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Information as a Product
I've been pondering this idea since I started drafting the design of the new spam defenses in vCore. Varus already offers its spam-defense data through an open and simple XML-based API. But, the transition to vCore also represents a huge upgrade in our defensive capabilities. The new defensive capabilities are more fine-grained, they operate on ( Read more... ) -
AT&T U-verse?
This is incredibly odd. I had the Blizzard Downloader going, with the Blizzard Updater busy updating my WoW installation. That's not to terribly odd. The odd part is this: While the Blizzard Downloader was busy seeding and sending data to other clients, I could not establish any new TCP connections. I tried to go to YouTube, Google, and a few ( Read more... ) -
AT&T And Safety
So, a few months ago I decided to clean my phone out. Yep, cleaning all the dirt and expanded glue out from all the crevices in my tiny phone. Well, I had to turn it off and remove the battery for that ( Read more... ) -
vCore Text Logos
For quite a while now, Varus Online has had text-based logos. That is, whenever someone typed in a name like Google or GMail or even Yahoo!, it would automatically format the text to look like that particular logo, and it respected text sizes, too ( Read more... ) -
BSA
The Business Software Alliance has a few ambiguities that I think are intentional and designed to discourage developers from making software ( Read more... ) -
New Setup
For the past couple years, I've been working on Varus using a somewhat tedious method. I connect to the servers via SSH, then use the server's installation of Vim to work on the various scripts that make the site work. iTerm has helped by actually sending mouse events across the connection (unlike Apple's Terminal.app), but its still a somewhat ( Read more... ) -
The RIAA - Pot and Kettle
I've been noticing the RIAA actually hates being in business. RIAA member companies have had videos pulled from YouTube where they claimed their music was infringed upon. In some cases, that may be true. In others, it simply isn't. I've seen mashup videos deleted because maybe two seconds (out of a 300 second title) might have contained company ( Read more... ) -
vCore
The biggest problem with switching over to homegrown software is all the new tables and databases that have to be set up. The biggest problem with non-spec software going online is updating it to the damn spec ( Read more... ) -
Illegal Spam Callers
This is getting rather annoying. Its illegal, but I keep falling victim to it because the calls just keep coming in.
(603) 214 3635Please help me find the owner of this number. The first person who is able to accurately identify the company and address this phone number belongs to will get a cut of the proceeds from fines paid to me in court ( Read more... ) -
Upgrades
So, on my web and FasstCGI servers, I got FreeBSD/i386 7.2-RELEASE installed. Its awesome. Now I have them rebuilding all their software. Next on the list is the database server, and OMG ( Read more... )