Category Archives: Techy

Programming! Also Linux, web design, hardware… But mostly programming.

the power of yield and super

Published: 28 May 2006
The two keywords yield and super allow you to pass control back and forth between parent and child methods, to weave power between a more general method (in the parent class) and a more specific method (in the child class) with ease and logic. Using yield and super effectively can help you maintain the [...]
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lots to do

Published: 8 April 2006
Well, I did it again, dang it: I missed my primary registration window for the second summer term this year, so I’m stuck waiting until April 18th for my secondary window to open up. I don’t understand why there are only certain times that you can register for classes anyway; it pisses me [...]
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Internet and taxes

Published: 23 March 2006
I have the Internet again! Last night, Jess called ResNet and we got excited because they actually moved today’s 7-9 p.m. appointment up to yesterday from 7-9 p.m… Then they didn’t show up. I called back and griped about it, but then got incredibly annoyed when I was told that, not only [...]
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leaked Intel memo about Chinese Linux boxes

Published: 13 March 2006
Intel is offering an affordable computer in rural areas of China. …the product sells for $350 using an inexpensive but high-quality Intel processor, with an expected take rate of 73 percent. The originator of the document believes that they will sell hundreds of millions of units. The operating system marketed with the product uses an [...]
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image generation in PHP

Published: 11 March 2006
Creating images on-the-fly can be a very useful skill. Using PHP's built-in image generation functions, it's pretty easy, too. This tutorial will detail how to have the titles of blog entries show up as automatically generated images. What we'll be doing is passing arguments via the URL to a separate file that will be [...]
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ad blocking through /etc/hosts

Published: 4 March 2006
There are several ad sites that you’ll see being used everywhere. They slow down page loading, even on fast connections, because sometimes there’ll be lag and they won’t load immediately and instead of being able to read that interesting news article, you’re stuck waiting for some Flash animation to show up so you can [...]
Also posted in Linux | 4 Comments | Current music Nine Inch Nails - We're in This Together

Protected: drive repartitioning

Published: 18 February 2006
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soup and SQL

Published: 21 January 2006
Ahh, chicken noodle soup; I love this stuff. I had some at my aunt’s over the break and I’ve been wanting more ever since. I’m not talking about the soup with vegetables and everything else, but the classic Campbell’s chicken noodle that’s a bright yellow from all the butter. Surprisingly, the bowl [...]
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gripes about MS from MS

Published: 3 January 2006
From a Microsoft Exchange partisan: There is a 0 day exploit of another Microsoft file format that makes your Windows XP system wide-open for hackers if you made some bad decisions. On top of those is still using Microsoft Internet Explorer to surf the Internet – what in the world are you thinking? How many times [...]
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DRM idiocy knows no bounds

Published: 2 January 2006
How ridiculous is this? These terms of use are from the new Coldplay CD: This CD cannot be burnt onto a CD-R or hard disk, nor can it be converted into MP3 for file sharing. This CD has been manufactured for usage in regular CD players but might not play in the following players: Some CD players [...]
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