Dossy's Blog: 2005

Archive for 2005

Tuesday, November 15th, 2005

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Services Disruption, the “leaked” memo by Ray Ozzie of Microsoft

In 2005, Ray Ozzie re-discovers nag-ware! Guess he’s banking on the fact that people will pay extra to make that damned Clippy go away.

Tags: article, business, microsoft, software, strategy, web2.0

Tuesday, November 15th, 2005

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Multithreading Applications – Windows NT Multithreaded Programming : Win32Â® Application Programming : California Software Labs

A pretty decent high-level explanation of Windows threading models and other thread-related details.

Tags: programming, reference, threading, windows
brad’s life – JSBorg

Brad, self-mutilating his brain with JavaScript, scratches an itch by creating JSBorg, a bi-directional pipe-like mechanism that connects a “control port” to a bunch of (presumably different) web browsers.

Tags: blog, javascript

Monday, November 14th, 2005

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AOLSERVER Archives — July 2005 (#17): TIP: AOLserver 4.0.10 allows >1024 fd, but beware!

Allowing more than 1024 fd’s is great, except when things still use select(). If you call anything that uses select(), you will crash the server.

Tags: aolserver, reference
Internet Service to Put Classic TV on Home Computer – New York Times

“Warner Brothers is preparing a major new Internet service that will let fans watch full episodes from more than 100 old television series. The service, called In2TV, will be free, supported by advertising, and will start early next year. More than 4,800

Tags: aol, free, p2p, tv, video
Keyboard Acoustic Emanations Revisited

This needs to get refined to the point where I can snoop the stuff people are typing when I’m on the phone with them. Muwhahah. That’d rule.

Tags: hack, paper, pwnt, security

Sunday, November 13th, 2005

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“Sidekicks” (1986)

“An ordinary cop tutors a young boy who insists on helping him in his cases with his mastery of martial arts.” OMG! Ernie Reyes, Jr. — what a childhood memory. I wonder if this show is available on DVD yet.

Tags: martialarts, nostalgia, tv
The Coral Content Distribution Network

Free (as in beer) CDN on .nyud.net:8090. What’s the business model here?

Tags: cache, cdn, company, free, proxy, web