07.06.04
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at 11 pm
For Tim, Boris, Randy, et al.:
Look at what Dave Hyatt is saying this way: On the Mac platform there are a few real-time compositing graphic languages: DisplayPostscript/Quartz, QuickDraw, OpenGL. Windows has DirectX and such, right?
Apple is adding a new one: HTML/CSS/JS. This isn’t about extensions for the web, it’s about giving Mac developers the ability to composite on screen in a highly accessible language. This is for the Mac Platform, not the Web Platform.
And, adding additional non-standard extensions to Safari and WebCore/WebKit is *much* different for Apple than it was for Netscape or Microsoft for two reasons: A) Apple has been adhering closer and getting better compatibility with published W3C standards and this development has not apparently made much of an impact in delivering this, B) Apple and Safari are not in a position of complete or near-complete market dominance. Without the network effect that an overriding incumbent would have, proprietary functions are exactly that: Proprietary… to only be used on the Mac.
However I think Dave might start framing the talk around what extensions have been added to “WebCore/WebKit” rather than Safari.
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at 3 pm
This week’s Pete Schulberg’s column in the Portland Tribune sneaks in to great references. One is the OPB “Bridging World History” project that we’ve been working on for 9 months or so, and at the end of the column there’s a quick mention of our Web Visions event, on Jully 16th.
Seats are filling fast but there’s still time to get to this conference!
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07.04.04
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at 7 pm
Came across this the other day… It may have been via BoingBoing as usual. It’s a tutorial on throwing poker cards to the extent that they can cause bodily harm.
As with throwing most objects, the technique to get it to work right involves getting the spin just right.
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07.02.04
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at 9 am
Do you remember these net.fads?
10. Jay Maynard
9. Mahir Cagri
8. Tourist Guy
7. Hampsterdance
6. Lightning Bolt! Lightning Bolt!
5. People Falling Down
4. Bonsai Kitten
3. All Your Base
2. Bubb Rubb
1. Star Wars Kid
Not a complete list by any means but certainly a good sampling.
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06.30.04
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at 10 pm
“I’m sorry dear. I know you’re my husband and all, but I had sex with my 14-year-old student. I know you’re upset so here’s an iPod.”
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at 10 pm
In the words of Kyle’s Mom…
“wha-wha-wha-WHAT??!?”
If I’m reading this post at cubicgarden.com correctly, it looks like Apple will be putting a Jabber server into OS X 10.4 “Tiger” Server.
Points to remember here: Jabber is cool, open source IM that’s better than IRC.
Jabber server is a pain in the ass to A) install and B) maintain. Having OS X with this installed means that pains A and B are probably going to be resolved.
Jabber has ‘transports’ which are gateways to other systems such as AOL/AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, etc. A Jabber client ‘could’ be attached to any and all of these networks at once. (I’ve had this working a couple of times.)
iChat has “some” Jabber code in it. It’s used for the local area peer-to-peer connections. So this leads to…
iChat able to connect to more than just AIM people? Jabber able to do video chats? hmmm…..
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06.29.04
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at 2 pm
This posting: Crazy Apple Rumors Site: Apple A Hoax. had me howling in laughter. A lot of people use LOL when they simply smiled. This entry truly had me laughing out loud.
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06.28.04
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at 10 am
Holy cats… One of our sites got a quick run down of vulnerability probes on Saturday. The script that’s doing this is looking for easy to hack entry points, usually scripts that are insecure. Here’s an edited run down of the traffic we saw:
[Jun 26 16:27] [141.158.065.245] script not found: /cgi-bin/formmail.pl
[Jun 26 16:27] [209.026.056.010] script not found: /cgi-bin/contact.cgi
[Jun 26 16:27] [148.244.150.052] script not found: /cgi-bin/mailform.pl
[Jun 26 16:27] [062.087.154.034] script not found: /cgi-bin/formmail.cgi
[Jun 26 16:27] [193.172.150.002] script not found: /cgi-bin/FormMail.pl
[Jun 26 16:27] [146.101.066.159] script not found: /www/www.{domain}.com/mail.cgi
[Jun 26 16:28] [066.015.111.202] script not found: /cgi-bin/fmail.pl
[Jun 26 16:28] [193.144.127.011] script not found: /cgi-bin/form.cgi
[Jun 26 16:28] [213.215.169.210] script not found: /cgi-bin/contact.pl
[Jun 26 16:28] [208.185.016.039] script not found: /cgi-bin/mail.cgi
[Jun 26 16:28] [213.156.052.229] script not found: /www/www.{domain}.com/formmail.pl
[Jun 26 16:28] [066.043.173.226] script not found: /cgi-bin/feedback.cgi
[Jun 26 16:28] [066.144.004.003] script not found: /www/www.{domain}.com/contact.cgi
[Jun 26 16:28] [065.016.119.034] File does not exist: /www/www.{domain}.com/form-bin/deliver
[Jun 26 16:28] [168.143.113.138] script not found: /cgi-bin/cgiemail
[Jun 26 16:28] [162.006.217.199] script not found: /cgi-bin/cgiemail
[Jun 26 16:28] [141.158.065.245] script not found: /cgi-bin/form.pl
[Jun 26 16:29] [209.184.108.162] script not found: /cgi-bin/mailform.cgi
[Jun 26 16:29] [205.141.207.226] script not found: /cgi-bin/feedback.pl
[Jun 26 16:29] [168.143.113.138] script not found: /cgi-bin/mail.pl
[Jun 26 16:29] [193.144.127.011] script not found: /cgi-bin/sender.pl
[Jun 26 16:29] [066.234.235.202] script not found: /cgi-bin/mailer
[Jun 26 16:29] [194.212.229.228] script not found: /cgi-bin/ezformml.cgi
In a three minute span we had hits from all of these IP addresses, which are zombie servers, I’m sure. I wish I had the time to track them down but maybe this will help someone on the LazyWeb.
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06.26.04
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at 4 pm
Dear {fellow faculty member},
You expressed an interest in the Critique form idea that I had. I ended up putting together this form:
http://www.ordersomewherechaos.com/rosso/critique/
I had gone over the terse labels on the form in class, so the students had a general idea of what to write. Most of them simply filled in the box with text up to the size of the box, but some went full bore, really getting into it.
It was a pretty good way of getting them to run through the steps of a critique. They critiqued two of their classmates and their own final piece.
In retrospect, I would have added a ‘grading’ or ranking field for them to select from, maybe listing a few different styles of grading: 5 stars, A-F grade, numeric ranking 1- 100, etc.
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06.24.04
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at 9 pm
Okay, I’ve been hanging on to this for a while now. Since I’ve got all of the Favicons that I want out of it, I’ll share it…
Chami.com’s FavIcon from Pics Service
This site will take your graphic (Gif, Jpeg, PNG, and a couple others) and convert them to “favicon.ico” files. These icons are the little graphics that modern browsers put next to URLs and bookmarks.
As of tonight, Dwelling has one of these, if you look up at the URL bar you’ll see a ‘D’ and a ‘w’ which I decided would make a nice nemonic icon for Dwelling. I thought about having just a spray or burst of red and yellow, but I thought the D would make a stronger image. But alone it wasn’t enough, so crowding the ‘w’ in there, in the same way that the ‘Chasing my own tale’ tag line is set in the header made for a nice connection.
I’ve been using this service all this week, having added FavIcons to a number of sites including: Hot Pepper and OMPA.org as well as WebVisionsEvent.com.
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