Macintosh. 20 years later
A series of posters detailing different aspects of the original Macintosh, and just what made it so revolutionary.
Category: geek
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FireWalkWithMe
So, my PowerBook (just recently saved from disfigurement by the fine folks at MBS) being named FireBook, and my recently acquired portable hard drive being named FireWalkWithMe, I decided to create a custom icon for it. With a little help from GIS and IconBuilder, I came up with this quick and dirty Laura Palmer icon. Feel free to download and share the love.
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Comment Spam, new twist
Just in the past few days, I’ve been seeing a new form of comment spam coming through, and making it past my spam filters. Instead of using the words that they know I will probably have on my block list, I instead get a string of HTML codes like:
internetcasinos…which ends up giving me "internet casinos", which my filter would normally detect.
It seem the simplest solution is just to put the string
&#into my filter list, which should catch these letter substitutions — but once I add that, I get all sorts of errors from the WordPress code that runs the spam filter, because it doesn’t like the#. Anyone else have any suggestions?Update:
With the help of WPBlacklist, I seem to have stemmed the tide. Thanks, Farook.org, and the rest of the WP community!
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Spitfire
BCS: Official Website of Buffalo Creek Software1: Going through some old crap in my Den, I came across this manual I had printed out for Spitfire: Bulletin Board System for MS/PC DOS Personal Computers. I set up and ran what was probably an incredibly unpopular BBS for a little while (probably only a few months, stupidly hosting a few pirated programs in the hopes of luring people to call, and just generally not knowing what the hell I was doing. I just remember really wanting to run one, as I’d had so much fun visiting other people’s BBSes for quite a while… But, hey! What was this ‘internet’ thing? Hmmm… have to check that out.
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2016-10-30: Updated the old URL, which was defunct. ↩
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h2g2 Radio Drama
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is being continued on the BBC radio, starting in September, for the “Tertiary Phase” and in May of next year for the “Quadrenary Phase.” Most of the old radio cast is back, and there’s both a video and audio preview on the BBC’s web page.
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AirTunes
I’m curious… if my wireless network is bridged to my “wired” ethernet computers through my wireless router, why can’t my wire-bound Macs play to the AirPort Express in the living room as well? Sure, I can “share” my iTunes music to another Mac that does have an AirPort card in it, and play from there— but doesn’t that seem a little… inefficient?
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Recipe XML
Mark Boszko
