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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 […]

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 internet I need to establish an FTP session from the ftp client to the ftp server. —- is intranet, ==== is internet. broker is a machine under […]

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