1337: Hacker “Sp33k” for leet, or elite. Originating from 31337 “eleet”, the UDP port used by Dead Cow Cult, a hacker group, to access Windows 95 using Back Orifice, a notorious hacking program. This topic deserves a whole series of blog posts, but I can’t commit to that. For now I will only look at …
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Crap that’s happening in the open source world.
This is a post about open source, don’t grumble, that’s my job. What’s it got to do with open source? Well, littlesvr.ca is the channel for my open source work to get from my desktop to the users. It’s an emal server, a web server, an FTP/Telnet/SSH server, a Subversion server, a mailing list server, …
Continue reading Cool, quiet, and reasonably priced serverI worked for a year or so to enable Animated PNG images to work in Firefox. Support for this feature will ship with Firefox 3. But that’s old news. Today I learned that APNG support has been added to Opera. It’s not surprising that I didn’t know about it, there’s no reason why they should …
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