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Archive for August 22nd, 2009

Binary Happiness

Posted by John on 22nd August 2009

Sure, I haven’t done much assembler in, OK, a long time.  But that doesn’t mean it still doesn’t rock ;)

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Hmm – Baltika №6 or №8 ?

Posted by John on 22nd August 2009

Бренды – Балтика – №6 Портер

Life is rough sometimes.

Save Draft takes on a whole new meaning here

"Save Draft" takes on a whole new meaning here

Perhaps just the tried and true, no? No need to burn fossil fuel, hang with friends at one home or the other, then stay put :)

Guinness 250th Anniversary Pint

Guinness 250th Anniversary Pint

Yes, for non WordPress folks, “Save Draft” is one of the editing buttons in the Publish window; it makes sure the work you’ve been doodling in the “Post” window is saved, in case “Stuff Happens™”

/Cheers! guinness

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search engines indexing, general internet info

Posted by John on 22nd August 2009

6 ways to stop Google and other search engines from indexing your site | Antezeta Web Marketing

Good stuff – the X-Robots-Tag rocks.

General net info you may not have known : http://en-us.nielsen.com/rankings/insights/rankings/internet

This is the general flow of internet traffic around the earth http://www.internettrafficreport.com/

Technical latency checks http://www.internetpulse.net/

One major backbone http://ipnetwork.bgtmo.ip.att.net/pws/

What makes up the internet traffic percentages http://www.ipoque.com/resources/internet-studies/internet-study-2008_2009

Tube Cat is in ur tubes blockin ur nets

Tube Cat is in ur tubes blockin ur nets


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show your video card settings using your browser

Posted by John on 22nd August 2009

Handy bits below that can display quite a bit of info about your computer’s video card using just your browser, and Java.

Nothing to install, just click.

“Requires Java1.4 or higher. You may be asked to confirm a security dialog: The JOGL-API is signed by Sun Microsystems.”

Nifty stuff by others :)

myogl logo

via Karma Implementor — Mr. MyOGL — online OpenGL extension lister

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Change Detection and Site monitoring

Posted by John on 22nd August 2009

Useful web site monitoring tool : check for changes in a given web page : http://www.changedetection.com/

:) “I am governor Jerry Brown” (this is what happens when you blog while listening to ‘uppity muzak‘)

Trial account available at PingDom.com – great monitoring service, from geodiverse points

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Mizzou Linux Users Group Presentations – MLUG

Posted by John on 22nd August 2009

Presentations – MLUG

Wow, someone emailed me on this one from the Missouri dot Edu days.  Seems like a long time ago; many of the listed folks are no longer at UMC.

Side note : I remember attending an IT meeting with Joe Heck (also departed) where a (former) top IT manager was yelling about a new feature for users, and was this going to be easy for everyone to use, etc. (specifically, NS roaming profiles) and I finally introduced myself as the fellow who’d implemented it.  Yup, he didn’t even know my name until that point, the fellow responsible for “his new feature”.

Anyway, good archaeological dig for you here :)  Things are moving forward a lot faster now. Xmarks is the only close competitor to the original NS roams, BTW.  Cheers!

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John Leveron – Google Profile

Posted by John on 22nd August 2009

John Leveron – Google Profile

Awesome Sauce from Google.

Yes, it’s “full of win”™

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Atari – Champions Online Open Beta Keys Available

Posted by John on 22nd August 2009

For you gamers :)

Champions Online Open Beta Keys Available

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Locate IP Address Lookup Show on Map City

Posted by John on 22nd August 2009

Pretty decent results for a “free” IP geolocation service.

Locate IP Address Lookup Show on Map City

And they are kind enough to translate DNS names entered into the window, then do the IP location lookup.

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integrating calendar functions into your own web site

Posted by John on 22nd August 2009

Here is one Calendar possibility anyway.  I am pretty entrenched in Google Apps at this point, for many things.  I certainly understand if others don’t choose them.

google calendar

google calendar

Data portability is a good thing, so you are not locked in to a sole provider. This also keeps competition and innovation high, in order to retain customers.

A live example of this calendar is at http://leveron.com/w3c/public-calendar-example.php

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