del.icio.us/dossy (RSS) links since January 14, 2008 at 09:00 AM:

• maltaStar.com: Free sex in Prague brothel as reality porn hits web
  The Internet … is for porn.
  Tags: article, sex, internet, porn, business
• Freezing and Food Safety
  Tags: reference, food, health, safety
• Announcing Twitter Karma by @dossy, one cool developer from Jersey!
  Stephanie Agresta shows her Twitter Karma baby some blog love.
  Tags: blog, twitter, karma

del.icio.us/dossy (RSS) links since January 7, 2008 at 09:00 AM:

• COLOURlovers :: Color Trends + Palettes
  Tags: resource, design, color, community
• AskTog: A Quiz Designed to Give You Fitts
  “Fitts’s Law: The time to acquire a target is a function of the distance to and size of the target.”
  Tags: article, usability, design, reference
• Pica: The Un-finicky Feline
  “Why Does My Cat Eat/Chew on Non-food Items? // No one knows exactly why some cats exhibit pica behavior.”
  Tags: article, cat, health, behavior
• Can I use SSH to connect to my shared hosting account? – Help Center–Knowledge Base and FAQ
  GoDaddy shared hosting does not allow SSH access. Oh well.
  Tags: article, web, hosting, godaddy, security
• User:ringmaster/IIS < WordPress Codex
  Tips on setting up WordPress on a Wintel box running IIS.
  Tags: article, howto, wordpress, microsoft, iis

del.icio.us/dossy (RSS) links since December 31, 2007 at 09:19 AM:

• How to get UDP destination address on incoming packets – comp.os.linux.development.system | Google Groups
  “[A] complete program that prints the received [UDP] packet’s destination IP address.”
  Tags: usenet, linux, programming, udp, code

del.icio.us/dossy (RSS) links since December 24, 2007 at 09:24 AM:

• Mozilla Labs > Blog Archive > Prism
  “Prism is an application that lets users split web applications out of their browser and run them directly on their desktop.”
  Tags: blog, mozilla, web, software, browser

del.icio.us/dossy (RSS) links since December 17, 2007 at 12:00 AM:

• IEBlog : Internet Explorer 8 and Acid2: A Milestone
  So, this will only matter if and when IE8 is released. Another 5 years? 2012, anyone?
  Tags: blog, microsoft, browser, software, testing
• Penny Arcade! – My Comeuppance
  Photoshop hero, FTW!
  Tags: comic, funny, photoshop, parody

del.icio.us/dossy (RSS) links since December 10, 2007 at 09:00 AM:

• w00t crowned word of year by U.S. dictionary | Technology | Internet | Reuters
  i’m in ur dictionary, pwnin ur linguistics. w00t!
  Tags: article, language, news, culture, w00t
• Blonde 2.0 > Blog Archive > Facebook Application Trends – Which Applications Are Most Successful And Why
  Ayelet Noff summarizes Asi Sharabi’s analysis of Facebook application trends. It’s a must-read for serious Facebook app developers.
  Tags: blog, facebook, statistics, business, analysis
• Amazon Web Services Developer Connection : Hosting Facebook Applications on Amazon EC2
  A nice quickstart guide to getting a basic LAMP app. deployed on Amazon EC2 by Renkoo’s Nikki Everett .
  Tags: howto, tutorial, amazon
• best of craigslist : “What Happened to All the Nice Guys?”
  “The answer is simple: you did.”
  Tags: craigslist, social, funny, essay
• VentureBeat > Facebook education app gets funding
  “The effort to make Facebook more useful for education has gotten a small boost. [Inigral’s app.] called Courses, has raised slightly more than half a million in a round led by The Founders Fund, according to VentureWire.”
  Tags: article, facebook, business, startup, education
• Keep Off The Grass: Locking the Right Path for Atomicity (D. Cunningham, K. Gudka, S. Eisenbach)
  From abstract: “[…] We propose an implementation of atomic sections that inserts locks transparently
  Tags: research, paper, pdf, concurrency, programming, aolserver

del.icio.us/dossy (RSS) links since December 3, 2007 at 09:00 AM:

• Brad Anderson: ‘Unleash the power of people’: Best Buy CEO’s philosophy echoes Lutheran understanding of vocation
  “Any leader who does what stockholders want is terminal,” he said. “They want profit and don’t like innovation. You can ride a thing to its death and get the most cash out of it. But I couldn’t manage that way.”
  Tags: article, business, management, best-buy, brad-anderson
• AT&T Invents Programming Language for Mass Surveillance | Threat Level from Wired.com
  “[Andrew Appel shows how AT&T] uses Hancock-coded software to crunch through tens of millions of long distance phone records a night to draw up what AT&T calls “communities of interest” […]”
  Tags: news, article, AT&T, government, telephony, privacy
• PulseAudio – Trac
  “PulseAudio is a sound server for POSIX and Win32 systems. A sound server is basically a proxy for your sound applications.” (via Hamilton Chua)
  Tags: software, free, opensource, audio
• “Law & Order: An Adventure to Color”–Brandon Bird
  A coloring book. LOL.
  Tags: book, art, comic, funny, satire
• Sergey Petrunia’s blog > Slides and audio: How MySQL Handles ORDER BY, GROUP BY, and DISTINCT
  Tags: blog, presentation, mysql
• Tales of Corporate Oppression
  I can’t stop laughing at this site. It’s like DailyWTF for general business stories. How did I not hear about this sooner?
  Tags: blog, funny, business, humor
• SCORE “Counselors to America’s Small Business”
  Tags: business, resource
• Food Network: Orangettes
  Tasty use for orange peels: chocolate-covered, candied orange peel sticks. Mmm.
  Tags: food, recipe, candy
• tux4kids
  Free and open source educational software for kids. As of now, there’s only “Tux Typing” and “Tux, of Math Command”
  Tags: software, free, opensource, education, games
• iRules 101 – #6 – When > DevCentral > F5 DevCentral > Documentation and Tips
  BigIP iRules are Tcl scripts! Yet another place where Tcl is used. (via Nathan Ladd, http://twitter.com/cnladd/statuses/472605832)
  Tags: article, reference, internet, tcl, programming
• Halis way: Oracle 10gR2 on Ubuntu 6.10 AMD64
  One more step: export LDEMULATION=elf_i386
  Tags: blog, howto, oracle, database, ubuntu, linux

del.icio.us/dossy (RSS) links since November 26, 2007 at 09:00 AM:

• Bernstein releases code to public domain
  djb releases all his past code and promises to release his future code as public domain, because OSS licenses SUCK. “Freedom” means “without restriction” and only PD gives that. AMEN!
  Tags: google, video, djb, software, licensing, legal, qmail
• Dossy’s Blog: I CAN HAS A BIZNES CARD
  Tags: business, marketing, funny, meme
• Paper airplane – The best paper airplane – How to build it -1-
  Tags: howto, toy, paper, airplane, tutorial

del.icio.us/dossy (RSS) links since November 19, 2007 at 09:00 AM:

• jcole’s weblog: On efficiently geo-referencing IPs with MaxMind GeoIP and MySQL GIS
  Jeremy Cole points out that, sure enough, using GIS to find a point in two-dimensional space is more efficient than using plain SQL and BETWEEN to test ranges. Go figure.
  Tags: blog, database, programming, gis, mysql
• OnoTech: Why Google owns your lunch: The “I’m feeling lucky” button
  Ethan Stock explains why Google’s “I’m Feeling Lucky” button could be worth $100M+ for the data it enables them to capture.
  Tags: blog, business, search, google
• 10 Absolute “Nos!” for Freelancers : Freelance Blog + Passive Income
  The key to success isn’t learning when to say “yes” but when to say “no.”
  Tags: blog, business, consulting
• Web Design Books, Subscriptions and Tools – Airbag Industries – Things Designers Want
  My newest to-read list, as recommended to me by Bradley Sepos.
  Tags: reference, books, design
• Alpine Information Center
  “Alpine consists of a UNIX command-line program, a PC version, and a Web version. […] Web-based version built on TCL suitable for use under any CGI supporting web server.”
  Tags: software, free, opensource, mail, tools, tcl

del.icio.us/dossy (RSS) links since November 12, 2007 at 09:00 AM:

• Main Page – IEs4Linux
  A minimal installation of IE 5, IE 5.5 and IE 6, usable under WINE on Linux.
  Tags: software, windows, linux, browser
• WebLogic Server Virtual Edition Launcher Appliance
  BEA’s LiquidVM cuts out the guest OS middle-man in virtualization environments. This is cool, if you’re foolish enough to use Java in the first place.
  Tags: software, java, bea, vmware
• Bug ID: 6532373 xcb_xlib.c:50: xcb_xlib_unlock: Assertion ‘c-&gt;xlib.lock’ failed.
  Workaround: sed -i ‘s/XINERAMA/FAKEEXTN/g’ libmawt.so
  Tags: reference, java, bug, patch
• Novell eDirectory 8.7 on Linux – Linux StepByStep
  Tags: article, tutorial, howto, novell