[comp/internet] The wayback machine and the font of all knowledge
There is a lot of assumed knowledge among user groups and communities. Whether it be in jokes or simply something you expect someone else to know if they do are a member of some specific group. Among...
View Article[comp/internet] Unable to access svana.org
So around 2:30pm this afternoon something broke on the link between Comindico and Apex (where svana.org is hosted) Apex have their downlinks through transact and when I spoke to them on the phone...
View Article[comp/internet] That google juice thing
So Andrew has been surprised by the way google juice affects stuff in the past. I must admit I just got a big surprise too. I have known for years I tend to have reasonably high google juice, but this...
View Article[comp/internet] Write like no nobody's watching
Okay so I stole the title from the Satchel Paigequote"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.", the sentiment applies here however. Mikal...
View Article[comp/internet] Are technorati tags doomed to go the way of html meta tags?
Has anyone else noticed Mikal has been blogging with great frequency over the past 5 days? Anyway he noticedthat technorati tags have been polluted by spammers already. A lot of other people have been...
View Article[comp/internet] Never underestimate the bandwidth
The title of course comes from the line in Tanenbaum's computer networks book, "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." One of my house mates is...
View Article[comp/internet] Do we really have to use it for good causes?
After Mikal put the effort into a highranking in google for a certain phrase. (he is now the top 4 hits for that phrase in google) It appears other people are keen to be recognised by google and thus...
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[comp/internet] My very own Hackergotchi
Earlier today MRDmentioned he had added Hackergotchi support to Planet Linux Australia and requested that people email him their Hackergotchi and IRC nickname (similar to Planet Gnome). I looked...
View Article[comp/internet] Creepy crawlies at NLA
I suspect at least someone was listening to Mikal (or put some more thought into the problem) over at the National Library archive. A quick glance through logs for svana.org starting in September...
View Article[comp/internet] Making you stop and think again
I just finished reading the book The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll, it really does make you stop and think a bit. As a large part of net lore (100 greatest moments in Internet history article, a good...
View Article[comp/internet] First non Latin alphabet google logo.
I must say this Louis Braille google logo is fricking neat I think. I could not remember any time previously they have used a non Latin Alphabet based logo, so I had a look to be sure and my suspicion...
View Article[comp/internet] The slashdot effect vs digg
On Friday Kottke wrote a good analysis of the slashdot effect as it applied to a recent hit on his own website. Comparing it with the hit from a website called Digg (of which I have never heard). This...
View Article[comp/internet] Connected once more.
Ahhhh, that sweet Internet connection is once more available at home. Two days before leaving for Victoria at the start of my recent holiday my Internet connection at home failed. I had no time to...
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[comp/internet] Made a few hackergotchis
So I noticed a while back that Mikal had stopped using the crown of flowers hackergotchi I created for him , this got me thinking, maybe I should make a few more hackergotchis, after all Michael...
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