Joe Job?
March 31, 2004
Looks like there are some large scale joe-job attacks going around. I get so many spam emails from addresses that are so obviously faked. It's inconcievable to think that owners of some of these adresses would resort to spamming. In...
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Google Changes again and price increases
March 30, 2004
Google has made a change to the appearence of their site after a long long time. They have also 'officially' released froogle. Not all improvements are for the better. The other day I wrote about how Google is playing into...
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Voice Recognition and Dictation
March 29, 2004
The IBM websphere voice tool kit looks pretty good for voice recognition. Though their documentation speaks mainly about voicexml the download also includes a java speech implementation. Unfortunately the software insists on jre 1.3x and refuses to start up if...
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Google encourages SEOs
March 28, 2004
Googles recent antics - that of changing the index or the algorithm every few hours is playing right into the hands of Search Engine Optmizier or Search Engine Marketers are they call themselvs. The reason is that with so the...
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Eth0 and ppp0
March 27, 2004
I didn't have a network at home and thought it was about time I set one up. So I pluged in a realtec card, plugged in a hub and was really amazed at how easy the basic set up was....
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Speech recognition with OCVolume
March 26, 2004
Downloaded a software called OCVolume - a voice recognition software. Before you can use you need to train it - which is the norm for most voice recognition software. However the training program starts off on the wrong foot by...
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Voice
March 25, 2004
Been playing around with speech synthesis and voice recognition. This is a new area for me and still haven't caught up with all the reading that I have to do. The toolkits and APIs out there look very impressive particularly...
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Web Cams
March 24, 2004
When will manufacturers break away from the dark lord at M$. When I buy my own hardware I make absolutely sure that it's supported on linux. Being a geek I sometimes get 'gadgets' as presents. Three months ago I recieved...
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J2ME pitfalls
March 23, 2004
I wrote the other day about how the java 2 collections has been done away with in favour of vector and hashmap etc in J2ME. Unfortunately the Vector class you find in J2ME is not the same as what you...
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Card Designer
March 22, 2004
Our Card designer applet is finaly ready to hit the market. It is now more than 6 months after the scheduled date but as they say it's better late than never. At the start we didn't plan to sell the...
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Titles in Movable type
Just made a post about megaupload, I wanted the title to be clickable so I placed them within an html anchor tag. Unfortunately this has a side effect of making the pages title (what's displaed with in the <title> tag)...
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Penny pinching
Have you ever gone over your coding changing i += 1 to i++ Lots of people do. In some languages like PHP there are heaps of other things that you can do to shave off a few millisecods from script...
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It aint no silver bullet
March 21, 2004
Rad Upload certainly makes it easier for the end users of a website to upload files to it. Unfortunately many web app developers who are not familiar with the whole business of file uploading seem to think of it as...
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jarsigner
March 20, 2004
Anyone who has worked with Signed java applets would have been shocked the first time they used the jarsigner. This very sophisticated software which is at the heart of java securty displayes your password as you type it. Just out...
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Mega Upload
Mega upload is back at the top of sourceforge. The statics page at sourceforge has been messed for quite some time but it looks like they have finally started to update it. The latest stats available are from early March....
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The Sinclair ZX spectrum
March 19, 2004
The Sinclair Spectrum was my first computer about 17 years ago. I was twelve years old at the time. In 1987 it was extremly unusual for a 12 year old to have a computer but my farther was a programmer...
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Greymatter
March 18, 2004
I have been playing around with greymatter for a while now and have finally decided to give up on it. My plan was to import all the entries for my other web log into a greymatter powered system. That way...
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CPU toast
Just a day after thinking of getting a new machine I had my computer die on me as I was working on it. Thankfully I wasn't doing anything critically important at the time and didn't suffer any data loss. I...
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Pagerank calculation - at last
March 17, 2004
After nearly eight weeks google seems to have recalculated the pagerank for many sites. However it seems that new pages created after mid february have not been assigned a page rank. So that calculations are still slightly out of date....
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32 or 64 bit CPU?
I need to setup a new machine. I never by branded computers because I enjoy assembling and installing linux on my own. Unfortunately when using linux it's not always a good idea to go for the latests in hardware. The...
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Javascript upload
March 16, 2004
Another frequently asked question in many a newsgroup or mailing list is "how do I upload files with javascript?" The answer is there isn't a straight forward way of doing it. Why didn't I just say you can't do it?...
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Daily Spidering
A well designed spider will hit urls that are regularly updated more often than those URLs that are infrequently updated. In recent weeks I have noticed that google seems to be spidering some parts of my website on a daily...
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Support
March 15, 2004
Do you like those 'support ticket' systems most companies use? Systems where you can't just write into support but have to visit their websites and make a request after a loggin in and navigating through a complex menu system? I...
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Grey Matter
March 14, 2004
My quest for identifying the best web log software continues.. Right now I am looking at Grey Matter,(my blog is powered by Movable type at the moment). Grey matter is a very small download which I like. At Rad Inks...
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Java Help
You came here probably because you are a software or web developer, you would know how to use an FTP software. Both SFTP Applet and FTP applet seem to attract a large percentage of users unfamiliar with the File Transfer...
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Piracy, Idiocy and Advocay
March 13, 2004
Couple of days ago there was a message in one of the Sri Lankan Linux user group (lklug) mailing lists from a guy who had borrowed a couple of CDs from a friend to install unreal tournament. I gently pointed...
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Google hiccups
Couple of days back I wrote about how google shows one set of results during the day time and another set of results during the night time. Things have just got worst the results shown on the first page seem...
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From blogger to MovableType
March 12, 2004
The other day I wrote about the need to move from blogger.com to movable type for various reasons. I managed import all the entries from blogger.com by following the instructions in the MT documenation. While movable type has a nice...
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Forums and Mailing Lists
March 11, 2004
Many web based forums display a number against each user's nick. This is the number of messages that he has posted at the boards hosted at that website. On some of these sites you find users with their posting number...
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bye bye blogger
March 10, 2004
The time has come for me to move on. The gripe #1 with blogger is that it does not have enough documentation. In contrast movable type has a thick manual and there is an excellent section on moving from blogger...
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Adwords and Adsense
March 9, 2004
At Rad Inks we use google adwords to advertise our products. Here on my site I use google adsense to deliver ads. Seems like the quality of both adsense and adwords are dropping dramatically. Sometime I find that the ads...
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Religious war - perl vs PHP
March 8, 2004
There was an interesting discussion in the evolt list (the list as the call it) about perl vs PHP. As usually happens with such religious discussions everybody started saying their piece without listening to what others had to say. My...
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Google Gargles
Have you noticed anything funny about google results of late? Since last week if you do a search for java file upload during the daytime in Sri Lanka (nght time in the US) you get one set of results. Repeat...
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Perl Objects
March 7, 2004
Using object oriented techniques in perl might feel a bit strange if you are moving to perl from Java, C++ or some other object oriented programming langauge. Having to bless objects might seem a bit off putting if you are...
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Happy Birthday Rad Inks
March 6, 2004
Rad Inks, the software company I co-founded celebrates it's first anniversary today. We started at time when most other were closing down. We started with no capital but lots of ideas. We have been able to convert some of these...
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Cheating on diary entries.
March 5, 2004
Are you seeing this entry marked as been posted on the 05th of march 2004? I made the post on 13th march :-) Have you ever kept an old fashion desk diary? what did you do when you couldn't make...
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Did google waste their money?
March 4, 2004
Blogger out did themselves yesterday. First it repeated a post in my other blog Sri Lanka It's Happening four times! Then when attempting to delete the repetitions it promptly keeled over and died with a 500 internal server error. Did...
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SEO is four letter word
March 3, 2004
Have you visited any search engine optimization forums or web sites recently? Did you notice how most of the discussion seems to focus on "how close can you get to the sun before your wings melt off?" I visit these...
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Blogger goes berserk
March 2, 2004
Grrr. why does blogger.com insist on duplicating some posts. Looks to me like they have a bug that results in the post actually being made when you click on the the preview button there's no other explaination for it. Looks...
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Same Old Same Old?
March 1, 2004
Have you noticed how the most supposed experts on Search Engines and Web marketing are all giving out the same tiny morsel on their websites. The wordings differ, the colors differ the images differ but the gist of the message...
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