Offered without comment. nikky: This user wants to do http authentication with PHP nikky: It’s like nikky: why lutters: he hates you lutters: is why lutters: despite lutters: your heroic struggle for the users lutters: they secretly despise you at worst lutters: or are simply incompetent at best lutters: in this way you grow bitter […]
Read more →Introduction The following is actually partially paraphrased (stolen) from the Urban Dictionary’s definition of “Evil Tape Robot.” How I came across that definition is another story entirely. Once upon a time, not too long ago, the computing giant Sun Microsystems had a tape robot. This robot was really nothing more than a large silo of magnetic tapes that provided […]
Read more →A problem I’ve always had with data phones is the amount of information they provide the user: and the reliance the user can become on the device for even the most trivial of information updates and tasks. When I first purchased an LG Voyager a few years ago, I found my girlfriend at the time frequently being annoyed […]
Read more →This is probably of interest to those who a) are currently a student, staff, or faculty at the UW, b) use UW Deskmail for their e-mail, and c) check their e-mail using WebAlpine. Regardless, while at work today I found an easter egg in WebAlpine today. To view it, follow these easy steps: Navigate to WebAlpine Click on […]
Read more →From: [redacted] To: Alpine-info <Alpine-info@u.washington.edu> Subject: [Alpine-info] The saga of Sir Crispin vs the UW (maybe) Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:14:58 –0600 (MDT) Sender: alpine-info-bounces@mailman2.u.washington.edu User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (OSX 1167 2008-08-23) I was reading a Slashdot RSS article entitled “Extracting Meaning From Millions of Pages” which turns out to be about Googles contribution to […]
Read more →As seen on the tech-support mailing list: uw.edu? [redacted] Thu Jun 18 22:18:53 PDT 2009 Once upon a time, there was waged a great battle between Educause and (then) C&C, the result of which was the acquisition of uw.edu. There was much hemming & hawing and mad twinkles in mad eyes. Win this one victory, it […]
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