October 2004

Scary OS X Worm/Trojan … Oh My!

October 25, 2004

Once again, fingers are madly typing about a frightening OS X threat. The Opener can steal your personal information and open a back door on your computer. It might even destroy data. It was mentioned last week on Slashdot. CNet News has done an article quoting the Anti-Virus creators. Sounds scary, huh? Not. It's a [...]

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Kernel Panics Lead to User Panics

October 17, 2004

Without boring you with the sordid, horrendous details, I'll just say that my computer crashed Wednesday morning. Hard. And after spending nearly 6 hours trying to fix it myself, I took it to the local Mac repair guy (we only have one in our small town). Due to a chain of stupid events, it wasn't [...]

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Surviving the 'Canes

October 7, 2004

I grew up in Florida. But man, I don't remember having more than a handful of strong hurricanes. What in the world is going on down there? I still have friends all over the area and they've been through alot the last couple months. One web friend, Peb (who goes by the name MarshBunny), after [...]

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sIFR — the Release Candidate

October 7, 2004

I just noticed that Mike and Mark have a release candidate of the sIFR technique (pronounced “siffer”). Can't wait to put it up on a couple sites. I think I'll put it here on the blog for you guys to see over the weekend (if I can find some extra time. The technique grew out [...]

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Accessible, Beautiful Flash Text

October 1, 2004

I've got to hand it to Mike Davidson. He's putting together one of the most inventive things I've seen in quite some time. I'll be writing an article about it soon. But for now, I'll give you the basics. Mike's developing a way to use an image replacement technique (obviously most useful for headings) using [...]

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