January 30, 2005

Notable URLs on 2005-01-30

• AC&NC: RAID, NAS, and SAN Data Storage Solutions - IDE RAID, SCSI RAID, SATA RAID, FC RAID
  ( Hardware NAS SAN Storage )
• Disk I/O Benchmarks - UNIX Benchmarks: collected benchmarks for measuring I/O performance.
  ( Benchmarks Storage )

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January 28, 2005

Notable URLs on 2005-01-28

• min-height: fixed;: min-height is the logical choice for finding a solution that would allow the header to expand gracefully as the nav does, but it isn%u2019t supported by Internet Explorer or, unfortunately, Safari.
  ( CSS Reference WebDev )

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January 27, 2005

Notable URLs on 2005-01-27

• CSS Rounded Corners example - redmelon.net: Welcome to my 4 Rounded Corners demo page! Two prime examples of the nuvo-cool XHTML CSS rounded corners.
  ( CSS Tutorial WebDev )
• WORLDVIEW: Perspectives on architecture and urbanism from around the globe.
  ( Architecture Design Urbanism )
• counter street art
  ( Art Games Spraypaint )
• Tech Savvy Infant/Toddler T-Shirts
  ( *ToBuy Amusing Baby Clothing )

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January 26, 2005

Notable URLs on 2005-01-26

• The real fellowship of the ring: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis' all-night argument about God paved the way for both "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Chronicles of Narnia."
  ( Books Religion people_CSLewis people_Tolkien )
• Democrats Criticize Rice Over Iraq War: criticism dealt mainly with her role in 2002 and 2003 in arguing that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction despite uncertainties in the intelligence community. Several Democrats recalled Rice's 2002 warning that "we don't want the s
  ( Iraq people_Bush people_Rice )

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January 25, 2005

Notable URLs on 2005-01-25

• One Thousand Reasons: Over 1000 reasons to oust Bush
  ( Reference people_Bush )
• iPod Shuffle vs Sandisk MP3
  ( Gadgets MP3 Review Toys co_Apple )
• The very first MP3 player?: the very first one to come out was actually Saehan%u2019s MPMan, a 32MB (yeah, megabyte) player which was sold in the US as the Eiger Labs MPMan F10/F20 a few months before the first Rio arrived.
  ( Amusing Gadgets MP3 Toys )
• My Snowy Tribute to Calvin & Hobbes. Bunch o' pictures.: derMoerder: any clever snowman ideas? FatCow: something calvin and hobbes like
  ( Amusing EyeCandy Images Snowmen people_Calvin&Hobbes people_Watterson )
• Rice and the battles to come: The most aggressive line of questioning came from Senator Boxer, who challenged Rice on contradictions between her statements going into the war and subsequent events, especially her raising the prospect of "a mushroom cloud"
  ( Iraq people_Boxer people_Bush people_Rice )
• The sounds of 808state: thepsychoecstatic tranceenducing grooveriding technofunkalogical soundofstate 808
  ( *ToListen MP3 Music band_808State )

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January 24, 2005

Notable URLs on 2005-01-24

• Great Stories, People, Books & Events in Literary History: Today in Literature features a new original biographical story each calendar day about the great writers, books, and events in literary history.
  ( Authors Books History Reference )
• Outfoxing SOX - Sarbanes-Oxley banned sweetheart loans to greedy executives. So, corporations are giving them free money instead: In a sense, these new payoffs are a tribute to the enduring creativity of American corporate executives. No matter how the law changes, they still manage to find a way to overpay themselves.
  ( Accounting Compensation Greed law_SarBox )
• Web Gallery of Art, image collection, virtual museum, searchable database of European fine arts (1100-1850)
  ( Art Reference )

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January 21, 2005

Notable URLs on 2005-01-21

• Locher's: For those who like their fashion rough & dirty
  ( Amusing Clothing )

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January 19, 2005

Notable URLs on 2005-01-19

• Bush opts for costly bash in wartime / FDR scaled back event, but there's no clear precedent FDR scaled back event, but no clear precedent exists: About 60 protests are planned for the inaugural, representing a variety of anti-war, anti-Bush, anti-capitalist, pro-environment, pro-abortion rights and pro-civil liberties causes. One group sued last week, claiming that the National Park Service is undu
  ( Inauguration Politics people_Bush )
• AppSec FAQ: This FAQ answers some of the questions that developers have about Web Application Security. This FAQ is not specific to a particular platform or language. It addresses the common threats to web applications and are applicable to any platform.
  ( Programming Reference Security WebDev )
• Star Wars: The Changes - Part Three (All Regions): Welcome to the third and final piece in my series of articles focusing on the alterations to the Star Wars trilogy. Although many believe Return of the Jedi to be the weakest of the original trilogy, mostly owing to the cuddly Ewoks, I%u2019ve always enjo
  ( Cinema DVD movie_StarWars )
• Star Wars: The Changes - Part Two (All Regions): In the first of my three-part examination of the changes to the Star Wars trilogy I looked at the differences between the various releases of A New Hope. Now the time has come to turn my attention to my favourite instalment of the trilogy, The Empire Stri
  ( Cinema DVD movie_StarWars )
• Star Wars: The Changes - Part One (All Regions): For years now George Lucas' original Star Wars trilogy has been undergoing changes, some subtle, others not so subtle. With the recent release of the trilogy on DVD I decided that now was a good time to try and catalogue the evolution of these films from
  ( Cinema DVD movie_StarWars )
• George W. Bush, Philosopher-King - Why he won't debate the math of Social Security reform.: Democrats support welfare for old people, on the grounds that it creates a safety net for capitalism's losers, who might otherwise live in poverty. Republicans oppose welfare for old people, on the grounds that it reduces incentives to work and save
  ( Philosophy Taxes Welfare issue_SocialSecurity people_Bush )

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January 18, 2005

Notable URLs on 2005-01-18

• Snooping by satellite: What's raising eyebrows, though, is the increasingly popular law enforcement practice of secretly tagging Americans' vehicles without adhering to the procedural safeguards and judicial oversight that protect the privacy of homes and telephone conversation
  ( CivilLiberties GPS LawEnforcement Privacy )
• Review of Logmein.com: Logmein == remote PC software service (behind firewalls)
  ( NetOps RemoteControl Services )
• dropload: a place for you to drop your files off and have them picked up by someone else at a later time. Recipients you specify are sent an email with instructions on how to download the file. Files are removed from the system after 7 days
  ( Scripts Services )
• SSL versus TLS versus STARTTLS: This documentation outlines terminology problems involving the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol, the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol, the term STARTTLS
  ( Network Protocols Reference SSL STARTTLS TLS )

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January 17, 2005

Notable URLs on 2005-01-17

• Postfix-SMTP-AUTH-TLS-Howto: This document describes how to install a mail server based on postfix that is capable of SMTP-AUTH and TLS. It should work (maybe with slight changes concerning paths etc.) on all *nix operating systems.
  ( NetOps Postfix SMTP )
• Battling Big Tobacco: Back in 1995, he exposed the lies we'd all been told for decades about cigarettes: about their capacity to addict us, about their capacity to kill us.
  ( issue_Tobacco people_JeffreyWigand tv_60Minutes )
• CBS News | Shutting Out Tourette's Syndrome: "You know, I think there's some other guys that, if you gave me the decision to make, I might have got some other guys." But Manchester’s fans don’t want any other guy.
  ( co_ManU people_TimHoward sport_Football tv_60Minutes )
• Under Fire, Alongside The Fallen: Last week Secretary of State Colin Powell called the war "a raging insurgency." That's what the Marines are fighting, under fire in Anbar province %u2014 the heart of the resistance.
  ( Iraq Military TV_60Minutes )

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January 15, 2005

Notable URLs on 2005-01-15

• Anti-spam: Review - Postini: In our tests, Perimeter Manager scored the highest in accuracy, catching 94% of the spam in our 10,000 mail messages, and delivered the lowest false-positive rate.
  ( Spam co_Postini eMail )
• Postini Perimeter Manager Enterprise Edition : Review: Brightmail, FrontBridge, Postini, and Proofpoint overwhelm open source in accuracy, flexibility, and ease
  ( Spam co_Postini eMail )
• CIDR SUBNET MASK CHEATSHEET & ICMP TYPE CODES: Netmask / CIDR conversion
  ( NetOps Network Reference )

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January 13, 2005

Notable URLs on 2005-01-13

• UtiliTEA Kettle: Green tea lovers no longer have to struggle to achieve the optimal steeping temperature, while darker tea drinkers can still expect impeccably boiling water. With an innovative temperature control system, this versatile device can heat to your preference.
  ( *ToBuy Home Tea Toys )
• The day Annie shot me, By Brett Leveridge: When a first-time author has his portrait taken by Annie Leibovitz, it changes his life -- at least while she's clicking the shutter.
  ( Amusing Fame Photography people_Leibovitz )

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January 12, 2005

Notable URLs on 2005-01-12

• SYMBOLS.com: Word Index: Encyclopedia of symbols by design and definition
  ( Dictionaries Reference )

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January 11, 2005

Notable URLs on 2005-01-11

• EnderUNIX Software Development Team: Isoqlog is an MTA log analysis program written in C. It designed to scan qmail, postfix, sendmail and exim logfile and produce usage statistics in HTML format for viewing through a browser. It produces Top domains output according to Sender, Receiver, Tot
  ( Logs NetOps Qmail SMTP Software Unix )
• All About Lire: Lire is hands down the most versatile log analysis software available today. Lire not only keeps you informed about your HTTP, FTP, and mail traffic, it also reports on your firewalls, your print servers, and your DNS activity.
  ( FTP HTTP Logs NetOps Qmail SMTP Software Unix )
• pace_calculator.html: Pace is a sophisticated runner's pace calculator for PalmOS� devices.
  ( Fitness Health PalmOS Software sport_Running )
• [map.search.ch] - Map: Switzerland: JS map implementation (zoom, pan, drag, etc.)
  ( CH Cartography JS WebDev )
• HitMaps: Hits to a web page are collected by including the HitMap image into the page. The IP of the page requester is translated into geographical coordinates and stored in a database. Once a day, the HitMaps map images (the thumbnail image and the rest of maps i
  ( Cartography Inventive Logs Scripts WebDev )
• Fellowship of the Ring - HD vs DVD: amazed at how fantastic the HD transfer of Fellowship of the Ring looked, I decided to compare it to the transfer on the DVD. Now, the DVD transfer is among the best you can find on DVD, so this really is comparing the respective creams of the crops.
  ( Comparison DVD HD Television )
• Smarter Soccer Through Chips: The new technology could, for example, tell spectators in a fraction of a second that the ball accelerated from 21 to 137 kph after the most recent kick or that it missed the right goalpost by 3.9 centimeters. Coaches could also tell which players were hu
  ( Gadgets Inventive sport_Football )
• NutritionData's Nutrition Facts: "ND tells you, in simple terms, what's good and bad about the foods you eat, and helps you select foods that best meet your dietary needs."
  ( Health Nutrition Reference )

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January 10, 2005

Notable URLs on 2005-01-10

• BBC Internet Services - Service Information: Inside look at BBC's network setup and monitoring system...
  ( Monitoring NetOps Networks co_BBC )
• MS AntiSpyware vs Ad-Aware vs SpyBot: this review is mostly focused on how effectively each application can detect spyware and adware
  ( Hackers SpyWare co_Microsoft )
• 20 Year Archive on Google Groups: Google has fully integrated the past 20 years of Usenet archives into Google Groups, which now offers access to more than 800 million messages dating back to 1981. We compiled some especially memorable articles and threads in the timeline below.
  ( Amusing History co_Google )
• Education Dept. paid commentator to promote law: Top Democrat on Education, called the contract "a very questionable use of taxpayers' money" that is "probably illegal." The campaign to promote No Child Left Behind, required Armstrong Williams "to regularly comment on NCLB during the course of his broad
  ( Taxes issue_NoChildLeftBehind people_Bush )

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January 09, 2005

Notable URLs on 2005-01-09

• Queue Management for Qmail: One thing about qmail is that its queue, for sake of efficiency, is not as easy to manipulate as, for example, sendmail's.
  ( NetOps Qmail Reference )
• The Big Qmail Picture [pdf]
  ( NetOps Qmail Reference )
• Qmail Support Page [SPAMCONTROL]: SPAMCONTROL is an add-on (patch) for qmail-smtpd to filter and control unsolicited commercial E-Mails (UCE/SPAM) by means of the available (E)SMTP session protocol elements
  ( NetOps Qmail Reference Spam )

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January 07, 2005

Notable URLs on 2005-01-07

• NetOffice: Online project management with team collaboration, user management, multiple access levels, tasks, projects, and time tracking, task change history, files approval tracking, notes, client project sites, CRM, Gantt graphs...
  ( PHP PM Scripts WebApps )
• deviantART: Death and Taxes: ... by *mibi: Most people are unaware of how much of their taxes fund our military, and those aware are often misinformed. Well here it is. Laid out, easy to read and compare. With data straight from the White House.
  ( Budget EyeCandy Government Images Taxes )
• Paint.NET: image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows XP or 2000. Paint.NET is jointly developed at Washington State University with additional help from Microsoft, and is meant to be a free replacement for the MS Paint s
  ( Software Win32 ms_NET )
• How you can break Murphy's Law: A new mathematical formula has proved Murphy's Law really does strike at the worst possible time.
  ( Amusing Research Statistics )

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January 05, 2005

Notable URLs on 2005-01-05

• Instant Detox: Kick heroin in 24 hours - no willpower, withdrawal, or preaching required. Call it a cure. Call it junk science. Call it the one-step program.
  ( Addiction Drugs MedSci )
• Clip-n-Seal: an innovative, patent-pending product that provides a simple, convenient, and easy way to close and reseal opened bags. When you Clip-n-Seal it fresh, the air- and watertight seal will keep your food fresh for weeks, even months.
  ( *ToBuy Food Home Inventive )
• Blog Creation, Readership Rise in 2004: Twenty-seven percent of online adults in the United States said in November they read blogs, compared with 17 percent in a February survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project.
  ( Blogs Research )

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January 04, 2005

Notable URLs on 2005-01-04

• BIND 9 Configuration Reference: BIND 9 configuration is broadly similar to BIND 8.x; however, there are a few new areas of configuration, such as views. BIND 8.x configuration files should work with few alterations in BIND 9, although more complex configurations should be reviewed
  ( Documentation NetOps bind )
• Cardstacker.com: Expert playing card stacker...
  ( EyeCandy Hobbies Photography )

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January 03, 2005

Notable URLs on 2005-01-03

• Eaglevision: an easy-to-use software solution for teaching and training on networked PCs. EagleVision helps instructors manage multiple student PCs in electronic classrooms from their desktop.
  ( NetOps Software VNC Win32 )
• 2Wire.com: MediaPortal
  ( Home MediaCenter Television Toys )
• [ Black Blum ]: Design and Furnishings
  ( Design Furnishings Home )
• LINKS: LINKS is a sophisticated state-of-the-art management simulation designed in a modular fashion to permit application in a variety of educational contexts.
  ( Management Simulations eLearning.Content )
• Buy Blue: In today's America there is a more powerful act than voting blue... and that's buying blue.
  ( Consumers Politics Reference )

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January 01, 2005

Notable URLs on 2005-01-01

• Sentry FIRE-SAFE. Waterproof Security F3300
  ( *ToBuy Home )
• Sentry Advanced Fire-Safe and Waterproof Security File
  ( *ToBuy Home )
• Amsec DC62 Fire Resistant Security Chest
  ( *ToBuy Home )

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