Archive for August, 2005

Is phishing the new spam?

I’m almost convinced now that the majority of stuff SpamAssassin misses isn’t really spam, but phishing messages. I think it’s time for SpamAssassin to start considering detecting it. Perhaps take a look at mscott’s good work for Mozilla Thunderbird.
Odds are lots of that detection stuff, will also detect spam slipping through by other [...]

WYSIWYG

After seeing Matt’s post that TinyMCE has been integrated into WordPress, I think I’m doing the same to a few things I’m currently developing. I was considering a WYSIWYG tool previously for these projects, but decided against it mainly because of the poor code they often produce. TinyMCE is rather good, but didn’t [...]

PS3 the next Mac

Sony states:
The operating system has also yet to be clarified. The integrated Cell processor will be able to support a variety of operating systems (such as Linux or Apple’s Tiger).
A very interesting proposal. It’s not surprising that they would be supported, especially considering who developed the Cell processor. It would be interesting to [...]

Hard Drive Saga Continues

I ordered back on 7/5/2005. I’m still waiting. While CDW still has the balls to say 3-6 days on the product page. Eventually I guess I’ll give up, even though I really don’t want to get a slower drive. My hope is to be able to purchase a Seagate Momentus 7200.1 [...]

Mozilla Corporation

For the most part, the news has been rather clear, though a few questions still remain.

Who owns the trademarks? The Foundation or the Corporation? This doesn’t say if the corporation will be allowed to use the trademarks, or will inherit them. It hints at inheriting, though Asa makes it sound otherwise.
Who ultimately [...]

Microsoft testing with Firefox

Several weeks ago I reported that Microsoft was sniffing user agents, and giving misleading errors based on it’s findings. They resolved that rather promptly. Interestingly enough, looking at the blog for Microsofts start.com, there are two blog posts [one | two] that mention Firefox compatibility. It’s great to see them acknowledging browser [...]

Apple and DRM

As many sites are reporting (I’ll just link slashdot), DRM has been found in the new Intel Macs. So what? It doesn’t really say much. Mac OS X has always been tied to Mac hardware (with a small window for clones during the 90’s). It’s a little premature to assume that [...]

Intelligent Bookmarking [Draft]

I consider this a draft at this time, and will likely publish a more finalized version at a later date. Please read with that in mind.
Bookmarks suck. There I said it [5 seconds for public outrage]. I rarely use them. Instead I use the auto-complete functionality of the URL bar, and [...]