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Spent yesterday in linux land. I think the new box is going to be called tulip, although I still have to consult my tree specialist about that. Anyway, I'm now able to telnet into tulip from the iMac, as well as browse html pages on tulip from Netscape on the iMac. But I couldn't get FTP to connect (or, it seems to connect, but then it just hangs while getting directory information.) This is a problem, because I need FTP working to upload the latest PHP and MySQL. But after I get that done, I'll really be getting somewhere. Hopefully today will see some good progress.
I don't care who owns my bases. Bring on the backlash.
Here's a nice explanation of "web bugs" which are the limited case where cookies can be a security problem. The maddening thing, as he points out, is that it is not a problem with cookies, per se, but with the lame way they are implemented in Netscape and IE. Cookies are your friend. Your browser is probably not.
Ev (nice new design) has apparently done some research about click through rates for blog banner ads at weblogs.com. Seems that the average click through rate is around 0.6%. But check out the top 6 banners, which all get over 2% of the people who see them to click. Hmmmmm.
802.11b is a standard for wireless ethernet connections. Lucent calls it wavelan (although, did they just change the name?) and Apple calls it airport. Whatever the name, 802.11b allows you to set up short range wireless local area networks (LANs.) You plug one part (the base station) into your phone line (or DSL, or cable modem line) and the other part into your (portable) computer. Now you can move around your house, or out into the yard, and your computer will stay connected to the web by wirelessly talking with the base station. Cool. But even cooler is that you can set up multiple base stations, and if you have everything positioned correctly, your roaming portable computer will sense the different base stations as they come into range and automatically switch off (like cell phones - especially PCS phones - do when you are moving around.) So the question, then, is wouldn't it be cool if people (especially those living in densely populated urban areas) started blanketing certain regions with publically accessible 802.11b base stations. A free wireless internet could be built in the traditional decentralized grass roots way. Oh wait, people are already doing this.