By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: November 7, 2006
Tuesday, 7 November 2006
- Huh-Huh! I Said ‘Phuc’! ★
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So until I read this (once again, terrific) piece from El Macalopo, I didn’t realize that H.D. Moore, the quote-unquote “security researcher” who last week released an exploit called “daringphucball” that crashes Macs using the old circa 2001-2003 original AirPort cards, is the same guy who wrote this response to me during The Great MacBook Wi-Fi Hack Fiasco.
The Macalope has a good point here:
Despite the fact that Moore is being such a dick about it, you’ll notice there hasn’t been the same level of uproar about his exploit. Mostly because it’s on three-year-old systems, but also because he made a claim and he proved it. Contrast that to the precedent set by his good buddies, David Maynor and Jon “Johnny Cache!” Ellch.
- DropSend for Sale, Monthly Revenue Made Public ★
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Carson Systems is selling DropSend, their web app for easily sharing files too big for email. Current profit is about $7,000 a month: $9,000 in revenue and $2,000 in hosting fees.
I’m with Andy Baio, though, who writes:
It’s still baffling why he’s selling it if it takes so little effort.
- 50 Percent Off TidBITS’s Take Control E-Books ★
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On sale through November 13, to celebrate their third anniversary.
- Daniel Jalkut Reviews EagleFiler ★
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A couple of weeks old, but I missed it when it was new.
- Check the Wins ★
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Cocky bastard Bears fans at Coudal make lemonade from lemons.
- Xserve Loses, Big-Time, on Price and Performance Compared to Sun’s Thumper ★
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With a Sun Thumper, you pay $4,000 less and get 18 terabytes more storage. Terabytes, I said. Just a few years ago Xserves were winning such comparisons. (Via Jason Hoffman.)
Update: For what it’s worth, if you try to order a Thumper from Sun.com, it tells you prices start at $70K. No idea what one has to do to get the price down to $32K.
- MacNN: ‘Adobe CS3 to Drive Mac Sales in 2007’ ★
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From the Department of “Duh!”
- Text Inputs on Safari ★
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Clever CSS styling tips for text input fields from Shaun Inman.
- ZeusDraw 1.0 ★
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New $90 illustration and drawing app, with some interesting brush features.
- Election Day ★
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Very clever interactive map from the New York Times — click around to get the rundown the Senate, House, and gubernatorial races in each state. Nice piece of programming-as-journalism.
- The Size of Web Pages in the Broadband Era ★
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How big is too big (in terms of kilobytes) for a web page today? I remember sweating over every last kilobyte 10 years ago — using DeBabelizer to squeeze extra bytes out of GIF files, condensing whitespace from HTML files. Anything you could do to shave a kilobyte without screwing up the way the tag soup browsers rendered your design was a win, because it took so damn long for anything to load over a modem.
I don’t really worry about it these days, though — I don’t even remember the last time I measured how big the front page at Daring Fireball was.
- Leopard Tech Talks — North America ★
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Apple’s nine-city traveling road show for developers — looks like a one-day crash course of the best sessions from WWDC 2006. Free for any registered ADC member.
- Logic Pro Stops All launchd Jobs ★
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Noodlesoft:
It seemed too weird but I downloaded a trial of Logic Express and sure enough, I experienced the exact same behavior. After a bit of poking around I discovered what was happening. Logic Pro/Express stops all launchd jobs. Hazel uses launchd to start its background processes so it was a bit disconcerting to see another program, especially one from Apple, disabling yours on purpose, albeit indirectly. At least Logic is nice enough to start the jobs again when it quits.
That doesn’t seem right.
(Via Scott Stevenson via email.)
- Grand Theft Mario ★
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“He’s marinating… in his own Ragu!”