internet

I have raved and ranted in previous entries here and here about netcraft‘s risk rating of sites. Now, this is a risk rating aimed primarily at suspicious phising sites which ask you to type your PIN number, your bank account numbers, your … whatever number. You get the idea. Well, when I started my...
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Lots of things going on actually. In addition to academic writing, I am restructuring this blog as well as my blogroll over at bloglines.com. I am adding some clippings that I saved over time while reading various blogs as well as other rants and ravings. Here is my blogroll if interested. Also, I have...
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Some time ago, I ranted about getting a risk rating of 7 from the Netcraft antiphising site, home of the antiphising toolbar, a wonderful add-on for both firefox and that other web browser coming out of Redmond, WA, which displays valuable information about the site you are visiting. Apparently, the response I got from...
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My port5.com site seems still inaccessible from various ISPs (as I have reported earlier). If you are able to access it, would you please email me and let me know your location? TIA. ikd UPDATE Sep 06, 2005 We are back on air!!!!
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I was excited to see that I had received emails and comments re: the last posting of this blog. It turned out to be pure spam Oh well, I guess that was to be expected given the circumstances… ikd
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Since the beginning of August, I seem to have lost access to the Portland Communications site which hosted my (now obsolete) Corner in Cyberspace for no apparent reason. I mean even the main site at Portland is unreachable.I have moved back to the geocities location at this address (also obsolete now). http://www.geocities.com/ikd69. So, for...
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I promised back in what … I guess December of last year (I know, I know I am very bad when it comes to keeping dates and deadlines) that I would update this blog. Well, this is the first entry just announcing that my site is being updated as we speak (or … as...
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This is getting frustrating. This is the third attempt at starting this entry. Blogging from Xanthi, Greece, where the 25th annual anniversary conference of the TeX Users Group is meeting. The official site of the conference is here. TeX dignitaries,TeXperts and TeXnicians from around the world are converging in this small town in the...
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Well, the obvious answer is 0.9 but the truth answer is much bigger. I would say closer to inf. And to be more specific, I am not talking about simple real number arithmetic. Rather, I am talking to the upgrade from version 9.1 of Mandrake to version 10.0 Here is the whole story. After...
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I was updating my Quotes page with this unusual quote from author Caleb Carr: For it is the greatest truth of our age: Information is not knowledge I started wondering about the implications of his statement. Is information knowledge or not? Is knowledge something more that bits of information piled together? True, Carr had...
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