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The Rise of the British Empire From Its Navy's Point of View. The British Navy, says Arthur Herman in his rousing history, was almost mystically identified with the national character and destiny. By WILLIAM GRIMES. [NYT > Books]

What Is XMLHttpRequest?. Drew McLellan: “By using JavaScript, a web page can make requests to a web server and get responses in the background. The user stays on the same page, and generally has no idea that script running on the page might be requesting pages (using GET) or sending data (using POST) off to… Continue reading What Is XMLHttpRequest?

Linux Consultants Making $75-$250 an Hour. I enjoyed Corinne McKay's piece on Linux consultants titled, “Linux consultants find a niche in growing market.” With Linux consultants reporting billings of $75 to $250 and up per hour, while working flexible schedules and freeing themselves from the strings… [Koozie Notes]

Designing for Failure. When designing secure systems, a critical component is understanding failure code paths. This is something woefully neglected in software systems of today, which is really to bad. Today I read an interesting interview with Bruce Lindsay (an IBM fellow who is one of the guys behind the original RDBMS concept) about designing… Continue reading Designing for Failure

m0n0 wall. Swetland-san dropped by today, full of vinegar and interesting ideas. He also had a m0n0 wall box in hand. This is a tiny BSD firewall in a box. Really cool! He had extras, so I will be grabbing one from him for our home firewall. [Ceejbot]

The Wait is Over: All Hail the King!. At last! My copy of the extended version of the Return of the King arrived today … and it is the best one yet! Like the extended versions of The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers, the added scenes are mainly character development and additional… Continue reading The Wait is Over: All Hail the King!

Snippy convulsions. Had a long useful discussion with former officemate Swetland-san tonight. As a result, Snippy features has seen some revision. There might be some inconsistencies left. And I need to describe the data storage scheme in more detail. Or I could just get Brian to update the page himself! [Ceejbot]

PHP is not Python is not Java. Just back from Bali. Very nice vacation, thank you. Time for a little more speculation: PJE has written two excellent articles Python is not Java and Java is not Python either. Being a busybody, I thought I'd chip in by saying PHP is not Python either. Now let's… Continue reading PHP is not Python is not Java

Faster cable, Same Cost. Time Warner Cable is raising its cable modem speed to 5 and 8 million bits per second without increasing prices. The higher speeds are available in New York City starting Tuesday and will roll out to the rest of the country in January. Road Runner, the company's broadband service, has been… Continue reading Faster cable, Same Cost

Seconding Tom's Comments on Copernic Desktop Search 2. Tom “Inter-Alia.Net” Mighell has made positive comments about Copenic Desktop Search, noting especially that the new version 1.2 will index Firefox bookmarks. I've been using both Copernic Desktop Search and Lookout as local hard drive search tools. I've slightly preferred Lookout because of its blazing speed, but… Continue reading Seconding Tom's Comments on Copernic Desktop Search 2