmonks : Parsing and spewing CSS
"So here is my plan: create a default external
style sheet with default settings and then use perl to query a database
for a user's style settings and produce a <STYLE> element
with all the individual customizations at the top of the html page. Is
there an easier way to do this?"
Guido van Rossum
"[S]tarting today, Tim Peters, Barry Warsaw,
Jeremy Hylton, Fred Drake and myself are working for Digital Creations.
We will be spending part of our time on core Python development
(including Jython and Mailman) and part of our time on Python
infrastructure improvements that also benefit Zope." mmmmm....
whitespace.
Perlmonks : japhy's Obfuscation Review
"so that you understand what's going on, and get
some ideas as to how to better obfuscate your programs."
Macworld : "Seeing the Cube for the first time
is an experience that no recitation of the specs
can possibly describe. Almost totally smooth except for the ports and
vent, the Cube could almost pass as a paperweight on most users' desks.
But because of its excellent digital audio capabilities, ability to play
DVD-quality movies either off of DVD discs or by using QuickTime
streaming via a high-speed connection to the Internet, the Cube is just
as likely to end up in the home entertainment center. Combine it with an
array of third-party USB-based peripherals, and you could easily see the
Cube becoming the tiny translucent center of a audio/video/web
surfing/game-playing system to make the most hard-core digital
convergence naysayer fall to his knees and beg forgiveness." I think
Apple deserves to bask in the sun, atleast for the day. They may still be
scum suckers
, like all the rest, but they give
better
head
than anyone else out there.
DHTML Lab : Where does the tummy-rumbling come from?
I had no idea that "The string argument of
document.write() is exported as a text file to [Navigator's] cache on
your hard disk. The text file is read back and the contained HTML
rendered in the layer." and that consequently "Navigator can handle
thousands of layers in a single page with no problem, but may choke with
too many document.write's."
Jean-Louis Leroy : Tangram.pm
"is an object-relational mapper. It makes objects
persist in relational databases, and provides powerful facilities for
retrieving and filtering them. Tangram fully supports object-oriented
programming, including polymorphism, multiple inheritance and
collections. It does so in an orthogonal fashion, that is, it doesn't
require your classes to implement support functions nor inherit from a
utility class." Neat, but why is it called Tangram?
Dave Winer
"To people who say that W2K isn't a great server
OS, let's show them what people can do, without a degree in rocket
science."
Rich Mackin : Satan Has Your Nose
Cerebus.org
Palm Infocenter
considers entire OS modules for the new Visor
PDAs. Neat! via
ars technica
We are one people, one resolve, one orgasm.
Canadian Radio-television & Telecommunications
Commission
"The Commission is issuing a direction to cable
carriers with respect to the resale of retail Internet Services...This
resale must be provided at a discount of 25% from the lowest retail
Internet service rate charged by the cable carrier to a cable customer in
its service area during any one month period."
Advanced Book Exchange
27 countries, 51 independent book stores, 14
million titles.
Live Ani DiFranco MP3s
of questionable legality.
Hemp News
Montreal Mayor Pierre Bourque wants to
give 200-year-old streets newfangled high-tech
monikers like "pixel."
Philip Gourevitch
"The best reason I have come up with for looking
closely into Rwanda's stories is that ignoring them makes me even more
uncomfortable about existence and my place in it."
wtf?
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dude, where's my car
This document uses
CSS
kung-fu and a small amount of JavaScript for rendering its
contents. Efforts have been made to separate the form from the
content so if you are viewing this in a text-based browser it
shouldn't be an issue.
On the other hand it may look funny if you are viewing it in a
browser with incomplete
CSS
and/or JavaScript implementations. Internet Explorer 6 comes to
mind.
It's not that I don't love you. However, my time is limited and
I no longer feel very good about spending it working around any one
browser's inconsistencies with little, or no, confidence that they
will ever be fixed or otherwise made more inconsistent at some
later date.
On the other hand, if something is down-right
unreadable
please let me know and I will endeavour to fix it.
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yes, we have no bananas
This page may not validate. It's not that I don't care, it's
just that I'm not aware of it yet. Part of the reason that I
rewrote the entire back-end for managing this site is that the old
stuff made it too easy for these kinds of mistakes to slip through
the cracks.
See also :
W3C::LogValidator.pm
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it's the software, stupid
Use the source, Luke.