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Better valid downlevel-revealed conditional comment

Roger Johansson discovered a slightly shorter variation for valid downlevel-revealed conditional comments than my version. more…

  • Written on November, 14 2005 at 21:45

Unsolicited spam filter training?

Recently I get comment spam that does not look like spam at all. It does not contain any links to pr0n or poker sites, but the text is obviously autogenerated junk. The only purpose I can think of is an attempt to pollute bayes spam filter. more…

  • Written on November, 05 2005 at 07:23

Spam hit me again - in the back

I don't have much traffic on this blog - but pretty much comment spam. And not a single real comment. But today I got two comments, but managed to delete one before my brain started working... more…

  • Written on October, 27 2005 at 01:46

My first AdSense experiment

Just for fun I added AdSense text ads to some of the pages on my site (those pages that receive the most traffic). The income is not worth mentioning, but when I added another block of link ads, I observed an interesting effect. more…

  • Written on August, 21 2005 at 12:42

Safari too communicative?

Safari sending me all cookies it knows? more…

  • Written on August, 15 2005 at 12:40

IE7 Beta 1

The first beta version of Internet Explorer 7 is out. more…

  • Written on July, 28 2005 at 08:51

Visual profiling for Python

I was looking for a GUI application that could handle profile or hotshot data, but without success so far. Now I accidently found a reference to hotshot2calltree which is part of KCachegrind. more…

  • Written on July, 27 2005 at 13:39

Deteriorating Communication Manners

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  • Written on July, 19 2005 at 14:29

"This Page Is Valid HTML 4.01 Strict!" means less than you may expect.

Using the W3C validator does not imply that your documents conform to the HTML specification. more…

  • Written on July, 03 2005 at 18:51

Sarge has arrived

I don't think, I will install it though;) I am happily running the unstable branch on all machines at home. But I guess, now that the freeze is over, many new packages that have been kept back (e.g. KDE 3.4) will finally move into unstable. more…

  • Written on June, 06 2005 at 22:23

'apt-get install new-hardware' vs. 'plug & pray'

Today we received the satellite dish and a DVB-S card that we ordered. Althought we will only use it under Linux, I once again made the mistake to try the installation under Windows first - for some strange reason even I still believe that such things are easier under Windows... more…

  • Written on May, 05 2005 at 01:36

The joys of parser generation

For some strange reasons building parsers from BNF definitions is incredible fun for me - only seconded by designing and constructing my own languages ;) So once again I was looking for parser generation tools that create Python code. And this time I found ANTLR on the list. more…

  • Written on April, 08 2005 at 04:50

Valid downlevel-revealed conditional comment

We all know conditional comments in the form <!--[if cond]>…<![endif]–> that hide content from all browsers except IE/Win. Microsoft calls these downlevel-hidden conditional comment. The other form downlevel-revealed conditional comment is supposed to content from IE/Win, but not from other browsers. Unfortunately it does not validate. But I think I found a way to make it work… more…

  • Written on April, 06 2005 at 22:35

Spam mails: filtered but still distracting

I am running spamassassin and it works rather fine. There was just a tiny little thing left that made spam still an annoyance. KMail is always running and it features a little icon in the systray that shows the number of new mails and this includes mail in the spam folder. more…

  • Written on March, 13 2005 at 01:36

Not linking is no protection 2

Another thing caught my eye while examining the access.log: On February, 11th a bot called "Mediapartners-Google/2.1" visited my local version of odahoda.de. The seems to be some bot associated… more…

  • Written on March, 11 2005 at 01:28

Not linking is no protection

I'm currently (re-)building the odahoda.de website. The work-in-progress version is hosted on our local 'server' with a public name (using DynDNS). Along the way I stumbled over a small… more…

  • Written on March, 11 2005 at 01:10

Too sad to be funny

Too many systems are built like this… (via The Risks Digest) more…

  • Written on February, 10 2005 at 19:18

The poker man came back

I finally got rid of the poker/casino spammer by renaming the post script of WordPress. Now comes back, this time using trackbacks. Grmph… more…

  • Written on February, 01 2005 at 10:37

Spam?

Today I got a handful of mails that only contained: <br /> <b>Fatal error</b>: Call to undefined function: imagecreatefromgif() in <b>/var/www/html/spamw/img.php</b> on line <b>4</b><br />… more…

  • Written on January, 25 2005 at 11:51

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