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Alan Langford: Why I'm Voting Green in 2011

nospam@example.com (Alan Langford) — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 14:31:42 -0500

What I find really odd is that the environment is being characterized as a "youth issue" and the major parties are pushing "family" issues like health care and pensions.

Meanwhile, every day that we fail to address the environment, we put everything at greater risk. How can there be improved health care if we're spending billions -- if not trillions -- dealing with the costs of a degrading environment? Pension plans will already be near bankrupt by the time we've paid for the boomers ahead of us. If we don't act soon, there will be no money left when you and I need it. Family friendly my ass, this is an issue that should matter to all of us.

Derek Trevorrow: Why I'm Voting Green in 2011

nospam@example.com (Derek Trevorrow) — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:26:44 -0500

Alan, can't say I agree with all your points, but on the environment you are spot on. Voted Green last time predominantly for that reason and will be doing the same again. Bring on proportional representation!

Alan Langford: Spam via Zoominfo, Another in the Don't Trust Series

nospam@example.com (Alan Langford) — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 08:18:47 -0600

Maybe someone is correlating the data and passing it off as a "clean" opt-in list. I always find these offers of "100,000 people willing to receive whatever crud someone wants to send" dubious at best.

Rod McInnes: Spam via Zoominfo, Another in the Don't Trust Series

nospam@example.com (Rod McInnes) — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 08:01:21 -0600

I've received the same spam from audio@herxeconline.com but have never registered with Zoominfo. Zoominfo have my e-mail harvested from the web, with a title in the e-mail which matches the Zoominfo entry. What I found interesting that the content appeared legitimate by published authors. It would seem unlikely that someone with access to marketing through Amazon etc would need to risk their reputations by resorting to spam. Perhaps the content is plagiarized?

Gregor Macdonald: The Environment, the Economics of Raw Materials, and the Collapse of Civilization

nospam@example.com (Gregor Macdonald) — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:40:39 -0600

Good post. Very much enjoyed it. As you can see, Paul and I have been digging into this subject over the past few weeks, and we published the results today. There's an array of very-large issues at play here. One irony: the historic belief in substitution, material upgrading, innovation, and transition to other natural resources (and energy resources) as a result of the price trigger is not as smooth, or as reliable, as may have been assumed. As you no doubt understand, things work smoothly in the economist's textbook but in the real world Copper has few substitutes that scale, and the powerful energy-density of oil is impossible to "replace."

You seem to have quickly and efficiently gone right to the heart of these matters. Enjoyed it.

G

JoeJoomla: Silicon Valley – Adjusting to the Internet's Long Tail?

nospam@example.com (JoeJoomla) — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 15:50:41 -0500

Your point about innovation is well put. I believe there is no shortage of innovation potential when it comes to improving the real world. I have often wondered why we still make roads that disintegrate on schedule. This may not be the answer to that: 'solar-roadways-fix-the-power-grid-and-crumbling-pavement' http://tinyurl.com/23v8xsp but at least it's heartening to know that someone else is thinking about these things.

But for the VCVs maybe the truly important stuff is not sexy enough.

mnv: How to: Ubuntu PHP Remove Suhosin

nospam@example.com (mnv) — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 02:52:27 -0500

Can I use "suhosin.emulation = On" parameter for turn off suhosin?
http://www.hardened-php.net/suhosin/configuration.html#suhosin.simulation

URS: Idea: Typo Swap Key

nospam@example.com (URS) — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 05:39:43 -0500

Yes, it's a known problem.

I'm working with vi, and zwo characters can be swapped by typing xp. Just two keystrokes.

Johann: Long Weekends and the Home Based Business

nospam@example.com (Johann) — Mon, 03 May 2010 23:15:33 -0500

So agreed. I've found that I have to set up a proper home office to make that separation between work-time and non work-time more defined.

If I work in the living room, or at the dining room table, it is just too easy to get distracted. But in my office I can close the door and it's just work stuff.

If you have a physical separation between the two, I find it easier to keep the mental separation.

Faisal: Long Weekends and the Home Based Business

nospam@example.com (Faisal) — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 11:02:31 -0500

In some ways it takes even more discipline to plan work and personal time from home than when I was commuting to a workplace.

Also the type of work matters as well. Small repetitive production type work is a breeze at a home office during the holidays. Longer analytic prose, like analyzing a report or writing a blog, is much more difficult to do (for me) during the holidays.

So plan for the holiday family time (just like everyone at an office at 4:50pm on a Friday night does) and put that holiday time to good use doing smaller no-brainer tasks. Leaving the good stuff to look forward to after the holidays.

t Corey: Credit Card Scam of the Day: Interest Rate Reduction

nospam@example.com (t Corey) — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:48:56 -0600

Just got the same call twice in one day. First time I hung up the second time I pressed 9 to see what the offer was.

The opperator tried to lead me to give my CC #, but I continued to press him with questions like Who do you work for and What company do you represent. He hung up on me when I asked if I could get the same results by calling my CC company customer service.

Just keep asking questions they will hang up sooner than later.

Mike: MySQL's Post-Oracle Future

nospam@example.com (Mike) — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:33:20 -0600

Such a shame to see a great product like MySQL start sliding down the slippery slope of Oracle profit-glut. Our organisation has been a major backer of MySQL but is now in the process of moving 34 core MySQL databases onto PostgreSQL. A major project but there is absolutely no doubt that MySQL has no future with big red.

Alan: How to: Ubuntu PHP Remove Suhosin

nospam@example.com (Alan) — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:26:10 -0500

Indeed, there are now reasonable instructions available that make it possible to disable the more odious features of Suhosin and keep nice things like buffer overflow checking.

I recommend that people use this approach rather than remove the package altogether.

Still, my objection to these sorts of tools is not only the false positives, but the false sense of security they generate. Many a site owner thinks they're 100% protected because they have some array of tools and filters configured. Armed with this illusion, they feel comfortable in ignoring vulnerability reports and critical upgrades, and then are upset when their sites get hacked.

Noneroy: How to: Ubuntu PHP Remove Suhosin

nospam@example.com (Noneroy) — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:00:26 -0500

I think this is a great tip. In fact, I'm using it now because I'm setting up an intentionally insecure site for demonstration purposes.

While Suhosin certainly can 'break shit', I'd argue that it's better to learn to work around it than to remove it all together. But that's me, a security guy. Using PHP is playing with a loaded weapon if you are not very very careful. If you ('you' not being the author but the reader) do remove Suhosin, please, for the love of god, do some pen testing on your site and make sure you look for flaws. Otherwise you'll be owned very quickly when that trouble could have been avoided.

W3AF would serve as a great 'sanity' check for developers who go it alone (or anyone else).

All the best.

Ed: Don't Trust Salesforce.com (Revised)

nospam@example.com (Ed) — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:11:12 -0500

SF.com is junk. never mind this email stuff - try using it. it is one of the worst pieces of online software every. Their interface is pitiful - they havent changed a thing since the early 2000s. their report generator is super inflexible, and any time you customize anything - the system begans to cumbersome and the UI super congested.

There is clearly a lack of talent in this company. it must have all left when going public.