Tag Archives: rants

Society versus copyright

Posted on 13 February 2012 by stuff writer

Of late I have wondered about this: And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and … Continue reading →

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English as she is spoke

Posted on 19 September 2011 by stuff writer

Some usage that has entered modern Engleish, and can be heard on SAFM and other fun radio stesshins in the land of .za: Refute: to deny a statement, without providing a shred of evidence that would prove it wrong. It … Continue reading →

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The core is secure

Posted on 24 August 2011 by stuff writer

In the documentation for that wonderful content management software, joomla, you can read the following statement: Although the Joomla! core is secure when configured correctly, third party extensions come in all flavors of age and quality. Unless you absolutely trust … Continue reading →

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Socialist social justice is no justice at all

Posted on 23 July 2011 by stuff writer

Recently the SABC spent many a monopoly buck on advertising their coverage of the “Mandela” speech of the “Librarian of Alexandria”. This is smells of political influence peddling, since that is what the SABC does these days, and the library … Continue reading →

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PHP deobfuscation

Posted on 21 May 2011 by stuff writer

One of the things that you see with depressing regularity when hosting crummy PHP scripts for others is this: eval&28;base64_decode&28;’aWYgKCFlbXB0eSgkX1JFUVVFU1RbInRoZW What’s that? Well it says to decode that gobbledegook into a binary stream (the base64_decode part), and then interpret whatever … Continue reading →

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Oops, Google went evil – again

Posted on 22 April 2011 by stuff writer

On 22 April 2011, Good Friday, we remember that Jesus was crucified and buried. On this very day, Google.com displayed a feature for the day: a picture of some kind of garden in place of their regular logo. Perhaps the … Continue reading →

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How can two drive together unless they are agreed?

Posted on 7 March 2011 by stuff writer

Historically, the rules of the road embody the consensus of experts (and some non-experts) about how vehicles should drive to avoid collisions, and ensure reasonably efficient transport in a variety of conditions. A standard side of the road is used, … Continue reading →

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Installing ruby on rails, or not

Posted on 29 November 2010 by stuff writer

Well, I thought I would install ruby on rails, and run it as a user under apache’s mod_fcgi. This is entirely possible: the user account can run any code, and installing an entire library of ruby scripts should be straightforward, … Continue reading →

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