Ade in Business

Below is a map showing the locations of people who have tried to break into one of my dedicated servers within the last few weeks. (Click on the image to show a full-size interactive map.)

One of the common ways hackers try to break into systems is to use a dictionary attack to try to [...]

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One of the first things I noticed when upgrading to Internet Explorer 7 was how much better the text looked. Further investigation revealed that Microsoft used the ClearType rendering engine, which is included in Windows XP.
If you’d like to experience the same look within Firefox, here’s how to enable ClearType rendering system-wide on Windows [...]

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Even though IE7 was part of Window’s automatic updates, most of the Internet Explorer world is still on version 6. According to W3Counter stats, 59% of website visitors are using IE6 versus 6% of visitors who are using IE7. So it’s clear that developers will have to continue IE6 for a long time [...]

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When we evaluate software, we typically ask someone from sales, “can it do that?” and they enthusiastically respond, “of course!”.
What we rarely ask as a follow-up is, “so how easy is it?” or “is it really the best tool for me to use to do that?”
We should also ask similar questions to contractors — a [...]

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Early Fun
My first browser was Lynx, back when my Internet connection consisted of dialing into an ISP using a terminal emulator (I still remember the keyboard shortcuts). I still think there’s a lot of beauty in the simplicity of the Internet back then — text-only websites, IRC, BBS, Gopher, newsgroups, etc. Even [...]

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