Reposted from the packetlife blog. We already pay for the bandwidth. The content providers already pay for the bandwidth. Anyone claiming anything different is either very misinformed or is straight out lying!

I recently found out about the following Firefox plugin/addon: RequestPolicy (via this blogpost) – see also the Firefox addon page. Its function is to whitelist all kinds of cross-domain requests, including scripts, style-sheets, images, objects (Flash, Java, Silverlight), etc. Anything in a webpage hosted on the domain A can reference ...

After asking you if you use Perl, now I’m asking you to help build the Mozilla Developer Network (MDC). They are running a survey to get to know their audience better. Please take it if you use the MDC and have a couple of minutes of free time.

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A word of caution: taking apart your laptop will void your warranty. Do this operation at your own risk. If you are not comfortable doing this operation, I would recommend against it. Disassembling a laptop is harder than taking apart a desktop computer (mostly because of the confined space), so ...

Recently I was buying a notebook HDD, and after considering a Samsung SpinPoint model, I’ve looked around the net to see if there were any known issues with the model. So I stumbled upon this page and my blood ran cold. Quote:

One of the most common problems Samsung ...

While I certainly like to rant, one shouldn’t forget about the more sunny side of life (unless you want to go berserk). So here are some random positive things:

Some songs which I like:

I’ve known for the longest time that there are two ways of creating / describing colors: additive (RGB) and subtractive (CMYK). However I never really understood the equivalence between them, until recently, when I picked up a book which presented the general concepts of typography. This is very cool, so ...

Please take a minute an answer the poll “Which editor(s) or IDE(s) are you using for Perl development?“ (via perlbuzz and szabgab).

Picture taken from Knightrider’s photostream with permission.

Here are a couple of challenges I found on the interwebs:

• SSHliders – from ethicalhacker.net. This one is centered around *nix shell scripting and more advanced topics like pipes.
• Hugi Size Coding Compo #29 (from Hugi) – not much time left there, the deadline is the 28th of October. No flashy ...