Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category
Many of my past hacks, involved systems that needed to know the TCP/IP address of a client workstation, and I've generally used one of two methods for doing so:
a program on the client initiates a HTTP request to a PHP or CGI resource, which records the client's IP address from an environment variable passed to [...]
Norwegian browser-builder Opera says it is going to reinvent the Web tomorrow.
I'm not holding my breath.
If you look at the source of their announcement, you'll see:
We start our little story with the invention of the modern day computer.
Over the years, the computers grew in numbers, and the next natural step in the evolution was to [...]
Upon connecting to an untrusted SSL resource, the device will inform me that the SSL certificate which is automatically sent by the server is untrusted. For example when synchronizing the device with my SyncML server over an HTTPS URL, my Nokia N70 reports an untrusted SSL certificate at each connection.
I don't want to have to [...]
sendspace is a service which allows you to send large files to a correspondent. Since email is always limited in size (some servers allow mails no larger than a few hundred KB), sendspace comes in handy. After selecting the file to upload and a bit of patience,
the file is uploaded via HTTP and you get [...]
The Mozilla Firefox Add-ons site offers half a myriad of extensions with which Firefox can be altered to offer functionality that I consider useful.
I don't use many extensions, but those that I do use I love:
whatmon helps me keep an eye on my servers
del.icio.us (finally updated to be Firefox 2.0 compatible) is a neat and [...]
Jeffrey Zeldman has an amusing Web 2.0 Thinking Game going with a huge number of quite amusing comments on the comparison between Web 1.0 and 2.0:
Web 1.0: Social drinking
Web 2.0: Social bookmarking
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Web 1.0: Webmail 2mb storage
Web 2.0: Webmail 2gb storage
Whenever I draw a diagram of the Internet connected via a firewall to a corporate network, I draw the Internet on the left and the corporate LAN on the right of the firewall. I've always pictured the Internet on the left, although many people do it in reverse.
Is there a correct or standard way of [...]