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February 11, 2002

Ooops. OS X TCP/IP support

Ooops. OS X TCP/IP support. Daniel writes on his weblog about lacking DNS support in OS X. This doesn't bode well, unless they fix this soon.

February 12, 2002

Perl/Python Phrasebook

Perl/Python Phrasebook
To read later..

February 23, 2002

the geek timeline

Shift Magazine: the geek timeline. I remembered most of these events. Pong was awesome.

February 25, 2002

Sun to charge for StarOffice (Linux and Windows)

Sun to charge for StarOffice (Linux and Windows). Bad move. Slashdotters won't be happy with this one.

March 6, 2002

domain expired

Umm, register.com sends me an expiration notice, AFTER, the expiration date. So if you notice any outages to orbitalworks, you know who to blame.

March 10, 2002

Is Microsoft's Time Warped?

PCWorld.comIs Microsoft's Time Warped?
My new PC clock seems to lag when the screensaver's active, or i'm playing a game.

March 13, 2002

INDUSTORIOUS CLOCK

INDUSTORIOUS CLOCK ||| MONO*CRAFTS3.0. I could only watch this for about a minute. Requires flash.

April 23, 2002

Star Wars Toys

Rebelscum.com; Star Wars Toy News Archive
Cool!

April 30, 2002

Here's the first known live capture of an image of PythonCard running on OS X

Here's the first known live capture of an image of PythonCard running on OS X.

June 16, 2002

Softpanorama

Softpanorama: (slightly skeptical) Open Source Software Educational Society very informative site.

June 22, 2002

Microsoft Network Security Hotfix Checker

Microsoft Network Security Hotfix Checker

July 21, 2002

It's 4:20 -- time to switch!

It's 4:20 -- time to switch!. heh, funny and very observant. via Hack The Planet

September 7, 2002

Automated Snapshot-Style Backups with Linux and Rsync

Automated Snapshot-Style Backups with Linux and Rsync via /.

September 9, 2002

Mysterious Hack Attack Strikes

Mysterious Hack Attack Strikes Windows Users via rc3.org

November 13, 2002

Quik Links

Homer Soundboard and Maritess vs. the Superfriends. hilarious.

February 7, 2003

HushMail

HushMail Free Encrypted Web-mail. spam filters too! looks like a great service.

March 23, 2003

Apple Switch

Apple Switch to Intel. via slashdot. Would be really nice if this were true.

March 30, 2003

BlogShares - orbitalworks

BlogShares - orbitalworks. buy low, sell high.

April 26, 2003

the World as a Blog

I was a little leary about adding Geo data to the meta tags, but, this looks too cool to pass up.

Grokster

Grokster . legal file sharing, supported by popup ads.

May 22, 2003

Cygwin - SSHD Setup

Cygwin - SSHD Setup. this will come in handy soon.

May 24, 2003

Setting up TightVNC and SSH on a Windows NT machine

Setting up TightVNC and SSH on a Windows NT machine

Password Agent

Password Agent. i have way too many passwords to remember. this will help.

May 31, 2003

waste

what a waste.

June 4, 2003

Any Password

Any Password - freeware tool that lets you store all your passwords, UserIDs, and related information in a tree form

July 4, 2003

sharpreader

I didn't know SharpReader had a plugin for w.bloggar. nice!

Don't copy that floppy

Yo. Don't copy that floppy.

August 12, 2003

Cache Now!

Cache Now!. alright already.

September 14, 2003

Qmailrocks

Qmailrocks.org An online Qmail intallation documentary.. Indeed it does rock. Setting up an email server has never been this easy.

December 19, 2003

Re: %RND_UC_CHAR[2-8]

It's funny to see code in the subject line for spam. It's almost as if they got the usage wrong for their little spam script.

January 4, 2004

memcached

memcached: a distributed memory object caching system.

January 30, 2004

del.icio.us

del.icio.us. This looks useful.

January 31, 2004

Eleven SSH Tricks

Eleven SSH Tricks

February 13, 2004

SSH Tunnels for Fun and Profit

AFP548.com: SSH Tunnels for Fun and Profit

June 15, 2004

How Microsoft Lost the API War

Joel on Software - How Microsoft Lost the API War This is a must read if you're a web developer.

March 13, 2005

Cobb County Police & Fire Scanner Feed

ScanCobb: Live Cobb County Police and Fire Radio. I've always wanted to listen in on the PoPo and whatever the kids are calling the Fire Department these days.

April 3, 2005

Migration

We're moving the site to another host. Please standby.

April 17, 2005

About me

Sam Ruby: Hidden in Plain Sight This post prompted me to fill in my about page. I've been posting here for a long time, and it's taken this post to get me to realize I should probably tell you a bit about me and this site.

July 29, 2005

Beta Breakage

My del.icio.us daily links are discontinued until further notice. It seems my upgrade of MT to the latest beta broke things, here's an explanation of the change for xmlrpc clients.

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