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Monthly Archives February 2005

Why cities should not let developers name streets

Here’s one for X-Files fans:

My mother recently moved to a new condo in Orléans, a suburb of Ottawa.
While looking at her new address on Google Maps, I found
these
streets. Very odd.

Posted 28 February 2005 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , , ,

fireclong

I’m unconvinced somehow:

If you are experiencing a crash while typing in the Firefox address
bar, you can fix the problem by uninstalling Firefox 1.0.1, completely
removing the Firefox program folder (probably C:\Program Files\Mozilla
Firefox on Windows or /home//firefox-installer/ on Linux), and
reinstalling Firefox 1.0.1.
Here’s what’s new in Firefox 1.0.1:

Improved stability

From its release notes.

(Not to pick on Firefox or anything [...]

Posted 27 February 2005 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , ,

Microsoft presents:

Key
points for learning leetspeek.

Posted 17 February 2005 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (5) ° Tagged: ,

To know my what?

No.

I hope he got a discount.

Posted 12 February 2005 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (9) ° Tagged:

eeeee riiiiing

Look what
nyxie got!

Posted 11 February 2005 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (7) ° Tagged: , ,

Secure FTP backwards through a firewall

Hoping the lazyweb can come up with a reasonably elegant solution to
a securing-FTP problem I’ve run into.
I have a setup like so:

[ftp-server]—[broker]—|firewall|====[ftp-client]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
intranet [...]

Posted 11 February 2005 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (6) ° Tagged: , , ,