Welp, my last post was about hacking the Google toolbar’s spell checking ability to run as a web service.
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Simple URL Redirection
Ed Bott, the author of an excellent Windows tips blog I subscribe to, had a request today. He wanted a “Simple / Short URL” system he could use to create permanent links for the book he’s publishing. Rather than risking dead URLs as soon as the book is published, he wanted a dynamic system that would allow him to link to one place and then go back and update any dead links in the future.
Searching for a New Language
After reading everything on grc.com about the 2001 DoS and DDoS attacks against them, its renewed my interest in programming. While I really love writing code in PHP that is accessible to everyone with a web browser, there are many limitations to web-based coding. It simply wasnt designed to do some of the things I want it to do.
IRC RFC
I was reading an age old story from Gibson Research Corporation about their 2001 Denial of Service attacks. Its a really good read for anyone interested in network security and networking in general, but the part I found of interest was his link to the official RFC 1459 document, outlining the standards for the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) protocol.