It’s good to see that those folks who used to write Cliff’s Notes have found work – They’re now writing movie descriptions. Note that you are allowed an unlimited amount for the description – I’ve seen over 10 pages worth for a Law and Order episode. I guess poor Marie just doesn’t stack up, the n...
I can’t believe I am still running a self-serving tech/nerd blog this many years later.. I’ve gone from a text based personal resume, to an Open Source system I created to share my ported software (to unpopular platforms, such as Solaris x86 and MacOS X (at the time)), then eventually opting to no l...
An often-overlooked Linux distribution (likely due to being purchased by Novell, whom many self-professed Linux users find a reason to detest) is openSUSE; a free distribution, supported and partially developed by Novell.
I tend to be fairly software-eclectic: I’ll try anything once, because cha...
I remembered this being a ‘never heard more than twice’ song from the 70s. However, it’s become incredibly popular. First, it was remixed for a GAP commercial, then for a commercial advertising anti-allergens.
For the rest of you who just wanted the song, and can live with generic jeans while taki...
This was originally posted by Bret Hubert nearly 6 months ago, but it’s saved me a LOT of time, since he’s rehashed, well, common sense:
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Additionally, our database interface needed to offer an extra feature: every once in a while a query comes along that we DO need to wait for, and because o...
MaxMind’s mod_geoip directly inserted into your webserver would be the easiest for external/programmable GeoIP support.
It’d make more sense to check the browser’s language(s) of choice, than force a user of a region into a language they don’t want. Let Apache handle the language, itself, then j...