Trying to restart blogging …
Ok, so it’s been awhile since I blogged faithfully. I got really busy leading up to the Scripting Games, and then I got even busier afterward … and then I just got distracted. In fact, I have about 9 “drafts” posts queued up in WordPress that I started and never finished, so what I probably [...]
Vista setuid – How to elevate without prompting
Ever since Vista came out, users have been trying to find ways to avoid the “Elevation Prompt” when running things which require administrative access. There are lots of obvious solutions, but I’ve found one that’s not so obvious, and I’ve found an easy way to use it with PowerShell. First though, an explanation of what [...]
Three Cheers for Novell!
Well, it’s finally over. SCO v. Novell has been decided, and the court has concluded that Novell is the owner of the UNIX and UnixWare Copyrights, and that SCO is obligated to recognize Novell’s waiver of SCO’s claims against IBM and Sequent. So that’s pretty much a wrap, I’d say. Even Groklaw actually passed on [...]
Windows UAC – Is that your final answer?
So I was kind of bored today … And it’s been a long time since I posted anything … I’ve been hard at work … among other things I’ve made lots of progress on PoshConsole, and I’ve been playing with PowerShell a lot. If anyone knows anyone using Vista who still has UAC turned on, [...]
Hype Machine in Full Gear
Symantec’s 11th Internet Security Threat Report, released this week, discusses security and vulnerability issues from the last six months of 2006 and according to enterprise IT planet “Microsoft Windows had the fewest number of patches and the shortest average patch development time … Red Hat Linux ranks second, OS X third, and Solaris dead last.” [...]
Huddled Columns
I’ve created a variation on the Plain Masses theme, based on the idea of having lots of extra columns on the front page. I got the basic idea from the International Herald Tribune site — they use tables to achieve the effect, and obviously have strict control over what shows up where. I’ve been trying [...]
Google Patent Search. Verdict: Awesome!
For the first time in a long time, I’m actually excited about a new Google service: Google Patent Search covers the entire collection of patents made available by the USPTO from the 1790s through the middle of 2006. If you’ve ever done patent research, you’re going to be really impressed by this thing, I promise. [...]
Wikia says: Forget Free … we’ll PAY you
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales announced that his for-profit company, Wikia Inc., is ready to give away not just MediaWiki (the software which runs Wikipedia) but also the hosting you need to run it. And even further, if you run what they consider to be a popular website, you can even have the advertising revenue from [...]
Joel’s Daily Links 12/05/2006
- Krugle.com
- MobilityEmail.net
WordPress, Comments, Caching, and annoyances
By Joel 'Jaykul' Bennett on 16-Jan-2009
This is just a short note to explain why I turned off IntenseDebate: it just seems to use way too much memory on my server — I had to increased the memory available to my blog twice, and was still having issues. Quite frankly, I don’t feel like I was getting anything out of using [...]
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