Lenn Pryor

Lenn Pryor, formerly of Microsoft, newly of Skype, is a media hacker. [Scripting News]

CNet interviews Mark Spencer

CNet interviews Mark Spencer. CNet just posted an interview with Mark Spencer, the guy behind Asterisk. There aren’t a huge number of details, except for this one: [Digium] has something that eluded many a Silicon Valley wannabee during the bubble: real revenues. The company pulls in about $10 million a year Zing! Way to go… Continue reading CNet interviews Mark Spencer

A Decade of PHP

A Decade of PHP. By nat 10 years ago to this day, Rasmus Lerdorf made the first release of PHP. It was slow to take off as this graph shows, but when the sleeping tiger awoke … Kapow! I had dinner last night with Rasmus, and he's still the sanguine man he always was. He… Continue reading A Decade of PHP

Cracking WEP in 10 minutes

Cracking WEP in 10 minutes. Yesterday I started noticing referral traffic from myscreencast.com, a phpbb-based community site for finding and sharing screencasts. The most entertaining one I found is called Cracking WEP in 10 minutes. It was produced with Camtasia, but the action takes place in Whoppix, which describes itself thusly: Whoppix is a stand… Continue reading Cracking WEP in 10 minutes

Genes affect women's ability to reach orgasm

Genes affect women's ability to reach orgasm. LONDON (Reuters) – Women who have difficulty reaching orgasm can blame it on their genes. Like heart disease, anxiety and depression, scientists discovered in a study of 1,397 pairs of female twins there is a genetic basis to female orgasm. [Reuters Health eLine]

more on small

more on small. What do you do once you realize the power of small? (tiny correction… eBay has more than 8,000 employees! That's a lot of mouths to feed). It's one thing to say, “yep, of course, small is the new big.”  It's quite another to actually do anything about it. For the last six… Continue reading more on small

Airport insecurity

Airport insecurity. Slate continues its reasoned look at the current state of airport security, this time in a piece penned by Christopher Hitchens. The pullquote that sets the tone of the piece: The time elapsed between Sept. 11, 2001, and today's writing (1,364 days) is only slightly less than the time between Pearl Harbor and… Continue reading Airport insecurity

Exchange 2003 Standard 16GB Limit: Good Riddance

Exchange 2003 Standard 16GB Limit: Good Riddance. Possibly the biggest improvement introduced with the upcoming service pack 2 for Exchange Server 2003 is the lifting of the 16BG store limit for the Standard version. SP2 adds a 75GB limit. This is great news for those of us… [MS Exchange Blog]